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English
Etymology
From Middle English ooth, oth, ath, from Old English āþ (“oath”), from Proto-West Germanic *aiþ (“oath”), from Proto-Germanic *aiþaz (“oath”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óytos (“oath”). Cognate with Scots aith, athe (“oath”), North Frisian ith, iss (“oath”), Saterland Frisian Eed (“oath”), West Frisian eed (“oath”), Dutch eed (“oath”), German Eid (“oath”), Swedish ed (“oath”), Icelandic eið (“oath”), Latin ūtor (“make use of, employ, avail”, verb), Old Irish óeth (“oath”).
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Noun
oath (plural oaths)
- A solemn pledge or promise that invokes a deity, a ruler, or another entity (not necessarily present) to attest the truth of a statement or sincerity of one's desire to fulfill a contract or promise.
- take an oath
- swear an oath
- break one's oath
2007, George Simmons Roth, Battle in Outer Space, →ISBN:But all of us took an oath to do our duty when we joined the Space Force, and I fully expect everyone to willingly keep their word. But you took no oath, and have no obligation.
2011, Mark Leyne, The Tetherballs of Bougainville: A Novel:There are […] brought all the way from Bougainville to present their birth certificates and testify in this courtroom, under oath, as to their given names.
- A statement or promise which is strengthened (affirmed) by such a pledge.
After taking the oath of office, she became the country's forty-third premier.
The generals swore an oath of loyalty to the country.
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Normandy SR-1:Wrex: [sigh] Before I left, I made an oath to my father's father.
Wrex: I swore to recover my family's battle armor. It was taken from him after the uprising.
- A light, irreverent or insulting appeal to a deity or other entity.
- (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- A curse, a curse word.
1981, Bernard Asbell, The Senate Nobody Knows:The farther from the Senator's office, the darker and older the furniture, the freer fly four-letter oaths, the higher the heaps of unfiled and unattended papers culminating in a frenzy of pulp in the press section […]
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solemn pledge
- Afar: xiiba
- Afrikaans: eed (af)
- Aklanon: sumpa'
- Albanian: be (sq) f, betim (sq) m
- Arabic: قَسَم m (qasam), حَلْف m (ḥalf), حِلْف m (ḥilf), يَمِين m (yamīn)
- Armenian: երդում (hy) (erdum)
- Aromanian: giurãmintu n, giurat n
- Asturian: xuramentu m
- Azerbaijani: and (az)
- Bashkir: ант (ant)
- Belarusian: прыся́га f (prysjáha), кляцьба́ f (kljacʹbá)
- Bengali: শপথ (bn) (śopoth), কসম (bn) (kośom)
- Bulgarian: кле́тва (bg) f (klétva)
- Burmese: သစ္စာ (my) (sacca)
- Catalan: jurament (ca) m
- Cebuano: sumpa
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 宣言 (syun1 jin4), 宣誓 (syun1 sai6)
- Hokkien: 宣誓 (zh-min-nan) (soan-sè)
- Mandarin: 誓詞/誓词 (zh) (shìcí), 宣誓 (zh) (xuānshì)
- Czech: přísaha (cs) f
- Danish: ed (da) c
- Dutch: eed (nl) m, bezwering (nl) f
- Esperanto: ĵuro
- Estonian: tõotus, vanne
- Faroese: eiður m
- Finnish: vala (fi)
- French: serment (fr) m
- Friulian: zur m, ğur, zurament m, ğurament
- Galician: xuramento (gl) m, xura f, promesa (gl) f
- Georgian: ფიცი (pici)
- German: Eid (de) m, Schwur (de) m
- Gothic: 𐌰𐌹𐌸𐍃 m (aiþs)
- Greek: όρκος (el) m (órkos)
- Ancient: ὅρκος m (hórkos), ὅρκιον n (hórkion)
- Hebrew: שבועה \ שְׁבוּעָה (he) f (shvuá)
- Hindi: शपथ (hi) f (śapath), सौगंद (hi) f (saugand), क़सम f (qasam)
- Hungarian: eskü (hu), fogadalom (hu)
- Icelandic: eiður (is) m
- Indonesian: sumpah (id)
- Irish: mionn m, móid f
- Italian: giuramento (it) m
- Japanese: 誓い (ja) (ちかい, chikai), 誓約 (ja) (せいやく, seiyaku), 宣誓 (ja) (せんせい, sensei)
- Kazakh: ант (ant), серт (sert)
- Khmer: សបថ (km) (saʼpaʼthaʼ), ប្រណិធាន (km) (prɑnethiən)
- Korean: 맹세(盟誓) (ko) (maengse), 선서(宣誓) (ko) (seonseo), 서약(誓約) (ko) (seoyak)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: سوێن (swên)
- Northern Kurdish: sond (ku) f, êqîn (ku) f, qesem (ku) f, soz (ku)
- Kyrgyz: ант (ky) (ant)
- Ladin: jurament m
- Lao: ຄຳສາບານ (kham sā bān)
- Latgalian: pīzvārs m
- Latin: iūrāmentum n, sacramentum n, fides m
- Latvian: zvērests m
- Lithuanian: priesaika f
- Luxembourgish: Eed m
- Macedonian: заклетва f (zakletva)
- Malay: sumpah
- Maori: kupu taurangi
- Maranao: sapa'
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: тангараг (mn) (tangarag)
- Mongolian: ᠲᠠᠩᠭᠠᠷᠢᠭ (taŋɣarig)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: ed (no) m
- Nynorsk: eid m
- Occitan: jura (oc), jurament (oc) m
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: присѧга f (prisęga)
- Old East Slavic: клꙗтва f (kljatva)
- Old English: āþ m
- Old Norse: eiðr m
- Ossetian: ард (ard)
- Ottoman Turkish: آند (and), سوگند (sevgend)
- Pali: sapatha f
- Pashto: سوګند m (sawgand), حلف (ps) m (half)
- Persian: سُوگَند (fa) (sowgand), قَسَم (fa) (qasam), حَلف (fa) (half), حِلف (fa) (helf)
- Plautdietsch: Eid m
- Polish: przysięga (pl) f
- Portuguese: juramento (pt) m, jura (pt) f, promessa (pt) f
- Punjabi:
- Gurmukhi: ਸਹੁੰ (pa) f (sahũ), ਕਸਮ f (kasam)
- Shahmukhi: سَون٘ہہ f (sauṉh), قَسَم f (qasam)
- Romanian: jurământ (ro) n, legământ (ro) n
- Romansch: engirament, güramaint, angiramaint, saramaint
- Russian: прися́га (ru) f (prisjága), кля́тва (ru) f (kljátva)
- Saho: dhiiwa
- Sanskrit: शपथ (sa) f (śapatha)
- Sardinian: giura f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: за́клетва f, при̏сега f
- Roman: zákletva (sh), prȉsega (sh) f
- Sicilian: giuramentu m
- Slovak: prísaha f
- Slovene: prisega (sl) f
- Spanish: juramento (es) m
- Swahili: yamini (sw)
- Swedish: ed (sv) c
- Tagalog: panunumpa
- Tajik: савганд (savgand), қасам (qasam), ҳалф (half)
- Tarifit: tjaǧit f
- Tatar: ант (tt) (ant)
- Telugu: ప్రమాణం (te) (pramāṇaṁ)
- Thai: คำสาบาน (kam-sǎa-baan)
- Tibetan: མནའ (mna')
- Turkish: ant (tr), kasem (tr) (dated), yemin (tr)
- Turkmen: kasam
- Ugaritic: 𐎐𐎄𐎗 (ndr)
- Ukrainian: прися́га f (prysjáha), кля́тва f (kljátva), клятьба́ f (kljatʹbá)
- Urdu: قَسَم f (qasam), سَوگَنْد f (saugand), حَلْف f (half), شَپَتھ f (śapath)
- Uyghur: قەسەم (qesem)
- Uzbek: qasam (uz), ont (uz)
- Venetian: giuramento m
- Vietnamese: lời tuyên thệ, lời thề
- Welsh: llw m
- Yiddish: שבֿועה f (shvue)
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- Armenian: անեծք (hy) (aneckʻ), նզովք (hy) (nzovkʻ), հայհոյանք (hy) (hayhoyankʻ)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 罵人話/骂人话 (màrénhuà), 罵人/骂人 (zh) (màrén)
- Faroese: eiður m, illbøn f
- Finnish: kirosana (fi)
- French: juron (fr) m
- German: Fluch (de) m
- Hungarian: káromkodás (hu), szitkozódás (hu), szitok (hu)
- Italian: bestemmia (it) f
- Japanese: わいせつ (ja) (waisetsu)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: dijûn (ku) f, xeber (ku) f, sixêf (ku) f
- Macedonian: пцост f (pcost), пцовка f (pcovka)
- Portuguese: palavrão (pt) m
- Russian: прокля́тие (ru) n (prokljátije), руга́тельство (ru) n (rugátelʹstvo), мат (ru) m (mat)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: псо̑вка f
- Roman: psȏvka (sh) f
- Swedish: ed (sv) c, svordom (sv) c
- Turkish: bela (tr)
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Verb
oath (third-person singular simple present oaths, present participle oathing, simple past and past participle oathed)
- (archaic) To pledge.
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