hell

Significat (Anglès)

Name

A place of torment where some or all sinners are believed to go after death and evil spirits are believed to be.

Noun

1. (countable, excessive, figuratively) A place or situation of great suffering in life.
2. (countable) A place for gambling.
3. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) An extremely hot place.
4. (countable, sometimes, uncountable, vulgar) Used as an intensifier in phrases grammatically requiring a noun.
5. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) A place into which a tailor throws shreds, or a printer discards broken type.
6. (countable, uncountable) In certain games of chase, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.
7. (colloquial, countable, uncountable, usually, with-on) Something extremely painful or harmful (to)

Intj

1. (colloquial, sometimes, vulgar) Used to express discontent, unhappiness, or anger.
2. (colloquial, idiomatic, sometimes, vulgar) Used to emphasize.
3. (colloquial, sometimes, vulgar) Used to introduce an intensified statement following an understated one; nay; not only that, but.

Adv

1. (alt-of, alternative, colloquial, not-comparable, postpositional, sometimes, vulgar) Alternative form of the hell or like hell.
2. (Australia, New-Zealand, colloquial, not-comparable, sometimes, vulgar) Very; used to emphasize strongly.

Verb

1. (colloquial, sometimes, vulgar) To make hellish; to place (someone) in hell; to make (a place) into a hell.
2. (colloquial, sometimes, vulgar) To hurry, rush.
3. (colloquial, intransitive, sometimes, vulgar) To move quickly and loudly; to raise hell as part of motion.

Verb

To add luster to; to burnish (silver or gold).

Verb

To pour.

Conceptes

infern

Oposat a

heaven

Sinònims

inferno

underworld

Hades

blaze

abyss

hades

perdition

pit

snake pit

Gehenna

sin

nether world

the pits

world of spirits

hell on earth

hellhole

harm

heaven

judgment

misery

nether regions

netherworld

orc

pandemonium

predicament

purgatory

secret

㊙️

shadowy

shady

tarnation

unconscious

dire straits

Doomsday

gaming-house

Hell

Inferno

scorching heat

the underworld

samsara

theatre basement

theater basement

negative electricity

Orcus

evil deeds

place of departed spirits

realm of woe

the grave

the lower world

way to evil

natherworld

Traduccions

enfer

infierno

Hölle

inferno

hel

inferno

κόλαση

cehennem

infernum

άδης

النار

infèrn

جحيم

Κόλαση

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/hɛl/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: helle

Heretat de anglès antic: hell

Cognat amb Saterfriesisch: Hälle

Cognat amb frisó occidental: hel

Cognat amb neerlandès: hel

Cognat amb alemany: Hölle

Cognat amb noruec: helvete

Cognat amb islandès: hel

Cognat amb alemany: hell

Heretat de anglès mitjà: hellen

Cognat amb islandès: hella

Cognat amb noruec: helle

Cognat amb suec: hälla

In summary

From Middle English helle, from Old English hell, from Proto-West Germanic *hallju, from Proto-Germanic *haljō (“concealed place, netherworld”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover, conceal, save”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Hälle (“hell”), West Frisian hel (“hell”), Dutch hel (“hell”), German Low German Hell (“hell”), German Hölle (“hell”), Norwegian helvete (“hell”), Icelandic hel (“the abode of the dead, death”). Also related to the Hel of Germanic mythology. See also hele.