capital punishment

English

Etymology

capital + punishment, originally by beheading or decapitating

Noun

capital punishment (countable and uncountable, plural capital punishments)

The practice of putting a person to death as a punishment for a crime.
Synonym: death penalty

Translations

punishment by death — See also translations at death penalty

Arabic: إِعْدَام‎ m (ʔiʕdām), عُقُوبَة اَلْإِعْدَام‎ f (ʕuqūbat al-ʔiʕdām), عُقُوبَة اَلْمَوْت‎ f (ʕuqūbat al-mawt)
Armenian: մահապատիժ (hy) (mahapatiž)
Azerbaijani: edam
Bulgarian: смъртно наказание n (smǎrtno nakazanie)
Catalan: pena capital f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 死刑 (zh) (sǐxíng), 極刑／极刑 (zh) (jíxíng), 死罪 (zh) (sǐzuì)
Czech: trest smrti m
Danish: dødsstraf (da) c
Dutch: doodstraf (nl) f
Estonian: surmanuhtlus
Faroese: deyðarevsing f
Finnish: kuolemanrangaistus (fi)
French: peine capitale (fr) f, peine de mort (fr) f, punition capitale f
Georgian: სასჯელის უმაღლესი ზომა (sasǯelis umaɣlesi zoma)
German: Todesstrafe (de) f
Greek: θανατική ποινή (el) f (thanatikí poiní), έσχατη ποινή f (éschati poiní)
Hindi: मृत्युदण्ड m (mŕtyudaṇḍ), महादण्ड (hi) m (mahādaṇḍ)
Hungarian: halálbüntetés (hu)
Icelandic: dauðarefsing (is) f
Indonesian: hukuman mati (id)
Irish: pionós báis m
Italian: pena capitale
Japanese: 死刑 (ja) (しけい, shikei), 極刑 (ja) (きょっけい, kyokkei), 死罪 (ja) (しざい, shizai)
Korean: 사형(死刑) (ko) (sahyeong)
Latin: punitio capitalis f
Latvian: nāvessods m
Macedonian: смртна казна f (smrtna kazna)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: dødsstraff m

Nynorsk: dødsstraff f
Polish: kara śmierci (pl) f, najwyższy wymiar kary m
Portuguese: pena de morte (pt) f, pena capital f
Romanian: pedeapsă capitală f
Russian: сме́ртная казнь (ru) f (smértnaja kaznʹ), вы́сшая ме́ра наказа́ния (ru) f (výsšaja méra nakazánija)
Sanskrit: महादण्ड (sa) m (mahādaṇḍa) (literally 'the greatest punishment'), मृत्युदण्ड (sa) m (mṛtyudaṇḍa)
Slovene: smrtna kazen (sl) f
Spanish: castigo capital m, pena capital (es) f
Swedish: dödsstraff (sv) n
Tagalog: parusang kamatayan
Tamil: மரணதண்டனை (ta) (maraṇataṇṭaṉai)
Turkish: idam cezası (tr), ölüm cezası (tr), idam (tr)
Turkmen: ölüm jezasy (tk)
Ukrainian: сме́ртна ка́ра f (smértna kára), ви́ща мі́ра покара́ння f (výšča míra pokaránnja)
Vietnamese: tử hình (vi)
Volapük: deadapönod
Welsh: dienyddio (cy) m