phrase
Meaning 1
May he/she rest in peace.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Phrase guide
requiescat in pace
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History
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Latin requiēscat in pāce.
Across languages
Translations
67 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: اُرْقُدْ فِي سَلَام (urqud fī salām) — may they rest in peace
- Azerbaijani: Allah rəhmət eləsin — may they rest in peace
- Basque: goian bego — may they rest in peace
- Belarusian: адпачынак у свеце (adpačynak u svjecje) — may they rest in peace
- Bulgarian: почивай в мир (počivaj v mir) — may they rest in peace
- Catalan: descansi en pau — may they rest in peace
- Corsican: riposa in pace — may they rest in peace
- Czech: odpočívej v pokoji — may they rest in peace
- Danish: hvil i fred — may they rest in peace
- Dutch: rust in vrede — may they rest in peace
- Esperanto: ripozu en paco — may they rest in peace
- Esperanto: ripozu pace — may they rest in peace
- Estonian: puhka rahus — may they rest in peace
- Finnish: lepää rauhassa — may they rest in peace
- French: repose en paix — may they rest in peace
- West-Frisian: rêst yn frede — may they rest in peace
- Galician: descanse en paz — may they rest in peace
- German: er ruhe in Frieden — may they rest in peace
- German: möge er in Frieden ruhen — may they rest in peace
- German: requiescat in pace — may they rest in peace
- Greek: αναπαύσου εν ειρήνη (anapáfsou en eiríni) — may they rest in peace
- Hebrew: עליו השלום — may they rest in peace
- Hungarian: nyugodjon békében — may they rest in peace
- Icelandic: hvíldu í friði — may they rest in peace
- Irish: chuid eile i síocháin — may they rest in peace
- Italian: riposi in pace — may they rest in peace
- Japanese: 安らかに眠れ (yasuraka ni nemure) — may they rest in peace
- Korean: 편히 쉬라 (pyeonhi swira) — may they rest in peace
- Latin: requiescat in pace — may they rest in peace
- Latvian: atpūta mierā — may they rest in peace
- Lithuanian: ilsėkis ramybėje — may they rest in peace
- Luxembourgish: rou a Fridden — may they rest in peace
- Macedonian: почивај во мир (počivaj vo mir) — may they rest in peace
- Maltese: strieh fil-paċi — may they rest in peace
- Mongolian: амар тайван амрах (amar tajvan amrax) — may they rest in peace
- Navajo: háá nilyį́į́h — may they rest in peace
- Norwegian Bokmål: hvil i fred — may they rest in peace
- Norwegian Nynorsk: kvil i fred — may they rest in peace
- Polish: niech odpoczywa w pokoju — may they rest in peace
- Polish: niech spoczywa w pokoju — may they rest in peace
- Portuguese: descanse em paz — may they rest in peace
- Romanian: odihnească-se în pace — may they rest in peace
- Russian: покойся с миром (pokojsja s mirom) — may they rest in peace
- Scottish Gaelic: fois dhut — may they rest in peace
- Serbo-Croatian: počivaj u miru — may they rest in peace
- Serbo-Croatian: odmor u miru — may they rest in peace
- Serbo-Croatian: почивај у миру — may they rest in peace
- Slovak: odpočívaj v pokoji — may they rest in peace
- Spanish: descanse en paz — may they rest in peace
- Spanish: que descanse en paz — may they rest in peace
- Spanish: que en paz descanse — may they rest in peace
- Swahili: pumzika kwa amani — may they rest in peace
- Swedish: vila i frid — may they rest in peace
- Tagalog: sumalangit nawa — may they rest in peace
- Tajik: равонаш шод (ravonaš šod) — may they rest in peace
- Tamil: சாந்தியடைய (cāntiyaṭaiya) — may they rest in peace
- Tatar: авыр туфрагың җиңел булсын (awır tufrağıñ ciñel bulsın) — may they rest in peace
- Thai: หลับให้สบาย (làp-hâi-sà-baai) — may they rest in peace
- Turkish: huzur içinde yatsın — may they rest in peace
- Turkmen: rahatlykda dynç al — may they rest in peace
- Ukrainian: відпочинок в світі (vidpočynok v sviti) — may they rest in peace
- Uzbek: joyi jannatda boʻlsin — may they rest in peace
- Vietnamese: yên nghỉ — may they rest in peace
- Welsh: gorffwys mewn heddwch — may they rest in peace
- Yiddish: מנוחה אין שלום (menukhe in sholem) — may they rest in peace
- Yoruba: sun re o — may they rest in peace
- Zulu: lala ngoxolo — may they rest in peace