capital punishment

English

Etymology

From the original meaning of capital (“relating to the head”); originally referring to executions by beheading or decapitating.

Noun

capital punishment (countable and uncountable, plural capital punishments)

The practice of putting a person to death as a punishment for a crime.
Synonym: death penalty

Translations

punishment by death — see also death penalty

Albanian: dënim me vdekje m
Arabic: إِعْدَام m (ʔiʕdām), عُقُوبَة الْإِعْدَام f (ʕuqūbat al-ʔiʕdām), عُقُوبَة الْمَوْت f (ʕuqūbat al-mawt)
Armenian: մահապատիժ (hy) (mahapatiž)
Azerbaijani: edam, ölüm cəzası
Belarusian: смяро́тнае пакара́нне n (smjarótnaje pakaránnje), смяро́тная ка́ра f (smjarótnaja kára), найвышэ́йшая ме́ра пакара́ння f (najvyšéjšaja mjéra pakaránnja), найвышэ́йшая ме́ра ка́ры f (najvyšéjšaja mjéra káry)
Bengali: মৃত্যুদণ্ড (bn) (mrittudonḍo)
Bulgarian: смъ́ртно наказа́ние n (smǎ́rtno nakazánie)
Burmese: သေဒဏ် (my) (sedan)
Catalan: pena capital f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 死刑 (zh) (sǐxíng), 極刑／极刑 (zh) (jíxíng), 死罪 (zh) (sǐzuì)
Czech: trest smrti (cs) m
Danish: dødsstraf (da) c
Dutch: doodstraf (nl) f
Estonian: surmanuhtlus
Faroese: deyðarevsing f
Finnish: kuolemanrangaistus (fi)
French: peine capitale (fr) f, peine de mort (fr) f
Georgian: სასჯელის უმაღლესი ზომა (sasǯelis umaɣlesi zoma), სიკვდილით დასჯა (siḳvdilit dasǯa)
German: Todesstrafe (de) f
Greek: θανατική ποινή (el) f (thanatikí poiní), έσχατη ποινή f (éschati poiní)
Hindi: मृत्युदण्ड m (mŕtyudaṇḍ), महादण्ड (hi) m (mahādaṇḍ), सज़ा-ए-मौत f (sazā-e-maut)
Hungarian: halálbüntetés (hu)
Icelandic: dauðarefsing (is) f
Indonesian: hukuman mati (id)
Irish: pionós báis m
Italian: pena capitale
Japanese: 死刑 (ja) (しけい, shikei), 極刑 (ja) (きょっけい, kyokkei), 死罪 (ja) (しざい, shizai)
Kazakh: өлім жазасы (ölım jazasy)
Khmer: ទោសប្រហារជីវិត (tooh prɑhaa ciivɨt)
Korean: 사형(死刑) (ko) (sahyeong)
Kyrgyz: өлүм жазасы (ölüm jazası)
Lao: ປານະທັນ (pā na than)
Latin: punitio capitalis f
Latvian: nāvessods m
Lithuanian: mirties bausmė f
Macedonian: смртна казна f (smrtna kazna)
Malay: hukuman mati (ms)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: dødsstraff m

Nynorsk: dødsstraff f
Persian:
Iranian Persian: اِعْدام (fa) (e'dâm), مُجازاتِ اِعْدام (mojâzât-e e'dâm)
Polish: kara śmierci (pl) f, najwyższy wymiar kary m
Portuguese: pena de morte (pt) f, pena capital f
Romanian: pedeapsă capitală f, pedeapsă cu moartea f
Russian: сме́ртная казнь (ru) f (smértnaja kaznʹ), вы́сшая ме́ра наказа́ния (ru) f (výsšaja méra nakazánija), вы́сшая ме́ра (ru) f (výsšaja méra), вы́шка (ru) f (výška) (criminal slang), выша́к (ru) m (vyšák) (criminal slang)
Sanskrit: महादण्ड (sa) m (mahādaṇḍa) (literally 'the greatest punishment'), मृत्युदण्ड (sa) m (mṛtyudaṇḍa)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: смртна казна f

Roman: smrtna kazna f
Slovak: trest smrti m
Slovene: smrtna kazen (sl) f
Spanish: castigo capital m, pena capital (es) f
Swedish: dödsstraff (sv) n
Tagalog: parusang kamatayan
Tajik: ҷазои қатл (jazoyi qatl)
Tamil: மரணதண்டனை (ta) (maraṇataṇṭaṉai)
Tatar: үлем җәзасы (ülem cäzası)
Thai: โทษประหารชีวิต (tôot-bprà-hǎan-chii-wít), ประหารชีวิต (th) (bprà-hǎan-chii-wít)
Turkish: idam cezası (tr), ölüm cezası (tr), idam (tr)
Turkmen: ölüm jezasy (tk)
Ukrainian: сме́ртна ка́ра f (smértna kára), ви́ща мі́ра покара́ння f (výšča míra pokaránnja)
Urdu: سَزائے مَوت f (sazāe maut)
Uyghur: ئۆلۈم جازاسى (ölüm jazasi)
Uzbek: o‘lim jazosi
Vietnamese: tử hình (vi)
Volapük: deadapönod
Welsh: dienyddio (cy) m

capital punishment

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Etymology

Noun

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