slaughter

Etymology
From, from , later , from , from. Equivalent to (as in ). Eventually derived from. Related with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (all “to slaughter”).

Noun

 * 1)  The killing of animals, generally for food.
 * 2) A massacre; the killing of a large number of people.
 * 3) * 1674,, , Book VI, 1773, The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Edinburgh, page 416,
 * For ſin, on war and mutual ſlaughter bent.
 * 1)  A mass destruction of non-living things.
 * 2) A rout or decisive defeat.
 * 3) A group of iguanas.
 * 1) A group of iguanas.

Translations

 * Albanian: ploje
 * Arabic: ذَبْح
 * Hijazi Arabic: ذَبح
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: slakt
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Galician: ,
 * German:, rituelles Schlachten, ,
 * Gothic: 𐍃𐌻𐌰𐌿𐌷𐍄𐍃
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: σφαγή
 * Hebrew: שְׁחִיטָה
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Latin:, trucīdātiō
 * Malay: penyembelihan
 * Manchu: ᠸᠠᠮᠪᡳ
 * Navajo: náʼáʼah
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: slakt
 * Oromo: qaluu
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: по̀кољ, кла́ње
 * Roman: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: uchinjaji
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Volapük:, pug ritulik
 * Walloon:


 * Albanian: ,
 * Arabic: مَذْبَحَة, تَقْتِيل
 * Armenian: ,
 * Azerbaijani: qətliam
 * Belarusian: разня́, бо́йня, разні́ца
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: matança,
 * Chechen:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: tapatalg
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * French:, ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:, , ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Irish: ár, eirleach
 * Old Irish: ár
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: سەر بڕین
 * Latin: trucīdātiō,
 * Latvian: slaktiņš
 * Lithuanian: žudynės, skerdynės
 * Macedonian: колеж, масакр
 * Maori: hingahinga, parewhero, whakapiko, tārukenga, whārona awatea, parekura
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: slakt
 * Ojibwe: niiwana'
 * Persian:
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:, , ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ма́ссовое уби́йство,
 * Scottish Gaelic: àr
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: по̀кољ, кла́ње
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: masaker, masakra
 * Slovene:, masaker
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: різня́, різани́на,, маса́кра
 * Volapük: mipug
 * Yiddish: הריגה


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Greek:
 * Irish: ár
 * Old Irish: ár
 * Latin:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: кланица
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:


 * French:

Verb

 * 1)  To butcher animals, generally for food.
 * 2)  To massacre people in large numbers.
 * 3)  To kill someone or something, especially in a particularly brutal manner.

Derived terms

 * slaughterer
 * self-slaughtered

Translations

 * Arabic: ذَبَحَ
 * Egyptian Arabic: دبح
 * Hijazi Arabic: ذَبَح
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: akabatu
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: slagte
 * Dutch:
 * Egyptian:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German: ,
 * Alemannic German: metzge
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: σφάζω
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Kven: lahđata
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Malay:, menyembelih
 * Maori: patu mīti
 * Mongolian:
 * Nahuatl:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:, zaszlachtować, , , zarżnąć,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Volapük:, benopugön


 * Armenian: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, faire une tuerie
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Latin: trucīdō
 * Maori: whārona awatea, whakawhārona
 * Nahuatl:
 * Norwegian: massakrere,
 * Old Tupi: apiti
 * Polish: masakrować, zmasakrować
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Sumerian: 𒄮
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Volapük: mipugön


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, faire un carnage
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Latin: trucīdō
 * Nahuatl:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: masakrować, zmasakrować,, , zarżnąć
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Sumerian: 𒄮
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Volapük: mipugön