English
Etymology
From assassinate + -ion.
Pronunciation
Noun
assassination (plural assassinations)
- The murder of a person, especially for political reasons or for personal gain.
The assassination of the king occurred at night.
1963, “Introduction”, in Wing-tsit Chan, transl., Instructions for Practical Living and Other Neo-Confucian Writings by Wang Yang-ming[1], Columbia University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page xxiv:Liu's agents pursued him and he escaped assassination only by throwing his clothing away by the Chʻien-tʻang River near Hangchow, thus suggesting suicide.
Derived terms
Translations
murder
- Arabic: اِغْتِيَال (ar) m (iḡtiyāl)
- Armenian: մարդասպանություն (mardaspanutʻyun), սպանություն (hy) (spanutʻyun)
- Belarusian: зама́х m (zamáx), забо́йства (be) n (zabójstva)
- Bulgarian: атента́т (bg) (atentát), полити́ческо уби́йство (politíčesko ubíjstvo), уби́йство (bg) n (ubíjstvo)
- Burmese: လုပ်ကြံမှု (my) (lupkramhmu.)
- Catalan: assassinat (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 暗殺 / 暗杀 (zh) (ànshā), 刺殺 / 刺杀 (zh) (cìshā)
- Czech: atentát (cs) m, vražda (cs) f
- Danish: attentat (da) n, snigmord n
- Dutch: moord (nl), sluipmoord (nl) f
- Estonian: atentaat
- Finnish: salamurha (fi)
- French: assassinat (fr) m
- Galician: asasinato (gl) m
- Georgian: პოლიტიკური მკვლელობა (ṗoliṭiḳuri mḳvleloba)
- German: Ermordung (de) f, Attentat (de) n, Meuchelmord (de) m
- Greek: δολοφονία (el) (dolofonía)
- Hebrew: רֶצַח (he) m (rétzakh) הִתְנַקְּשׁוּת (he) f (hitnaqshut)
- Hungarian: merénylet (hu)
- Italian: assassinio (it) m
- Japanese: 暗殺 (ja) (あんさつ, ansatsu)
- Korean: 암살(暗殺) (ko) (amsal)
- Latin: (Classical Latin) caedēs per insidiās; (Modern Latin) assassinātiō
- Macedonian: атента́т m (atentát), у́биство n (úbistvo)
- Malay: please add this translation if you can
- Norman: assâsinâtion f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: attentat (no) n, snikmord n
- Nynorsk: attentat n
- Occitan: assassinat (oc) m
- Odia: ଗୁପ୍ତହତ୍ୟା (guptahatyā)
- Old English: morþsliht m
- Persian: قتل (fa) (qatl), سوء قصد (fa) (su'-e qasd), ترور (fa) (teror)
- Polish: zamach (pl) m, skrytobójstwo (pl) n, morderstwo (pl) n
- Portuguese: assassinato (pt) m
- Romanian: asasinat (ro) n, asasinare (ro) f
- Russian: уби́йство (ru) n (ubíjstvo), наёмное уби́йство n (najómnoje ubíjstvo)
- Slovak: atentát m, vražda (sk) f
- Slovene: atentat m, umor (sl) m
- Spanish: asesinato (es) m, magnicidio (es) m, sicariato m
- Swedish: attentat (sv), lönnmord (sv) n
- Tagalog: paglingo
- Tajik: қатл (qatl)
- Tarifit: tamenɣiwt f
- Thai: การลอบสังหาร (gaan-lɔ̂ɔp-sǎng-hǎan)
- Turkish: suikast (tr)
- Ukrainian: уби́вство n (ubývstvo), за́мах m (zámax) (attempt)
- Vietnamese: vụ ám sát (vi) (vụ (vi) + 暗殺)
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