English
Etymology
From Middle English beheden, bihefden, biheveden, from Old English behēafdian (“to behead”), equivalent to be- (“off, away”) + head.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɪˈhɛd/
- Rhymes: -ɛd
Verb
behead (third-person singular simple present beheads, present participle beheading, simple past and past participle beheaded)
- (transitive) To deliberately remove the head of; to cut off (someone's) head.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
to remove the head
- Arabic: ضَرَبَ عُنُقَهُ (ḍaraba ʕunuqahu)
- Aramaic:
- Classical Syriac: ܩܪܩܦ (qrqp), ܫܩܠ ܩܪܩܦܬܐ (šqal qarqafṯa)
- Armenian: գլխատել (hy) (glxatel), գլուխը կտրել (gluxə ktrel)
- Aromanian: gushuescu
- Belarusian: абезгало́ўліваць impf (abjezhalóŭlivacʹ), абезгало́віць pf (abjezhalóvicʹ)
- Bulgarian: обезглавя́вам (bg) impf (obezglavjávam)
- Burmese: please add this translation if you can
- Catalan: decapitar (ca), degollar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: (informal) 砍頭 / 砍头 (zh) (kǎntóu), (formal) 斬首 / 斩首 (zh) (zhǎnshǒu)
- Czech: stít
- Danish: halshugge
- Dutch: onthoofden (nl)
- Esperanto: senkapigi
- Estonian: pead maha raiuma
- Faroese: hálshøgga
- Finnish: katkaista kaula, mestata (fi)
- French: décapiter (fr)
- Georgian: თავის მოჭრა (tavis moč̣ra), თავის მოკვეთა (tavis moḳveta), თავის წაგდებინება (tavis c̣agdebineba)
- German: enthaupten (de), köpfen (de)
- Greek: αποκεφαλίζω (el) (apokefalízo)
- Ancient: πελεκίζω (pelekízō), ἀποκεφαλίζω (apokephalízō)
- Hebrew: עָרַף (he) (aráf), הִתִּיז (he) (hitíz)
- Biblical: כָּרַת רֹאשׁ, הֵסִיר רֹאשׁ
- Hungarian: lefejez (hu), lefejezni
- Indonesian: memenggal (id), memancung
- Italian: decapitare (it)
- Japanese: (phrase) 首を刎ねる (くびをはねる, kubi o haneru), 斬首する (ja) (ざんしゅする, zanshu suru), 刎ねる (ja) (はねる, haneru), (phrase) 打ち首にする (ja) (うちくびにする, uchikubi ni suru)
- Khmer: កាត់ក្បាល (km) (kat kbaal), កាត់ក (km) (kat kɑɑ)
- Korean: 목을 베다 (mogeul beda)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: ser jê kirin (ku), ser birîn (ku)
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Latin: dēcollō, dētruncō, obtruncō, (Late) decapito
- Luxembourgish: käppen
- Macedonian: обезглавува (obezglavuva)
- Malay: pancung (ms)
- Maori: pōuto (i te kaki), whakatumu
- Norwegian: halshugge, halshogge
- Old English: beheafdian
- Old Saxon: gihōfdon, hōfdon
- Persian: گردن زدن (fa) (gardan zadan)
- Polish: ściąć głowę pf
- Portuguese: decapitar (pt), degolar (pt)
- Quechua: qhuruy
- Romagnol: decapitêr
- Romanian: decapita (ro)
- Russian: обезгла́вливать (ru) impf (obezglávlivatʹ), обезгла́вить (ru) pf (obezglávitʹ), отруба́ть го́лову impf (otrubátʹ gólovu), отруби́ть го́лову pf (otrubítʹ gólovu)
- Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can
- Slovak: sťať pf, stínať impf
- Slovene: obglaviti (sl)
- Spanish: descabezar (es), decapitar (es)
- Swedish: halshugga (sv), dekapitera (sv)
- Tagalog: pugutan
- Tamil: தலை துண்டி (talai tuṇṭi), கவர்தல் (ta) (kavartal), தலை கொய் (talai koy)
- Thai: ตัดศีรษะ (dtàt sǐi-sà)
- Turkish: boynunu vurmak (tr), (colloquial) kafasını uçurmak (tr), (colloquial) kellesini uçurmak (tr)
- Ukrainian: обезголо́влювати impf (obezholóvljuvaty), обезголо́вити pf (obezholóvyty), обезгла́влювати impf (obezhlávljuvaty), обезгла́вити pf (obezhlávyty)
- Urdu: سرقلم کرنا (sar qalam karna)
- Uyghur: please add this translation if you can
- Vietnamese: chặt đầu, chém đầu
- Welsh: torfynyglu
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