English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
self- + defense. First used by Hobbes in the 1650s.
self-defense (usually uncountable, plural self-defenses)
- The means of defending oneself from physical attack.
- (law) 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[edit]
means of defending oneself from attack
- Albanian: vetëmbrojtje (sq) f
- Arabic: دِفَاع عَنِ النَّفْسِ m (difāʕ ʕani n-nafsi)
- Armenian: ինքնապաշտպանություն (hy) (inkʻnapaštpanutʻyun)
- Azerbaijani: özünüqoruma, özünümüdafiə
- Belarusian: самаабаро́на f (samaabaróna)
- Bulgarian: самоотбра́на (bg) f (samootbrána)
- Catalan: autodefensa f, defensa personal f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 自衛/自卫 (zh) (zìwèi), 護身/护身 (zh) (hùshēn)
- Czech: sebeobrana f
- Danish: selvforsvar n
- Dutch: zelfverdediging (nl) f
- Estonian: enesekaitse
- Faroese: sjálvverja f
- Finnish: itsepuolustus (fi)
- French: autodéfense (fr) f
- Georgian: თავდაცვა (tavdacva)
- German: Selbstverteidigung (de) f, Notwehr (de) f
- Greek: αυτοάμυνα (el) f (aftoámyna)
- Hebrew: הִתְגּוֹנְנוּת f (hitgonenut), הֲגָנָה עַצְמִית f (haganá astmít)
- Hungarian: önvédelem (hu)
- Italian: autodifesa (it) f
- Japanese: 自己防衛 (じこぼうえい, jiko bōei)
- Korean: 자기방어(自己防禦) (jagibang'eo)
- Macedonian: самоодбрана f (samoodbrana)
- Malay: silat (ms)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: selvforsvar n
- Persian: دِفاعِ شَخْصی (defâ'-e šaxsi)
- Polish: samoobrona (pl) f
- Portuguese: autodefesa (pt) f, defesa pessoal f
- Romanian: autoapărare (ro) f
- Russian: самооборо́на (ru) f (samooboróna)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: самоо̀дбрана f, самоо̀брана f
- Roman: samoòdbrana f, samoòbrana (sh) f
- Slovak: sebaobrana f
- Slovene: samoobramba f
- Spanish: autodefensa (es) f, defensa personal f
- Swedish: självförsvar (sv) n
- Tamil: தற்காப்பு (ta) (taṟkāppu)
- Turkish: nefsi müdafaa (tr)
- Ukrainian: самооборо́на f (samooboróna)
- Vietnamese: sự tự vệ (vi)
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law: the right to protect oneself against violence by using reasonable force
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