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Definition: Fate |
FateNoun1. An event (or course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future. 2. The ultimate agency that predetermines the course of events (often personified as a woman); "we are helpless in the face of Destiny". 3. Your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you): "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion". Verb1. Decree or designate beforehand; "She was destined to become a great pianist". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Fate = something destined or suitable, is not the Latin fatum, but the French fait = share, one's own, that which suits one; as "voila mon fait," that is the man for me. "Pour moi, ma sieur, a dit la cadette, j'aime le solide, je veux un homme riche, et le gros don Blanco sera mon fait." - Le Sage: Diable Boiteux. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
FATE | English | Fault tree simulation | N/A |
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Synonyms: FateSynonyms: circumstances (n), destiny (n), fortune (n), lot (n), luck (n), portion (n), designate (v), destine (v), doom (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Certainty | Sure as fate, sure as death and taxes, sure as a gun. |
Chance 2 | Noun: chance, indetermination, accident, fortune, hazard, hap, haphazard, chance medley, random, luck, raccroc, casualty, contingence, adventure, hit; fate; (necessity); equal chance; lottery; tombola; toss up; turn of the table, turn of the cards; hazard of the die, chapter of accidents, fickle finger of fate; cast of the dice, throw of the dice; heads or tails, flip of a coin, wheel of Fortune; sortes, sortes Virgilianae. |
Descent | Noun: descent, descension, declension, declination; fall; falling; Verb:: slump; drop, plunge, plummet, cadence; subsidence, collapse, lapse; downfall, tumble, slip, tilt, trip, lurch; cropper, culbute; stumble; fate of Icarus. |
End | Consummation, denouement; finish; (completion); fate; doom, doomsday; crack of doom, day of Judgment, dies irae, fall of the curtain; goal, destination; limit, determination; expiration, expiry, extinction, extermination; death; end of all things; finality; eschatology. |
Intention | Noun: chance; lot, fate; (necessity); luck; good luck; (good); mascot. |
Necessity | Verb: lie under a necessity; befated, be doomed, be destined; in for, under the necessity of; have no choice, have no alternative; be one's fate; n. to be pushed to the wall to be driven into a corner, to be unable to help. |
Star, stars; planet, planets; astral influence; sky, Fates, Parcae, Sisters three, book of fate; God's will, will of Heaven; wheel of Fortune, Ides of March, Hobson's choice. | |
Phrase: it cannot be helped; there is no help for, there is no helping it; it will be, it must be, it needs to be, it must be so, it will have its way; the die is cast; jacta est alea; che sara sara; "it is written"; one's days are numbered, one's fate is sealed; Fata obstant; diis aliter visum; actum me invito factus, non est meus actus; aujord'hui roi demain rien; quisque suos patimur manes;"The moving finger writes and having writ moves on. Nor all your piety and wit can bring it back to cancel half a line, nor all your tears wash out a word of it.". | |
Necessity, necessitation; obligation; compulsion; subjection; stern necessity, hard necessity, dire necessity, imperious necessity, inexorable necessity, iron necessity, adverse necessity; fate; what must be. | |
Destiny, destination; fatality, fate, kismet, doom, foredoom, election, predestination; preordination, foreordination; lot fortune; fatalism; inevitableness; Adjective: spell. | |
Predetermination | Noun: predestination, preordination, premeditation, predeliberation, predetermination; foregone conclusion, fait accompli; parti pris; resolve, propendency; intention; project; fate, foredoom, necessity. |
Prediction | Ominous, portentous, augurous, augurial, augural; auspicial, auspicious; prescious, monitory, extispicious, premonitory, significant of, pregnant with, bit with the fate of. |
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Screenplays | Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski.) I do not think that will be your fate. (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh) But standing here among the people of Punxsutawney and basking in the warmth of their hearths and hearts, I couldn't imagine a better fate than a long and lustrous winter (Groundhog Day; writing credit: Guy Ritchie) What are you afraid of, a fate worse than death (Clue; writing credit: Jonathan Lynn.) A broad river divides my lovers: family, duty, fate. As unchangeable as nature (Shakespeare in Love; writing credit: Marc Norman; Tom Stoppard) | |
Lyrics | It's gotta be a strange twist of fate (Twist Of Fate; performing artist: Olivia Newton-John) Love can't wait then I asked if she believed in fate (Yes!; performing artist: Chad Brock) Denied a simpler fate (Leader Of The Band; performing artist: Dan Fogelberg) I read your fate I see misery (Better Love Next Time; performing artist: Dr. Hook) Fate had me playing in love you as my sweet heart (Are You Lonesome Tonight?; performing artist: Elvis Presley) | |
Clever | Man blames fate for other accidents, but feels personally responsible when he makes a hole-in-one! (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | The fickle finger of fate flips fat frogs flat. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Fate (2003) Brush with Fate (2003) Mr. Jack Hollins Against Fate (1968) Le Fate (1966) The Hands of Fate Manos (1966) | |
Song Titles | Twist Of Fate (performing artist: Olivia Newton-John) CAST YOUR FATE TO THE WIND (performing artist: Sounds Orchestral ) Cast Your Fate To The Wind (Instrumental) (performing artist: Vince Guaraldi Trio) | |
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 | Fate of the rebel flag. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | If dreams came true. And thanks to fate, the grim jester, he got his wish. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Pogo]. What a horrible fate. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Missed!--A deaf looter at Galveston escapes temporarily a deserved fate. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The savages let loose, or The cruel fate of the Loyalists. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The fate that awaits the gold Germany is now paying America for food supplies. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | If the U.S. monopoly capitalist block continues to pursue its policy of aggression and war, there will come a day when it will be strangled by the people of the world. The other accomplices of the U.S. will meet the same fate. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Aeschylus | Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny. |
Arthur Schopenhauer | To live alone is the fate of all great souls. |
Benjamin Disraeli | A person's fate is their own temper. |
| We make our fortunes and we call them fate. | |
Heraclitus | Man's character is his fate. |
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller | Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate. |
Lord Byron | Tempted fate will leave the loftiest star. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Whatever limits us we call fate. |
Thomas Campbell | To bear is to conquer our fate. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | But I thought Hooker alone might be enough to satisfy those men, who relying on him for their ecclesiastical polity, are by a strange fate carried to deny those principles upon which he builds it. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | Up till the year 1933 or even 1935, Germany might have been saved from the awful fate which has overtaken her and we might all have been spared the miseries Hitler let loose upon mankind. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | It is our fate. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He perceived distinctly in the gloom an unknown man, a stranger, whom fate had mistaken for him, and was pushing into the gulf in his place |
The Hind and the Panther | John Dryden | For those whom God to ruin has design'd, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | He predicted the same fate to attraction, whereof the present learned are such zealous asserters |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | This is the tidbit which tempts his insectivorous fate. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The fate of homotransplanted human endothelial cells. (references) | |
Experiments have shown that the key signal that determines the fate of all three cell types is a protein called sonic hedgehog. (references) | ||
The specific mechanism of intracellular action in blocking the release of acetylcholine and the subsequent fate of the toxin are not known at present. (references) | ||
Business | The plant’s fate also hinges on the Government of Uzbekistan and on its ongoing economic reforms. (references) | |
In the new legislation there has been a shift in emphasis by placing the fate of the environment in the body politic, which now has the opportunity to act proactively. (references) | ||
With the liberalization of the telephony market in November 2000, the fate of the currently declining paging market is hard to predict, but major strategic alterations must be realized. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Kyrgyz Republic | In June a local Uighur community leader stated that Turadi's fate remained unknown. (references) |
Poland | In 2000 the UNHCR expressed concern over the fate of unaccompanied children seeking asylum in the country. (references) | |
Economic History | Ukraine | Never put your fate in the hands of the unpredictable Ukrainian courts. (references) |
Human Rights | Colombia | The identity and fate of the other persons reportedly kidnaped has never been confirmed. (references) |
Burma | Zaai Zae-Ya was killed during the interrogation; the fate of the other villager is not known. (references) | |
Kuwait | In 1999 Iraq ceased its participation in ICRC-sponsored talks regarding the fate of the detainees. (references) | |
Political Economy | Argentina | Judges pursued truth trials in an effort to force the military to provide information on the fate of those who disappeared during the military regime. (references) |
Kuwait | Many human rights violations committed by the Iraqi army during this period remain unresolved, particularly the fate of 608 citizens and other residents taken by Iraq and still unaccounted for. (references) | |
Western Sahara | A technical meeting of the parties that was held in Geneva in July 2000 to discuss the appeals process, confidence-building measures in the territory, and the fate of Moroccan prisoners of war (POW's) still held by the Polisario (more than 1,400 at year's end) also failed to produce any breakthroughs. (references) | |
Women | Pakistan | AI also reported that if an accused adulteress is killed, and the adulterer manages to escape this fate, he may be required under the karo/kari tradition to compensate the family of the accused adulteress; sometimes, a woman from the adulterer's family is given compensation to repair the honor of the adulteress' family. (references) |
Worker Rights | China | Some accept their fate and join the new community; others struggle and are punished. (references) |
China | However, in December Shenzhen authorities contended that Zhou was not authorized to practice law in that city, casting doubt on the immediate fate of his pending cases and practice. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex. The Maker, at Creation's birth, With living things had stocked the earth. From elephants to bats and snails, They all were good, for all were males. But when the Devil came and saw He said: "By Thine eternal law Of growth, maturity, decay, These all must quickly pass away And leave untenanted the earth Unless Thou dost establish birth" -- Then tucked his head beneath his wing To laugh -- he had no sleeve -- the thing With deviltry did so accord, That he'd suggested to the Lord. The Master pondered this advice, Then shook and threw the fateful dice Wherewith all matters here below Are ordered, and observed the throw; Then bent His head in awful state, Confirming the decree of Fate. From every part of earth anew The conscious dust consenting flew, While rivers from their courses rolled To make it plastic for the mould. Enough collected (but no more, For niggard Nature hoards her store) He kneaded it to flexible clay, While Nick unseen threw some away. And then the various forms He cast, Gross organs first and finer last; No one at once evolved, but all By even touches grew and small Degrees advanced, till, shade by shade, To match all living things He'd made Females, complete in all their parts Except (His clay gave out) the hearts. "No matter," Satan cried; "with speed I'll fetch the very hearts they need" -- So flew away and soon brought back The number needed, in a sack. That night earth range with sounds of strife -- Ten million males each had a wife; That night sweet Peace her pinions spread O'er Hell -- ten million devils dead! G.J. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Priscilla Presley | I mean, I threatened them. I said, you're ruining my life. I mean, I gave them a lot of things to think about, too, that they were ruining my life and probably my fate. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Under this new law of the ocean our trade on the Mediterranean has been swept away by seizures and condemnations, and that in other seas is threatened with the same fate. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | That this fate surely awaits them if they remain within the limits of the States does not admit of a doubt. |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | New forces and new nations stir and strive across the earth, with power to bring, by their fate, great good or great evil to the free world's future. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Our fate as a nation and our future as a people rest not upon one citizen, but upon all citizens. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Because we are free we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | If the Iraqi regime wishes peace, it will release or account for all Gulf War personnel whose fate is still unknown. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Fate" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.77% of the time. "Fate" is used about 2,201 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.77% | 2,196 | 3,997 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.23% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,201 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "fate" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Fate | Last name | 300 | 27,728 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Fate, TX (city, FIPS 25572) |
Expressions using "fate": a stroke of fate ♦ as sure as fate ♦ big with fate ♦ bit with the fate of ♦ fate of Icarus ♦ hard fate ♦ irony of fate ♦ line of fate ♦ manifestation of fate ♦ man's fate ♦ quirk of fate ♦ resigned to fate ♦ seal his fate ♦ seal one's fate ♦ seal smb.'s fate ♦ stroke of fate ♦ sure as fate ♦ the hand of fate ♦ unlucky fate. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "fate": fate-tempting. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "fate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | lot (destiny, fortune, ill fate, luck). (various references) | |
Albanian | fat (chance, circumstance, cup, destiny, dole, doom, fortune, hap, happiness, hit, kismet, lot, lottery, luck, mercy, portion, predetermine, share, spouse, weird), vdekje (bane, death, decease, departure, dissolution, doom, dying, exit, quietus), risk (risk), orë (albanian nymph, clock, horologe, hour, ticker, time, timepiece, watch), e ardhme (fortune, future, futurity, perspective, prospect, To-be, tomorrow). (various references) | |
Arabic | حظ (luck, part), كارثة (blow, calamity, casualty, catastrophe, disaster, evil, fatal, grief, holocaust, plague, scourge, shambles), موت (bane, death, decease, demise, dissolution, ending, exit, expiration, expiry, passing, quietus), مصير (destiny, lot, predestination), نهاية (close, demise, end, ending, fine, fining, finish, limit, stop, tag, tail end, termination, terminus), قسمة (division, lot, portion, share), قضاء لقدر (fatality), قدر قسمة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съдба (chance, destiny, dispensation, doom, fatality, fortune, hap, kismet, line, lot, luck, portion, star, weird), участ (doom, fatality, lot, portion), смърт (curtains, death, decease, demise, departure, divide, doom, dust, dying, end, ending, exit, expiration, fatality, grave, happy release, last, passing, quietus, tomb), гибел (death, disaster, doom, grave, perdition, ruin, ruination, shipwreck, subversion, undoing), орисница, орис (destiny, doom, fortunes, portion), зла участ, предопределеност, парка. (various references) | |
Chinese | 運 (fortune, luck, to move, to transport, to user), 緣份 , 命運 , 命运 (Destinies, Destiny, Fates), 命 (life). (various references) | |
Czech | zhouba (destruction), osud (destiny, doom, draw, fortune, kismet, lot, predestination). (various references) | |
Danish | bestemmelse (destiny). (various references) | |
Dutch | lotsbestemming (destiny), lot (destiny, fortune, ill fate, luck), bestemming (destiny). (various references) | |
Esperanto | fatalo (ill fate), sorto (destiny, fortune, luck), destino (destiny). (various references) | |
Faeroese | lagna (destiny, fortune, ill fate, luck). (various references) | |
Farsi | مقدرشدن , نصیب وقسمت (Destiny), قضاوقدر (Fortuity), تقدیر (Destination, Destiny, Ordinance, Thank), سرنوشت (Destination, Destiny, Dole, Lot, Portion), بسرنوشت شوم دچارکردن . (various references) | |
Finnish | osa (component, destiny, fortune, lot, luck, part, piece, portion, proportion, rōle, role, share, volume). (various references) | |
French | sort, fatalité (fatality, ill fate). (various references) | |
German | verhängnis (destiny, disaster, doom, fatality, fortune, ill fate, luck, undoing), schicksal (destiny, doom, fatefulness, fortune, karma, kismet, luck, misfortune, portion), geschick (aptness, cunning, deftness, destiny, expertise, finesse, fortune, handicraft, handiness, knack, luck, nimbleness, skill, skillfulness, skills, swankiness), los (aweigh, come on, destiny, fortune, get going, go on, going on, happening, loose, lot, luck, misfortune, off, portion, raffle ticket, ticket). (various references) | |
Greek | μοίρα (degree, destiny, doom, fortune, kismet, lot, predestination, share, split). (various references) | |
Hebrew | 'ורל (cast, cut, destiny, lot, predestination). (various references) | |
Hungarian | végzet (chance, destiny, doom, fatality, fortune, kismet, nemesis, predestination, weird). (various references) | |
Indonesian | takdir (destiny, fore-ordination, predestination), suratan (destiny), nasib (destiny, fortune), bilangan (amount, calculation, group, numeral). (various references) | |
Italian | destino (destiny, doom, fatility, kismet, lot, luck). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 悲運 , 命運 (doom), 果 (cause and effect, karma), 縁 (connection, destiny, origin, pretext), 宿命 (destiny, predestination), 宿縁 (destiny, karma), 宿運 (destiny), 安危 (safety, welfare), 不運 (bad luck, misfortune, unlucky), 巡り合わせ (chance), 運気 (fortune), 死命 (life or death), 業 (inevitable retribution, karma effects), 末路 (end, last days), 果てし (bounds, end, extremity, limit, result), 縁 (bonds, chance, connection, destiny, edge, karma, related to, relation), 行く末 (end ofline, one's future), 行末 (end ofline, one's future), 運命 , 定め (agreement, appointment, arrangement, decision, destiny, karma, law, provision, regulation, rule). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | う"き (fortune, the look of the sky), はてし (bounds, end, extremity, limit, result), ゆくすえ (end ofline, one's future), あ"き (comfort, ease, feeling at home, learning by heart, memorization, safety, welfare), めいう" (doom), めぐりあわせ (chance), "うほう (armful, frank, gradational salary, inevitable retribution, karma effects, largehearted, lawful, legal, legality, signal gun, unaffected), い"ね" (connection, destiny, origin, pretext), い"が (a negative, cause and effect, karma, print), え" (bonds, chance, charming, circle, connection, dam, destiny, false charge, fascinating, garden, hatred, karma, relation, salt, voluptuous, weir, Yen), ふう" (bad luck, misfortune, unlucky), ぎょうまつ (end ofline, one's future), う"めい, さ め (agreement, appointment, arrangement, decision, destiny, karma, law, provision, regulation, rule), まつろ (end, last days), ひう" (bad fortune, misfortune), しゅくえ" (banquet, destiny, karma, old grudge, old score), しゅくめい (destiny, predestination), しゅくう" (destiny), しめい (designate, errand, full name, identity, life or death, message, mission, name, nominate), ばつろ (end, last days). (various references) | |
Korean | 운명 (Destinies, Destiny, DOOM, Dooms, Fates, mortal). (various references) | |
Manx | kynoauin, erree (end), cronney (bass, lot, portion, share), beoyn (aptness, drift, instinct, liability, set, tendency, trend). (various references) | |
Norwegian | skjebne (destiny, fortune, lot). (various references) | |
Papiamen | destinu (destiny), destino (destiny, fortune, luck), destinashon (destiny). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | atefay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | fatalidade (fatality, fatefulness, mischance), sorte (chance, destiny, die, dole, draw, fluke, fortune, hap, haphazard, happiness, hazard, hit, lot, lottery, luck, prise, prize, sort, speed, star, swat), destino (address, billet, burden, destiny, die, dole, doom, draw, fortune, future, hap, karma, kismet, lines, lot, luck, portion, star, weirdy, whither). (various references) | |
Romanian | fatalitate (destiny, fatality, fatalness), zodie (star), ursitoare, ursitã (destiny, weird), stea (blaze, destiny, light, star, streamer, sweetheart), soartã (chance, destiny, dole, doom, fatality, fortune, future, hap, kismet, line, lot, luck, portion, Rede, weird), scrisã (destiny, lot), predestina (destine, foredoom, foreordain, ordain, predestinate, predestine, preordain), prãpãd (destruction, disaster, flood, havoc), pieire (death, destruction, ruin), moarte (death, decease, disappearance, doom, dying, end, exit, fatality, grave, parting, passage, passing, slaughter, the tomb), menire, meni (destine, foredoom, intend, make, mean for, ordain), destin (chance, destiny, dole, doom, fatality, fortune, hap, line, lot, luck), întâmplare (accident, adventure, case, chance, contingency, event, fact, hap, happening, happenstance, hazard, incidence, incident, luck, occasionality, occurrence, passage). (various references) | |
Russian | судьба (chance, destiny, fortune, kismet, lot, luck, weird). (various references) | |
Scottish | d n (a poem, bold, poem), ceann-uidhe (destiny, end of a journey). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sudbina (destiny, doom, fortune, kismet, lot, rede), kob (hap, portent, rencontre). (various references) | |
Spanish | destino (destination, destiny, die, earmark, fluke, lines, luck, portion, posting, purpose), suerte (chance, destination, destiny, die, factories, fatalism, fortune, happiness, kind, luck, luckiness, piece of luck, sort, try). (various references) | |
Swedish | ödet. (various references) | |
Thai | โชคชะตา (kismet, lot, luck), ผลลัพธ์ (fruit), กำหน"โ"ยโชคชะตา. (various references) | |
Turkish | felek (destiny), felâket (affliction, bane, blight, blow, calamity, calvary, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, debacle, disaster, distress, fatality, harm, hell, hell of, helluva, misfortune, mishap, plague, scathe, scourge, tragedy, undoing), tâlih (auspiciousness, chance, fortune, karma, luck), son (afterbirth, bedrock, close, conclusion, conclusive, curtains, definitive, denouement, end, ending, expiration, expiry, extremity, farewell, final, finis, finish, finishing, full, full stop, issue, kiss off, last, late, latest, latter, nth, Omega, outcome, quietus, recent, result, ruination, secundine, sunset, supreme, tail end, terminal, termination, ultimate, upshot), kader tanrıçası, kader (destiny, dispensation, doom, fatal, fatality, foreordination, fortune, karma, lot, Moira, predestination, Providence), kısmet (chance, destiny, fatality, foreordination, fortune, inning, innings, kismet, lot, Moira, portion, predestination, shot), ecel (death, ending, the other end of the road), alinyazisi (destiny, fortune, luck), alın yazısı (destiny, doom, foreordination, ordinance, predestination), akibet. (various references) | |
Turkmen | ykbal, tдleя (lot), takdyr, ьlью (lot, part), nesibe (destiny), яazgyt, bije (fortune, lot). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | фатум (destiny, weird), загибель (bad, bane, blasting, catastrophe, collapse, death, destruction, doom, ending, overthrow, perdition, ruin, undoing, wreck, wreckage), жереб (lot), доля (allotment, chance, cup, destiny, doom, fatality, fortune, karma, lot, nemesis, portion, predestination). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thiên mệnh, sự huỷ diệt (annihilation, extermination), số mệnh (doom, fatality, kismet, portion, weird), điều không thể tránh được nghiệp chướng sự chết, định mệnh (fatality). (various references) | |
Welsh | ffawd (fortune), tynghedu (adjure, destine), tynged (destiny), rhan (behalf, part, portion), damwain (accident, chance). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | nam, nam-tar. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | cassum, casu, casui, casum, casumque, casus, eventu, eventum, eventus, fado, fatum, fortuna, fortunae, sors, sorte, sortem, sortes, sortibus, sortis, sortium. (various references) |
| Sanskrit | 300 BCE-Modern | karman-. (various references) |
| Arabic | 500-Modern | qisma, qismat. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Romans Chapter 1, Verse 32 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | OitineV to dikaiwma tou qeou epignonteV oti oi ta toiauta prassonteV axioi qanatou eisin ou monon auta poiousin alla kai suneudokousin toiV prassousin |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Qui cum iustitiam Dei cognovissent non intellexerunt quoniam qui talia agunt digni sunt morte non solum ea faciunt sed et consentiunt facientibus |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Þeah þe hi cnewað Godes rihtwis bebod þæt þa þe wyrcað swylcu þing sind deaðes geearniend, ne wyrcað hi ane mare þissa sylfena þing ac eacswa lofað hi þas þa þe hie wyrcað. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | The whiche whanne thei hadden knowe the riytwisnesse of God, vndirstoden not, that thei that don siche thingis ben worthi the deth, not oneli thei that don tho thingis, but also thei that consenten to the doeris. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Who, knowing the judgment of God, that they who commit such things are worthy of death; not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Who, though they have knowledge of the law of God, that the fate of those who do these things is death, not only go on doing these things themselves, but give approval to those who do them. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Romans Chapter 1, Verse 32 |
| Cebuano | Kini sila, bisan ila nang nasayran ang pagbuot sa Dios nga ang magabuhat sa maong mga butang takus sa kamatayon, dili lamang kay nagabuhat niini kondili giuyonan usab nila ang mga tawo nga nagabuhat niini. |
| Chinese | 他 們 雖 知 " 神 判 定 、 行 這 樣 事 的 人 是 當 死 的 、 然 而 他 們 不 但 自 己 去 行 、 還 喜 歡 別 人 去 行 。 |
| Croatian | Znaju za odredbu Božju - da smrt zaslužuju koji takvo što èine - a oni ne samo da to èine nego i povlaðuju onima koji èine. |
| Danish | - hvilke jo, skønt de erkende Guds retfærdige Dom, at de, der øve sådanne Ting, fortjene Døden, dog ikke alene gøre det, men også give dem, som øve det, deres Bifald. |
| Finnish | jotka, vaikka tuntevat Jumalan vanhurskaan säädöksen, että ne, jotka senkaltaisia tekevät, ovat kuoleman ansainneet, eivät ainoastaan itse niitä tee, vaan vieläpä osoittavat hyväksymistä niille, jotka niitä tekevät. |
| French | Et, bien qu`ils connaissent le jugement de Dieu, déclarant dignes de mort ceux qui commettent de telles choses, non seulement ils les font, mais ils approuvent ceux qui les font. |
| German | Sie wissen Gottes Gerechtigkeit, daß, die solches tun, des Todes würdig sind, und tun es nicht allein, sondern haben auch Gefallen an denen, die es tun. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Mereka tahu, bahwa menurut hukum Allah, orang yang melakukan semuanya itu patut dihukum mati. Walaupun begitu mereka melakukan juga hal-hal itu; dan malah menyetujui pula orang lain melakukannya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | meskipun mereka itu mengetahui hukum Allah, bahwa orang yang melakukan demikian itu padan dengan mati, tetapi bukannya mereka itu melakukan demikian sahaja, melainkan memperkenankan pula orang-orang yang memperbuat sedemikian itu. |
| Italian | E pur conoscendo il giudizio di Dio, che cioè gli autori di tali cose meritano la morte, non solo continuano a farle, ma anche approvano chi le fa. |
