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Definition: Unknown |
UnknownAdjective1. Not known; "an unknown amount"; "an unknown island"; "an unknown writer"; "an unknown source". 2. Being or having an unknown or unnamed source; "a poem by an unknown author"; "corporations responsible to nameless owners"; "an unnamed donor". 3. Not known to exist; "things obscurely felt surged up from unsuspected depths in her"- Edith Wharton. 4. Not famous or acclaimed; "an obscure family"; "unsung heroes of the war". 5. Not known before; "used many strange words"; "saw many strange faces in the crowd"; "don't let anyone unknown into the house". Noun1. An unknown and unexplored region; "they came like angels out the unknown". 2. Anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found. 3. A variable whose values are solutions of an equation. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unknown" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Note: Unknown \Un*known"\, adjective. Not known; not apprehended. -- Un*known"ness, noun. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Biographical Satire | UNKNOWN, the man who painted thousands of pictures in art galleries. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of meeting unknown persons, foretells change for good, or bad as the person is good looking, or ugly, or deformed. To feel that you are unknown, denotes that strange things will cast a shadow of ill luck over you. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Unknown The Great Unknown. Sir Walter Scott. So called because the Waverley Novels were at first published anonymously. It was James Ballantyne who first applied the term to the unknown novelist. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Unknown (also known as Unknown Worlds) was a pulp fantasy magazine, edited by John W. Campbell, that was published from 1939 to 1943. Unknown was closely associated with the science fiction magazine Astounding Science Fiction, which was also edited by Campbell at the time; many authors and illustrators contributed to both magazines.Some of the more famous stories in Unknown were the novels Lest Darkness Fall and Divide and Rule by L. Sprague de Camp, Sinister Barrier by Eric Frank Russell, The Incomplete Enchanter and the other Harold Shea stories by de Camp and Fletcher Pratt, Darker than you Think by Jack Williamson, Conjure Wife by Fritz Leiber, and the short stories "Trouble with Water" by Horace Gold, "It" by Theodore Sturgeon, and "Smoke Ghost" and the early Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories by Leiber. Unknown also published the first science fiction or fantasy stories by Leiber ("Two Sought Adventure"), Sturgeon ("A God in a Garden"), Anthony Boucher ("Snulbug"), and James H. Schmitz ("Greenface").
In keeping with its relation to Astounding Science Fiction, the style and approach of the stories in Unknown was a hybrid between those of fantasy and science fiction. The premises of many of the stories were caused by unexpected, and often humorous, situations in which a traditional fantasy creature or concept is introduced into an otherwise ordinary world. For example, in de Camp’s "Nothing in the Rules" the manager of a swimming team tries to win a race by including a mermaid on the team. Other stories take the opposite approach of using a scientific idea in a traditional fantasy setting; the Harold Shea series is based upon the premise that traditional fantasy worlds, such as those in Norse mythology, are based upon the rules of mathematical logic. Unknown also included some science fiction, often using themes of traditional fantasy. For example, Darker than You Think uses the premise that werewolves exist, but that they are not supernatural, and explains the traditional beliefs about them without using fantasy.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Unknown magazine."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| UNK | English | Unknown | Language |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: UnknownSynonyms: nameless (adj), obscure (adj), strange (adj), unidentified (adj), unnamed (adj), unsung (adj), alien (n), stranger (n), terra incognita (n), unknown quantity (n), unknown region (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: known (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Commonalty | Plebeian, proletarian; of low parentage, of low origin, of low extraction, of mean parentage, of mean origin, of mean extraction; lowborn, baseborn, earthborn; mushroom, dunghill, risen from the ranks; unknown to fame, obscure,plebeian, proletarian; of low parentage, of low origin, of low extraction, of mean parentage, of mean origin, of mean extraction; lowborn, baseborn, earthborn; mushroom, dunghill, risen from the ranks; unknown to fame, obscure, untitled. |
Disrepute | Inglorious; nameless, renownless; obscure; unknown to fame; unnoticed, unnoted, unhonored, unglorified. |
Ignorance | Unknown, unapprehended, unexplained, unascertained, |
Unknown quanunknown quantities, x, y, z. | |
Latency Implication | Unapparent, unknown, unseen; in the background; invisible; indiscoverable, dark; impenetrable; (unintelligible); unspied, unsuspected. |
Repute | Phrase: one's name being in every mouth, one's name living for ever; sic itur ad astra, fama volat, aut Caesar aut nullus; not to know him argues oneself unknown; none but himself could be his parallel, palmam qui meruit ferat. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Unknown |
| English words defined with "unknown": unknown quantity, unknown region. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "unknown": Great Unknown ♦ Neoplasms, Unknown Primary. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "unknown": Weetless. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | My story starts at sea a perilous voyage to an unknown land a shipwreck the wild waters roar and heave the brave vessel is dashed all to pieces, and all the helpless souls within her drowned all save one a lady whose soul is greater than the ocean and her spirit stronger than the sea's embrace not for her a watery end, but a new life beginning on a stranger shore (Shakespeare in Love; writing credit: Marc Norman; Tom Stoppard) A surprising number of human beings are without purpose, though it is probable that they are performing some function unknown to themselves (Picnic at Hanging Rock; writing credit: Cliff Green) Too early seen unknown, and known too late (Romeo + Juliet; writing credit: Craig Pearce) We're both stumbling around together in this unformed world, whose rules and objectives are largely unknown, seemingly indecipherable or even possibly nonexistent, always on the verge of being killed by forces that we don't understand (eXistenZ; writing credit: David Cronenberg) Birth name, unknown. Parents, unknown (American Ninja; writing credit: Gideon Amir; Paul De Mielche) | |
Lyrics | Like a complete unknown (Like a Rolling Stone; performing artist: Bob Dylan) Return to sender, address unknown. (Return to Sender; performing artist: Elvis Presley) I'm falling down a spiral destination unknown (Twilight Zone; performing artist: Golden Earring) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Encounter with the Unknown (1973) Journey to the Unknown (1968) Spaceship to the Unknown (1966) Out of the Unknown (1965) Diagnosis: Unknown (1960) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | This shows a scientist wearing a mask. He seems to be performing a dissection, aided by magnifying glasses. There is also a close-up of the subject (subject of study is unknown). Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Anopheles earlei is found in woodland pools, bogs, marshes and along sluggish streams. The vector status of this species is unknown. Credit: CDC. |
 | L to R - Mate R. P. Bush, Mrs. Bush, Captain H. A. Cotton, Mate William Weidlich Roland Horne and unknown. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Sitting - Louis Sengteller (l) and unknown Standing - E. F. Dickins (l) and Benjamin A. Colonna (r). Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Great Blue Heron nesting area, or as it is called, a heronry. Yes, that is a person's head peering out from the tree. Why he was there is unknown. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Grave marker of an unknown on Flaxman Island. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Location unknown. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Figure 7. Old valve bottle. Although this type of water sampling bottle was first invented around 1860, unfortunately the original inventor is unknown. Such a bottle was utilized on the PORCUPINE and on the BLAKE. The bottle shown here was made by Max Marx. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Figure 8. Valve bottle assembled about 1860, inventor unknown. Left: valve bottle descending. Right: Valve bottle ascending after obtaining sample. This bottle was constructed by Max Marx. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Unknown aquatic bird, Lakeview District. Credit: Terry Spivey. |
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| "Unknown Man" by Steve Mulford Commentary: "Some strange bald bloke made of rock." | "Unknown Flower" by Warisara N. Commentary: "Unknown flower." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Author Unknown | Let them eat cake. |
| Think then act safely. | |
| Love is ultimate concern. | |
| Why worry when you can pray. | |
| Live poor so you can die rich. | |
| It's the last inch that counts. | |
| Actions speak louder than words. | |
| Know-How will surpass guess-how. | |
| Time is our greatest competitor. | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | And therefore, whatever form the common-wealth is under, the ruling power ought to govern by declared and received laws, and not by extemporary dictates and undetermined resolutions: for then mankind will be in a far worse condition than in the state of nature, if they shall have armed one, or a few men with the joint power of a multitude, to force them to obey at pleasure the exorbitant and unlimited decrees of their sudden thoughts, or unrestrained, and till that moment unknown wills, without having any measures set down which may guide and justify their actions: for all the power the government has, being only for the good of the society, as it ought not to be arbitrary and at pleasure, so it ought to be exercised by established and promulgated laws; that both the people may know their duty, and be safe and secure within the limits of the law; and the rulers too kept within their bounds, and not be tempted, by the power they have in their hands, to employ it to such purposes, and by such measures, as they would not have known, and own not willingly. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | As from November 11, 1918, the following persons are ipso facto reinstated in French nationality: (1) Persons who lost French nationality by the application of the Franco-German Treaty of May 10, 1871, and who have not since that date acquired any nationality other than German; (2) The legitimate or natural descendants of the persons referred to in the immediately preceding paragraph, with the exception of those whose ascendants in the paternal line include a German who migrated into Alsace-Lorraine after July 15, 1870; (3) All persons born in Alsace-Lorraine of unknown parents, L or whose nationality is unknown. (reference) |
Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 | The curriculum was usually rudimentary; ungraded schools were common in rural areas; the school term was but three months a year in many states; and compulsory school attendance was virtually unknown. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | Such talent as hers must not be suffered to remain unknown. |
To three puzzled little Girls | Carroll, Lewis | Three little mouths that thanked an unknown Friend, For one little book, he undertook to send |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Enough, it is my purpose to live and die unknown. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He perceived distinctly in the gloom an unknown man, a stranger, whom fate had mistaken for him, and was pushing into the gulf in his place |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | For divers unknown reasons, I beseech you, Grant me this boon |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | So that controversies, wranglings, disputes, and positiveness in false or dubious propositions, are evils unknown among the Houyhnhnms |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | I am convinced, that if all men were to live as simply as I then did, thieving and robbery would be unknown. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Its cause is unknown. (references) | |
Their cause is unknown. (references) | ||
What causes SLE is unknown. (references) | ||
Business | WAP content from leading telecom remains an unknown. (references) | |
For transactions with unknown parties, payment is usually made by irrevocable letter of credit. (references) | ||
With regard to PCS, the level of investment is very difficult to predict due to the number of unknown factors. (references) | ||
Children | Brunei | With a few exceptions involving small villages in extremely remote areas, nutritional standards are high, and poverty is almost unknown. (references) |
Moldova | An additional 5,000 children live in adoptive homes, 4,500 more live in foster homes or with legal guardians, and an unknown but large number live with one or more grandparents. (references) | |
Congo | Current literacy rates were unknown but were believed to have fallen due to the widespread destruction of schools and displacement of persons by the political instability and physical insecurity during much of the 1990's. Teenage girls sometimes exchanged sex voluntarily or under pressure for better grades. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Korea | How the DPRK authorities dealt with the seven is unknown. (references) |
Pakistan | The motive for these attacks remained unknown at year's end. (references) | |
Haiti | On June 21, unknown gunmen threatened the journalist Fritson Oreus. (references) | |
Economic History | Qatar | Current value of foreign equity: Unknown. (references) |
Barbados | Political violence is unknown in Barbados. (references) | |
Senegal | Product recalls are virtually unknown in Senegal. (references) | |
Human Rights | Mexico | His whereabouts remained unknown at year's end. (references) |
Nigeria | The extent of abuse in these conditions was unknown. (references) | |
Ethiopia | Tekeba's whereabouts remained unknown at year's end. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Colombia | Also in June, unknown persons shot and killed Alberto Sabugara Velasquez, spokesman for the Tascicogucho community of Alto Baudo, in Quibdo, Choco department. (references) |
Minorities | Bosnia and Herzegovina | When he tried to extinguish the flames, unknown assailants fired shots at him. (references) |
Yugoslavia | On April 9, unknown assailants stoned the Jehovah's Witnesses' church in Vrbas. (references) | |
Political Economy | Eritrea | Their whereabouts were unknown at year's end. (references) |
Cote D'ivoire | Whether further democratic reform will take place and be adequate to meet future challenges is unknown. (references) | |
Mozambique | The Government generally respected freedom of the press; however, unknown persons harassed some journalists during the year. (references) | |
Trade | Japan | Personal checking accounts are almost unknown in Japan. (references) |
Australia | This is a very secure form of payment and is used frequently for unknown clients, or those perceived to be risky accounts. (references) | |
Botswana | Angola and Seychelles have indicated they will accede to the trade protocol soon, but the intention of the DROC is unknown. (references) | |
Travel | Japan | Therefore, a company should consider carefully whether to grant exclusive rights to an unknown Japanese company. (references) |
Uzbekistan | Women should take the lead in greetings and in offering a handshake; traditional Uzbek women do not normally shake hands, and well-behaved men do not take the lead in greeting unknown women. (references) | |
Colombia | Never share a cab with an unknown person (including the driver's "brother, son, cousin, etc."). Taxis (unless contracted for hourly service) are required by law to use a meter, although you may have to enforce its use. (references) | |
Women | Tunisia | Instances of rape or assault by someone unknown to the victim are rare. (references) |
Czech Republic | The actual extent of violence against women is unknown; however, some studies by experts indicate that it is more common than publicly acknowledged. (references) | |
Israel and the occupied territories | NGO's report that an unknown number, possibly between 100 and 200, of the nation's prostitutes are under the age of 18. Trafficking in women has become a significant problem in recent years. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Kyrgyz Republic | The exact number of those in transit is unknown. (references) |
China | Antiunion activity is virtually unknown in the state-owned sector. (references) | |
Marshall Islands | The eventual destination and fates of undocumented alien residents and prostitutes are unknown. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or cannot be commemorated. The bones of Agammemnon are a show, And ruined is his royal monument, but Agammemnon's fame suffers no diminution in consequence. The monument custom has its reductiones ad absurdum in monuments "to the unknown dead" -- that is to say, monuments to perpetuate the memory of those who have left no memory. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | The event of the measure is yet unknown to me. |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | But with us a second is necessary, unknown to history. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | To better their condition in an unknown land our forefathers left all that was dear in earthly objects. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Opportunities and jobs will multiply as we cross new thresholds of knowledge and reach deeper into the unknown. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | If the Iraqi regime wishes peace, it will release or account for all Gulf War personnel whose fate is still unknown. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Unknown" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unknown" is used about 4,328 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 4,328 | 2,280 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "unknown". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Nimrod | N/A | Biblical | Rebellion (but probably an unknown Assyrian word) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "unknown": a voyage into the unknown ♦ be unknown to smb. ♦ being unknown ♦ cancer of unknown primary origin ♦ Fever of Unknown Origin ♦ it is unknown ♦ name unknown ♦ of unknown authorship ♦ of unknown parentage ♦ the unknown soldier's memorial ♦ unknown agency ♦ unknown artist ♦ unknown flying object ♦ unknown lands ♦ unknown person ♦ unknown quantities ♦ unknown quantity ♦ unknown reason ♦ unknown region ♦ unknown soldier ♦ unknown territory ♦ unknown to ♦ unknown to fame ♦ unknown to me ♦ unknown warrior. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "unknown": ex-unknown, hitherto-unknown, known-unknown, not-unknown, still-unknown, then-unknown, virtually-unknown. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "unknown"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i panjohur (irrecognizable, nameless, new, obscure, sealed, unacquainted, unbeknown, uncelebrated, unco, uncos, unfamiliar, unheard, unknown person, unrecognized). (various references) | |
Arabic | مجهول (anonymous, byway, indefinite, indiscernible, nameless, obscure, unbeknown, uncharted, unheard of, unnamed), غير معروف (obscure, outsider, strange, unbeknown), المجهول (impersonality, thingummy), شخص مجهول (anonym). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | непознат (incognizant, new, strange, stranger, unbeknown, unbeknownst, unfamiliar, unrecognized, unseen), неизвестно, неизвестен (nameless, obscure, recondite, strange, suspensive, unbeknown, uncouth, undiscovered, unfamiliar, unidentified, unnoted). (various references) | |
Chinese | 未知 . (various references) | |
Czech | záhadný (baffling, cryptic, enigmatic, inexplicable, mysterious, occult), neznámo, neznámý (nameless, strange, unbeknown, uncertain, unfamiliar), neznámé, neznámá. (various references) | |
Danish | uoplyst (not stated), ukendt, ubekendte. (various references) | |
Dutch | onbekend (obscure). (various references) | |
Esperanto | nekonata. (various references) | |
Farsi | مجهول (Secret, Unbeknown, Unbeknownst), نامعلوم (Conditional, Equivocal, Hazy, Incalculable, Inconspicuous, Indescribable, Indistinct, Invisible, Pendant, Uncertain, Uncharted, Unlimited), ناشناس (Incognito, Strange, Unco), ناشناخته (Unfamiliar, Unfamiliarity), گمنام (Inglorious, Obscure, Scrubby), بی شهرت . (various references) | |
Finnish | tuntematon (strange, unfamiliar). (various references) | |
French | inconnu (unbeknown, undetermined, undiscovered, unfamiliar), ignoré (unheeded, unrecognized). (various references) | |
German | Unbekannte (stranger, strangers, unavowedly, unbeknownst, unknown quantity), unbekannt (anonymous, fameless, foreign, nameless, nonfamous, obscure, unacquainted, unavowed, unbeknown, unbeknownly, undistinguished, unfamiliar, unheard, unidentified, unknowns). (various references) | |
Greek | άγνωστοσ (stranger, unbeknown, unfamiliar, unheard, unidentified), άγνωστος (undisclosed), απροσδιόριστος (not stated). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לא ידוע (unbeknown), עלום (hidden, hiding, secret), אלמוני (anon., anonymous, nameless), בלתי מוכר, נעלם (concealed, hidden), נכרי (foreign). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ismeretlen (anon, anonymous, faceless, faraway, incognito, it is unknown, little known, nameless, obscure, occult, unacquainted, unbeknown, unco, unfamiliar, unheard of, unheard-of, unidentified). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tak dikenal (nameless, unacquainted, unrecognized). (various references) | |
Italian | sconosciuto (obscure, strange, stranger, unbeknownst, unfamiliar, unidentified). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 未詳 (unidentified). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | なもない (insignificant, obscure), しらない (strange), ふしょう (disagreement, disapproval, disgraceful, dissent, ill-omened, inauspicious, incompetent, injury, my humble self, my unworthy self, objection, ominous, refusal, scandalous, unidentified, wound, your humble servant), ふめい (ambiguous, anonymous, ignorant, indistinct, lack of wisdom, obscure, uncertain, unidentified), みしらぬ (strange, unacquainted), みしょう (plant raised from the seed, seedling, unidentified), みけん (area between the eyebrows, brow, glabella, middle forehead, unacquainted). (various references) | |
Korean | 불명한. (various references) | |
Papiamen | deskonosí. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ownunknay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | desconhecido (anonym, nameless, strange, stranger, uncharted, unexplored, unfamiliar, unheard, unheard-of, unnoted, unrecognized). (various references) | |
Romanian | strãin (alien, another's, extraneous, foreign, foreigner, guest, heterogeneous, outlandish, outsider, oversea, peregrine, strange, stranger, visitor), obscur (abstruse, cloudy, confused, dark, darksome, dim, dull, entangled, foggy, gloomy, indistinct, murk, obscure, obscurely, recondite, tenebrous, unnoticed), nestrãbãtut (inviolate), necunoscutã, necunoscut (nameless, obscure, out of the way, strange, stranger, unfamiliar), neştiut (hidden, obscure, out of the way, secret, strange). (various references) | |
Russian | неизвестный (nameless, obscure, unbeknown, undisclosed, unheard, unknown person), безвестный (noteless). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | neznan (unbeknown), nepoznata, nepoznat (inconversant, obscure, strange, unaccustomed, unacquainted, unbeknown, unfamiliar). (various references) | |
Spanish | desconocido (all-time, confidential, fameless, inglorious, new-come, newcomer, outsider, strange, stranger, unbeknown, unbeknownst, unfamiliar, unidentified, unknowable, unnamed), incógnita (unknown quantity, x). (various references) | |
Swedish | okänd (inglorious, unfamiliar, unrecognized), obekant (obscure, stranger, unaccustomed, unacquainted, unfamiliar). (various references) | |
Turkish | yabancı (alien, exotic, foreign, foreigner, gook, gringo, outlandish, outsider, peregrine, strange, stranger, tramontane, unfamiliar, xeno), bilinmez (occult, problem, puzzlement, puzzler, question, recondite), bilinmeyen (mysterious, mystery, obscure, occult, recondite, secret, strange, unbeknown, unbeknownst, unknown quantity, x). (various references) | |
Turkmen | nдtanyю, nдmдlim, nдbelli, nдbelet (unfamiliar), bilmezden. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | невідоме, невідомий (fameless, inglorious, nameless, noteless, obscure, unbeknown, unheard), незвіданий, незнайомець (stranger). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | lạ chưa có tiếng; vô danh, không biết (incognizant, unaware, unfamiliar), chưa từng ai biết. (various references) | |
Welsh | anhysbys (anonymous, unversed), anadnabyddus (strange). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | agnostos. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | absconsa, absconsae, absconsas, absconse, absconsis, ignobiles, ignobilia, ignobiliora, ignobilis, ignobilium, ignotae, ignotas, ignoti, ignoto, ignotos, ignotus, incognita, incognitus, incompertus. (various references) |
| Italian | 900-Modern | incognito. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 17, Verse 23 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | DiercomenoV gar kai anaqewrwn ta sebasmata umwn euron kai bwmon en w epegegrapto agnwstw qew on oun agnoounteV eusebeite touton egw kataggellw umin |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Praeteriens enim et videns simulacra vestra inveni et aram in qua scriptum erat ignoto deo quod ergo ignorantes colitis hoc ego adnuntio vobis |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | For Y passide, and siy youre maumetis, and foond an auter, in which was writun, To the vnknowun God. Therfor which thing ye vnknowynge worschipen, this thing Y schew to you. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | For as I passed by and behelde the maner how ye worship youre goddes I founde an aultre wher in was written: vnto ye vnknowen god. Whom ye then ignoratly worship him shewe I vnto you. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I to you. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | For when I came by, I was looking at the things to which you give worship, and I saw an altar with this writing on it, TO THE GOD OF WHOM THERE IS NO KNOWLEDGE. Now, what you, without knowledge, give worship to, I make clear to you. |
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| Language | Acts Chapter 17, Verse 23 |
| Albanian | Sepse, duke ecur e duke vënë re objektet e kultit tuaj, gjeta edhe një altar mbi të cilin është shkruar: "PERÉNDISÉ SÉ PANJOHUR". Atë, pra, që ju e adhuroni pa e njohur, unë po jua shpall. |
| Cebuano | Kay sa naglakaw ako sa kadalanan ug naniid sa inyong mga ginasimba, nakita ko gani usab ang usa ka halaran nga diha niini gikasulat kining mga pulonga, `Alang sa dios nga wala hiilhi.` Kining inyong ginasimba nga wala ninyo hiilhi, nan, kini mao ang akong ginamantala kaninyo. |
| Croatian | Doista, prolazeæi i promatrajuæi vaše svetinje naðoh i žrtvenik s natpisom: Nepoznatom Bogu. Što dakle ne poznajete, a štujete, to vam ja navješæujem." |
| Danish | Thi da jeg gik omkring og betragtede eders Helligdommen, fandt jeg også et Alter, på hvilket der var skrevet: ""For en ukendt Gud."" Det, som I således dyrke uden at kende det, det forkynder jeg eder. |
| Dutch | Want de stad doorgaande, en aanschouwende uw heiligdommen, heb ik ook een altaar gevonden, op hetwelk een opschrift stond: DEN ONBEKENDEN GOD. Dezen dan, Dien gij niet kennende dient, verkondig ik ulieden. |
| Finnish | Sillä kävellessäni ympäri ja katsellessani teidän pyhiä paikkojanne minä löysin myös alttarin, johon oli kirjoitettu: `Tuntemattomalle jumalalle`. Mitä te siis tuntemattanne palvelette, sen minä teille ilmoitan. |
| French | Car, en parcourant votre ville et en considérant les objets de votre dévotion, j`ai même découvert un autel avec cette inscription: A un dieu inconnu! Ce que vous révérez sans le connaître, c`est ce que je vous annonce. |
| German | Ich bin herdurchgegangen und habe gesehen eure Gottesdienste und fand einen Altar, darauf war geschrieben: Dem unbekannten Gott. Nun verkündige ich euch denselben, dem ihr unwissend Gottesdienst tut. |
| Haitian Creole | Mwen di nou sa, paske, antan m'ap pwonmennen nan lavil nou an, mwen wè tout kote nou fè sèvis. Epi nan gade konsa, mwen jwenn yon lotèl kote yo ekri: Pou Bondye nou pa konnen an. Enben, Bondye n'ap sèvi san nou pa konnen l' lan, se li menm m'ap fè nou konnen la a. |
| Hungarian | Mert mikor bejárám és szemlélém a ti szentélyeiteket, találkozám egy oltárral is, melyre ez vala ráírva: Ismeretlen Istennek. A kit azért ti nem ismerve tiszteltek, azt hirdetem én néktek. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Sebab ketika saya berjalan-jalan di sekeliling kotamu dan memperhatikan tempat-tempat sembahyangmu, saya melihat juga satu tempat mempersembahkan kurban; di tempat itu tertulis, 'Kepada Allah Yang Tidak Dikenal.' Nah, Allah yang kalian sembah tetapi tidak mengenal-Nya, Dialah yang saya beritakan kepadamu. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Karena tatkala aku berjalan-jalan sambil memperhatikan segala barang yang kamu sembah, maka aku jumpa juga suatu tempat korban yang tertulis demikian: Kepada Tuhan yang tiada dikenal. Sebab itu barang yang kamu sembah dengan tiada kenal, itulah hendak aku ini nyatakan kepada kamu. |
| Italian | Passando infatti e osservando i monumenti del vostro culto, ho trovato anche un'ara con l'iscrizione: Al Dio ignoto. Quello che voi adorate senza conoscere, io ve lo annunzio. |
| Latvian | Jo es, apstaigâdams un aplûkodams jûsu dievekïus, atradu arî altâri, uz kura bija rakstîts: "Nepazîstamajam Dievam". Ko jûs nepazîdami godinâjat, to es jums sludinu. |
| Maori | I ahau hoki e haereere ana, e matakitaki ana i nga mea e karakia nei koutou, ka kite ahau i tetahi aata i tuhia nei i runga, KI TE ATUA NGARO. Heoi ko ta koutou e karakia kuware nei, ko ia taku e whakaatu nei ki a koutou. |
| Norwegian | For da jeg gikk omkring og så på eders helligdommer, fant jeg også et alter som det var satt den innskrift på: For en ukjent Gud. Det som I altså dyrker uten å kjenne det, dette forkynner jeg eder. |
| Rumanian | Cqci, pe cknd strqbqteam cetatea voastrq wi mq uitam de aproape la lucrurile la cari vq knchinayi voi, am descoperit chiar wi un altar, pe care este scris: ,Unui Dumnezeu necunoscut!` Ei bine, ceeace voi cinstiyi, fqrq sq cunoawteyi, aceea vq vestesc eu. |
| Shuar | Kame wi nuik Atumí yusri Enentáimtutainiam iistaj tukaman nui jeachin iwiaramun, JU NEKAACHMA YUSNAITI, tu aarman Wáinkiamjai. Wátsek, ju Yus átum nékachiatrum tikishmatrumna nuna ujaktajrume' Tímiai. |
| Swahili | Sababu yenyewe ni kwamba katika pitapita yangu niliangalia sanamu zenu za ibada nikakuta madhabahu moja ambayo imeandikwa: `Kwa ajili ya Mungu yule Asiyejulikana.` Basi, huyo mnayemwabudu bila kujua, ndiye ninayemhubiri kwenu. |
