Inherited fromMiddle Englishydolatrie, fromOld Frenchidolatrie, fromEcclesiastical Latinīdōlatrīa, fromLate Latinīdōlolatrīa, fromAncient Greekεἰδωλολατρίᾱ(eidōlolatríā,“worship of idols”),back-formation fromεἰδωλολάτρης(eidōlolátrēs), fromεἴδωλον(eídōlon,“idol”) &λάτρις(látris,“worshipper”) orλατρεύω(latreúō,“I worship”), fromλάτρον(látron,“payment”). Equivalent toidol +-latry. Cognate withModern Frenchidolâtrie,Italianidolatria,Occitanydolatria,Portugueseidolatria, andSpanishidolatría. Displaced nativeOld Englishdēofolġield(literally“devil worship”).
idolatry (countable anduncountable,pluralidolatries)
- (religion) Theworship ofidols.
- Synonym:avodah zarah
1902, John Buchan,The Outgoing of the Tide:The parish stank ofidolatry, abominable rites were practiced in secret, and in all the bounds there was no one had a more evil name for the black traffic than one Alison Sempill, who bode at the Skerburnfoot.
1941,George Ryley Scott,Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page20:Now the great obstacle in tracing the identity of any of the basic forms of worship lies in the vast number of names which appear in the ancientidolatries and mythologies, creating the illusion of a miscellany of gods, whereas many of these different names refer to the same deity. Thus the sun has been personified and worshipped under as many different names as there are nations on the surface of the earth.
- (figurative) Theexcessiveadmiration of somebody or something.
- Synonyms:adoration,reverence,worship
worship of idols
- Afrikaans:please add this translation if you can
- Albanian:idhujtari (sq) f
- Arabic:وَثَنِيَّة f(waṯaniyya)
- Armenian:կռապաշտություն (hy)(kṙapaštutʻyun)
- Aymara:please add this translation if you can
- Azerbaijani:bütpərəstlik (az)
- Basque:please add this translation if you can
- Belarusian:ідалапакло́нства n(idalapaklónstva),балвахва́льства n(balvaxválʹstva)
- Bengali:মূর্তিপূজা (bn)(murtipuja)
- Breton:please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian:идолопокло́нничество n(idolopoklónničestvo),идолопокло́нство n(idolopoklónstvo)
- Catalan:idolatria (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:偶像崇拜(ǒuxiàng chóngbài)
- Cree:please add this translation if you can
- Czech:modlářství,modloslužebnictví n,idolatrie f
- Danish:afgudsdyrkelse c
- Dutch:afgoderij (nl) f,afgodendienst (nl) m,beeldendienst (nl) m,idolatrie (nl) f
- Estonian:ebajumalakummardamine
- Faroese:please add this translation if you can
- Finnish:epäjumalanpalvonta,idolatria (fi),kuvainpalvonta
- French:idolâtrie (fr) f,cultedesidoles m
- Galician:please add this translation if you can
- Georgian:კერპთაყვანისმცემლობა(ḳerṗtaq̇vanismcemloba),კერპთმსახურება(ḳerṗtmsaxureba)
- German:Abgötterei (de) f,Götzendienerei f,Götzendienst m,Götzenglaube m,Götzenverehrung f,Idolatrie (de) f,Ikonodulie (de) f,Vergötterung (de) f,Bilderanbetung f,Bilderdienst m,Bilderverehrung f
- Greek:ειδωλολατρία (el) f(eidololatría)
- Ancient:εἰδωλολατρία f(eidōlolatría)
- Greenlandic:guutipilussiorneq
- Hebrew:עֲבוֹדָה זָרָה (he) f(avodá zará),עֲבוֹדַת אֱלִילִים (he) f(avodát elilím)
- Hindi:मूर्तिपूजा f(mūrtipūjā)
- Hungarian:bálványimádás (hu)
- Icelandic:skurðgoðadýrkun f
- Irish:íolacht f,íoladhradh m
- Italian:idolatria (it) f
- Japanese:偶像崇拝(ぐうぞうすうはい, gūzō sūhai)
- Kazakh:пұтқа табынушылық(pūtqa tabynuşylyq)
- Korean:우상숭배(偶像崇拜)(usangsungbae)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish:pûtperestî (ku),pûtparêzî (ku)
- Kyrgyz:бутпарастык (ky)(butparastık)
- Ladino:avoda zara f,idolatria f
- Latin:īdōlolatrīa f
- Latvian:elku pielūgšana f
- Lithuanian:stabmeldystė f
- Macedonian:идолопоклонство n(idolopoklonstvo)
- Manx:jalloonys m
- Middle English:mawmetrie,ydolatrie
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål:avgudsdyrkelse m
- Occitan:idolatria (oc) f
- Old English:dēofolġield n
- Pashto:بت پرستي (ps) f(bot-parastī)
- Persian:بتپرستی(bot-parasti)
- Plautdietsch:please add this translation if you can
- Polish:bałwochwalstwo (pl) n,idolatria (pl) f,idololatria (pl) f
- Portuguese:idolatria (pt) f
- Romanian:idolatrie (ro) f
- Cyrillic:идолатрия(idolatria)
- Russian:идолопокло́нство (ru) n(idolopoklónstvo),идолопокло́нничество (ru) n(idolopoklónničestvo)
- Sanskrit:प्रतिमापूजा (sa) f(pratimāpūjā)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic:идолопокло́нство n
- Roman:idolopoklónstvo (sh) n
- Slovak:modlárstvo n,modloslužobníctvo n,idolatria f,modloslužba f
- Slovene:idolatrija f
- Spanish:idolatría (es) f
- Swedish:idoldyrkan c,idolatri (sv) c,bilddyrkan c
- Tajik:бутпарастӣ(butparasti)
- Telugu:విగ్రహారాధన (te)(vigrahārādhana)
- Thai:การบูชาเทวรูป(gaan-buu-chaa-tee-wá-rûup)
- Turkish:putperestlik (tr)
- Turkmen:butparazlyk (tk)
- Ukrainian:ідолопокло́нство n(idolopoklónstvo),ідолові́рство n(idolovírstvo)
- Urdu:بُت پَرَسْتی f(but-parastī)
- Uyghur:بۇتپەرەسلىك(butpereslik)
- Uzbek:butparastlik (uz)
- Vietnamese:thờngẫu tượng
- Welsh:eilun-addoliad m,eilun-addoliaeth f
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Inherited fromMiddle Englishydolatrie, fromOld Frenchidolatrie, fromEcclesiastical Latinīdōlatrīa, fromLate Latinīdōlolatrīa, fromAncient Greekεἰδωλολατρίᾱ(eidōlolatríā,“worship of idols”),back-formation fromεἰδωλολάτρης(eidōlolátrēs), fromεἴδωλον(eídōlon,“idol”) &λάτρις(látris,“worshipper”) orλατρεύω(latreúō,“I worship”), fromλάτρον(látron,“payment”). Equivalent toidol +-latry. Cognate withModern Frenchidolâtrie,Italianidolatria,Occitanydolatria,Portugueseidolatria, andSpanishidolatría. Displaced nativeOld Englishdēofolġield(literally“devil worship”).
idolatry (uncountable)
- (religion)idolatry(theworship ofidols)
1904, “Galatians, V”, in William Wye Smith, transl.,The New Testament in Braid Scots[1], Paisley: Alexander Gardner,page241:But plain to be seen are the warks o’ the flesh ; whilk are adultery, lechery, wantonness,[…]Idolatry, divination, hatred, fa’in-oot, jealousy, wrath, factions, pairties,[…]- The works of the flesh are clear: illicit sex, impurity, indecency,idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousy, anger, selfishness, dissension, sectarianism.
