How to say Evil in Other Languages

Afrikaans: kwaad (kwahd)

Albanian: keq (kech)

Amharic: ክፉ (k’foo)

Arabic: شر (sharr)

Armenian: չար (char)

Azerbaijani: pis (pees)

Basque: gaizto (gah-ees-toh)

Belarusian: зло (zloh)

Bengali: খারাপ (khah-rahp)

Bosnian: zlo (zloh)

Bulgarian: зло (zloh)

Burmese: အဆိုး (ah-soh)

Catalan: malvat (mahl-vaht)

Cebuano: dautan (dah-oo-tan)

Chichewa: zoipa (zoh-ee-pah)

Chinese (Simplified): 恶 (è)

Chinese (Traditional): 惡 (è)

Corsican: male (mah-leh)

Croatian: zlo (zloh)

Czech: zlo (zloh)

Danish: ond (ohnt)

Dutch: kwaad (kwaht)

Dzongkha: ངན་སྤྱོད (ngen-choed)

English: evil (ee-vil)

Esperanto: malbona (mahl-boh-nah)

Estonian: kuri (koo-ree)

Fijian: ca (thah)

Filipino: masama (mah-sah-mah)

Finnish: paha (pah-hah)

French: mal (mahl)

Galician: malvado (mahl-vah-doe)

Georgian: ბოროტი (bo-ro-tee)

German: böse (buh-zuh)

Greek: κακός (kah-kos)

Gujarati: દુષ્ટ (dush-tuh)

Haitian Creole: mechan (meh-shahn)

Hausa: mugunta (moo-goon-tah)

Hebrew: רשע (rah-shah)

Hindi: बुरा (boo-rah)

Hmong: phem (phem)

Hungarian: gonosz (goh-nohz)

Icelandic: illt (ilt)

Igbo: ọjọọ (oh-joh-oh)

Indonesian: jahat (jah-haht)

Irish: olc (ohlk)

Italian: malvagio (mahl-vah-joh)

Japanese: 悪 (aku)

Javanese: ala (ah-lah)

Kannada: ದುಷ್ಟ (dush-tah)

Kazakh: жаман (zha-mahn)

Khmer: អាក្រក់ (ah-krah)

Korean: 악 (ak)

Kurdish (Kurmanji): xerab (kheh-rahb)

Kyrgyz: жаман (zha-mahn)

Lao: ຊົ່ວ (sooh)

Latin: malus (mah-loos)

Latvian: ļauns (lya-oons)

Lithuanian: blogis (bloh-ghis)

Luxembourgish: béis (beys)

Macedonian: зло (zloh)

Malagasy: ratsy (raht-see)

Malay: jahat (jah-haht)

Malayalam: ദുഷ്ടന്‍ (doosh-tan)

Maltese: ħażin (ha-zeen)

Maori: kino (kee-noh)

Marathi: वाईट (wa-eet)

Mongolian: муу (moo)

Nepali: नराम्रो (nah-ram-roh)

Norwegian: ond (ohnt)

Oriya: ଖରାପ (khah-rahp)

Pashto: بد (bad)

Persian: بد (bad)

Polish: zło (zwoh)

Portuguese: mal (mahl)

Punjabi: ਬੁਰਾ (boo-rah)

Romanian: rău (ruh-oo)

Russian: зло (zloh)

Samoan: leaga (leh-ah-gah)

Scots Gaelic: olc (ohlk)

Serbian: зло (zloh)

Sesotho: bobe (boh-beh)

Shona: zvakaipa (zvah-kah-ee-pah)

Sindhi: خراب (khah-raab)

Sinhala: නරක (nah-rah-kah)

Slovak: zlo (zloh)

Slovenian: zlo (zloh)

Somali: shar (shar)

Spanish: malvado (mahl-vah-doh)

Sundanese: jahat (jah-haht)

Swahili: uovu (oo-oh-voo)

Swedish: ond (ohnt)

Tajik: бад (bad)

Tamil: தீய (thee-yah)

Telugu: చెడు (cheh-doo)

Thai: ชั่วร้าย (choo-ah-rai)

Tigrinya: ክፉ (k’foo)

Turkish: kötü (koe-tue)

Turkmen: erbet (ehr-bet)

Ukrainian: зло (zloh)

Urdu: بُرا (boo-rah)

Uzbek: yomon (yo-mohn)

Vietnamese: xấu (soh)

Welsh: drwg (droog)

Xhosa: ububi (oo-boo-bee)

Yiddish: שלעכט (shlekht)

Yoruba: ibi (ee-bee)

Zulu: ububi (oo-boo-bee)

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