coup d'état

See also: coup d'etat, coup de tat, and coup d'État

English

Alternative forms

• coup d'etat

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French coup d'État (literally “strike (or blow or cut) of state”).

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: ko͞o' dā-täʹ, IPA^(key): /ˌku deɪˈtɑ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌkuː deɪˈtɑː/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

coup d'état (plural coups d'état or coup d'états)

1. (politics, government) The sudden overthrow of a government, differing from a revolution by being carried out by a small group of people who replace only the leading figures.

   Synonyms: coup, putsch

   • 2024 November 21, Tom Phillips, “Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro charged with plotting coup d’état”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     The former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and some of his closest allies are among dozens of people formally accused by federal police of being part of a criminal conspiracy designed to obliterate Brazil’s democratic system through a rightwing coup d’état.

Descendants

• → Bengali: কুদেতা (kudeta)
• → Cebuano: kudeta
• → Japanese: クーデター (kūdetā)
• → Korean: 쿠데타 (kudeta)
• → Malay: kudeta / کوديتا
  • Indonesian: kudeta
• → Tagalog: kudeta

Translations

sudden overthrow of a government

Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can Adyghe: please add this translation if you can Afrikaans: staatsgreep Albanian: grusht shteti m Antillean Creole: koudéta m Arabic: اِنْقِلَاب (ar) m (inqilāb) Hijazi Arabic: اِنْقِلَاب m (ingilāb) Armenian: հեղաշրջում (hy) (heġašrǰum), պուտչ (hy) (putčʻ) Asturian: golpe d'estáu m Azerbaijani: dövlət çevrilişi Basque: estatu-kolpe Belarusian: пераваро́т m (pjeravarót), дзяржа́ўны пераваро́т m (dzjaržáŭny pjeravarót), путч m (putč) Bengali: কুদেতা (bn) (kudeta), অভ্যুত্থান (bn) (obbhutthan) Bulgarian: превра́т (bg) m (prevrát), пуч m (puč), държа́вен превра́т m (dǎržáven prevrát) Burmese: အာဏာသိမ်းမှု (anasim:hmu.) Catalan: cop d'estat (ca) m Chinese: Cantonese: 政變 / 政变 (zing3 bin3) Hokkien: 政變 / 政变 (chèng-piàn) Mandarin: 政變 / 政变 (zh) (zhèngbiàn), 苦迭打 (zh) (kǔdiédǎ) (dated) Corsican: colpu di statu m Czech: puč (cs) m, převrat m, státní převrat (cs) m Danish: statskup n Dutch: staatsgreep (nl) m, putsch (nl) m, coup (nl) m Esperanto: puĉo, ŝtatrenverso Estonian: riigipööre Faroese: please add this translation if you can Finnish: vallankaappaus (fi) French: coup d'État (fr) m, putsch (fr) m Galician: golpe de estado (gl) m Georgian: გადატრიალება (gadaṭrialeba), დამხობა (damxoba), სახელმწიფო გადატრიალება (saxelmc̣ipo gadaṭrialeba), სამხედრო გადატრიალება (samxedro gadaṭrialeba), ხელისუფლების დამხობა (xelisuplebis damxoba), მთავრობის დამხობა (mtavrobis damxoba), პუტჩი (ṗuṭči) German: Staatsstreich (de) m, Putsch (de) m, Coup (de) m Greek: πραξικόπημα (el) n (praxikópima) Haitian Creole: koudeta m Hebrew: הֲפִיכָה (he) f (hafikhá), פּוּטְשׁ (he) m (putsh) Hindi: तख़्तापलट f (taxtāplaṭ), राज्यविप्लव m (rājyaviplav) Hungarian: államcsíny (hu), puccs (hu) Icelandic: valdarán, hallarbylting, ríkisbylting Indonesian: kudeta (id) Italian: colpo di stato (it) m, golpe (it) m Japanese: クーデター (ja) (kūdetā), 政変 (ja) (せいへん, seihen) Kazakh: мемлекеттік төңкеріс (memlekettık töñkerıs) Khmer: រដ្ឋប្រហារ (rŏət prɑhaa) Korean: 쿠데타 (ko) (kudeta), 정변(政變) (ko) (jeongbyeon) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: derbeya leşkerî, kudeta (ku), derbe (ku) Kyrgyz: мамлекеттик төңкөрүш (mamlekettik töŋkörüş) Lao: ລັດຖະປະຫານ (lat tha pa hān), ລັດປະຫານ (lat pa hān), ຣັຖປະຫານ (rat pa hān) Latin: eversio reipublicae, interceptio regiminis f Latvian: valsts apvērsums m, pučs m Lithuanian: valstybės perversmas m, pučas m Macedonian: државен удар m (državen udar), пуч m (puč), преврат m (prevrat) Malay: rampasan kuasa Jawi: کوديتا (ms), کوڤ Maori: upokotaua Mongolian: Mongolian: төрийн эргэлт (töriin ergelt) Norwegian: Bokmål: statskupp n Nynorsk: statskupp n Occitan: còp d'estat m Pashto: کودتا (kudetā) Persian: Iranian Persian: کودِتا (kudetâ) Polish: zamach stanu (pl) m, przewrót (pl) m, pucz (pl) m Portuguese: golpe de estado (pt) m Romanian: lovitură de stat (ro) f, puci (ro) n Russian: переворо́т (ru) m (perevorót), путч (ru) m (putč), госуда́рственный переворо́т m (gosudárstvennyj perevorót), госпереворо́т (ru) m (gosperevorót) S'gaw Karen: တၢ်ဟံးဆူၣ်ကီၢ်တၢ်စိကမီၤ (ta̱ heë hsoò kaw̱ ta̱ soh ka maw̄) Scottish Gaelic: please add this translation if you can Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: пре̏вра̄т m, пу̏ч m, др̀жа̄внӣ у̏да̄р m Roman: prȅvrāt (sh) m, pȕč (sh) m, dr̀žāvnī ȕdār m Slovak: štátny prevrat m, puč m, prevrat m Slovene: držávni udár m, púč Spanish: golpe de estado (es) m, golpismo m Swedish: statskupp (sv) c, kudeta (sv) c Tagalog: kudeta (tl) Tajik: табаддулоти давлатӣ (tabaddulot-i davlati) Tamil: இராணுவப் புரட்சி (irāṇuvap puraṭci) Tatar: дәүләт түнтәрелеше (däwlät tüntäreleşe) Thai: รัฐประหาร (th) (rát-tà-bprà-hǎan) Tibetan: སྲིད་དབང་བཙན་འཕྲོག (srid dbang btsan 'phrog) Tigrinya: ዕልዋ መንግስቲ (ʿəlwa mängəsti) Turkish: darbe (tr), askerî darbe Turkmen: döwlet agdarylyşygy Ukrainian: переворо́т m (perevorót), держа́вний переворо́т m (deržávnyj perevorót), путч m (putč), держпереворо́т m (deržperevorót) Urdu: مُسَلَّح بَغاوَت f (musallah baġāvat), بَغاوَت f (baġāvat) Uzbek: davlat toʻntarilishi Vietnamese: chính biến (vi), đảo chính (vi) Welsh: cipiad awdurdod (cy) m, gwrthryfel m West Frisian: coup d'état, steatsgreep Yiddish: איבערקערעניש f (iberkerenish), פּוטש m (putsh) Zhuang: please add this translation if you can Zulu: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• coup d'état on Wikipedia.Wikipedia