Hades

See also: hades and Hadès

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ᾍδης (Hā́idēs).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈheɪdiːz/
• (Ireland) IPA^(key): /ˈheɪdiːz/, /ˈhadiːz/
• Rhymes: -eɪdiːz

Proper noun

(sense 1) Statute of Hades with Cerberus

Hades

2. (Greek mythology) The god of the underworld and ruler of the dead, son of Cronus and Rhea, brother of Zeus and Poseidon.
3. (Greek mythology) The underworld, the domain of Hades, by transference from its god.
4. In the Septuagint Bible, the Greek translation of Sheol.
5. Hell.
   1. (specifically, chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy) Hell as a waiting place for damned souls before the Last Judgement, after which they may be cast in Gehenna.

Translations

from Greek mythology

• Albanian: Hadi
• Arabic: هَادِيس (hādīs)

  Egyptian Arabic: هيدز

• Armenian: Հադես (Hades)
• Asturian: Hades m
• Azerbaijani: Aid
• Belarusian: Аід m (Aid), Га́дэс m (Hádes)
• Bengali: হেডিস (heḍiś), হাদেস (hades)
• Breton: Haides
• Bulgarian: Хадес (Hades)
• Burmese: ဟေးဒီးစ် (he:dic:)
• Catalan: Hades m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 哈帝斯

  Mandarin: 哈迪斯 (Hādísī)

• Coptic: Ⲁⲙⲉⲛϯ (Amenti)
• Czech: Hádes (cs) m
• Dutch: Hades (nl) m
• Esperanto: Hadeso, Aido
• Etruscan: 𐌀𐌉𐌕𐌀 (aita)
• Finnish: Haades (fi)
• French: Hadès (fr) m
• Galician: Hades (gl) m
• Georgian: ჰადესი (ka) (hadesi)
• German: Hades (de) m
• Greek: Άδης (el) m (Ádis), Τάρταρα (el) n pl (Tártara)

  Ancient: ᾍδης m (Hā́idēs)

• Hebrew: האדס
• Hindi: हेडीस (heḍīs)
• Hungarian: Hádész
• Irish: Háidéas m
• Italian: Ade (it) m
• Japanese: ハーデース (Hādēsu)
• Kazakh: Аид m (Aid)
• Korean: 하데스 (ko) (Hadeseu)
• Latvian: Aīds
• Lithuanian: Hadas
• Macedonian: Ад (mk) m (Ad)
• Malayalam: ഹേഡിസ് (hēḍisŭ)
• Marathi: हेडीस (heḍīs)
• Mazanderani: هادس
• Occitan: Ades
• Persian: هادس (hâdes)
• Polish: Hades (pl) m
• Portuguese: Hades (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਹੇਡੀਸ (heḍīs)
• Russian: Аи́д (ru) m (Aíd), Га́дес (ru) m (Gádɛs)
• Serbo-Croatian: Had m
• Slovak: Hádes
• Slovene: Had (sl)
• Spanish: Hades (es) m
• Swahili: Hade, Hadesi
• Swedish: Hades (sv) c
• Tamil: ஏடிசு (ēṭicu)
• Tatar: Aid
• Thai: เฮดีส
• Turkish: Hades, Tartaros
• Ukrainian: Аїд (Ajid), Аїдоней (Ajidonej), Гадес (Hades)
• Uzbek: Aid
• Veps: Aid

the underworld, the domain of Hades

• Asturian: Hades m
• Catalan: Hades m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 冥府 (zh) (Míngfǔ)

• Galician: Hades (gl) m
• German: Hades (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: ᾍδης m (Hā́idēs)

• Irish: Háidéas m
• Japanese: 冥土 (ja) (meido), 冥界 (ja) (meikai)
• Polish: Hades (pl) m
• Portuguese: Hades (pt) m
• Spanish: Hades (es) m
• Swedish: Hades (sv) ?
• Turkish: Hades

the Greek translation of Sheol

• Dutch: hel (nl) f
• French: Hadès (fr) m
• German: Hades (de) m
• Greek: Άδης (el) m (Ádis)

  Ancient: ᾍδης m (Hā́idēs)

• Italian: Ade (it) m
• Macedonian: Ад (mk) m (Ad)
• Russian: Аи́д (ru) m (Aíd), Га́дес (ru) m (Gádɛs)
• Swahili: kuzimu (sw)

hell

• Bashkir: тамуҡ (tamuq), йәһәннәм (yəhənnəm)
• Bulgarian: ад (bg) m (ad)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 地獄／地狱 (zh) (dìyù), 地府 (zh) (dìfǔ), 陰間／阴间 (zh) (yīnjiān), 閻王／阎王 (zh) (yánwáng)

• Finnish: tuonela (fi)
• Greek: κόλαση (el) f (kólasi)

  Ancient: ᾍδης (Hā́idēs)

• Italian: Ade (it) m
• Japanese: 黄泉 (ja) (よも, yomo, よみ, yomi, こうせん, kōsen), 地獄 (ja) (じごく, jigoku)
• Korean: 지옥(地獄) (ko) (jiok)
• Latin: Tartarus (la) m
• Macedonian: ад (mk) (ad)
• Mongolian: ад (mn) (ad)
• Portuguese: Tártaro (pt) m
• Russian: ад (ru) m (ad), преиспо́дняя (ru) f (preispódnjaja), тот свет (ru) m (tot svet)
• Turkish: hades (tr), tartaros, tamu (tr), cehennem (tr)

See also

• Gehenna (from Ancient Greek: γέεννα (géenna))
• Hell
• Pluto
• Tartarus (from Ancient Greek: Τάρταρος (Tártaros))
• (Greek mythology Olympian gods) god; Apollo, Aphrodite, Ares, Artemis, Athena, Demeter, Dionysus, Hades, Hephaestus, Hera, Hestia, Hermes, Poseidon, Zeus

Anagrams

• Da'esh, Daesh, Desha, Shade, Shead, ashed, deash, heads, sadhe, shade

Asturian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ᾍδης (Hā́idēs).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈades/, [ˈa.ð̞es]

Proper noun

Hades m

1. (Greek mythology) Hades (god)
2. (Greek mythology) Hades (underworld)

Catalan

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ᾍδης (Hā́idēs).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈa.ðəs]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈa.ðes]

Proper noun

Hades m

1. (Greek mythology) Hades (god)
2. (Greek mythology) Hades (underworld)

Galician

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ᾍδης (Hā́idēs).

Proper noun

Hades m

1. (Greek mythology) Hades (god)
2. (Greek mythology) Hades (underworld)

German

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Hades m

1. (Greek mythology) Hades (god)
2. (Greek mythology) Hades (underworld)

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ᾍδης (Hā́idēs).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxa.dɛs/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -adɛs
• Syllabification: Ha‧des

Proper noun

Hades m pers

1. (Greek mythology) Hades (god)

Declension

Declension of Hades

	singular
nominative	Hades
genitive	Hadesa
dative	Hadesowi
accusative	Hadesa
instrumental	Hadesem
locative	Hadesie
vocative	Hadesie

Proper noun

Hades m inan

1. (Greek mythology) Hades (underworld)

Declension

Declension of Hades

	singular
nominative	Hades
genitive	Hadesu
dative	Hadesowi
accusative	Hades
instrumental	Hadesem
locative	Hadesie
vocative	Hadesie

Further reading

• Hades in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Hades, from Ancient Greek ᾍδης (Hā́idēs).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈa.d͡ʒis/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈa.d͡ʒis/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈa.d͡ʒiʃ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈa.des/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈa.dɨʃ/ [ˈa.ðɨʃ]

• Hyphenation: Ha‧des

Proper noun

Hades m

1. (Greek mythology) Hades (god of the underworld)
2. (Greek mythology) Hades (the underworld, the domain of Hades)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ᾍδης (Hā́idēs).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈades/ [ˈa.ð̞es]
• Rhymes: -ades
• Syllabification: Ha‧des

Proper noun

Hades m

1. (Greek mythology) Hades (god)
2. (Greek mythology) Hades (underworld)

Turkish

Proper noun

Hades

1. (Greek mythology) Hades