slander

Etymology
From, , from , from , from. .

Noun

 * 1) A false or unsupported, malicious statement (spoken, not written), especially one which is injurious to a person's reputation; the making of such a statement.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:slander

Antonyms

 * (falsely praising statement)

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: تَشْهِير, اِفْتِرَاء,, سِعَايَة
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: ,
 * Belarusian: паклёп, намо́ва, нагаво́р
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:, ,
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , , , ,
 * Cornish: sklander
 * Czech:, kleveta
 * Danish: bagvaskelse
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto: kalumnio
 * Finnish: suullinen kunnianloukkaus
 * French: diffamation (orale), calomnie (orale)
 * Georgian: ცილისწამება
 * German: (mündliche) Verleumdung, Lästerung, ,
 * Gothic: 𐍅𐌰𐌾𐌰𐌼𐌴𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: διαβολή, βλασφημία
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: rógur, rógburður
 * Italian:, , , ,
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Kazakh: жала
 * Korean:, , , , 손가락질
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latin: calumnia, blasphēmia
 * Latvian: apmelošana
 * Lithuanian: apkalba, pljotkai
 * Macedonian: клевета
 * Malay:
 * Maori: komekome, whakakinokino, tarawau
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Persian:, , ,
 * Plautdietsch: Lastrunk
 * Polish:, pomówienie,
 * Portuguese:, , ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, , , , , , , , ,
 * Samogitian: pljotkā
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: клѐвета, о̏бједа
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: ohováranie, hanobenie, klebeta
 * Slovene: kleveta
 * Somali: xan
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: paninirang-puri
 * Tajik: туҳмат, буҳтон,, сиоят
 * Telugu:
 * Turkish: sözel iftira, sözle iftira, şifahi iftira ,
 * Ukrainian: на́клеп, по́клеп, обмо́ва, лихослі́в'я
 * Urdu: بُہْتان, اِہانَت, سِعایَت
 * Uzbek:, , ,
 * Welsh: athrod

Verb

 * 1) To utter a slanderous statement about; baselessly speak ill of.

Synonyms

 * (always in writing)
 * See also Thesaurus:defame
 * See also Thesaurus:defame

Antonyms

 * (baselessly speak well of)

Translations

 * Bengali: এলজাম দেওয়া
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , , 詆毀
 * Cornish: sklandra
 * Czech:
 * Danish: bagtale
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: kalumnii
 * Farefare: dõrɛ
 * Finnish: suullisesti loukata jonkun kunniaa
 * French: verbalement
 * Galician: deostar, calumniar, inxuriar
 * German: mündlich verleumden, mündlich verunglimpfen,, ,
 * Gothic: 𐍅𐌰𐌾𐌰𐌼𐌴𐍂𐌾𐌰𐌽
 * Greek:, ,
 * Ancient: διαβάλλω, ὄνομαι
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:, , , ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean:, , , 자훼하다, 손가락질하다
 * Luxembourgish: beklaatschen
 * Macedonian: клевети
 * Maori: tūtara, tarawau, mure
 * Moore: rõde, dõde
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, , , , , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: càin
 * Serbo-Croatian:, клеветати
 * Spanish:, , dejar negro,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Thai: ใส่ร้าย,
 * Welsh: athrodi