rest in peace

English

Etymology

Calque of Latin requiescat in pace.

Verb

rest in peace (third-person singular simple present rests in peace, present participle resting in peace, simple past and past participle rested in peace)

1. A blessing or expression of hope that a deceased person is at peace.

   May the souls of the recently departed rest in peace.

2. (euphemistic) To have passed away, or died.

Derived terms

• rest in pieces

Translations

blessing or expression of hope

• Arabic: اُرْقُد فِي سَلَام‎ (urqud fī salām)
• Bengali: শন্তিতে থাক (śôntite thak)
• Bulgarian: почивай в мир (počivaj v mir)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 安息 (on¹ sik¹)

  Mandarin: 安息 (zh) (ānxī)

• Dutch: rust in vrede
• Esperanto: ripozu pace
• Finnish: levätä rauhassa
• French: repose en paix (fr)
• Galician: descanse en paz
• German: Ruhe in Frieden
• Greek: αναπαύσου εν ειρήνη (el) (anapáfsou en eiríni)
• Hebrew: עליו השלום‎ (alav hashalom)
• Hindi: शांति से आराम करना (śānti se ārām karnā)

• Hungarian: nyugodjék békében
• Irish: ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam m, ar dheis Dé go raibh a hanam f
• Italian: riposi in pace
• Japanese: 安らかに眠れ (やすらかにねむれ, yasuraka ni nemure)
• Korean: 편히 쉬라 (pyeonhi swira)
• Latin: requiescat in pace
• Navajo: háá nilyį́į́h
• Polish: spoczywaj w pokoju
• Portuguese: descanse em paz
• Russian: пусть земля́ бу́дет пу́хом (pustʹ zemljá búdet púxom), ца́рство ему́ небе́сное (cárstvo jemú nebésnoje) (to a man), ца́рство ей небе́сное (cárstvo jej nebésnoje) (to a woman), мир пра́ху его́ (mir práxu jevó) (to a man), мир пра́ху её (mir práxu jejó) (to a woman), покойся с миром (pokojsja s mirom)
• Serbo-Croatian: počivaj u miru
• Spanish: descanse en paz, que en paz descanse
• Swedish: vila i frid (sv)
• Turkish: huzur içinde yatsın
• Urdu: اللہ بخشے‎ (allāh baxśe)
• Vietnamese: yên nghỉ (vi)

have passed away

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 去世 (zh) (qùshì)

• Finnish: levätä rauhassa

See also

• RIP
• sit tibi terra levis
• Thesaurus:dead