Etymology
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From Middle English ashamed, aschamed, from Old English āsċeamod, past participle of Old English āsċeamian (“to be ashamed”), equivalent to a- + shame + -ed.
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ashamed (comparative more ashamed, superlative most ashamed)
- Feeling shame or guilt.
1560, [William Whittingham et al., transl.], The Bible and Holy Scriptures Conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament. […] (the Geneva Bible), Geneva: […] Rouland Hall, →OCLC, Isaiah XLII:17, folio 298, verso:They ſhal be turned backe : they ſhal be greatly aſhamed, that truſt in grauẽ images, and ſay to the molten images, Ye are our gods.
1618, John Fletcher, “The Loyal Subject”, in Fifty Comedies and Tragedies, London: J. Macock, published 1679, act V, scene vi, page 279:Good Sir pardon me, / I feel ſufficiently my follies penance, / And am aſham’d, that ſhame a thouſand ſorrows / Feed on continually, would I had never ſeen her, / Or with a clearer judgement look’d upon her, / She was too good for me, ſo heavenly good Sir, / Nothing but Heaven can love that ſoul ſufficiently, / Where I ſhall ſee her once again.
1859, Horace Mann, Address at Antioch College:Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
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feeling shame or guilt
- Arabic: خَجْلَان m (ḵajlān), خَجُول m (ḵajūl)
- Egyptian Arabic: مكسوف m (maksūf)
- South Levantine Arabic: خجلان (ḵajlān)
- Belarusian: прысаро́млены (prysarómljeny)
- Breton: mezhek (br)
- Bulgarian: засрамен (bg) (zasramen)
- Catalan: avergonyit (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 慚愧/惭愧 (zh) (cánkuì), 羞愧 (zh) (xiūkuì)
- Czech: zahanbený
- Danish: skamfuld
- Dutch: beschaamd (nl)
- Esperanto: hontema
- Finnish: häpeissään, nolostunut (fi)
- French: honteux (fr)
- Georgian: შერცხვენილი (šercxvenili), დარცხვენილი (darcxvenili)
- German: beschämt (de)
- Greek: αισχρός (el) (aischrós), επονείδιστος (el) (eponeídistos)
- Ancient: αἰσχῡ́νομαι (aiskhū́nomai) (be ashamed), αἰδέομαι (aidéomai) (be ashamed)
- Hindi: शर्मिंदा (śarmindā)
- Hungarian: szégyell (hu), szégyenkezik (hu) (both: ’be ashamed’)
- Ido: shamanta (io)
- Irish: náirithe; náire a bheith ort (to be ashamed)
- Japanese: 恥ずかしい (ja) (はずかしい, hazukashii)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: şermezar (ku), rûreş (ku)
- Latin: pudefactus
- Maori: aniu, aniu
- Navajo: baa yánízin
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: skamfull (no)
- Nynorsk: skamfull
- Ottoman Turkish: محجوب (mahcub)
- Persian: خجالتزده (xejâlat-zade), سرافکنده (fa) (sar-afkande), شرمنده (fa) (šarmande)
- Polish: zawstydzony (pl)
- Portuguese: envergonhado (pt), avergonhado (pt)
- Romanian: rușinat (ro) m
- Russian: присты́женный (ru) (pristýžennyj), (e.g. мне (mne)) сты́дно (ru) (stýdno), (e.g. мне (mne)) со́вестно (ru) (sóvestno)
- Serbo-Croatian: pòsrāmljen (sh), pòstīđen (sh)
- Spanish: avergonzado (es), abochornado (es), apenado (es)
- Swedish: skamsen (sv)
- Tetum: moe
- Ukrainian: присоро́млений (prysorómlenyj)
- Winnebago: hirošik
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ashamed
- simple past and past participle of ashame
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