sincere

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• Received-Pronunciation: /sɪnˈsɪə(ɹ)/
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• General-American: /sɪnˈsɪɹ/
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From Middle French sincere, from Latin sincerus (“genuine”), from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“together”) (whence English sam) + *ḱer- (“grow”) (whence Latin Ceres, the goddess of harvest, etymon of cereal). Not from sine (“without”) + cera (“wax”), a folk etymology; see Wikipedia page.

101 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: i sinqertë — earnest
• Arabic: مُخْلِص (muḵliṣ) — earnest
• Armenian: անկեղծ (ankeġc) — earnest
• Azerbaijani: səmimi — earnest
• Basque: zintzo — earnest
• Belarusian: шчы́ры (ščýry) — earnest
• Bulgarian: и́скрен (ískren) — earnest
• Catalan: sincer — earnest
• Literary Chinese: 誠 (chéng) — earnest
• Literary Chinese: 亶 (dǎn) — earnest
• Literary Chinese: 僤 (dàn) — earnest
• Literary Chinese: 恂 (xún) — earnest
• Literary Chinese: 悃 (kǔn) — earnest
• Literary Chinese: 懇 (kěn) — earnest
• Literary Chinese: 愊 (bì) — earnest
• Literary Chinese: 愖 (dān) — earnest
• Literary Chinese: 愫 (sù) — earnest
• Literary Chinese: 篤 (dǔ) — earnest
• Literary Chinese: 摯 (zhì) — earnest
• Chinese Mandarin: 虔诚 (qiánchéng) — earnest
• Chinese Mandarin: 真誠 /真诚 (zhēnchéng) — earnest
• Czech: upřímný — earnest
• Danish: oprigtig — earnest
• Dutch: oprecht — earnest
• Esperanto: sincera — earnest
• Estonian: siiras — earnest
• Finnish: vilpitön — earnest
• French: sincère — earnest
• Galician: sincero — earnest
• Galician: franco — earnest
• Georgian: გულწრფელი (gulc̣rpeli) — earnest
• German: aufrichtig — earnest
• Gothic: 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌺𐌽𐍃 (airkns) — earnest
• Gothic: 𐌿𐌽𐌷𐌹𐌽𐌳𐌰𐍂𐍅𐌴𐌹𐍃 (unhindarweis) — earnest
• Greek: ειλικρινής (eilikrinís) — earnest
• Ancient Greek: εἰλικρινής (eilikrinḗs) — earnest
• Hebrew: כֵּן (ken) — earnest
• Hebrew: כֵּנֶה (kené) — earnest
• Hindi: ईमानदार (īmāndār) — earnest
• Hindi: सच्चा (saccā) — earnest
• Hungarian: őszinte — earnest
• Icelandic: einlægur — earnest
• Indonesian: ikhlas — earnest
• Indonesian: tulus hati — earnest
• Indonesian: bersih hati — earnest
• Irish: dílis — earnest
• Irish: cneasta — earnest
• Italian: sincero — earnest
• Italian: fervido — earnest
• Italian: zelante — earnest
• Italian: assiduo — earnest
• Japanese: 誠実な (seijitsu na) — earnest
• Kazakh: адал (adal) — earnest
• Kazakh: ақкөңіл (aqköñıl) — earnest
• Kazakh: шын (şyn) — earnest
• Khmer: ស្មោះ (smɑh) — earnest
• Khmer: សច្ចំ (saccang) — earnest
• Korean: 진실하다 (jinsilhada) — earnest
• Central Kurdish: دڵ پاک — earnest
• Lao: ຈິງໃຈ (ching chai) — earnest
• Latin: sincērus — earnest
• Latvian: patiess — earnest
• Lithuanian: nuoširdus — earnest
• Macedonian: искрен (iskren) — earnest
• Malay: ikhlas — earnest
• Māori: tinihangakore — earnest
• Māori: motuhenga — earnest
• Māori: ngākau pono — earnest
• Khiamniungan Naga: tângsàngshī — earnest
• Norman: sîncéthe — earnest
• Norwegian Bokmål: oppriktig — earnest
• Persian: صادق (sâdeq) — earnest
• Persian: صمیمی (samimi) — earnest
• Polish: szczery — earnest
• Portuguese: sincero — earnest
• Romanian: sincer — earnest
• Russian: и́скренний (ískrennij) — earnest
• Serbo-Croatian: и̏скрен — earnest
• Serbo-Croatian: ȉskren — earnest
• Slovak: úprimný — earnest
• Slovene: iskren — earnest
• Southern Altai: сӧс јажырбас (sös ǰažïrbas) — earnest
• Spanish: sincero — earnest
• Swedish: uppriktig — earnest
• Tajik: содиқ (sodiq) — earnest
• Tajik: самимӣ (samimi) — earnest
• Thai: จริงใจ (jing-jai) — earnest
• Turkish: samimi — earnest
• Turkish: içten — earnest
• Turkish: yürekten — earnest
• Turkish: kalpten — earnest
• Ukrainian: щи́рий (ščýryj) — earnest
• Uyghur: سەمىمىي (semimiy) — earnest
• Uzbek: samimiy — earnest
• Vietnamese: thành thật — earnest
• Vietnamese: thật thà — earnest
• Vietnamese: ngay thật — earnest
• Vietnamese: chân thành — earnest
• Vietnamese: thành khẩn — earnest
• Volapük: ladöfik — earnest
• Welsh: diffuant — earnest