defenestration

Etymology


From, from +  + ; compare 🇨🇬 (modern 🇨🇬), , 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬. The  was formed later.

Noun

 * 1) The act of throwing something or someone out of a window.
 * 2)  The high-profile removal of a person from an organization.
 * 3)  The act of removing the  operating system from a computer in order to install an alternative one.
 * 1)  The high-profile removal of a person from an organization.
 * 2)  The act of removing the  operating system from a computer in order to install an alternative one.
 * 1)  The act of removing the  operating system from a computer in order to install an alternative one.
 * 1)  The act of removing the  operating system from a computer in order to install an alternative one.
 * 1)  The act of removing the  operating system from a computer in order to install an alternative one.

Usage notes
Defenestration (sense 1) was historically committed as an act of political dissent, as with the Defenestrations of Prague.

Translations

 * Arabic: الرَّمْيُ مِنَ النَّافِذَة
 * Asturian: defenestración
 * Carpathian Rusyn: дефенестрация
 * Catalan: defenestració
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 拋出窗外, 拋窗, 擲窗
 * Czech: defenestrace
 * Danish: vinduesudsmidning, defenestrering
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: trafenestrigo
 * Estonian: defenestratsioon
 * Finnish: ikkunasta heittäminen,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Indonesian: defenestrasi
 * Interlingua: defenestration
 * Italian: defenestrazione
 * Japanese: 窓外放出, 窓外放擲
 * Latin: defenestratio
 * Latvian: defenestrācija
 * Lithuanian: defenestracija
 * Macedonian: дефенестра́ција
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: defenestrasjon
 * Nynorsk: defenestrasjon
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: defenestrație
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: дефенестра́ција
 * Roman: defenestrácija
 * Slovak: defenestrácia
 * Slovene: defenestracija
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: defenestrering, defenestration
 * Thai: การโยนออกนอกหน้าต่าง
 * Turkish: defenestrasyon
 * Ukrainian: дефенестра́ція
 * Welsh: diffenestriad


 * German: ,