mass murder

English

Noun

mass murder (plural mass murders)

The killing of a large number of people over a short period of time.

Derived terms

mass murderer

Related terms

Translations

successive killing of many people

Arabic: قَتْل جَمَاعِيّ‎ m (qatl jamāʕiyy)
Belarusian: ма́савае забо́йства n (másavaje zabójstva)
Bulgarian: ма́сово уби́йство n (másovo ubíjstvo)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 大規模屠殺／大规模屠杀 (dàguīmó túshā), 大屠殺／大屠杀 (zh) (dàtúshā)
Czech: masová vražda f
Danish: massemord n
Dutch: massamoord (nl) m
Esperanto: amasmurdo
Estonian: massimõrv (et)
Finnish: joukkomurha (fi)
French: tuerie de masse (fr) f
German: Massenmord (de) m
Hindi: सामूहिक हत्या f (sāmūhik hatyā)
Hungarian: tömeggyilkosság (hu)
Icelandic: fjöldamorð (is) n
Indonesian: pembunuhan masal
Italian: uccisione di massa f
Japanese: 大量虐殺 (たいりょうぎゃくさつ, tairyō gyakusatsu)
Kazakh: жаппай өлтіру (jappai öltıru)
Korean: 대량 살인(大量殺人) (daeryang sarin)
Macedonian: масовно убиство n (masovno ubistvo)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: massemord n

Nynorsk: massemord n
Persian: کشتار جمعی‎ (koštâr-e jam'i)
Polish: masowe morderstwo n
Portuguese: assassinato/assassínio em massa m
Romanian: ucidere în masă f, asasinare în masă f, crimă în masă f
Russian: ма́ссовое уби́йство (ru) n (mássovoje ubíjstvo)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: масовно убојство n, масовно убиство n

Roman: masovno ubojstvo n, masovno ubistvo n
Slovak: masová vražda f
Slovene: množični umor m
Spanish: asesinato masivo m
Swedish: massmord (sv) n
Tajik: куштори ҷамъӣ (kuštori jamʾī)
Ukrainian: ма́сове вби́вство n (másove vbývstvo)
Vietnamese: giết người hàng loạt, giết người tập thể

References

“mass murder”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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