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Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) A solemn pledge or promise that invokes a deity, a ruler, or another entity (not necessarily present) to attest the truth of a statement or sincerity of one's desire to fulfill a contract or promise.
 * 2) A statement or promise which is strengthened (affirmed) by such a pledge.
 * 3) A light, irreverent or insulting appeal to a deity or other entity.
 * 4) A curse, a curse word.
 * 1) A statement or promise which is strengthened (affirmed) by such a pledge.
 * 2) A light, irreverent or insulting appeal to a deity or other entity.
 * 3) A curse, a curse word.
 * 1) A light, irreverent or insulting appeal to a deity or other entity.
 * 2) A curse, a curse word.
 * 1) A light, irreverent or insulting appeal to a deity or other entity.
 * 2) A curse, a curse word.
 * 1) A curse, a curse word.
 * 1) A curse, a curse word.

Synonyms

 * pledge, vow, avowal

Translations

 * Afar: xiiba
 * Afrikaans:
 * Aklanon: sumpa'
 * Albanian: ,
 * Arabic: قَسَم, حَلْف, حِلْف, يَمِين
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: giurãmintu, giurat
 * Asturian: xuramentu
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: ант
 * Belarusian: прыся́га, кляцьба́
 * Bengali: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: sumpa
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 宣言, 宣誓
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: ĵuro
 * Estonian: tõotus, vanne
 * Faroese: eiður
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: zur, ğur, zurament, ğurament
 * Galician:, xura,
 * Georgian: ფიცი
 * German: ,
 * Gothic: 𐌰𐌹𐌸𐍃
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ὅρκος, ὅρκιον
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, , क़सम
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: mionn, móid
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Kazakh: ант, серт
 * Khmer: ,
 * Korean:, ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: سوێن
 * Northern Kurdish:, , ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Ladin: jurament
 * Lao: ຄຳສາບານ
 * Latgalian: pīzvārs
 * Latin: iūrāmentum, sacramentum, fides
 * Latvian: zvērests
 * Lithuanian: priesaika
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Macedonian: заклетва
 * Malay: sumpah
 * Maori: kupu taurangi
 * Maranao: sapa'
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠲᠠᠩᠭᠠᠷᠢᠭ
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: eid
 * Occitan: ,
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: присѧга
 * Old East Slavic: клꙗтва
 * Old English: āþ
 * Old Norse: eiðr
 * Ossetian: ард
 * Ottoman Turkish: آند, سوگند
 * Pali: sapatha
 * Pashto: سوګند,
 * Persian:, , ,
 * Plautdietsch: Eid
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Punjabi:
 * Gurmukhi:, ਕਸਮ
 * Shahmukhi: سَون٘ہہ, قَسَم
 * Romanian: ,
 * Romansch: engirament, güramaint, angiramaint, saramaint
 * Russian: ,
 * Saho: dhiiwa
 * Sanskrit:
 * Sardinian: giura
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: за́клетва, при̏сега
 * Roman: ,
 * Sicilian: giuramentu
 * Slovak: prísaha
 * Slovene:
 * Southern Altai: черт, антык
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: panunumpa
 * Tajik: савганд, қасам, ҳалф
 * Tarifit: tjaǧit
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai: คำสาบาน
 * Tibetan: མནའ
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Turkmen: kasam
 * Ugaritic: 𐎐𐎄𐎗
 * Ukrainian: прися́га, кля́тва, клятьба́
 * Urdu: قَسَم, سَوگَنْد, حَلْف, شَپَتھ
 * Uyghur: قەسەم
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Venetian: giuramento
 * Vietnamese: lời tuyên thệ, lời thề
 * Welsh: llw
 * Yiddish: שבֿועה


 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Macedonian: заклетва
 * Maori: oatitanga
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਹਲਫ਼
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: за́клетва, при̏сега
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: prísaha
 * Slovene:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu:
 * Tibetan: དམ་བཅའ
 * Turkish:


 * Armenian:, ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 罵人話,
 * Faroese: eiður, illbøn
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:, ,
 * Macedonian: пцост, пцовка
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: псо̑вка
 * Roman:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish:


 * Indonesian:
 * Korean:

Verb

 * 1)  To pledge.

Translations

 * French:
 * Georgian: დაფიცება, შეფიცვა, ფიცის დადება
 * German:
 * Middle High German: eiden
 * Italian:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish: