scapegoat

Etymology
From ;, interpreting (Leviticus 16:8, 10, 26), from an interpretation as coming from  and. First attested 1530. Compare 🇨🇬,.

Noun

 * 1) In the Mosaic Day of Atonement ritual, a goat symbolically imbued with the sins of the people, and sent out alive into the wilderness while another was sacrificed.
 * 2) Someone unfairly blamed or punished for some failure.
 * He is making me a scapegoat for his own poor business decisions and the supply chain disruptions caused by the hurricane!
 * 1) Someone unfairly blamed or punished for some failure.
 * He is making me a scapegoat for his own poor business decisions and the supply chain disruptions caused by the hurricane!
 * He is making me a scapegoat for his own poor business decisions and the supply chain disruptions caused by the hurricane!

Synonyms

 * See Thesaurus:scapegoat

Translations

 * Arabic: كَبْش فِدَاء
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: günah keçisi
 * Basque: ahuntz-buru
 * Belarusian: казёл адпушчэ́ння, ахвя́рны казёл
 * Bulgarian: же́ртвен козе́л
 * Catalan: boc expiatori, boc emissari
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: obětní beránek
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: propeka kapro
 * Estonian: patuoinas
 * Faroese: syndabukkur
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: განტევების ვაცი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: φαρμακός
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: blórabögglar
 * Irish: sceilpín gabhair
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 贖罪の山羊
 * Korean: 희생양
 * Latin: caper emissarius
 * Lithuanian: atpirkimo ožys
 * Luxembourgish: Sënnebock
 * Macedonian: жр́твен ја́рец
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: козёл отпуще́ния
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: жртвени јарац, жртвено јање
 * Roman: žrtveni jarac, žrtveno janje
 * Slovak: obetný baránok
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: офі́рний цап, козе́л відпу́щення
 * Vietnamese: con dê gánh tội
 * Welsh: bwch dihangol


 * Arabic: كَبْش فِدَاء
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: изкупителна жертва
 * Catalan: boc expiatori, víctima expiatòria
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 替死鬼
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech: obětní beránek
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: propeka kapro, propeka kaprino
 * Estonian: patuoinas, peksupoiss, peksukott, must lammas
 * Faroese: syndabukkur
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: განტევების ვაცი
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: ἀποπομπαῖος τράγος
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: blóraböggull
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: ceap milleáin
 * Italian:, capro emissario
 * Japanese: スケープゴート,, , 贖罪の山羊
 * Latvian: grēkāzis
 * Lithuanian: atpirkimo ožys
 * Macedonian: жр́твен ја́рец
 * Malayalam:
 * Maori: uaparenga
 * Marathi: बळीचा बकरा
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: козёл отпуще́ния,, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: жртвени јарац
 * Roman: žrtveni jarac
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: bagsakan ng sisi
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: козе́л відпу́щення
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: bwch dihangol

Verb

 * 1)  To unfairly blame or punish someone for some failure; to make a scapegoat of.

Translations

 * Estonian: süüd veeretama, patuoinaks tegema
 * Finnish: vierittää syy, sysätä syy, nimetä syntipukiksi
 * French:
 * German: zum Sündenbock machen
 * Hungarian:, bűnbakot csinálnak belőle
 * Italian: fare da capro espiatorio
 * Malayalam: ബലിയാടാക്കുക
 * Portuguese: fazer de bode expiatório
 * Russian: де́лать козлом отпущения