adultery

Etymology
From the scholarly form  (in Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons, 12c.), from, from. Replaced the older form, from the popular 🇨🇬 forms or. Compare 🇨🇬. Displaced 🇨🇬. Not related to.

Noun

 * 1)  Sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse. See more synonyms at Thesaurus:cuckoldry
 * 2)  Lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the sixth/seventh commandment; sinful sexual behavior as a category.
 * 3)  Faithlessness in religion.
 * 4)  The fine and penalty formerly imposed for the offence of adultery.
 * 5)  The intrusion of a person into a bishopric during the life of the bishop.
 * 6)  Adulteration; corruption.
 * 7)  Injury; degradation; ruin.
 * 1)  Faithlessness in religion.
 * 2)  The fine and penalty formerly imposed for the offence of adultery.
 * 3)  The intrusion of a person into a bishopric during the life of the bishop.
 * 4)  Adulteration; corruption.
 * 5)  Injury; degradation; ruin.
 * 1)  Injury; degradation; ruin.

Hyponyms

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Translations

 * Afrikaans: egbreek,
 * Arabic: خِيانة زَوْجِيَّة, زِنَا المُحْصَنَيْن
 * Armenian:
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܓܲܝܵܪܘܼܬܵܐ, ܙܵܢܝܘܼܬܵܐ
 * Asturian: adulteriu
 * Belarusian: пралюбадзе́йства, пералю́б, адзюльтэ́р, шлю́бная здра́да, шлю́бная няве́рнасць
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Cherokee: ᎠᏓᏲᏁᎯ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , , , , 不倫之戀
 * Czech:, manželská nevěra
 * Danish: utroskab
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, , , ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: მრუშობა, ღალატი, სიძვა, ადიულტერი
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐌷𐍉𐍂𐌹𐌽𐌰𐍃𐍃𐌿𐍃
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: μοιχεία
 * Haitian Creole: adiltè
 * Hebrew: ניאוף
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: adhaltranas
 * Old Irish: adaltras
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, , , .婚外性交, ,
 * Korean:, 불륜(不倫)
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Latin: adulterium
 * Lithuanian: neištikimybė
 * Macedonian: прељуба
 * Malay:, mukah
 * Maori: moe pūremu, pūremu, tōkohi, toukohi
 * Middle Persian: pal
 * Norwegian: hor
 * Bokmål: utroskap
 * Occitan:
 * Old Church Slavonic: съничьство
 * Old English: ǣwbryċe, unrihthǣmed
 * Persian:, پلیدکاری, زنای محصنه, روسپی‌گری
 * Plautdietsch: Ehebruch
 * Polish:, zdrada małżeńska
 * Portuguese:
 * Romagnol: adultéri
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, , , супру́жеская неве́рность
 * Scottish Gaelic: adhaltranas
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: браколомство, прељуба, прељуб
 * Roman:, ,
 * Slovak: cudzoložstvo, manželská nevera
 * Slovene: prešuštvo, zakonolom
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: zinaa
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: pangangalunya; pakikiapid
 * Telugu:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: перелю́бство,, подру́жня зра́да, подру́жня неві́рність
 * Uyghur: زىنا
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Yiddish: נואף


 * Arabic:, زِنَاء
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ;
 * Japanese:
 * Romagnol: adultéri
 * Russian:


 * Finnish: ;