said (directly translated), "to give with the eye" or in Armenian, "atchkov tal". In Azerbaijani, "Göz dəyməsi" – translating as being struck by an eye In Chinese it is called 邪惡之眼 (Traditional Chinese characters) / 邪恶之眼 (Simplified Chinese characters) (xié è zhī yǎn, literally "evil eye") or simply 邪眼 (xié yǎn). In Corsican it is called "l'Ochju" (The Eye). In Dutch it is called "het boze oog", literally "the malicious eye" or "the angry eye". In Esperanto, it is called "malica okulo" (malicious eye). In Estonian, it's called "kuri silm" (evil/angry eye) In Finnish, it's called "paha silmä" (evil/bad eye) In French, it is named "le mauvais œil" (The bad eye) In Galician, it is called "meigallo", from meiga, "witch" (and maybe -allo, diminutive or aumentative suffix; or contracted with either ollo, "eye"; or allo, "garlic"). In German, it is called "böser Blick", literally "evil gaze". In Greek, to matiasma (μάτιασμα) or mati (μάτι) someone refers to the act of casting the evil eye (mati being the Greek word for eye); also: vaskania (, the Greek word for jinx) In Hebrew, ʿáyin hā-ráʿ (, "eye of evil") In Hindi and other languages of South Asia, (Hindi: nazar (नज़र); nazar lagna (नज़र लगना)) means to be afflicted by the evil eye. (However, it generally has no evil connotations because a doting mother's eye can supposedly also cause harm.) In Hungarian, gonosz szem means "evil eye", but more widespread is the expression szemmelverés (lit. "beating with eye"), which refers to the supposed/alleged act of harming one by an evil look In Irish, the term drochshúil is used for the 'evil eye', being a compound of 'droch' (bad, poor, evil, ill) and 'súil (eye). This can also be used to refer to someone with weak eyesight. In Indonesian the word ' 'dengki' ' refers to evil eye. In Italian, the word malocchio () refers to the evil eye. In Japanese it is known as ("jashi"). In Kurdish, it is called "Çav pîs/Chaw pis/ چاو پیس" In Lithuanian evil eye is known as "pikta akis", while act of evil watching is called "nužiūrėjimas" (noun), "nužiūrėti" (verb). In Malay, it is called mata jahat, meaning literally "bad/evil eye". In Malayalam it is known as kanneru – 'the rising of an eye (upon one)'. 'Kanneru dosham' or 'drishti dosham' is the name for the phenomenon. In Maltese it is known as "l-għajn". It is a common