mistake

Etymology
From, from ; equivalent to. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (before apocope ).

The noun, which replaced earlier, is derived from the verb.

Verb

 * 1)  To understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another.
 * 2)  To misunderstand (someone).
 * 3)  To commit an unintentional error; to do or think something wrong.
 * 4) * 1720,, “Letter to a Young Clergyman” in The Works of Jonathan Swift, London: Charles Elliot, 1784, Volume 10, pp. 6-7,
 * No gentleman thinks it is safe or prudent to send a servant with a message, without repeating it more than once, and endeavouring to put it into terms brought down to the capacity of the bearer; yet, after all this care, it is frequent for servants to mistake, and sometimes occasion misunderstandings among friends
 * 1)  To take or choose wrongly.
 * 1)  To commit an unintentional error; to do or think something wrong.
 * 2) * 1720,, “Letter to a Young Clergyman” in The Works of Jonathan Swift, London: Charles Elliot, 1784, Volume 10, pp. 6-7,
 * No gentleman thinks it is safe or prudent to send a servant with a message, without repeating it more than once, and endeavouring to put it into terms brought down to the capacity of the bearer; yet, after all this care, it is frequent for servants to mistake, and sometimes occasion misunderstandings among friends
 * 1)  To take or choose wrongly.
 * 1) * 1720,, “Letter to a Young Clergyman” in The Works of Jonathan Swift, London: Charles Elliot, 1784, Volume 10, pp. 6-7,
 * No gentleman thinks it is safe or prudent to send a servant with a message, without repeating it more than once, and endeavouring to put it into terms brought down to the capacity of the bearer; yet, after all this care, it is frequent for servants to mistake, and sometimes occasion misunderstandings among friends
 * 1)  To take or choose wrongly.
 * 1)  To take or choose wrongly.
 * 1)  To take or choose wrongly.

Translations

 * Arabic: أَسَاء اَلْفَهْم, أَخْطَأَ
 * Armenian: ,
 * Bashkir: яңылышыу, бутау
 * Bulgarian:, заблуждавам се
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech: zaměnit
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: malinterpreti
 * Finnish: ymmärtää väärin; , , käsittää väärin, tehdä virhe
 * French:, (avec),
 * German:
 * Hindi: ग़लत समझना
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: salah paham
 * Irish: déan dearmad, déan earráid
 * Italian:, , prendere un granchio , prendere una cantonata , prendere un abbaglio
 * Japanese: ,
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: بەغەلەت
 * Latin: fallor, fallo, oberro
 * Malay: salah faham
 * Malayalam:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: непра́вильно понима́ть,, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Telugu:, పొరబడు
 * Turkish: yanlış anlamak
 * Ukrainian: помилятися
 * Urdu: غلط سمجھنا
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Dutch: een fout maken, in de fout gaan
 * Finnish: tehdä virhe,
 * French: ,
 * German:, sich versehen
 * Greek: κάνω λάθος,
 * Hindi: ग़लत करना
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: déan dearmad, déan earráid
 * Italian:, toppare,
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: غەلەت کردن
 * Ladino: yerrar
 * Latin: fallor,
 * Malayalam:
 * Norwegian: ta feil
 * Old English: dwolian
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, equivocar-se, enganar-se
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:, begå ett misstag
 * Telugu:, పొరబడు
 * Turkish: yanlış yapmak, hata yapmak, hata etmek
 * Ukrainian: помиля́тися, помили́тися
 * Urdu: غلط کرنا


 * Esperanto:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Interlingua:, ,
 * Japanese:
 * Slovene:

Noun

 * 1) An error.
 * 2) * 1877, Henry Heth, quoting Robert E. Lee, in "Causes of the Defeat of Gen. Lee's Army at the Battle of GettysburgOpinions of Leading Confederate Soldiers.", Southern Historical Society Papers (1877), editor Rev. J. WM. Jones
 * After it is all over, as stupid a fellow as I am can see that mistakes were made. I notice, however, that my mistakes are never told me until it is too late.
 * 1)  A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard-to-hit location, but instead ends up in an easy-to-hit place.
 * After it is all over, as stupid a fellow as I am can see that mistakes were made. I notice, however, that my mistakes are never told me until it is too late.
 * 1)  A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard-to-hit location, but instead ends up in an easy-to-hit place.

Usage notes

 * Usually make a mistake. See Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take

Translations

 * Afrikaans: fout
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: خَطَأ, غَلْطَة, غَلَط
 * Egyptian Arabic: غلطة
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: ভুল
 * Azerbaijani:, , yanlış, qələt
 * Bashkir: хата
 * Belarusian: памы́лка
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chechen: гӏалат
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 錯誤
 * Hakka: 錯誤
 * Hokkien: 錯誤
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Wu: 錯誤
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, , , ,
 * Esperanto: eraro, miso
 * Estonian: viga
 * Faroese: mistak, villa
 * Finnish:, , ,  ,  , , , , , ,  , ,  , töppäys
 * French: ,
 * Fula:
 * Adlam: 𞤦𞤮𞥅𞤨𞤢𞤤
 * Roman: boopal
 * Georgian: შეცდომა
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Gujarati: ભૂલ
 * Haitian Creole: fòt
 * Hebrew:, , שגגה
 * Hindi:, , ग़लत फ़हमी, , ख़ता, ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:, skyssa
 * Ido:
 * Ilocano: balibad
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Interlingua: error
 * Irish: botún
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, , , , ,
 * Kabuverdianu: asnera
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh: қателік, қате
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:, ,  ,  ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: غەلەت
 * Northern Kurdish:, ,
 * Kyrgyz:, , ,
 * Ladino: yerro, yierro
 * Lakota: woglusna
 * Lao: ຂໍ້ຜິດພາດ
 * Latin: error
 * Latvian: kļūda
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: гре́шка
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: ,
 * Maltese: żball
 * Marathi: चूक
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, tabbe, feilgrep
 * Nynorsk:
 * Odia:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: блазна
 * Old English: ġedwola
 * Ossetian: рӕдыд
 * Pashto: ,
 * Persian:
 * Iranian Persian:, ,
 * Plautdietsch: Fäla
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: гре̏шка, грје̏шка, по̀грешка, по̀грјешка
 * Roman:, grjȅška, , pògrješka
 * Sinhalese: වරදක්, වැරදීම
 * Slovak: chyba, omyl
 * Slovene:, zmota
 * Southern Altai: јастыра
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Tagalog: mali,
 * Tajik:, хато,
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai: ข้อผิดพลาด, ความผิดพลาด
 * Tibetan: ནོར་འཁྲུལ
 * Tocharian B: nāki, triśalñe
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Turkmen: ýalňyş, ýal–yş
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Urdu: غَلَط, غَلَطی, غَلَط فَہْمی, بُھول, خَطا
 * Uyghur: خاتا
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Venetian: eror
 * Vietnamese: (纇)
 * Yiddish: טעות, גרײַז

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  error,