Hades

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See also: hades and Hadès

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Hades

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ᾍδης (Hā́idēs).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈheɪdiːz/
(Ireland) IPA^(key): /ˈheɪdiːz/, /ˈhadiːz/
Rhymes: -eɪdiːz

Proper noun

(sense 1) Statute of Hades with Cerberus

Hades

(Greek mythology) The god of the underworld and ruler of the dead, son of Cronus and Rhea, brother of Zeus and Poseidon.
(Greek mythology) The underworld, the domain of Hades, by transference from its god.
In the Septuagint Bible, the Greek translation of Sheol.
Hell.
1. (specifically, chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy) Hell as a waiting place for damned souls before the Last Judgement, after which they may be cast in Gehenna.

Translations

from Greek mythology

Albanian: Hadi
Arabic: هَادِيس (hādīs)
Egyptian Arabic: هيدز
Armenian: Հադես (Hades)
Asturian: Hades m
Azerbaijani: Aid
Belarusian: Аід m (Aid), Га́дэс m (Hádes)
Bengali: হেডিস (heḍiś), হাদেস (hades)
Breton: Haides
Bulgarian: Хадес (Hades)
Burmese: ဟေးဒီးစ် (he:dic:)
Catalan: Hades m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 哈帝斯

Mandarin: 哈迪斯 (Hādísī)
Coptic: Ⲁⲙⲉⲛϯ (Amenti)
Czech: Hádes (cs) m
Dutch: Hades (nl) m
Esperanto: Hadeso, Aido
Etruscan: 𐌀𐌉𐌕𐌀 (aita)
Finnish: Haades (fi)
French: Hadès (fr) m
Galician: Hades (gl) m
Georgian: ჰადესი (ka) (hadesi)
German: Hades (de) m
Greek: Άδης (el) m (Ádis), Τάρταρα (el) n pl (Tártara)
Ancient: ᾍδης m (Hā́idēs)
Hebrew: האדס
Hindi: हेडीस (heḍīs)
Hungarian: Hádész
Irish: Háidéas m
Italian: Ade (it) m
Japanese: ハーデース (Hādēsu)
Kazakh: Аид m (Aid)
Korean: 하데스 (ko) (Hadeseu)
Latvian: Aīds
Lithuanian: Hadas
Macedonian: Ад (mk) m (Ad)
Malayalam: ഹേഡിസ് (hēḍisŭ)
Marathi: हेडीस (heḍīs)
Mazanderani: هادس
Occitan: Ades
Persian: هادس (hâdes)
Polish: Hades (pl) m
Portuguese: Hades (pt) m
Punjabi: ਹੇਡੀਸ (heḍīs)
Russian: Аи́д (ru) m (Aíd), Га́дес (ru) m (Gádɛs)
Serbo-Croatian: Had m
Slovak: Hádes
Slovene: Had (sl)
Spanish: Hades (es) m
Swahili: Hade, Hadesi
Swedish: Hades (sv) c
Tamil: ஏடிசு (ēṭicu)
Tatar: Aid
Thai: เฮดีส
Turkish: Hades, Tartaros
Ukrainian: Аїд (Ajid), Аїдоней (Ajidonej), Гадес (Hades)
Uzbek: Aid
Veps: Aid

the underworld, the domain of Hades

Asturian: Hades m
Catalan: Hades m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 冥府 (zh) (Míngfǔ)
Galician: Hades (gl) m
German: Hades (de) m
Greek:
Ancient: ᾍδης m (Hā́idēs)
Irish: Háidéas m
Japanese: 冥土 (ja) (meido), 冥界 (ja) (meikai)
Polish: Hades (pl) m
Portuguese: Hades (pt) m
Spanish: Hades (es) m
Swedish: Hades (sv) ?
Turkish: Hades

the Greek translation of Sheol

Dutch: hel (nl) f
French: Hadès (fr) m
German: Hades (de) m
Greek: Άδης (el) m (Ádis)
Ancient: ᾍδης m (Hā́idēs)
Italian: Ade (it) m
Macedonian: Ад (mk) m (Ad)
Russian: Аи́д (ru) m (Aíd), Га́дес (ru) m (Gádɛs)
Swahili: kuzimu (sw)

hell

Bashkir: тамуҡ (tamuq), йәһәннәм (yəhənnəm)
Bulgarian: ад (bg) m (ad)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 地獄／地狱 (zh) (dìyù), 地府 (zh) (dìfǔ), 陰間／阴间 (zh) (yīnjiān), 閻王／阎王 (zh) (yánwáng)
Finnish: tuonela (fi)
Greek: κόλαση (el) f (kólasi)
Ancient: ᾍδης (Hā́idēs)
Italian: Ade (it) m
Japanese: 黄泉 (ja) (よも, yomo, よみ, yomi, こうせん, kōsen), 地獄 (ja) (じごく, jigoku)
Korean: 지옥(地獄) (ko) (jiok)
Latin: Tartarus (la) m
Macedonian: ад (mk) (ad)
Mongolian: ад (mn) (ad)
Portuguese: Tártaro (pt) m
Russian: ад (ru) m (ad), преиспо́дняя (ru) f (preispódnjaja), тот свет (ru) m (tot svet)
Turkish: hades (tr), tartaros, tamu (tr), cehennem (tr)

See also

Gehenna (from Ancient Greek: γέεννα (géenna))
Hell
Pluto
Tartarus (from Ancient Greek: Τάρταρος (Tártaros))
(Greek mythology Olympian gods) god; Apollo, Aphrodite, Ares, Artemis, Athena, Demeter, Dionysus, Hades, Hephaestus, Hera, Hestia, Hermes, Poseidon, Zeus

References

Anagrams

Da'esh, Daesh, Desha, Shade, Shead, ashed, deash, heads, sadhe, shade

Asturian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ᾍδης (Hā́idēs).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈades/,

Proper noun

Hades m

(Greek mythology) Hades (god)
(Greek mythology) Hades (underworld)

Catalan

Catalan Wikipedia has an article on:

Hades

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ᾍδης (Hā́idēs).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
IPA^(key): (Valencian)

Proper noun

Hades m

(Greek mythology) Hades (god)
(Greek mythology) Hades (underworld)

Galician

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ᾍδης (Hā́idēs).

Proper noun

Hades m

(Greek mythology) Hades (god)
(Greek mythology) Hades (underworld)

German

German Wikipedia has an article on:

Hades

Pronunciation

Audio (file)

Proper noun

Hades m

(Greek mythology) Hades (god)
(Greek mythology) Hades (underworld)

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

Hades

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ᾍδης (Hā́idēs).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈxa.dɛs/
Audio (file)
Rhymes: -adɛs
Syllabification: Ha‧des

Proper noun

Hades m pers

(Greek mythology) Hades (god)

Declension

Declension of Hades

	singular
nominative	Hades
genitive	Hadesa
dative	Hadesowi
accusative	Hadesa
instrumental	Hadesem
locative	Hadesie
vocative	Hadesie

Proper noun

Hades m inan

(Greek mythology) Hades (underworld)

Declension

Declension of Hades

	singular
nominative	Hades
genitive	Hadesu
dative	Hadesowi
accusative	Hades
instrumental	Hadesem
locative	Hadesie
vocative	Hadesie

Further reading

Hades in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Hades, from Ancient Greek ᾍδης (Hā́idēs).

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈa.d͡ʒis/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈa.d͡ʒiʃ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈa.des/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈa.dɨʃ/

Hyphenation: Ha‧des

Proper noun

Hades m

(Greek mythology) Hades (god of the underworld)
(Greek mythology) Hades (the underworld, the domain of Hades)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ᾍδης (Hā́idēs).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈades/
Rhymes: -ades
Syllabification: Ha‧des

Proper noun

Hades m

(Greek mythology) Hades (god)
(Greek mythology) Hades (underworld)

Turkish

Turkish Wikipedia has an article on:

Hades

Proper noun

Hades

(Greek mythology) Hades

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