lapidation

English

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lapidation

Wikipedia

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin lapidātiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌlæpɪˈdeɪʃən/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

lapidation (countable and uncountable, plural lapidations)

1. (law) The practice or act of stoning, sometimes to the point of death, as punishment
   • 2007 March 6, “International Women’s Day, another day of repression for women”, in 亚州新闻:

     The five women on trial were almost all activists for the full repeal (not just a moratorium) of lapidation, ie stoning, from Iran’s law books.

Related terms

• dilapidated
• lapidate

Translations

act of stoning, sometimes to the point of death

Arabic: رَجْم m (rajm) Armenian: քարկոծում (hy) (kʻarkocum) Azerbaijani: daşqalaq, rəcm Belarusian: пабіванне камянямі n (pabivannje kamjanjami) Bulgarian: пребиване с камъни (prebivane s kamǎni) Catalan: lapidació (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 石刑 (zh) (shíxíng), 投石刑 (tóushíxíng), 投石 (tóushí) Czech: kamenování Dutch: steniging (nl) f Finnish: kivittäminen (fi), kivitys (fi) French: lapidation (fr) f German: Steinigung (de) f, (from Arabic) Radschm m, Lapidation f Greek: λιθοβολισμός (el) m (lithovolismós) Hindi: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: megkövezés (hu) Ido: ston-agar Italian: lapidazione (it) f Japanese: 石打ち (いしうち, ishi-uchi), 石撃ち (いしうち, ishi-uchi) Korean: 투석형(投石刑) (tuseokhyeong) Latin: lapidatio f Macedonian: каменување n (kamenuvanje) Persian: سنگسار (fa) (sangsâr), رجم (fa) (rajm) Polish: ukamienowanie (pl) n Portuguese: lapidação (pt) f, apedrejamento (pt) Russian: побива́ние камня́ми n (pobivánije kamnjámi), забра́сывание камня́ми n (zabrásyvanije kamnjámi), лапида́ция f (lapidácija), (from Arabic) раджм m (radžm) Spanish: lapidación (es) f Swedish: stening (sv) c Turkish: recm (tr), taşlama (tr) Ukrainian: побиття́ камі́нням n (pobyttjá kamínnjam)

Anagrams

• palatinoid

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin lapidātiōnem. Morphologically, from lapider +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la.pi.da.sjɔ̃/

• Audio (France (Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost)):

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• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

lapidation f (plural lapidations)

1. lapidation

Further reading

• “lapidation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.