Zen priests beg for alms near Shinjuku station.
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Alms
//ɑmz//
Synonyms for "alms" (20 found)
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Closest matches (4)
Strong matches (6)
Related words (10)
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143 translations across 93 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- aalmoes noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Albanian
1 entries- lëmoshë noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἐλεημοσύνη noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Arabic
2 entries- خَيْر noun (something given to the poor as charity)
- صَدَقَة noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Armenian
1 entries- ողորմություն noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- sədəqə noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Bashkir
2 entries- саҙаҡа noun (something given to the poor as charity)
- хәйер noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Belarusian
1 entries- мі́ласціна noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Bengali
4 entries- খয়রাত noun (something given to the poor as charity)
- ভিক্ষা noun (something given to the poor as charity)
- ভিখ noun (something given to the poor as charity)
- সদকা noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Bulgarian
1 entries- милости́ня noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Burmese
1 entries- ဒါန noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Catalan
1 entries- almoina noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Chichewa
1 entries- sadaka noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 救濟金 /救济金 noun (something given to the poor as charity)
- 施捨 /施舍 noun (something given to the poor as charity)
- 施捨物 /施舍物 noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Church Slavic
1 entries- милостꙑн҄и noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Cornish
1 entries- alusennow noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Czech
1 entries- almužna noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Danish
1 entries- almisse noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Dutch
1 entries- aalmoes noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Dzongkha
1 entries- སྦྱིན་པ noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Emilian
1 entries- limòśna noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Esperanto
1 entries- almozo noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Estonian
1 entries- almus noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Finnish
1 entries- almu noun (something given to the poor as charity)
French
1 entries- aumône noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Galician
1 entries- esmola noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Georgian
1 entries- მოწყალება noun (something given to the poor as charity)
German
1 entries- Almosen noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Gothic
2 entries- 𐌰𐍂𐌼𐌰𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍂𐍄𐌹𐌸𐌰 noun (something given to the poor as charity)
- 𐌰𐍂𐌼𐌰𐌹𐍉 noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Greek
1 entries- ελεημοσύνη noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Gujarati
1 entries- ભીખ noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Gullah
1 entries- aa’ms noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Hebrew
2 entries- נְדָבָה noun (something given to the poor as charity)
- צְדָקָה noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Hindi
4 entries- ख़ैरात noun (something given to the poor as charity)
- दान noun (something given to the poor as charity)
- भिक्षा noun (something given to the poor as charity)
- भीख noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Hungarian
1 entries- alamizsna noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Icelandic
1 entries- ölmusa noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Ido
1 entries- almono noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Indonesian
3 entries- infak noun (something given to the poor as charity)
- sedekah noun (something given to the poor as charity)
- sumbangan noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Irish
4 entries- almsa noun (something given to the poor as charity)
- déirc noun (something given to the poor as charity)
- foighe noun (something given to the poor as charity)
- oirchiseacht noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Italian
1 entries- elemosina noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Japanese
2 entries- 施し noun (something given to the poor as charity)
- 施し物 noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Kazakh
3 entries- зекет noun (something given to the poor as charity)
- садақа noun (something given to the poor as charity)
- қайыр noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Khmer
1 entries- ទាន noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Korean
2 entries- 구호금 noun (something given to the poor as charity)
- 의연금 noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Kyrgyz
3 entries- зекет noun (something given to the poor as charity)
- кайыр noun (something given to the poor as charity)
- садага noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Lao
3 entries- ຂອງທານ noun (something given to the poor as charity)
- ຂອງໄຫ້ທານ noun (something given to the poor as charity)
- ທານ noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Latin
2 entries- eleēmosyna noun (something given to the poor as charity)
- stips noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Latvian
1 entries- dāvanas noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Lithuanian
1 entries- išmalda noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Macedonian
1 entries- милостина noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Malay
1 entries- sedekah noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Maltese
1 entries- limosja noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Marathi
1 entries- भीक noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Mongolian
2 entries- хандив noun (something given to the poor as charity)
- өглөг noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Māori
2 entries- koha aroha noun (something given to the poor as charity)
- moni aroha noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Nepali
2 entries- दान noun (something given to the poor as charity)
- भिख noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- almisse noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- almisse noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Old Marathi
1 entries- 𑘥𑘲𑘎 noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Pali
3 entries- bhikkhā noun (something given to the poor as charity)
- bhikkhā noun (something given to the poor as charity)
- dāna noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Pashto
2 entries- خير noun (something given to the poor as charity)
- صدقه noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Persian
3 entries- تسک noun (something given to the poor as charity)
- خیر noun (something given to the poor as charity)
- صدقه noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Polish
1 entries- jałmużna noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Portuguese
1 entries- esmola noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Prakrit
2 entries- 𑀪𑀺𑀓𑁆𑀔𑀸 noun (something given to the poor as charity)
- 𑀪𑀺𑀘𑁆𑀙𑀸 noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Punjabi
2 entries- بھِکّھ noun (something given to the poor as charity)
- ਭਿੱਖ noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Quechua
1 entries- t'itu noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Romanian
2 entries- milostenie noun (something given to the poor as charity)
- pomană noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Russian
2 entries- ми́лостыня noun (something given to the poor as charity)
- подая́ние noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Sanskrit
2 entries- दान noun (something given to the poor as charity)
- भिक्षा noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Scots
1 entries- aumous noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- milòstinja noun (something given to the poor as charity)
- мило̀стиња noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Slovak
2 entries- almužna noun (something given to the poor as charity)
- milodar noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Slovene
1 entries- miloščina noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Spanish
1 entries- limosna noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Swahili
1 entries- sadaka noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Swedish
1 entries- allmosa noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Tagalog
1 entries- limos noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Tajik
2 entries- садақа noun (something given to the poor as charity)
- хайр noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Tamil
1 entries- அளி noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Tatar
1 entries- сәдака noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Thai
2 entries- ทาน noun (something given to the poor as charity)
- ไทยทาน noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Tibetan
1 entries- སྦྱིན་པ noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Tocharian B
2 entries- pintwāt noun (something given to the poor as charity)
- yāṣṣu noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Turkish
2 entries- sadaka noun (something given to the poor as charity)
- zekât noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Turkmen
2 entries- haýyr noun (something given to the poor as charity)
- sadaka noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Ukrainian
1 entries- ми́лостиня noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Urdu
3 entries- بِھیک noun (something given to the poor as charity)
- خیرات noun (something given to the poor as charity)
- صدقہ noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Uyghur
1 entries- سەدىقە noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Uzbek
2 entries- sadaqa noun (something given to the poor as charity)
- xayr noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Venetan
1 entries- łimòzina noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Vietnamese
2 entries- chẩn noun (something given to the poor as charity)
- của bố thí noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Yiddish
1 entries- צדקה noun (something given to the poor as charity)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
One should give alms to the poor.
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In my country, it's usual for pilgrims to beg for alms.
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"Why are you begging for alms, Diogenes?" - "In order to teach generosity."
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