suicide

Etymology
First attested in 's  (1643) in, ostensibly from New Latin , from , but often believed to have originated in English before entering Latin. Displaced native from, after which suicide may have been modelled, or calqued (compare ). is perhaps by analogy with words like, (see ), or, although unlikely, from Medieval Latin ; see the Etymology section at.

Noun

 * 1)  Intentional killing of oneself.
 * 2)  A particular instance of a person intentionally killing themselves, or of multiple people doing so.
 * 3)  A person who has intentionally killed themselves.
 * 4)  An action that could cause the literal or figurative death of a person or organization, although death is not the aim of the action.
 * 5)  A beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain.
 * 6) A diabolo trick where one of the sticks is released and allowed to rotate 360° round the diabolo until it is caught by the hand that released it.
 * 7)  A run comprising a series of sprints of increasing lengths, each followed immediately by a return to the start, with no pause between one sprint and the next.
 * 8) A children's game of throwing a ball against a wall and at other players, who are eliminated by being struck.
 * 9)  Pertaining to a suicide bombing.
 * 1)  A person who has intentionally killed themselves.
 * 2)  An action that could cause the literal or figurative death of a person or organization, although death is not the aim of the action.
 * 3)  A beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain.
 * 4) A diabolo trick where one of the sticks is released and allowed to rotate 360° round the diabolo until it is caught by the hand that released it.
 * 5)  A run comprising a series of sprints of increasing lengths, each followed immediately by a return to the start, with no pause between one sprint and the next.
 * 6) A children's game of throwing a ball against a wall and at other players, who are eliminated by being struck.
 * 7)  Pertaining to a suicide bombing.
 * 1)  A beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain.
 * 2) A diabolo trick where one of the sticks is released and allowed to rotate 360° round the diabolo until it is caught by the hand that released it.
 * 3)  A run comprising a series of sprints of increasing lengths, each followed immediately by a return to the start, with no pause between one sprint and the next.
 * 4) A children's game of throwing a ball against a wall and at other players, who are eliminated by being struck.
 * 5)  Pertaining to a suicide bombing.
 * 1)  A beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain.
 * 2) A diabolo trick where one of the sticks is released and allowed to rotate 360° round the diabolo until it is caught by the hand that released it.
 * 3)  A run comprising a series of sprints of increasing lengths, each followed immediately by a return to the start, with no pause between one sprint and the next.
 * 4) A children's game of throwing a ball against a wall and at other players, who are eliminated by being struck.
 * 5)  Pertaining to a suicide bombing.
 * 1) A diabolo trick where one of the sticks is released and allowed to rotate 360° round the diabolo until it is caught by the hand that released it.
 * 2)  A run comprising a series of sprints of increasing lengths, each followed immediately by a return to the start, with no pause between one sprint and the next.
 * 3) A children's game of throwing a ball against a wall and at other players, who are eliminated by being struck.
 * 4)  Pertaining to a suicide bombing.
 * 1)  Pertaining to a suicide bombing.

Usage notes

 * See usage note at.

Hypernyms

 * See also Thesaurus:kill

Translations

 * Abkhaz:
 * Afrikaans: selfmoord, selfdood
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: ራስን መግደል
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: আত্মহত্যা
 * Asturian: suicidiu
 * Azerbaijani: intihar, özünü öldürmə
 * Basque: suizidio
 * Belarusian: самагу́бства, самазабо́йства, суіцы́д
 * Bengali:, খোদকুশী
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ကိုယ်ကိုသတ်ခြင်း
 * Catalan:
 * Chechen:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 自殺
 * Eastern Min: 自殺
 * Hakka: 自殺
 * Hokkien:
 * Jin: 自殺
 * Mandarin:
 * Wu: 自殺
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: sinmortigo, memmortigo
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: suicidi
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: თვითმკვლელობა
 * German:, ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, , ख़ुद-कुशी, , , , ख़ुदकुशी
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Ido:
 * Ilocano: ᜉᜈᜄ᜔ᜉᜃᜋᜆᜌ᜔
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: féinmharú
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh: өзін өзі өлтірушілік, суицид
 * Khmer: សម្លាប់ខ្លួនឯង, អត្តឃាត
 * Korean:, , 극단적 선택
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:, ,
 * Kyrgyz: өзүн өзү өлтүрүү
 * Lao: ການຂ້າຕົວຕາຍ, ອັດຕະວິນິບາດກຳ
 * Latin: mors voluntāria, suīcīdium
 * Latvian: pašnāvība
 * Lithuanian: savižudybė
 * Macedonian: самоубиство, суици́д
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam:
 * Manx: hene-varroo
 * Maori: mate whakamomori, whakamomori
 * Marathi: आत्महत्या
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: амиа хорлох
 * Nepali:
 * Norman: suicide
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: sjølvmord
 * Old English: selfcwalu
 * Ossetian: хиамарын
 * Pashto: انتحار
 * Persian:
 * Classical Persian: ,
 * Dari: ,
 * Iranian Persian: ,
 * Piedmontese: suissidi
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: fèin-mhurt
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: самоу̀бо̄јство, самоуби́ство, суѝцӣд
 * Roman:, samoubístvo,
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili: jiua
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: pagpapatiwakal, pagpapakamatay
 * Tajik: интиҳор, худкушӣ
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai: ,
 * Tibetan: རང་ཤི་རྒྱབ་པ
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: özüni öldürme
 * Ukrainian: самогу́бство, суїци́д
 * Urdu: خُود کُشی, خُودْکُشی, اِنْتِحار, اِنْتِہار
 * Uyghur: ئۆلۈۋېلىش
 * Uzbek:, suitsid, oʻzini oʻldirish, oʻzini-oʻzi oʻldirish
 * Vietnamese: (自殺),  (自死)
 * Volapük: oksasen
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh: hunanladdiad
 * Yiddish: אַליינמאָרד, זעלבסטמאָרד
 * Zhuang: gaggaj
 * Zulu: ukuzibulala


 * Afrikaans: selfmoordenaar
 * Arabic: مُنْتَحِر, مُنْتَحِرَة
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: самагу́бец, самагу́бца, самазабо́йца
 * Bengali: খোদকুশ
 * Bulgarian: самоуби́ец, самоуби́йца
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 自殺者
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: selvmorder
 * Dutch:, zelfmoordenaares, zelfmoordenaarster
 * Estonian: enesetapja
 * Finnish:
 * French:, , ,
 * German:, , Suizidant, Suizidantin, ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: מתאבד, מתאבדת
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: sjálfsmorðingi, sjálfsbani
 * Indonesian: pembunuh diri
 * Irish: féinmharfóir
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 自殺者
 * Korean:
 * Macedonian: самоубиец
 * Manx: hene-varrooder
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, selvmordsoffer, selvmorder
 * Old English: āgenslaga, selfbana, selfcwala
 * Persian:
 * Iranian Persian: اِنْتِحاری
 * Polish:, , ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: fèin-mhurtair
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: самоу̀бојица, самоуби́ца, самоубилац
 * Roman:, samoubíca, samoubilac
 * Slovak: ,
 * Slovene: samomorilec, samomorilka
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: самогу́бець, самогу́бця
 * Urdu: خُود کُش, خُودْکُش
 * Uyghur: ئۆلۈۋالغۇچى
 * Welsh: hunanladdwr, hunanladdwraig


 * Catalan:
 * Estonian: enesehävitus
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:
 * Greek:
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian: самоу́биство
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak:
 * Turkish:

Verb

 * 1)  To kill oneself intentionally.
 * 2)   To kill (someone) and make their death appear to have been a suicide rather than a homicide.
 * 3) To self-destruct.
 * 1)   To kill (someone) and make their death appear to have been a suicide rather than a homicide.
 * 2) To self-destruct.
 * 1) To self-destruct.
 * 1) To self-destruct.
 * 1) To self-destruct.

Synonyms

 * ,,  , ,  do oneself in,  , , take one's (own) life
 * see, ,
 * See also Thesaurus:kill

Etymology 1
, from and.

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  suicide