scandal

Etymology
From, from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬. First attested from 🇨🇬, but the modern word is a reborrowing. Doublet, via 🇨🇬, of.

Sense evolution from "cause of stumbling, that which causes one to sin, stumbling block" to "discredit to reputation, that which brings shame, thing of disgrace" is possibly due to early influence from other similar sounding words for infamy and disgrace (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬). See, ,.

Noun

 * 1) An incident or event that disgraces or damages the reputation of the persons or organization involved.
 * 2) Damage to one's reputation.
 * 3) Widespread moral outrage, indignation, as over an offence to decency.
 * 4)  A word or deed, lacking in rectitude in some manner, which is an occasion of the spiritual ruin of another.
 * 5) Defamatory talk; gossip, slander.
 * 6)  amateur or homemade pornography;  commotion.
 * 1) Damage to one's reputation.
 * 2) Widespread moral outrage, indignation, as over an offence to decency.
 * 3)  A word or deed, lacking in rectitude in some manner, which is an occasion of the spiritual ruin of another.
 * 4) Defamatory talk; gossip, slander.
 * 5)  amateur or homemade pornography;  commotion.
 * 1)  A word or deed, lacking in rectitude in some manner, which is an occasion of the spiritual ruin of another.
 * 2) Defamatory talk; gossip, slander.
 * 3)  amateur or homemade pornography;  commotion.
 * 1)  amateur or homemade pornography;  commotion.
 * 1)  amateur or homemade pornography;  commotion.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: فَضِيحَة
 * Egyptian Arabic: جرسة
 * Armenian: ,
 * Azerbaijani: qalmaqal
 * Belarusian: сканда́л
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: skandale
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: skandaal
 * Faroese: gøla, skomm
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician: escándalo
 * Georgian: სკანდალი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: שערורייה
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Jamaican Creole: prekeh
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: жанжал, шатақ
 * Khmer: រឿងអាស្រូវ
 * Korean:, 스캔들
 * Kyrgyz:, ,
 * Latin: flāgitium, opprobrium
 * Latvian: skandāls
 * Lithuanian: skandalas
 * Macedonian: ска́ндал
 * Maori: tarawau, pakitara, māteatea, heitara
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: skandale
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:, اسکاندال
 * Polish:, , ,  , , , , , , , ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ска̀нда̄л, са̏бла̄зан
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: škandál
 * Slovene: škandal
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Tajik: расвоӣ, ҷанҷол, шармандагӣ
 * Thai: เรื่องอื้อฉาว
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Ukrainian: сканда́л
 * Urdu: گھوٹالا
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: vụ bê bối, vụ tai tiếng
 * Yiddish: אַוואַנטורע, סקאַנדאַל


 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Greek:
 * Russian:


 * Dutch:
 * Greek:
 * Russian:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Maori: tarawau, pōtinitini, pakitara
 * Russian: ,
 * Turkish:

Verb

 * 1)  To to defame; to slander.
 * 2)  To scandalize; to offend.
 * 1)  To scandalize; to offend.

Etymology
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