lapidation

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin lapidātiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌlæpɪˈdeɪʃən/

  • Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

lapidation (countable and uncountable, plural lapidations)

1. (law) The practice or act of stoning, sometimes to the point of death, as punishment
   • 2007 March 6, “International Women’s Day, another day of repression for women”, in 亚州新闻:

     The five women on trial were almost all activists for the full repeal (not just a moratorium) of lapidation, ie stoning, from Iran’s law books.

Related terms

• dilapidated
• lapidate

Translations

act of stoning, sometimes to the point of death

• Arabic: رَجْم m (rajm)
• Armenian: քարկոծում (hy) (kʻarkocum)
• Belarusian: пабіванне камянямі n (pabivannje kamjanjami)
• Bulgarian: пребиване с камъни (prebivane s kamǎni)
• Catalan: lapidació (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 石刑 (zh) (shíxíng), 投石刑 (tóushíxíng), 投石 (tóushí)

• Czech: kamenování
• Dutch: steniging (nl) f
• Finnish: kivittäminen (fi), kivitys (fi)
• French: lapidation (fr) f
• German: Steinigung (de) f, (from Arabic) Radschm m, Lapidation f
• Greek: λιθοβολισμός (el) m (lithovolismós)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: megkövezés (hu)
• Ido: ston-agar
• Italian: lapidazione (it) f
• Japanese: 石打ち (いしうち, ishi-uchi), 石撃ち (いしうち, ishi-uchi)
• Korean: 투석형(投石刑) (tuseokhyeong)
• Latin: lapidatio f
• Macedonian: каменување n (kamenuvanje)
• Persian: سنگسار (fa) (sangsâr), رجم (fa) (rajm)
• Polish: ukamienowanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: lapidação f, apedrejamento
• Russian: побива́ние камня́ми n (pobivánije kamnjámi), забра́сывание камня́ми n (zabrásyvanije kamnjámi), лапида́ция f (lapidácija), (from Arabic) раджм m (radžm)
• Spanish: lapidación (es) f
• Swedish: stening (sv) c
• Turkish: recm (tr), taşlama (tr)
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• palatinoid

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin lapidātiōnem. Morphologically, from lapider +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la.pi.da.sjɔ̃/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

lapidation f (plural lapidations)

1. lapidation

Further reading

• “lapidation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.