Senses
1. deceit, deception, trickery — Abstract noun meaning 'deceit, deception, fraud, trickery'—the act or quality of deceiving. All three clusters represent case/number inflections of the same concept with no semantic divergence. S62667 covers nominative/dative/genitive singular, S62668 is genitive singular, S62671 is dative plural. Spanish 'engaño(s)' (deception/deceptions) uniformly, Hindi 'धोख/धोखे/छल/छलों' (deceit/deceptions), Arabic 'غُرُورُ/الخِداعِ/خِداعاتِهِم' (vanity/deceit/their-deceptions), Korean '속임/속임수/속임들' (deception/trick/deceptions), Swahili 'udanganyifu/hadaa' (deceitfulness/deception). The multilingual evidence confirms a single abstract concept across all occurrences. 7×
AR["الخِداعِ","الغُرورِ","بِخِدَاعِ","خِداعاتِهِم","خِداعِ","غُرورُ","غُرُورُ"]·ben["প্রতারণা","প্রতারণা-র","প্রতারণায়","প্রতারণার"]·DE["Betrug","ἀπάτη"]·EN["by-deceit","deceit","deceitfulness","deceptions"]·FR["tromperie"]·heb["בְּמִרְמַת-","הוֹנָאַת","הוֹנָאָה","מִרְמַת","רַמָּאוּת"]·HI["की","छल","छल-से","छलों","धोख","धोखे"]·ID["oleh-tipu-daya","penipuan;","tipu daya","tipu-daya"]·IT["inganno"]·jav["apus","apus;","apusé","godha","mawi-apus","pambujuk","tipu-daya"]·KO["미혹이","속임들","속임수","속임으로","속임의;","속임이"]·PT["engano","engano;","enganos","pelo-engano"]·RU["обман","обмана;","обманах","обмане","обманом","обольщение"]·ES["con-engaño","engaño","engaños"]·SW["hadaa","udanganyifu"]·TR["aldatmacain","aldatmacainin","aldatmacasıyla","aldatmalarında","aldatmasında","aldatıcılığı"]·urd["دھوکا","دھوکہ","دھوکے","دھوکے-کی","فریب-سے","فریبوں-میں"]
BDB / Lexicon Reference
ἀπᾰτ-η, ἡ, trick, fraud, deceit, νῦν δὲ κακὴν ἀπάτην βουλεύσατοRefs 8th c.BC+: in plural, wiles, οὐκ ἄρ᾽ ἔμελλες.. λήξειν ἀπατάων, says Athena to Ulysses, Refs 8th c.BC+ __2 guile, treachery, ἄταν ἀπάτᾳ μεταγνούςRefs 5th c.BC+; ἀ. εὐπρεπής, opposed to βία ἐμφανής, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀ. λεχέων a being cheated out of the marriage, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἄνευ δόλου καὶ ἀπάτης 'without fraud or covin', Refs…