myth

Etymology
From. Attested in English since 1830. .

Noun

 * 1) A traditional story which embodies a belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience, and in which often the forces of nature and of the soul are personified; a sacred narrative regarding a god, a hero, the origin of the world or of a people, etc.
 * 2)  Such stories as a genre.
 *  Myth was the product of man's emotion and imagination, acted upon by his surroundings. (E. Clodd, Myths & Dreams (1885), 7, cited after OED)
 * 1) A commonly-held but false belief, a common misconception; a fictitious or imaginary person or thing; a popular conception about a real person or event which exaggerates or idealizes reality.
 * 2) A person or thing held in excessive or quasi-religious awe or admiration based on popular legend
 * Father Flanagan was legendary, his institution an American myth. (Tucson (Arizona) Citizen, 20 September 1979, 5A/3, cited after OED)
 * 1) A person or thing existing only in imagination, or whose actual existence is not verifiable.
 * 2) An invented story, theory, or concept.
 * 1) A person or thing held in excessive or quasi-religious awe or admiration based on popular legend
 * Father Flanagan was legendary, his institution an American myth. (Tucson (Arizona) Citizen, 20 September 1979, 5A/3, cited after OED)
 * 1) A person or thing existing only in imagination, or whose actual existence is not verifiable.
 * 2) An invented story, theory, or concept.
 * 1) An invented story, theory, or concept.
 * 1) An invented story, theory, or concept.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: mite
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: أُسْطُورَة
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Abjad: اساطیر, اوسطوره
 * Roman: mif, əsatir,
 * Basque: mito
 * Belarusian: міф, міт
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Central Sierra Miwok: ˀútne-
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Erzya: пазъёвкс
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: müüt
 * Faroese: frumsøgn, gudasøgn, myta, mýta
 * Finnish:, jumalaistaru
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: თქმულება, მითი, ლეგენდა
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: μῦθος
 * Guaraní: mombe'upy
 * Gujarati:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: मिथक
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic:, uppspuni
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: miotas
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh: аңыз, миф
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz:, миф
 * Lao:
 * Latin: mythos
 * Latvian: mīts
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: мит
 * Malay: mitos
 * Maori: pūrākau
 * Mirandese:
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: myte
 * Nynorsk: myte
 * Ottoman Turkish: اساطیر, افسانه, داستان, اسطوره
 * Pashto: اسطوره,
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: fionnsgeul
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ми̑т
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: mýtus
 * Slovene:
 * Sotho: tshomo
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: ,
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:, , ,
 * Turkmen: mif, rowaýat
 * Ukrainian: міф, міт
 * Urdu: متک
 * Uyghur: ئەپسانە, رىۋايەت
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese: (神話)
 * Welsh: ,
 * Yiddish: מיטאָס


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: jumalaistarusto


 * Afrikaans: mite
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: მითი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: skröksaga
 * Italian:
 * Latin: mythos,
 * Latvian: mīts
 * Lithuanian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: myte
 * Nynorsk: myte
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: міф, пові́р'я,


 * Finnish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: