total war

English

Etymology

Calque of German totaler Krieg, coined by Erich Ludendorff.

Noun

total war (countable and uncountable, plural total wars)

Warfare where all of a country's available resources, military as well as civilian, are employed.

Translations

warfare where all of a country's resources are employed

Arabic: الحَرْب الشَّامِلَةُ m (al-ḥarb aš-šāmilatu)
Armenian: տոտալ պատերազմ (total paterazm)
Belarusian: татальная вайна f (tatalʹnaja vajna)
Bulgarian: тотална война f (totalna vojna)
Catalan: guerra total f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 總體戰／总体战 (zh) (zǒngtǐzhàn)
Czech: totální válka f
Danish: total krig c
Dutch: totale oorlog m
Esperanto: totala milito
Finnish: totaalinen sota, totaalinen sodankäynti
French: guerre totale (fr) f
Galician: guerra total f
Georgian: მთელი ომი (mteli omi)
German: totaler Krieg (de) m
Greek: ολοκληρωτικός πόλεμος m (oloklirotikós pólemos)
Hebrew: מלחמה כוללת f (milkhome kulelet)
Hungarian: totális háború
Italian: guerra totale f
Japanese: 国家総力戦 (kokka-sō-rikisen), 総力戦 (sōryoku-sen)
Korean: 총력전 (chongnyeokjeon)
Macedonian: тотална војна f (totalna vojna)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: total krig m

Nynorsk: total krig m, total krigføring m
Persian: جنگ تمام‌عیار (jang tamâm ayar)
Polish: wojna totalna f
Portuguese: guerra total f
Romanian: război total n
Russian: тотальная война f (totalʹnaja vojna)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: тотални рат m

Roman: totalni rat m
Slovak: totálna vojna f
Slovene: totalna vojna f
Spanish: guerra total f
Swedish: total krigföring c
Thai: สงครามเบ็ดเสร็จ (sǒng-kraam-bèt-sèt)
Turkish: topyekûn savaş
Ukrainian: тотальна війна f (totalʹna vijna)
Vietnamese: chiến tranh toàn diện

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