pious

Etymology
Borrowed from, from. Cognate with 🇨🇬. More at.

Adjective

 * 1) Of or pertaining to piety, exhibiting piety, devout, god-fearing.
 * 2) Relating to religion or religious works.
 * 3) Insisting on or making a show of one's own virtue, especially in comparison to others; sanctimonious, condescending, judgmental.
 * 1) Relating to religion or religious works.
 * 2) Insisting on or making a show of one's own virtue, especially in comparison to others; sanctimonious, condescending, judgmental.
 * 1) Insisting on or making a show of one's own virtue, especially in comparison to others; sanctimonious, condescending, judgmental.

Usage notes

 * Sometimes used pejoratively, in the sense of "mistaken" or "false" piety, as in "pious errors", "pious frauds".

Translations

 * Arabic:, وَرِع, مُتَدَيِّن, تَقِيّ, بَرّ
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: набо́жны, пабо́жны, багабо́йны
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ydmyg,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, , , jumalaapelkääväinen
 * French:
 * Galician: pío
 * Georgian: ღვთისმოშიში, მორწმუნე, ღვთისმოსავი
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: εὐσεβής, θρῆσκος
 * Indonesian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: ғибадатшыл
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: پەرستش
 * Latin:
 * Macedonian: по́божен, богоу́годен, благо́честив
 * Malay: salih, ,
 * Maori: whakapono
 * Norman: pieux
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan:
 * Old English: ǣfæst
 * Plautdietsch: fromm
 * Polish:, , ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scottish Gaelic: cràbhach
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: zbožný
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, , , ,
 * Tocharian B: kärtse-ṣälype
 * Turkish:, imanı bütün, , ,
 * Ukrainian: побо́жний, набо́жний,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Yiddish: פֿרום


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:, muotojumalinen
 * Georgian: ღვთისმოშიში, ღვთისმოსავი, მორწმუნე
 * German:
 * Japanese: 信心の名を借りた, 宗教にかこつけた;  偽善的な
 * Macedonian: по́божен
 * Maori: whakapono
 * Scottish Gaelic: cràbhach
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Turkish: ,


 * Italian:
 * Old English:
 * Spanish: