confession (sacramental disclosure of one's sins) · confession (disclosure of one's bad deeds)
çekim: çoğul Beichten · tamlayan Beichten
eş: Sakrament der Versöhnung, Bußsakrament, Sündenbekenntnis, Amt der Schlüssel, Bekenntnis, Geständnis
köken: From Middle High German bīht, begiht, from Old High German bigiht, bijiht, from bi- + jiht (“statement, confession”), from Proto-Germanic *jihtiz, equivalent to bei- + Gicht. Cognate with Luxembourgish Beicht, Dutch biecht.
confession (admittance of having done something, good, bad or neutral) · confession (the disclosure of one's sins to a priest for absolution) · creed (a declaration of one's religious faith)
çekim: çoğul confessions
köken: Inherited from Old French confession, from Latin cōnfessiōnem (“confession, acknowledgment, creed or avowal of one's faith”).
to confess; to own up to; to admit to (to admit one has done something, especially something bad) · to confess (to disclose one’s sins to a clergyman) · to confess (to hear someone’s confessions)
çekim: geçmiş confessei · ortaç confessado · şimdiki confessa
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese confessar, from Ecclesiastical Latin cōnfessāre (“to confess”) (possibly an inheritance), a derivative of Latin cōnfessus, past participle of cōnfiteor (“to confess, to admit”) from con- + fateor (“to admit”).