revenge

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From Middle French revenge, a derivation from revenger, from Old French revengier (possibly influenced by Old Occitan revènge (“revenge, comeback”), from Old Occitan revenir (“to come back”)), a variant of Middle French revancher (whence deverbal French revanche), from Old French revenchier. The variants Old French vengier (whence French venger) and Old French venchier are both descended from Latin vindicō, with stress-conditioned different parallel development in the inflectional forms. Doublet of revanche. Compare avenge and vengeance.

From Middle English revengen, from Old French revengier, revenger.

265 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: gjakmarrje — retaliatory action
• Albanian: hakmarrje — retaliatory action
• Arabic: ثَأْر (ṯaʔr) — retaliatory action
• Arabic: اِنْتِقَام (intiqām) — retaliatory action
• Arabic: تار (tār) — retaliatory action
• Arabic: انتقام (intigām, intiqām) — retaliatory action
• Arabic: ثار (tār) — retaliatory action
• Arabic: انتقام (intiqām) — retaliatory action
• Armenian: վրեժ (vrež) — retaliatory action
• Armenian: քեն (kʻen) — retaliatory action
• Armenian: ոխ (ox) — retaliatory action
• Aromanian: arãzgan — retaliatory action
• Aromanian: ahti — retaliatory action
• Assamese: পোটক (pütok) — retaliatory action
• Assamese: সেকা (xeka) — retaliatory action
• Assamese: প্ৰতিশোধ (protixüdh) — retaliatory action
• Asturian: venganza — retaliatory action
• Azerbaijani: qisas — retaliatory action
• Azerbaijani: intiqam — retaliatory action
• Azerbaijani: öc — retaliatory action
• Bashkir: үс (üs) — retaliatory action
• Bashkir: ҡон (qon) — retaliatory action
• Basque: mendeku — retaliatory action
• Belarusian: по́мста (pómsta) — retaliatory action
• Bengali: প্ৰতিশোধ — retaliatory action
• Bulgarian: мъст (mǎst) — retaliatory action
• Bulgarian: отмъще́ние (otmǎšténie) — retaliatory action
• Carpathian Rusyn: пімста (pimsta) — retaliatory action
• Catalan: revenja — retaliatory action
• Catalan: venjança — retaliatory action
• Chechen: бехкам (bexkam) — retaliatory action
• Cherokee: ᎠᏞᎢᏍᏗ (atleisdi) — retaliatory action
• Chinese Mandarin: 報仇 /报仇 (bàochóu) — retaliatory action
• Chinese Mandarin: 復仇 /复仇 (fùchóu) — retaliatory action
• Chinese Mandarin: 報復 /报复 (bàofù) — retaliatory action
• Czech: pomsta — retaliatory action
• Czech: odplata — retaliatory action
• Danish: hævn — retaliatory action
• Dutch: wraak — retaliatory action
• Esperanto: venĝo — retaliatory action
• Estonian: kättemaks — retaliatory action
• Faroese: hevnd — retaliatory action
• Finnish: kosto — retaliatory action
• French: vengeance — retaliatory action
• French: revanche — retaliatory action
• Old French: venjance — retaliatory action
• Old French: justise — retaliatory action
• Galician: vinganza — retaliatory action
• Galician: vendeita — retaliatory action
• Galician: vendecha — retaliatory action
• Galician: vinga — retaliatory action
• Georgian: შურისძიება (šurisʒieba) — retaliatory action
• Georgian: შურისგება (šurisgeba) — retaliatory action
• German: Rache — retaliatory action
• Old High German: rāhha — retaliatory action
• Gothic: 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐍅𐌴𐌹𐍄 (fraweit) — retaliatory action
• Greek: εκδίκηση (ekdíkisi) — retaliatory action
• Ancient Greek: ἐκδίκησις (ekdíkēsis) — retaliatory action
• Hebrew: נְקָמָה (nekamá) — retaliatory action
• Hindi: प्रतिशोध (pratiśodh) — retaliatory action
• Hindi: बदला (badlā) — retaliatory action
• Hindi: इंतक़ाम (intaqām) — retaliatory action
• Hindi: इंतिक़ाम (intiqām) — retaliatory action
• Hungarian: bosszú — retaliatory action
• Icelandic: hefnd — retaliatory action
• Ido: venjo — retaliatory action
• Indonesian: balas dendam — retaliatory action
• Indonesian: pembalasan — retaliatory action
• Irish: díoltas — retaliatory action
• Irish: sásamh — retaliatory action
• Italian: vendetta — retaliatory action
• Italian: rivincita — retaliatory action
• Italian: rivalsa — retaliatory action
• Italian: ritorsione — retaliatory action
• Japanese: 復讐 (fukushū) — retaliatory action
• Japanese: 報復 (hōfuku) — retaliatory action
• Kapampangan: ablas — retaliatory action
• Kazakh: кек (kek) — retaliatory action
• Kazakh: өш (öş) — retaliatory action
• Korean: 복수 (boksu) — retaliatory action
• Korean: 보복 (bobok) — retaliatory action
• Northern Kurdish: tol — retaliatory action
• Kyrgyz: кек (kek) — retaliatory action
• Lao: ອາຄາດ (ʼā khāt) — retaliatory action
• Latin: vindicta — retaliatory action
• Latin: ultiō — retaliatory action
• Latvian: atriebe — retaliatory action
• Latvian: atriebība — retaliatory action
• Lithuanian: kerštas — retaliatory action
• Macedonian: одмазда (odmazda) — retaliatory action
• Malay: dendam — retaliatory action
• Malayalam: പ്രതികാരം (pratikāraṁ) — retaliatory action
• Māori: uto — retaliatory action
• Māori: ngakinga — retaliatory action
• Marathi: सूड (sūḍ) — retaliatory action
• Mongolian: өс (ös) — retaliatory action
• Norman: r'venge — retaliatory action
• Norwegian Bokmål: hevn — retaliatory action
• Norwegian Nynorsk: hemn — retaliatory action
• Occitan: revenja — retaliatory action
• Church Slavic: мьсть (mĭstĭ) — retaliatory action
• Old English: wracu — retaliatory action
• Ossetian: маст исын — retaliatory action
• Pashto: انتقام (enteqām) — retaliatory action
• Pennsylvania German: Raache — retaliatory action
• Dari: اِنْتِقَام (intiqām) — retaliatory action
• Iranian Persian: اِنْتِقام (enteġâm) — retaliatory action
• Plautdietsch: Rach — retaliatory action
• Polish: odwet — retaliatory action
• Polish: pomsta — retaliatory action
• Polish: zemsta — retaliatory action
• Portuguese: vingança — retaliatory action
• Romanian: răzbunare — retaliatory action
• Russian: месть (mestʹ) — retaliatory action
• Russian: рева́нш (revánš) — retaliatory action
• Russian: мще́ние (mščénije) — retaliatory action
• Russian: отмще́ние (otmščénije) — retaliatory action
• Russian: воздая́ние (vozdajánije) — retaliatory action
• Scottish Gaelic: dìoghaltas — retaliatory action
• Serbo-Croatian: о̏света — retaliatory action
• Serbo-Croatian: о̀дмазда — retaliatory action
• Serbo-Croatian: ȍsveta — retaliatory action
• Serbo-Croatian: òdmazda — retaliatory action
• Sindhi: بدلو (bdlo) — retaliatory action
• Slovak: pomsta — retaliatory action
• Slovene: maščevanje — retaliatory action
• Lower Sorbian: pomsć — retaliatory action
• Lower Sorbian: pomsćenje — retaliatory action
• Spanish: venganza — retaliatory action
• Swahili: kisasi — retaliatory action
• Swedish: hämnd — retaliatory action
• Tagalog: paghihiganti — retaliatory action
• Tagalog: resbak — retaliatory action
• Tajik: интиқом (intiqom) — retaliatory action
• Tatar: үч (üç) — retaliatory action
• Thai: การแก้แค้น — retaliatory action
• Thai: การล้างแค้น — retaliatory action
• Thai: การเอาคืน — retaliatory action
• Turkish: intikam — retaliatory action
• Turkish: öç — retaliatory action
• Ukrainian: по́мста (pómsta) — retaliatory action
• Urdu: بَدْلَہ (badla) — retaliatory action
• Urdu: اِنْتِقام (intiqām) — retaliatory action
• Uyghur: ئىنتىقام (intiqam) — retaliatory action
• Uzbek: intiqom — retaliatory action
• Vietnamese: sự trả thù — retaliatory action
• Walloon: rivindje — retaliatory action
• Welsh: dialedd — retaliatory action
• Welsh: dial — retaliatory action
• Welsh: dialon — retaliatory action
• Yiddish: נקמה (nekome) — retaliatory action
• Albanian: LA — to take one's revenge on someone
• Belarusian: мсціць (mscicʹ) — to take one's revenge on someone
• Belarusian: по́мсціць (pómscicʹ) — to take one's revenge on someone
• Belarusian: адпо́мсціць (adpómscicʹ) — to take one's revenge on someone
• Central Bikol: balos — to take one's revenge on someone
• Bulgarian: мъстя́ (mǎstjá) — to take one's revenge on someone
• Bulgarian: отмъща́вам (otmǎštávam) — to take one's revenge on someone
• Bulgarian: отмъстя́ (otmǎstjá) — to take one's revenge on someone
• Catalan: revenjar-se — to take one's revenge on someone
• Catalan: venjar-se (d'algú) — to take one's revenge on someone
• Maore Comorian: uliv̄a kiswa — to take one's revenge on someone
• Czech: pomstít se — to take one's revenge on someone
• Czech: mstít se — to take one's revenge on someone
• Czech: oplatit — to take one's revenge on someone
• Czech: oplácet — to take one's revenge on someone
• Danish: hævne sig — to take one's revenge on someone
• French: se venger (de quelqu'un) — to take one's revenge on someone
• Galician: vingar — to take one's revenge on someone
• Malayalam: പ്രതികാരം ചെയ്യുക (pratikāraṁ ceyyuka) — to take one's revenge on someone
• Malayalam: പകവീട്ടുക (pakavīṭṭuka) — to take one's revenge on someone
• Mongolian: өс авах (ös avax) — to take one's revenge on someone
• Tagalog: maghiganti — to take one's revenge on someone
• Turkish: intikan — to take one's revenge on someone
• Turkish: birinden intikamını almak — to take one's revenge on someone
• Ukrainian: мсти́ти (mstýty) — to take one's revenge on someone
• Ukrainian: помсти́ти (pomstýty) — to take one's revenge on someone
• Ukrainian: відомща́ти (vidomščáty) — to take one's revenge on someone
• Ukrainian: відімсти́ти (vidimstýty) — to take one's revenge on someone
• Ukrainian: відомсти́ти (vidomstýty) — to take one's revenge on someone
• Ukrainian: мсти́тися (mstýtysja) — to take one's revenge on someone
• Ukrainian: помща́тися (pomščátysja) — to take one's revenge on someone
• Ukrainian: помсти́тися (pomstýtysja) — to take one's revenge on someone
• Arabic: اِنْتَقَمَ (intaqama) — to take revenge for an action
• Belarusian: мсціць (mscicʹ) — to take revenge for an action
• Belarusian: по́мсціць (pómscicʹ) — to take revenge for an action
• Belarusian: адпо́мсціць (adpómscicʹ) — to take revenge for an action
• Central Bikol: balos — to take revenge for an action
• Bulgarian: мъстя́ (mǎstjá) — to take revenge for an action
• Bulgarian: отмъща́вам (otmǎštávam) — to take revenge for an action
• Bulgarian: отмъстя́ (otmǎstjá) — to take revenge for an action
• Burmese: လက်စားချေ (lakca:hkye) — to take revenge for an action
• Burmese: ကလဲ့စားချေ (ka.lai.ca:hkye) — to take revenge for an action
• Catalan: revenjar-se — to take revenge for an action
• Catalan: venjar (un greuge) — to take revenge for an action
• Chinese Mandarin: 報仇 /报仇 (bàochóu) — to take revenge for an action
• Chinese Mandarin: 報復 /报复 (bàofu) — to take revenge for an action
• Czech: mstít se — to take revenge for an action
• Czech: pomstít se — to take revenge for an action
• Danish: hævne — to take revenge for an action
• Danish: hævne seg — to take revenge for an action
• Dutch: wreken — to take revenge for an action
• Finnish: kostaa — to take revenge for an action
• French: venger — to take revenge for an action
• German: rächen — to take revenge for an action
• Greek: εκδικούμαι (ekdikoúmai) — to take revenge for an action
• Hindi: बदला लेना (badlā lenā) — to take revenge for an action
• Hindi: दण्ड देना (daṇḍ denā) — to take revenge for an action
• Italian: vendicarsi — to take revenge for an action
• Japanese: 復讐する (fukushū suru) — to take revenge for an action
• Japanese: 報復する (hōfuku suru) — to take revenge for an action
• Korean: 복수하다 (boksuhada) — to take revenge for an action
• Korean: 보복하다 (bobokhada) — to take revenge for an action
• Lao: ແກ້ແຄ້ນ (kǣ khǣn) — to take revenge for an action
• Macedonian: одмаздува (odmazduva) — to take revenge for an action
• Macedonian: одмазди (odmazdi) — to take revenge for an action
• Malayalam: പകവീട്ടുക (pakavīṭṭuka) — to take revenge for an action
• Norwegian Bokmål: hevne — to take revenge for an action
• Norwegian Bokmål: hevne seg — to take revenge for an action
• Church Slavic: мьстити (mĭstiti) — to take revenge for an action
• Persian: انتقام گرفتن (enteqâm gereftan) — to take revenge for an action
• Polish: mścić się — to take revenge for an action
• Polish: zemścić się — to take revenge for an action
• Polish: pomścić się — to take revenge for an action
• Portuguese: vingar-se — to take revenge for an action
• Romanian: răzbuna — to take revenge for an action
• Russian: мстить (mstitʹ) — to take revenge for an action
• Russian: отомсти́ть (otomstítʹ) — to take revenge for an action
• Serbo-Croatian: освећи́вати се — to take revenge for an action
• Serbo-Croatian: осве́тити се — to take revenge for an action
• Serbo-Croatian: osvećívati se — to take revenge for an action
• Serbo-Croatian: osvétiti se — to take revenge for an action
• Slovak: mstiť sa — to take revenge for an action
• Slovak: pomstiť sa — to take revenge for an action
• Slovene: maščevati se — to take revenge for an action
• Swedish: hämnas — to take revenge for an action
• Tajik: интиқом гирифтан (intiqom giriftan) — to take revenge for an action
• Tajik: қасос гирифтан (qasos giriftan) — to take revenge for an action
• Thai: แก้แค้น (gɛ̂ɛ-kɛ́ɛn) — to take revenge for an action
• Ukrainian: мсти́ти (mstýty) — to take revenge for an action
• Ukrainian: помсти́ти (pomstýty) — to take revenge for an action
• Ukrainian: відомща́ти (vidomščáty) — to take revenge for an action
• Ukrainian: відімсти́ти (vidimstýty) — to take revenge for an action
• Ukrainian: відомсти́ти (vidomstýty) — to take revenge for an action
• Vietnamese: phục thù — to take revenge for an action
• Vietnamese: trả thù — to take revenge for an action
• Belarusian: по́мсціць (pómscicʹ) — to take revenge on an actor
• Belarusian: адпо́мсціць (adpómscicʹ) — to take revenge on an actor
• Central Bikol: balos — to take revenge on an actor
• Catalan: revenjar-se — to take revenge on an actor
• Catalan: venjar-se (d'algú) — to take revenge on an actor
• Czech: oplácet — to take revenge on an actor
• Czech: oplatit — to take revenge on an actor
• Greek: εκδικούμαι (ekdikoúmai) — to take revenge on an actor
• Irish: imir díoltas ar — to take revenge on an actor
• Lao: ແກ້ແຄ້ນ (kǣ khǣn) — to take revenge on an actor
• Macedonian: одмаздува (odmazduva) — to take revenge on an actor
• Macedonian: одмазди (odmazdi) — to take revenge on an actor
• Portuguese: vingar — to take revenge on an actor
• Romanian: răzbuna — to take revenge on an actor
• Russian: мстить (mstitʹ) — to take revenge on an actor
• Russian: отомсти́ть (otomstítʹ) — to take revenge on an actor
• Thai: แก้แค้น (gɛ̂ɛ-kɛ́ɛn) — to take revenge on an actor
• Ukrainian: мсти́ти (mstýty) — to take revenge on an actor
• Ukrainian: помсти́ти (pomstýty) — to take revenge on an actor