How to Say Curses in Other Languages

Afrikaans: vloek (fluk)

Albanian: mallkim (mal-keem)

Amharic: እርግማን (ergman)

Arabic: لعنة (la’-nah)

Armenian: անեծք (a-ne-tsk)

Azerbaijani: lənət (le-net)

Basque: madarikazio (ma-da-ree-ka-thi-oh)

Belarusian: праклён (pra-klyon)

Bengali: অভিশাপ (o-bhi-shap)

Bosnian: kletva (klet-va)

Bulgarian: проклятие (pro-klyat-ye)

Catalan: maledicció (ma-le-deek-syoh)

Cebuano: tunglo (toong-loh)

Chichewa: temberero (tem-be-re-ro)

Chinese (Mandarin): 咒语 (zhòu yǔ)

Croatian: kletva (klet-va)

Czech: kletba (klet-ba)

Danish: forbandelse (for-ban-delse)

Dutch: vloek (vlook)

English: curse (kurs)

Esperanto: malbeno (mal-beh-noh)

Estonian: needus (nee-dus)

Fijian: ruvako (roo-vah-ko)

Finnish: kirous (kee-rous)

French: malédiction (mah-lay-deek-syoh)

Galician: maldición (mal-dee-thee-on)

Georgian: წყევლა (ts’k’ev-la)

German: Fluch (flookh)

Greek: κατάρα (ka-ta-ra)

Gujarati: શાપ (shaap)

Haitian Creole: madichon (mah-dee-shon)

Hausa: la’ana (la-a-na)

Hebrew: קללה (kla-lah)

Hindi: शाप (shaap)

Hmong: tsawm foom (tsaw-fom)

Hungarian: átok (aa-tok)

Icelandic: bölvun (bel-vun)

Igbo: iwe (ee-way)

Indonesian: kutukan (koo-too-kan)

Irish: mallacht (mal-akt)

Italian: maledizione (mah-le-dee-tsyo-neh)

Japanese: 呪い (no-roi)

Javanese: kutukan (koo-too-kan)

Kannada: ಶಾಪ (shaapa)

Kazakh: қарғыс (kar-gis)

Khmer: សាប (sap)

Korean: 저주 (jeo-joo)

Kurdish: ne’ba (nay-bah)

Kyrgyz: каргыш (kar-gish)

Lao: ສາບແຊ່ງ (saap-seng)

Latvian: lāsts (lahsts)

Lithuanian: prakeiksmas (pra-kayks-mas)

Luxembourgish: Fluch (flookh)

Macedonian: клетва (klet-va)

Malagasy: ozona (o-zo-na)

Malay: sumpahan (soom-pa-han)

Malayalam: ശാപം (shaapam)

Maltese: saħta (sah-ta)

Maori: kanga (kan-ga)

Marathi: शाप (shaap)

Mongolian: хараал (kha-ra-al)

Nepali: श्राप (shraap)

Norwegian: forbannelse (for-ban-nelse)

Odia: ଶାପ (shaap)

Pashto: لعنت (laa-nat)

Persian: نفرین (na-fe-reen)

Polish: klątwa (klont-vah)

Portuguese: maldição (mal-dee-saun)

Punjabi: ਸ਼ਰਾਪ (sha-raap)

Quechua: phiri (pee-ree)

Romanian: blestem (bles-tem)

Russian: проклятие (pro-klyat-ye)

Samoan: malaia (mah-lai-ah)

Sanskrit: शाप (shaap)

Serbian: клетва (klet-va)

Shona: kutuka (koo-too-ka)

Sinhala: ශාපය (shaapaya)

Slovak: kliatba (klyat-ba)

Slovenian: prekletstvo (pre-klet-stvo)

Somali: habaar (ha-bar)

Spanish: maldición (mal-dee-syon)

Sundanese: sumpah (soom-pah)

Swahili: laana (la-ah-na)

Swedish: förbannelse (for-ban-nel-seh)

Tagalog: sumpa (soom-pa)

Tajik: лаънат (laa-nat)

Tamil: சாபம் (shaapam)

Tatar: ләгънәт (lag-net)

Telugu: శాపం (shaapam)

Thai: คำสาป (kham-sap)

Tibetan: གཏིང་བྱེད (ting-jay)

Turkish: lanet (la-net)

Turkmen: gargyş (gar-gish)

Ukrainian: прокляття (pro-klyat-tya)

Urdu: لعنت (laanat)

Uzbek: la’nat (la-nat)

Vietnamese: nguyền rủa (nwee-uhn roo-ah)

Welsh: melltith (mel-tith)

Xhosa: isiqalekiso (ee-see-ka-ley-kee-so)

Yoruba: egbé (eh-bay)

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