Purgatory

Noun

 * 1)  In Catholicism, the stage of the afterlife where souls suffer for their sins before they can enter heaven
 * 2) any situation causing suffering

Derived terms

 * purgatorial

Thesaurus
Abaddon, Day of Atonement, Gehenna, Hades, Naraka, Pandemonium, Sheol, Tophet, Yom Kippur, asceticism, avichi, bog, cage, clawing, cold purgatorial fires, coop, cruciation, crucifixion, enclosure, fasting, fen, flagellation, hair shirt, hell, hell upon earth, holocaust, horror, infernal regions, inferno, jahannan, laceration, lancination, limbo, lower world, lustration, maceration, marsh, martyrdom, mire, morass, mortification, nether world, nightmare, passion, pen, penance, penfold, penitence, penitential act, penitential exercise, perdition, persecution, pinfold, place of confinement, place of torment, pound, purgation, quag, quagmire, rack, repentance, sackcloth and ashes, shades below, slough, sump, the abyss, the bottomless pit, the grave, the pit, torment, torture, underworld

Etymology
From purgatorium:. Cognate to English purge:.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: مطهر
 * Armenian: քավարան
 * Basque: garbitoki
 * Belarusian: чысьцец
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 炼狱
 * Czech:
 * Danish: skærsild
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: puhastustuli, purgatoorium
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: purgatorio
 * German:, Fegfeuer, Purgatorium
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: כור המצרף
 * Hungarian:

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 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: {{t-|ja|煉獄|tr=れんごく, {{t-|ja|rengoku}}
 * Korean: {{t|ko|연옥|tr=yeon-ok|sc=Hang}} ({{t-|ko|煉獄|sc=Hani}})
 * Lithuanian: {{t-|lt|skaistykla|xs=Lithuanian}}
 * Macedonian: {{t|mk|чистилиште|n|tr=čistílište}}
 * Norwegian: {{t|no|skjærsilden}}, {{t|no|purgatoriet}}
 * Polish: {{t+|pl|czyściec|m}}
 * Portuguese: {{t-|pt|purgatório|m}}
 * Romanian: {{t-|ro|purgatoriu|n}}
 * Russian: {{t+|ru|чистилище|n|tr=čistílišče}}
 * Serbo-Croatian: {{t|sh|чистилиште|n|sc=Cyrl|xs=Serbo-Croatian}}, {{t|sh|čistilište|n|xs=Serbo-Croatian}}
 * Slovak: {{t-|sk|očistec|m}}
 * Slovene: {{t+|sl|vice}}
 * Spanish: {{t-|es|purgatorio|m}}
 * Swedish: {{t|sv|skärselden}}
 * Tagalog: {{t|tl|purgatoryo|xs=Tagalog}}
 * Ukrainian: {{t-|uk|чистилище|n|tr=čystýlyšče|xs=Ukrainian}}
 * Volapük: {{t|vo|purgator}}

{{trans-top|situation causing suffering}}
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:

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 * Portuguese: {{t|pt|suplício|m}}