Purgatory

purgatory English Alternative forms en purgatory Pronunciation en en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Purgatory.wav Southern England Proper noun en Christianity An intermediate state after death in which some of those ultimately destined for Heaven must first undergo purification. Synonyms See Thesaurus:afterlife Coordinate terms en Heaven, en Hell, en limbo; see also Thesaurus:afterlife Derived terms purgatorial purgatorian Translations intermediate state after physical death Albanian: sq purgator m Arabic: ar مَطْهَر m Armenian: hy քավարան Baduy: bac ᮘᮜᮌᮓᮙ balagadama Basque: eu garbitoki Belarusian: be чысьце́ц m Bulgarian: bg чисти́лище n Catalan: ca purgatori m Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 煉獄 liànyù Czech: cs očistec m Danish: da skærsild c Dutch: nl vagevuur, nl purgatorium n Esperanto: eo purgatorio Estonian: et puhastustuli, et purgatoorium Finnish: fi kiirastuli French: fr purgatoire Galician: gl purgatorio m German: de Fegefeuer n, de Fegfeuer n, rare de Purgatorium Alemannic German: gsw Fëgfüür Greek: el καθαρτήριο Ancient Greek: grc καθαρτήριον n Hebrew: he כור המצרף Hungarian: hu purgatórium, hu tisztítótűz Icelandic: is hreinsunareldur m Indonesian: id api penyucian, id purgatorium Irish: ga purgadóir m Italian: it purgatorio m Japanese: ja 煉獄 れんごく, rengoku Korean: ko 연옥(煉獄) Latin: la purgatorium Lithuanian: lt skaistykla Macedonian: mk чистилиште n Middle English: enm purgatorie Norwegian: no skjærsilden, no purgatoriet Occitan: oc purgatòri m Persian: fa بَرزَخ Polish: pl czyściec m Portuguese: pt purgatório m Romanian: ro purgatoriu n Russian: ru чисти́лище n Serbo-Croatian: sh чистилиште n, sh čistilište n Slovak: sk očistec m Slovene: sl vice Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: dsb cysć m Spanish: es purgatorio m Swedish: sv skärseld skärselden Tagalog: tl purgatoryo Turkish: tr araf Ukrainian: uk чисти́лище n Vietnamese: vi luyện ngục (vi 煉獄) Volapük: vo purgator Welsh: cy purdan m en Afterlife Roman Catholicism Theology