Purgatory

See also: purgatory

English

Alternative forms

• purgatory

Proper noun

Purgatory

1. (Christianity) An intermediate state after death in which some of those ultimately destined for Heaven must first undergo purification prior to entering Heaven.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:afterlife

Coordinate terms

• Heaven, Hell, limbo; see also Thesaurus:afterlife

Derived terms

• purgatorial

Translations

intermediate state after physical death

• Albanian: purgator (sq) m
• Arabic: مَطْهَر m (maṭhar)
• Armenian: քավարան (hy) (kʻavaran)
• Basque: garbitoki
• Belarusian: чысьце́ц m (čysʹcjéc)
• Bulgarian: чисти́лище n (čistílište)
• Catalan: purgatori m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 煉獄／炼狱 (zh) (liànyù)

• Czech: očistec (cs) m
• Danish: skærsild c
• Dutch: vagevuur (nl), purgatorium (nl) n
• Esperanto: purgatorio
• Estonian: puhastustuli, purgatoorium
• Finnish: kiirastuli (fi)
• French: purgatoire (fr)
• Galician: purgatorio (gl) m
• German: Fegefeuer (de) n, Fegfeuer n, (rare) Purgatorium (de)

  Alemannic German: Fëgfüür

• Greek: καθαρτήριο (el) (kathartírio)
• Hebrew: כור המצרף
• Hungarian: purgatórium (hu), tisztítótűz (hu)
• Icelandic: hreinsunareldur m
• Indonesian: api penyucian, purgatorium
• Irish: purgadóir m
• Italian: purgatorio (it) m
• Japanese: 煉獄 (ja) (れんごく, rengoku)
• Korean: 연옥(煉獄) (yeonok)
• Lithuanian: skaistykla
• Macedonian: чистилиште n (čistilište)
• Middle English: purgatorie
• Norwegian: skjærsilden, purgatoriet
• Occitan: purgatòri (oc) m
• Polish: czyściec (pl) m
• Portuguese: purgatório (pt) m
• Romanian: purgatoriu (ro) n
• Russian: чисти́лище (ru) n (čistílišče)
• Serbo-Croatian: чистилиште n, čistilište (sh) n
• Slovak: očistec m
• Slovene: vice (sl)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: cysć m

• Spanish: purgatorio (es) m
• Swedish: skärselden (sv)
• Tagalog: purgatoryo
• Turkish: araf (tr)
• Ukrainian: чисти́лище n (čystýlyšče)
• Volapük: purgator (vo)
• Welsh: purdan (cy) m