self-defense

Etymology
. First used by Hobbes in the 1650s.

Noun

 * 1) The means of defending oneself from physical attack.
 * 2)  The right to protect oneself against violence by using reasonable force, which can be used as justification in several charges including murder, assault, and battery.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: دِفَاع عَنِ النَّفْسِ
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: özünüqoruma, özünümüdafiə
 * Belarusian: самаабаро́на
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: autodefensa, defensa personal
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: sebeobrana
 * Danish: selvforsvar
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: enesekaitse
 * Faroese: sjálvverja
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: თავდაცვა
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: הִתְגּוֹנְנוּת, הֲגָנָה עַצְמִית
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 自己防衛
 * Korean: 자기방어(自己防禦)
 * Macedonian: самоодбрана
 * Malay:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: selvforsvar
 * Persian: دِفاعِ شَخْصی
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, defesa pessoal
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: самоо̀дбрана, самоо̀брана
 * Roman: samoòdbrana,
 * Slovak: sebaobrana
 * Slovene: samoobramba
 * Spanish:, defensa personal
 * Swedish:
 * Tamil:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: самооборо́на
 * Vietnamese:


 * Azerbaijani: özünümüdafiə, zəruri müdafiə
 * Belarusian: самаабаро́на
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: legítima defensa
 * Faroese: neyðverja
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: თავდაცვა
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: (jogos) önvédelem
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian: самоодбрана
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, legítima defesa
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: самоо̀дбрана, самоо̀брана
 * Roman: samoòdbrana,
 * Spanish: defensa propia, legítima defensa
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: самооборо́на, самоза́хист