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The evil eye is a curse from Greek culture that has been passed through many decades and still exists today. It states that when someone is envious of you, they'll have the power to give you an 'evil glare' and send bad luck your way.glare). When something goes wrong, the phrase "ਨਜ਼ਰ ਲੱਗ ਗਈ" (Nazzar lag gyi) is often said.

In Romanian, it is known as "deochi", meaning literally "By-eye": a curse put on you by a gaze with evil intentions/ jealousy.

In Russian, "дурной глаз" (durnoy glaz) means "bad/evil eye"; "сглаз" (sglaz) literally means "from eye".

In Sanskrit, an ancient Indo-Aryan language, it is called "drishti dosha" (दृष्टि दोष) meaning malice caused by evil eye. (But cf. "drishti (yoga)".)

In Serbo-Croatian (Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian and Montenegrin), it is called Urokljivo oko (Cyr. Урокљиво око).[75] The first word is an adjective of the word urok/урок, which means spell or curse, and the second word means eye.

In Slovak, it is known as "z očí", meaning "(coming) from eyes".

In Slovene, it is known as "Zlobno oko", meaning "evil eye".

In Somali, it is called "il", or "ilaaco" or "sixir" (the first two words literally meaning "eye" and the other word meaning 'black magic')

In Sinhala it is known as "ඇස්වහ" (æsvaha).

In Spanish, mal de ojo literally means "evil from the Eye" as the name does not refer to the actual eye but to the evil that supposedly comes from it. Casting the evil eye is then echar mal de ojo, i.e. "to cast evil from the Eye".[76]

In Berber languages(Tamazight/Tamaziɣt/ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ/ⵜⵎⵣⵗⵜ) it is called Tafust (ⵜⴰⴼⵓⵙⵜ) which means little hand[77]

In Tagalog, it is known as ohiya or usog, which is a culture-bound syndrome where a visit by a stranger afflicts a child with sudden illness and convulsions.

In Tamil, "கண் படுதல்" (kan padudhal) literally means "casting an eye" (with an intention to cause harm). "கண்ணூறு" (kannooru) means "harm from the eye"

In Trinidadian Creole it is called 'maljo', derived from the French 'mal yeux' meaning "bad eye"

In Turkish kem göz means evil eye and the cure is having a "nazar boncuğu", the nazar amulet. Nazarlık refers in general to protections from the evil-eye, including the nazar.[78]

In Swahili, it is called jicho ("the eye"), or jicho baya, meaning literally "evil eye".

In Urdu, nazar (نظر) Chashm-é bad (چشمِ بد) or Nazar-é bad (نظرِبد); nazar lagna means to be afflicted by the evil eye.