Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: verskoning
- Amharic: ይቅርታ
- Arabic: عذر
- Azerbaijani: üzr istəyirəm
- Bashkir: ғәфү итегеҙ
- Belarusian: прабачце
- Bulgarian: извинете
- Bengali: অজুহাত
- Bosnian: izvinite
- Catalan: excusa
- Cebuano: katarungan
- Czech: omluvte
- Welsh: esgus
- Danish: undskyldning
- German: Entschuldigung
- Greek: δικαιολογία
- Esperanto: pardonu
- Spanish: excusa
- Estonian: vabandus
- Basque: aitzakia
- Persian: ببخشید
- Finnish: anteeksi
- French: excuse
- Irish: leithscéal
- Scottish Gaelic: leisgeul sin
- Galician: escusa
- Gujarati: બહાનું
- Hebrew: סלח
- Hindi: बहाना
- Croatian: žao nam je
- Haitian: eskiz
- Hungarian: kifogás
- Armenian: կներեք
- Indonesian: alasan
- Icelandic: afsakið
- Italian: scusa
- Japanese: 言い訳
- Javanese: alesan
- Georgian: საბაბი
- Kazakh: кешіріңіз
- Khmer: ដោះសារ
- Kannada: ಕ್ಷಮಿಸಿ
- Korean: 실례
- Kyrgyz: кечиресиз
- Latin: excusationem,
- Luxembourgish: Geboter
- Lao: ແກ້ຕົວ
- Lithuanian: pasiteisinimas
- Latvian: attaisnojums
- Malagasy: fialan-tsiny
- Mari: нелеш ида
- Maori: kupu
- Macedonian: изговор
- Malayalam: excuse
- Mongolian: шалтаг
- Marathi: निमित्त
- Hill Mari: вуем
- Malay: alasan
- Maltese: skuża
- Burmese: ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက်
- Nepali: माफ
- Dutch: excuus
- Norwegian: unnskyldning
- Punjabi: ਬਹਾਨਾ
- Papiamento: diskulpa
- Polish: przepraszam
- Portuguese: desculpa
- Romanian: scuza
- Russian: извините
- Sinhalese: සමාවෙන්න
- Slovak: ospravedlnenie
- Slovenian: izgovor
- Albanian: arsyetim
- Serbian: жао ми је
- Sundanese: munasabah
- Swedish: ursäkt
- Swahili: udhuru
- Tamil: தவிர்க்கவும்
- Telugu: అవసరం లేదు
- Tajik: бубахшед
- Thai: ยกโทษ
- Tagalog: humingi ng paumanhin
- Turkish: bahane
- Tatar: гафу итегез
- Udmurt: вождэс эн вае
- Ukrainian: вибачте
- Urdu: عذر
- Uzbek: uzr
- Vietnamese: xin lỗi,
- Xhosa: kwesizathu
- Yiddish: אַנטשולדיקן
- Chinese: 借口
Synonyms, close and similar words for excuse
- sorry
- pretext
- pretence
- pretense
- alibis
- subterfuge
- occasion
- plea
- guise
- apology
- justify
- condone
- exempt
- acquit
- rationalize
- justification
- exculpation
- extenuation
- whitewash
- alibi
- acquittance
- apologise
- apologize
- pardon
- forgive
- explain
- explain away
- explanation
- reason