1. a lie, falsehood, untruth — A statement or reality that is contrary to truth; deception or falsehood as a concept or specific instance. Greek ψεῦδος covers both concrete lies and abstract falsehood. Multilingual evidence is unified: eng 'lie / of falsehood,' spa 'mentira / de mentira,' hin झूठ (jhūṭh), arb كَذِبًا/كَذِبٍ (kadhib in various cases), kor 거짓 (geojit, falsehood), swa 'uongo / ya uongo.' The two clusters differ only in grammatical case — accusative/nominative/dative (S79183) vs genitive (S79184) — representing the same lexical meaning. 10×
AR["الكَذِبَ","الكَذِبِ","كَذِب","كَذِبًا","كَذِبٌ","كَذِبٍ","كَذِبِ"]·ben["মিথ্যা","মিথ্যায়,"]·DE["Luege"]·EN["a-lie","falsehood","lie","of-falsehood"]·FR["mensonge"]·heb["שֶׁקֶר"]·HI["झूठ","झोओथ","झोओथे"]·ID["dusta","dusta,","dusta;","kebohongan,","kebohongan;"]·IT["menzogna","pseudos"]·jav["goroh","goroh,","palsu,","palsu;"]·KO["거짓","거짓-은","거짓-이","거짓을","거짓을,","거짓의","거짓이"]·PT["de-mentira","mentira","mentira,","mentira;"]·RU["лжи","ложь","ложь,","ложь;","ложью"]·ES["de-mentira","mentira","mentira.","mentira;"]·SW["uongo","uongo,","uongo;","ya-uongo"]·TR["yalan","yalana","yalancı","yalani","yalanla","yalanı"]·urd["جھوٹ","جھوٹ،","جھوٹ؛","جھوٹے-کے۔","جھوٹ۔"]
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BDB / Lexicon Reference
ψεῦδος, εος, τό, Epic dialect dative plural ψεύδεσσι, see at {ψευδής} I.2: (ψεύδω):— falsehood, lie, ψεύδεα.. ἐτύμοισιν ὁμοῖα Refs 8th c.BC+; εἴ τε ψεῦδος ὑπόσχεσις εἴ τε καὶ οὐκί whether the promise be a lie or no, Refs 8th c.BC+; ψ. ποικίλα, αἰόλον ψ., Refs; ψ. γλυκύ a sweet deceit, Refs 5th c.BC+ __2 in Logic, false conclusion, fallacy, συλλογισμὸς τοῦ ψεύδους Refs 4th c.BC+; συμβαίνει ψ.Refs…