beheading

English

Etymology

From behead + -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɪˈhɛˌdɪŋ/
  • (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /bəˈhɛˌdɪŋ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Verb

beheading

1. present participle and gerund of behead

Noun

beheading (countable and uncountable, plural beheadings)

1. An instance of a person being beheaded.

   A large crowd gathered to see the beheading.

   The guillotine was meant to humanize beheadings, but allowed the French Revolution to execute people at an industrial rate.

Synonyms

• decapitation
• decollation

Translations

an instance of beheading

• Catalan: decapitació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 斬首 / 斩首 (zh) (zhǎnshǒu), 斬罪 / 斩罪 (zh) (zhǎnzuì), 斷頭 / 断头 (zh) (duàntóu), 殺頭 / 杀头 (zh) (shātóu), 問斬 / 问斩 (zh) (wènzhǎn)

• Czech: dekapitace (cs) f, stětí n
• Danish: halshugning c
• Dutch: onthoofding (nl)
• Esperanto: senkapigo
• Estonian: pea maha raiumine
• Finnish: mestaus (fi)
• French: décapitation (fr)
• German: Enthauptung (de) f
• Greek: αποκεφαλισμός (el) m (apokefalismós)
• Hebrew: עריפה (he) f (a'rifa)
• Hungarian: lefejezés (hu)
• Italian: decapitazione (it) f
• Japanese: 打ち首 (ja) (uchikubi)
• Khmer: ការកាត់ក្បាល (kaa kat kbaal)
• Korean: 참수(斬首) (ko) (chamsu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: please add this translation if you can

• Macedonian: обезглавување n (obezglavuvanje)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: halshugging m or f, halshugning m

• Polish: dekapitacja (pl) f, ścięcie (pl) n, kęsim (pl) n
• Portuguese: decapitação (pt) f
• Russian: обезгла́вливание (ru) n (obezglávlivanije), декапита́ция (ru) f (dekapitácija), обезгла́вле́ние (ru) (obezglávlénije)
• Scottish Gaelic: dì-cheannadh m
• Spanish: decapitación f, degüello (es) m, descabezamiento (es) m
• Swedish: halshuggning (sv) c
• Turkish: boynunu vurma

See also

• subheading