sincere

Etymology
From, from , from + , from which also  from which English.

Unrelated to +  (folk etymology); see Wikipedia page.

Adjective

 * 1) Genuine; meaning what one says or does; heartfelt.
 * 2) Meant truly or earnestly.
 * 3)  clean; pure
 * 1) Meant truly or earnestly.
 * 2)  clean; pure
 * 1)  clean; pure

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: مُخْلِص
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Literary: 誠, 亶, 僤, 恂, 悃, 懇, 愊, 愖, 愫, 篤, 摯
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: oprigtig
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: ,
 * Georgian: გულწრფელი
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌺𐌽𐍃, 𐌿𐌽𐌷𐌹𐌽𐌳𐌰𐍂𐍅𐌴𐌹𐍃
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: εἰλικρινής
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:, tulus hati, bersih hati
 * Irish: dílis, cneasta
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: адал, ақкөңіл, шын
 * Khmer: ,​
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: دڵ پاک
 * Lao: ຈິງໃຈ
 * Latin: sincērus
 * Latvian: patiess
 * Lithuanian: nuoširdus
 * Macedonian: искрен
 * Malay: ikhlas
 * Maori: tinihangakore, motuhenga, ngākau pono
 * Mongolian:
 * Norman: sîncéthe
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: oppriktig
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: и̏скрен
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: úprimný
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: содиқ,
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:, , ,
 * Ukrainian: щи́рий
 * Uyghur: سەمىمىي
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:, , , ,
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:

Adverb

 * 1) sincerely

Adverb

 * 1) uprightly, honestly, frankly, sincerely
 * 2) * 1st century, Catullus, Poem 109
 * Di magni, facite ut vere promittere possit // atque id sincere dicat ex animo

Etymology
First attested in 1441, borrowed from.

Adjective

 * 1)  (genuinely meaning what one says or does)