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Transliteration of Akkadian 𒀭𒂗𒍪 (Sîn).

From Cantonese 單 /单 (sin6) or 冼 (sin2).

From Hebrew סִין.

From Middle English sinne, synne, sunne, zen, from Old English synn (“sin”), from Proto-West Germanic *sunnju, from Proto-Germanic *sunjō (“truth, excuse”) and *sundī, *sundijō (“sin”), from , from *h1sónts ("being, true", implying a verdict of "truly guilty" against an accusation or charge), from *h1es- (“to be”); compare Old English sōþ ("true"; see sooth). Doublet of suttee. Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Sände, Säände (“sin”), West Frisian sûnde (“sin”), German Sünde (“sin”), Luxembourgish Sënd, Sënn (“sin”), Vilamovian zynd (“sin”) Yiddish זינד (zind, “sin”), Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish synd (“sin”), Gothic 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐌾𐌰 (sunja, “truth”), Latin sont-, sons (“sinful, guilty, criminal”).

Modification of shin.

368 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abkhaz: агәнаҳа (agwnaḥa) — violation of religious law
• Afar: caráamu — violation of religious law
• Afrikaans: sonde — violation of religious law
• Aklanon: saea' — violation of religious law
• Albanian: mëkat — violation of religious law
• Northern Altai: килинджек (kilindžek) — violation of religious law
• Southern Altai: јазык (ǰazïk) — violation of religious law
• Amharic: ኀጢአት (ḫäṭiʾät) — violation of religious law
• Arabic: خَطِيئَة (ḵaṭīʔa) — violation of religious law
• Arabic: إِثْم (ʔiṯm) — violation of religious law
• Arabic: ذَنْب (ḏanb) — violation of religious law
• Arabic: مَعْصِيَة (maʕṣiya) — violation of religious law
• Arabic: خِطْء (ḵiṭʔ) — violation of religious law
• Arabic: ذنب (zanb) — violation of religious law
• Arabic: ذَنْب (zanb, ḏanb) — violation of religious law
• Arabic: مَعْصِية (maʕṣiya) — violation of religious law
• Armenian: մեղք (meġkʻ) — violation of religious law
• Aromanian: picat — violation of religious law
• Aromanian: amãrtii — violation of religious law
• Assamese: পাপ (pap) — violation of religious law
• Asturian: pecáu — violation of religious law
• Azerbaijani: günah — violation of religious law
• Bashkir: гонаһ (gonah) — violation of religious law
• Basque: bekatu — violation of religious law
• Belarusian: грэх (hrex) — violation of religious law
• Bengali: পাতক (patok) — violation of religious law
• Bengali: পাপ (pap) — violation of religious law
• Breton: pehed — violation of religious law
• Bulgarian: грях (grjah) — violation of religious law
• Burmese: မှားယွင်းခြင်း (hma:ywang:hkrang:) — violation of religious law
• Burmese: အပြစ် (a.prac) — violation of religious law
• Buryat: нүгэл (nügel) — violation of religious law
• Carpathian Rusyn: грѣх (hrjix) — violation of religious law
• Carpathian Rusyn: грїх (hrjix) — violation of religious law
• Catalan: pecat — violation of religious law
• Cebuano: sala — violation of religious law
• Chechen: къа (qʼa) — violation of religious law
• Cherokee: ᎠᏍᎦᏂ (asgani) — violation of religious law
• Chinese Cantonese: 罪 (zeoi6) — violation of religious law
• Chinese: зуй (zuy) — violation of religious law
• Chinese: гўнахар (gwnahar) — violation of religious law
• Eastern Min Chinese: 罪 (cô̤i) — violation of religious law
• Hakka Chinese: 罪 (chhui) — violation of religious law
• Chinese: 罪 (zh-min-nan) — violation of religious law
• Chinese Mandarin: 罪 (zuì) — violation of religious law
• Chinese Mandarin: 孽 (niè) — violation of religious law
• Northern Min Chinese: 罪 (cò) — violation of religious law
• Wu Chinese: 罪 (6zoe; 6ze) — violation of religious law
• Cornish: pehas — violation of religious law
• Cornish: pegh — violation of religious law
• Crimean Tatar: günâh — violation of religious law
• Crimean Tatar: güna — violation of religious law
• Czech: hřích — violation of religious law
• Dalmatian: pecat — violation of religious law
• Dalmatian: blasmuat — violation of religious law
• Danish: synd — violation of religious law
• Dutch: zonde — violation of religious law
• Esperanto: peko — violation of religious law
• Estonian: patt — violation of religious law
• Faroese: synd — violation of religious law
• Finnish: synti — violation of religious law
• French: péché — violation of religious law
• West-Frisian: sûnde — violation of religious law
• Friulian: pecjât — violation of religious law
• Friulian: pečhât — violation of religious law
• Galician: pecado — violation of religious law
• Georgian: ცოდვა (codva) — violation of religious law
• German: Sünde — violation of religious law
• Gothic: 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐍅𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌷𐍄𐍃 (frawaurhts) — violation of religious law
• Greek: αμάρτημα (amártima) — violation of religious law
• Greek: αμαρτία (amartía) — violation of religious law
• Ancient Greek: ἁμάρτημα (hamártēma) — violation of religious law
• Ancient Greek: ἁμαρτία (hamartía) — violation of religious law
• Greenlandic: ajortuliaq — violation of religious law
• Gujarati: પાપ (pāp) — violation of religious law
• Haitian Creole: peche — violation of religious law
• Hausa: zùnubī̀ — violation of religious law
• Hawaiian: lawehala — violation of religious law
• Hebrew: חֵטְא (khet) — violation of religious law
• Higaonon: sala — violation of religious law
• Hindi: पाप (pāp) — violation of religious law
• Hindi: अधर्म (adharm) — violation of religious law
• Hindi: दुष्कर्म (duṣkarm) — violation of religious law
• Hindi: गुनाह (gunāh) — violation of religious law
• Hungarian: bűn — violation of religious law
• Hungarian: vétek — violation of religious law
• Hunsrik: Sind — violation of religious law
• Icelandic: synd — violation of religious law
• Ido: peko — violation of religious law
• Indonesian: dosa — violation of religious law
• Interlingua: peccato — violation of religious law
• Irish: peaca — violation of religious law
• Istro-Romanian: pecåt — violation of religious law
• Italian: peccato — violation of religious law
• Japanese: 罪 (tsumi) — violation of religious law
• Javanese: dosa — violation of religious law
• Kalmyk: килнц (kilnts) — violation of religious law
• Kannada: ಪಾಪ (pāpa) — violation of religious law
• Kashubian: grzéch — violation of religious law
• Kazakh: күнә (künä) — violation of religious law
• Kazakh: обал (obal) — violation of religious law
• Khmer: បាប (baap) — violation of religious law
• Khmer: អំពើបាប (ʼɑmpəə baap) — violation of religious law
• Khmer: ទោស (tooh) — violation of religious law
• Kituba: disumu — violation of religious law
• Korean: 죄 (joe) — violation of religious law
• Central Kurdish: گوناه (gunah) — violation of religious law
• Northern Kurdish: guneh — violation of religious law
• Kyrgyz: күнөө (künöö) — violation of religious law
• Laboya: jala — violation of religious law
• Ladin: picià — violation of religious law
• Lao: ບາບ (bāp) — violation of religious law
• Latin: peccatum — violation of religious law
• Latin: scelus — violation of religious law
• Latvian: grēks — violation of religious law
• Lingala: sumuki — violation of religious law
• Lisu: ꓝꓴꓲꓸ (tsúj) — violation of religious law
• Lisu: ꓚꓱꓸ (tʃǿ) — violation of religious law
• Lisu: ꓝꓱꓸ (tsǿ) — violation of religious law
• Lithuanian: nuodėmė — violation of religious law
• Lombard: peccaa — violation of religious law
• Luhya: ethambi — violation of religious law
• Luhya: obusuku — violation of religious law
• Luxembourgish: Sënn — violation of religious law
• Luxembourgish: Sënd — violation of religious law
• Macedonian: грев (grev) — violation of religious law
• Malagasy: fahotana — violation of religious law
• Malay: dosa — violation of religious law
• Malayalam: പാപം (pāpaṁ) — violation of religious law
• Maltese: dnub — violation of religious law
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: sala' — violation of religious law
• Manx: peccah — violation of religious law
• Maranao: dosa — violation of religious law
• Maranao: sala' — violation of religious law
• Marathi: पाप (pāp) — violation of religious law
• Meru: iiya — violation of religious law
• Middle English: synne — violation of religious law
• Mongolian: нүгэл (nügel) — violation of religious law
• Navajo: bąąhági átʼéii — violation of religious law
• Neapolitan: peccato — violation of religious law
• Nepali: पाप (pāp) — violation of religious law
• Norman: péché — violation of religious law
• Norwegian Bokmål: synd — violation of religious law
• Norwegian Nynorsk: synd — violation of religious law
• Occitan: pecat — violation of religious law
• Odia: ପାପ (pāpa) — violation of religious law
• Church Slavic: грѣхъ (grěxŭ) — violation of religious law
• Church Slavic: ⰳⱃⱑⱈⱏ (grěxŭ) — violation of religious law
• Old East Slavic: грѣхъ (grěxŭ) — violation of religious law
• Old English: synn — violation of religious law
• Old English: sċyld — violation of religious law
• Oromo: cubbuu — violation of religious law
• Pannonian Rusyn: грих (hrix) — violation of religious law
• Pashto: ګناه (gwənā) — violation of religious law
• Pashto: ګناه ګاري (gwənāhgārí) — violation of religious law
• Dari: گُنَاه (gunāh) — violation of religious law
• Iranian Persian: گُناه (gonâh) — violation of religious law
• Plautdietsch: Sind — violation of religious law
• Plautdietsch: Äwaträdunk — violation of religious law
• Polish: grzech — violation of religious law
• Polish: przewina — violation of religious law
• Polish: występek — violation of religious law
• Portuguese: pecado — violation of religious law
• Punjabi: ਪਾਪ (pāp) — violation of religious law
• Romanian: păcat — violation of religious law
• Romansh: putgà — violation of religious law
• Romansh: puchà — violation of religious law
• Romansh: puccau — violation of religious law
• Russian: грех (grex) — violation of religious law
• Northern Sami: suddu — violation of religious law
• Sanskrit: पाप (pāpá) — violation of religious law
• Sanskrit: आगस् (āgas) — violation of religious law
• Sanskrit: एनस् (enas) — violation of religious law
• Sardinian: pecadu — violation of religious law
• Sardinian: pecau — violation of religious law
• Scottish Gaelic: peacadh — violation of religious law
• Serbo-Croatian: гре̑х — violation of religious law
• Serbo-Croatian: грије̑х — violation of religious law
• Serbo-Croatian: grȇh — violation of religious law
• Serbo-Croatian: grijȇh — violation of religious law
• Shor: қыйал (qıyal) — violation of religious law
• Sicilian: piccatu — violation of religious law
• Silesian: grzych — violation of religious law
• Sinhalese: පාපය (pāpaya) — violation of religious law
• Slovak: hriech — violation of religious law
• Slovene: greh — violation of religious law
• Lower Sorbian: grěch — violation of religious law
• Upper Sorbian: hrěch — violation of religious law
• Spanish: pecado — violation of religious law
• Sranan Tongo: pikadu — violation of religious law
• Swahili: dhambi — violation of religious law
• Swedish: synd — violation of religious law
• Tagalog: kasalanan — violation of religious law
• Tajik: гуноҳ (gunoh) — violation of religious law
• Tamil: பாவம் (pāvam) — violation of religious law
• Tamil: பழி (paḻi) — violation of religious law
• Tatar: гөнаһ (gönah) — violation of religious law
• Telugu: పాపము (pāpamu) — violation of religious law
• Thai: บาป (bàap) — violation of religious law
• Tocharian B: tranko — violation of religious law
• Turkish: günah — violation of religious law
• Turkish: vebal — violation of religious law
• Ottoman Turkish: صوچ (suç) — violation of religious law
• Ottoman Turkish: گناه (günah) — violation of religious law
• Ottoman Turkish: ذنب (zenb) — violation of religious law
• Turkmen: günä — violation of religious law
• Turkmen: günää — violation of religious law
• Tuvan: бачыт (baçıt) — violation of religious law
• Ukrainian: гріх (hrix) — violation of religious law
• Urdu: گُناہ (gunāh) — violation of religious law
• Urdu: پاپ (pāp) — violation of religious law
• Urdu: خَطا (xatā) — violation of religious law
• Urdu: اَپْرادھ (aprādh) — violation of religious law
• Uyghur: گۇناھ (gunah) — violation of religious law
• Uzbek: gunoh — violation of religious law
• Vietnamese: tội — violation of religious law
• Vietnamese: tội lỗi — violation of religious law
• Volapük: sinod — violation of religious law
• Welsh: pechod — violation of religious law
• Yakut: аньыы (aňïï) — violation of religious law
• Yiddish: זינד (zind) — violation of religious law
• Zazaki: guna — violation of religious law
• Zazaki: heyf — violation of religious law
• Abkhaz: агәнаҳа (agwnaḥa) — misdeed
• Afrikaans: sonde — misdeed
• Armenian: մեղք (meġkʻ) — misdeed
• Bulgarian: прегреше́ние (pregrešénie) — misdeed
• Catalan: pecat — misdeed
• Czech: hřích — misdeed
• Danish: synder — misdeed
• Dutch: zonde — misdeed
• Finnish: synti — misdeed
• French: péché — misdeed
• German: Sünde — misdeed
• Greek: παράπτωμα (paráptoma) — misdeed
• Haitian Creole: peche — misdeed
• Hawaiian: hewa — misdeed
• Hawaiian: lawehala — misdeed
• Hindi: अपराध (aprādh) — misdeed
• Hungarian: bűn — misdeed
• Hungarian: vétség — misdeed
• Icelandic: synd — misdeed
• Icelandic: misgjörð — misdeed
• Icelandic: misgerð — misdeed
• Icelandic: yfirsjón — misdeed
• Italian: peccato — misdeed
• Italian: vizio — misdeed
• Japanese: 罪 (tsumi) — misdeed
• Macedonian: грев (grev) — misdeed
• Malayalam: പാപം (pāpaṁ) — misdeed
• Middle English: synne — misdeed
• Nahuatl: tlahtlacolli — misdeed
• Navajo: bąąhági átʼéii — misdeed
• Norman: péché — misdeed
• Old English: synn — misdeed
• Iranian Persian: خَطا (xatâ) — misdeed
• Iranian Persian: گُناه (gonâh) — misdeed
• Iranian Persian: بِزِه (beze) — misdeed
• Polish: grzech — misdeed
• Portuguese: transgressão — misdeed
• Russian: грех (grex) — misdeed
• Russian: просту́пок (prostúpok) — misdeed
• Russian: прегреше́ние (pregrešénije) — misdeed
• Sanskrit: एनस् (enas) — misdeed
• Scottish Gaelic: peacadh — misdeed
• Scottish Gaelic: coire — misdeed
• Serbo-Croatian: гре̑х — misdeed
• Serbo-Croatian: грије̑х — misdeed
• Serbo-Croatian: grȇh — misdeed
• Serbo-Croatian: grijȇh — misdeed
• Slovak: hriech — misdeed
• Swahili: dhambi — misdeed
• Swedish: missdåd — misdeed
• Swedish: synd — misdeed
• Tamil: பழி (paḻi) — misdeed
• Telugu: పాపం (pāpaṁ) — misdeed
• Turkish: kabahat — misdeed
• Turkish: suç — misdeed
• Urdu: اَپْرادھ (aprādh) — misdeed
• Volapük: midun — misdeed
• Afrikaans: sondig — to commit a sin
• Arabic: أَثِمَ (ʔaṯima) — to commit a sin
• Arabic: أَذْنَبَ (ʔaḏnaba) — to commit a sin
• Arabic: خَطِئَ (ḵaṭiʔa) — to commit a sin
• Aromanian: amãrtipsescu — to commit a sin
• Asturian: pecar — to commit a sin
• Azerbaijani: günah işlətmək — to commit a sin
• Azerbaijani: günah etmək — to commit a sin
• Belarusian: грашы́ць (hrašýcʹ) — to commit a sin
• Bulgarian: греша́ (grešá) — to commit a sin
• Catalan: pecar — to commit a sin
• Cebuano: paghimo ug salä — to commit a sin
• Cherokee: ᎠᏍᎦᏅᎦ (asganvga) — to commit a sin
• Chinese Mandarin: 作孽 (zuòniè) — to commit a sin
• Chinese Mandarin: 造孽 (zàoniè) — to commit a sin
• Chinese Mandarin: 犯罪 (fànzuì) — to commit a sin
• Maore Comorian: ukosa — to commit a sin
• Czech: hřešit — to commit a sin
• Czech: zhřešit — to commit a sin
• Dalmatian: desser — to commit a sin
• Danish: synde — to commit a sin
• Dutch: zondigen — to commit a sin
• Estonian: pattu tegema — to commit a sin
• Faroese: synda — to commit a sin
• Finnish: tehdä syntiä — to commit a sin
• French: pécher — to commit a sin
• Friulian: pecjâ — to commit a sin
• Friulian: pečhâ — to commit a sin
• Galician: pecar — to commit a sin
• German: sündigen — to commit a sin
• Gothic: 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐍅𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌺𐌾𐌰𐌽 (frawaurkjan) — to commit a sin
• Greek: αμαρτάνω (amartáno) — to commit a sin
• Ancient Greek: ἁμαρτάνω (hamartánō) — to commit a sin
• Hebrew: חטא (khatá) — to commit a sin
• Hindi: पाप (pāp) — to commit a sin
• Hindi: अपराध (aprādh) — to commit a sin
• Hungarian: vétkezik — to commit a sin
• Hungarian: bűnt követ el — to commit a sin
• Icelandic: syndga — to commit a sin
• Ido: pekar — to commit a sin
• Interlingua: peccar — to commit a sin
• Irish: peacaigh — to commit a sin
• Italian: peccare — to commit a sin
• Japanese: 罪を犯す (tsumi o okasu) — to commit a sin
• Korean: 죄를 짓다 (joereul jitda) — to commit a sin
• Latin: peccō — to commit a sin
• Latvian: grēkot — to commit a sin
• Lithuanian: nusidėti — to commit a sin
• Lombard: peccà — to commit a sin
• Lombard: pecà — to commit a sin
• Luxembourgish: sëndegen — to commit a sin
• Macedonian: греши (greši) — to commit a sin
• Middle English: synnen — to commit a sin
• Norwegian Bokmål: synde — to commit a sin
• Occitan: pecar — to commit a sin
• Old Occitan: peccar — to commit a sin
• Old English: syngian — to commit a sin
• Old English: sċyldigian — to commit a sin
• Persian: گناه ورزیدن (gonâh varzidan) — to commit a sin
• Plautdietsch: sikj vesindjen — to commit a sin
• Polish: grzeszyć — to commit a sin
• Polish: zgrzeszyć — to commit a sin
• Portuguese: pecar — to commit a sin
• Romanian: păcătui — to commit a sin
• Russian: греши́ть (grešítʹ) — to commit a sin
• Russian: согреши́ть (sogrešítʹ) — to commit a sin
• Sanskrit: दुष्यति (duṣyati) — to commit a sin
• Sardinian: pecai — to commit a sin
• Sardinian: pecare — to commit a sin
• Scottish Gaelic: peacaich — to commit a sin
• Serbo-Croatian: гре́шити — to commit a sin
• Serbo-Croatian: грије́шити — to commit a sin
• Serbo-Croatian: gréšiti — to commit a sin
• Serbo-Croatian: grijéšiti — to commit a sin
• Sicilian: piccari — to commit a sin
• Slovak: hrešiť — to commit a sin
• Slovene: grešíti — to commit a sin
• Spanish: pecar — to commit a sin
• Swedish: synda — to commit a sin
• Tagalog: gumawa ng kasamaan — to commit a sin
• Telugu: పాపం చేయు (pāpaṁ cēyu) — to commit a sin
• Thai: กระทําบาป — to commit a sin
• Turkish: günah işlemek — to commit a sin
• Ukrainian: гріши́ти (hrišýty) — to commit a sin
• Venetan: pecar — to commit a sin
• Vietnamese: phạm tội — to commit a sin
• Volapük: sinön — to commit a sin
• Welsh: pechu — to commit a sin