euphemism

Etymology
Recorded since 1656; from, from , from , from + , from.

Noun

 * 1)  The use of a word or phrase to replace another with one that is considered less offensive, blunt or vulgar than the word or phrase which it replaces.
 * 2)  A word or phrase that replaces another in this way.
 * 1)  A word or phrase that replaces another in this way.
 * 1)  A word or phrase that replaces another in this way.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: евфеми́зъм
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: verbloeming,
 * Esperanto:, evitvorto, ĉirkaŭparolo
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ევფემიზმი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: εὐφημισμός, ὑποκόρισμα
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 婉曲法
 * Kazakh: эвфемизм
 * Korean:, 돌려 말하기
 * Kyrgyz: эвфемизм
 * Latin: euphemismus
 * Latvian:
 * Macedonian: еуфеми́зам
 * Malay:
 * Maori: kupu whakamauru
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ,
 * Nynorsk: eufemisme, evfemisme
 * Polish: eufemizacja
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: eufemizmus
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: pahiman
 * Tibetan: ཚིག་ངན་ཚབ་འཇམ་ཚིག
 * Turkish:, öfemizm
 * Ukrainian:
 * Welsh: lledneiseb


 * Armenian: մեղմասացություն
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ევფემიზმი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Icelandic: veigrunarorð, fegrunarheiti, skrautyrði, skrauthvörf
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 婉曲表現
 * Kazakh: сыпайы сөз
 * Korean: 완곡한 표현, 완곡어
 * Macedonian: еуфеми́зам
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ,
 * Nynorsk: eufemisme, evfemisme
 * Polish:, melioratyw
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: pahiman
 * Tibetan: ཚིག་ངན་ཚབ་འཇམ་ཚིག
 * Turkish: öfemizm
 * Vietnamese: (婉語)
 * Volapük: föemot
 * Welsh: ,