How to Say Shame in Different Languages
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Please find below many ways to say shame in different languages. This page features translation of the word "shame" to over 100 other languages. We also invite you to listen to audio pronunciation in more than 40 languages, so you could learn how to pronounce shame and how to read it.
Saying Shame in European Languages
| Language | Ways to say shame | |
|---|---|---|
| Albanian | turp | |
| Basque | lotsa | |
| Belarusian | ганьба [hańba] | |
| Bosnian | sramota | |
| Bulgarian | срам [sram] | |
| Catalan | vergonya | |
| Corsican | vergogna | |
| Croatian | sram | |
| Czech | ostuda | |
| Danish | skam | |
| Dutch | schaamte | |
| Estonian | häbi | |
| Finnish | häpeä | |
| French | honte | |
| Frisian | skamte | |
| Galician | vergoña | |
| German | Scham | |
| Greek | ντροπή [ntropí] | |
| Hungarian | szégyen | |
| Icelandic | Skömm | |
| Irish | náire | |
| Italian | vergogna | |
| Latvian | kauns | |
| Lithuanian | gėda | |
| Luxembourgish | schued | |
| Macedonian | срам [sram] | |
| Maltese | mistħija | |
| Norwegian | skam | |
| Polish | wstyd | |
| Portuguese | vergonha | |
| Romanian | rușine | |
| Russian | стыд [styd] | |
| Scots Gaelic | nàire | |
| Serbian | срамота [sramota] | |
| Slovak | hanba | |
| Slovenian | sramota | |
| Spanish | lástima | |
| Swedish | skam | |
| Tatar | оят | |
| Ukrainian | сором [sorom] | |
| Welsh | cywilydd | |
| Yiddish | בושה [bushh] | |
Saying Shame in Asian Languages
| Language | Ways to say shame | |
|---|---|---|
| Armenian | ամոթ [amot’] | |
| Azerbaijani | ayıb | |
| Bengali | লজ্জা [lajjā] | |
| Chinese Simplified | 耻辱 [chǐrǔ] | |
| Chinese Traditional | 恥辱 [chǐrǔ] | |
| Georgian | სირცხვილი [sirtskhvili] | |
| Gujarati | શરમ [śarama] | |
| Hindi | शर्म [sharm karo] | |
| Hmong | txaj muag | |
| Japanese | 恥 | |
| Kannada | ಅವಮಾನ [avamāna] | |
| Kazakh | ұят [uyat] | |
| Khmer | អាម៉ាស់ | |
| Korean | 창피 [changpi] | |
| Kyrgyz | уят [uyat] | |
| Lao | ຄວາມອັບອາຍ [ khuaamboai] | |
| Malayalam | നാണക്കേട് [naanakket] | |
| Marathi | लाज [lāja] | |
| Mongolian | ичмээр [ichmeer] | |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | ရှက်စရာ [shathcarar] | |
| Nepali | लाज [lāja] | |
| Odia | ଲଜ୍ଜା | |
| Pashto | شرم | |
| Punjabi | ਸ਼ਰਮ [śarama] | |
| Sindhi | شرم | |
| Sinhala | ලැජ්ජයි [læjjayi] | |
| Tajik | шарм | |
| Tamil | அவமானம் [avamāṉam] | |
| Telugu | అవమానం [avamānaṁ] | |
| Thai | ความอัปยศ | |
| Turkish | utanç | |
| Turkmen | utanç | |
| Urdu | شرم | |
| Uyghur | نومۇس | |
| Uzbek | uyat | |
| Vietnamese | nỗi tủi nhục | |
Saying Shame in Middle-Eastern Languages
| Language | Ways to say shame | |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic | عار [ear] | |
| Hebrew | בושה | |
| Kurdish (Kurmanji) | şerm | |
| Persian | شرمندگی | |
Saying Shame in African Languages
| Language | Ways to say shame | |
|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | skande | |
| Amharic | ውርደት [wirideti] | |
| Chichewa | manyazi | |
| Hausa | kunya | |
| Igbo | ihere | |
| Kinyarwanda | isoni | |
| Sesotho | lihlong | |
| Shona | shame | |
| Somali | ceeb | |
| Swahili | aibu | |
| Xhosa | shame | |
| Yoruba | itiju | |
| Zulu | amahloni | |
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"Shame in Different Languages." In Different Languages, https://www.indifferentlanguages.com/words/shame. Accessed 03 Oct 2023.
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