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evil

Spanish translation: malvado

07:39 Jun 14, 2002
English to Spanish translations [Non-PRO]
/ evil
English term or phrase: evil
evil
me
Spanish translation:malvado
Explanation:
Good luck. But this you may find in any dictionary...
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Leonardo Parachú
Local time: 18:33
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Summary of answers provided
4 +6malvado
Leonardo Parachú
4 +4Malo/a
Serge L
4 +3"adj. malo, pernicioso; (person) malo, malvado perverso"
Сергей Лузан
4 +3malvado / maligno
jerrie
5diabolico
Maria-Jose Pastor
4malo (adj.), maldad (subst.)
Mirelluk
4mal
Maria Asis
4NOT AN ANSWER
Leo van Zanten


  

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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +6
malvado


Explanation:
Good luck. But this you may find in any dictionary...

Leonardo Parachú
Local time: 18:33
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in pair: 688
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Adriana Barrós Tomé: Or maldad if it is a noun.
6 hrs
  -> ty barrosto
agree  Gedece: cool, and right
7 hrs
  -> ty gedece
agree  Maria Asis
7 hrs
  -> ty Maria
agree  Сергей Лузан: Not complete enough, I presume. See answers below.
7 hrs
  -> ty Sergey
agree  ritchi
15 hrs
  -> ty ritchi
agree  Marta Ruiz
1 day 5 hrs
  -> ty Medea
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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
Malo/a


Explanation:
"evil
1 (adj)
(person, deed, reputation) malo/a; malvado/a;
(smell) horrible;
(spirit, spell, influence etc) perverso/a; malvado;
(unhappy; hour, times) funesto/a;
(harmful;effect) nocivo/a;
to put the ~ eye on sb echar el mal de ojo a algn;
2 (n) mal m; maldad f;
the lesser of two ~s el menor de dos males;"
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HTH,

Serge L.


    Reference: http://www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword=evi...
Serge L
Local time: 23:33
PRO pts in pair: 155

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Сергей Лузан: Totalmente. (Ru-Belg - 1:2) Congratulaciones. Mi respuesta est'a abajo.
21 mins
  -> Thanks Sergei! 1:3 at this moment, ...
agree  VERTERE
1 hr
  -> Gracias
agree  Andrea Bullrich
5 hrs
agree  LoreAC (X)
10 hrs
  -> Thank you all!
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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
malo (adj.), maldad (subst.)


Explanation:
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Mirelluk
United Kingdom
Local time: 22:33
Native speaker of: Native in ItalianItalian
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35 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
"adj. malo, pernicioso; (person) malo, malvado perverso"


Explanation:
(unlucky) aciago; (influence) funesto; (smell) horrible; evil eye aojo, aml de ojo; evil spirit esp'iritu maligno; he had his evil way with her - se ha llev'o al huerto, la sedujo.
Re.: & continuation see below

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Note added at 2002-06-14 08:26:19 (GMT)
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2:3 now (irrelevant to the answer).
2. noun mal masc, maldad fem; the lesser of two evils - el menor de dos males; to do evil - hacer mal: to speak evil of hablar mal de.
Re.: 3rd edition of Collins Spanish Dictionary, ISBN 0-00-470-295-6
2:3 final result (irrelevant to the answer) Congratulations anyway.

Сергей Лузан
Russian Federation
Local time: 00:33
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian
PRO pts in pair: 521

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Angela C.
7 hrs
  -> Thanx a lot. Mil gracias. Besten Dank auch.
agree  elenali: funesto, pernicioso
17 hrs
  -> Gracias. Thanx for valuable supplementation..
agree  Marta Ruiz
1 day 4 hrs
  -> Gracias y thanx.
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59 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
malvado / maligno


Explanation:
malvado (person)
maligno (plan, spirit)

hth

jerrie
United Kingdom
Local time: 22:33
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in pair: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Сергей Лузан: Sure, but not as complete as it might be. See my answer above & Serge L.'s.
7 hrs
  -> OK...didn't see your 'maligno'...buried in text!
agree  Edwal Rospigliosi
14 hrs
  -> Thanks
agree  Marta Ruiz
1 day 4 hrs
  -> Thanks
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
diabolico


Explanation:
with accent on the first o.

Diabolico is excessively bad, as is evil.

Maria-Jose Pastor
Local time: 17:33
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in pair: 305

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Сергей Лузан: One of diab'olico options might be evil, but not necessarily vice versa (a la inversa).
4 hrs
  -> depends on the degree of evilness, as we have no further context it is an option. Thank you for your comment
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8 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
mal


Explanation:
If it's considered a noun and not an adjective: Él es el mal (I'm sorry but I would need a context).

Hope it helps!

Ma. José

Maria Asis
Spain
Local time: 23:33
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish, Native in CatalanCatalan
PRO pts in pair: 36
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13 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
NOT AN ANSWER


Explanation:
Is this the new way of introducing oneself? ME? It gets more funny every day.
I just love fridays at Proz.
Good luck, Cristina

Leo van Zanten
United States
Local time: 14:33
Native speaker of: Native in DutchDutch
PRO pts in pair: 12
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