occult

WOTD – 14 January 2010    

English

Etymology

From Latin occultō (“hide, keep secret”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈɒk.ʌlt/, /əˈkʌlt/
• (US) IPA: /əˈkʌlt/
• Rhymes: -ʌlt

Verb

occult (third-person singular simple present occults, present participle occulting, simple past and past participle occulted)

1. (transitive, astronomy) To cover or hide from view.

   The earth occults the moon during a lunar eclipse.

2. (transitive, rare) To dissimulate, conceal, or obfuscate.

Translations

to cover

• Catalan: ocultar (ca), amagar (ca)
• Dutch: verduisteren (nl), bedekken (nl)
• Finnish: pimentää (fi)
• French: occulter (fr)

• Ido: okultacar (io)
• Italian: occultare (it)
• Norwegian: okkultere (no)
• Russian: скрывать (ru) (skryvátʹ), заслонять (ru) (zaslonjátʹ)

Adjective

occult (comparative more occult, superlative most occult)

1. (medicine) Secret; hidden from general knowledge; undetected

   occult blood loss; occult cancer

2. Related to the occult; pertaining to mysticism, magic, or astrology.
3. Esoteric.

Translations

secret; hidden from general knowledge; undetected

• Armenian: ծածուկ (hy) (çaçuk), գաղտնի (hy) (gaġtni), թաքուն (hy) (t’ak’un), խորհրդավոր (hy) (xorhrdavor)
• Catalan: ocult (ca), amagat (ca)
• Dutch: verborgen (nl), latent (nl)
• Finnish: piilevä (fi), salainen (fi)
• German: okkult (de)

• Italian: latente (it)
• Norwegian: okkult (no), skjult (no)
• Persian: (literally) نهان (fa) (nahan), (formally) پنهان (fa) (penhan), (usual) مخفي (fa) (makhfi)
• Russian: скрытый (ru) (skrýtyj), тайный (ru) (tájnyj)

related to the occult

• Catalan: ocult (ca)
• Danish: okkult (da)
• Dutch: occult (nl)
• Finnish: yliluonnollinen (fi), salattu (fi)
• French: occulte (fr)
• German: okkult (de)

• Hungarian: okkult (hu)
• Ido: okulta (io)
• Italian: occulto (it) m
• Norwegian: okkult (no)
• Persian: رازآميز (fa) (raz-amiz)
• Russian: оккультный (ru) (okkúlʹtnyj)

esoteric

• Catalan: ocult (ca)
• Danish: esoterisk (da), okkult (da)

• Finnish: esoteerinen (fi)

Noun

occult (uncountable)

1. (usually with the) Supernatural affairs.

Translations

supernatural affairs

• Afrikaans: okkultisme (af)
• Albanian: okultizmi (sq)
• Arabic: تنجيمية (ar) (tanjimíyya) f
• Bulgarian: окултизъм (bg) (okultízǎm) m
• Catalan: ocultisme (ca), ocult (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 神秘學 (cmn), 神秘学 (cmn) (shénmìxué)

• Danish: okkultisme (da)
• Dutch: occulte (nl) n, occultisme (nl) n
• Esperanto: okultismo (eo)
• Estonian: okultism (et)
• Finnish: yliluonnollinen (fi)
• French: occulte (fr) m and f, occultisme (fr) m
• Galician: ocultismo (gl)
• German: Okkult (de) m, Okkultismus (de) m
• Hebrew: אוקולטיזם (he)
• Hungarian: okkult (hu)
• Indonesian: okultisme (id)

• Italian: occulto (it) m, occultismo (it)
• Japanese: オカルト (ja) (okaruto), 超自然現象 (ja) (ちょうしぜんげんしょう, chōshizen genshō)
• Korean: 오컬트 (ko) (okeolteu)
• Lithuanian: okultizmas (lt)
• Macedonian: окултизам (mk) (okultízam) m
• Polish: okultyzm (pl) m
• Portuguese: oculto (pt), ocultismo (pt)
• Russian: оккультизм (ru) (okkulʹtízm) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: окултизам (sh) m

  Roman: okultizam (sh) m

• Sinhalese: ගුප්තශාස්ත්‍ර (si) (guptaśāst‍ra)
• Slovak: okultizmus (sk) m
• Spanish: oculto (es) m, ocultismo (es)
• Swedish: ockult (sv), ockultism (sv)
• Thai: สิ่งลึกลับ (th)
• Turkish: okültizm (tr)
• Welsh: yr Ocwlt (cy)

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Translations to be checked

• Persian: مستترکردن (fa)

Related terms

• occultation