counter-attack

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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Italic *-teros Proto-Italic *komterosder. Proto-Italic *komterād Latin contrāder. Old French contre- Anglo-Norman countre-bor. Middle English counter- English counter- Proto-Indo-European *h2éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Italian a- Proto-Indo-European *dwóh1 Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Old French des- Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- Proto-Germanic *stikaną Proto-West Germanic *stekander. Old French atachier Old French destachier Middle French destacherbor. Italian distaccare Italian staccare Italian attaccarebor. French attaquerdeverb. French attaquebor. English attack English counter-attack From counter- + attack.

97 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: kundërsulm — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Arabic: هُجُوم مُضَادّ (hujūm muḍādd) — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Armenian: հակահարձակում (hakaharjakum) — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Armenian: հակագրոհ (hakagroh) — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Azerbaijani: əks-hücum — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Belarusian: контрата́ка (kontratáka) — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Belarusian: контрнаступле́нне (kontrnastupljénnje) — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Bulgarian: контраата́ка (kontraatáka) — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Catalan: contraatac — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Chinese Mandarin: 反擊 /反击 (fǎnjī) — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Chinese Mandarin: 逆襲 /逆袭 (nìxí) — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Czech: protiútok — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Danish: modangreb — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Dutch: tegenaanval — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Estonian: vasturünnak — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Finnish: vastahyökkäys — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• French: contre-attaque — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• French: contre-offensive — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• French: contrattaque — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• French: controffensive — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Georgian: კონტრშეტევა (ḳonṭršeṭeva) — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Georgian: კონტრიერიში (ḳonṭrieriši) — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• German: Gegenangriff — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Greek: αντεπίθεση (antepíthesi) — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Hebrew: התקפת נגד (hatkafát néged) — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Hungarian: ellentámadás — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Icelandic: gagnárás — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Irish: frithionsaí — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Italian: contrattacco — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Japanese: 反撃 (hangeki) — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Japanese: 逆襲 (gyakushū) — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Kazakh: қарсы шабуыл (qarsy şabuyl) — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Korean: 역습 (yeokseup) — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Korean: 반격 (ban'gyeok) — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Kyrgyz: каршы чабуул (karşı cabuul) — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Latvian: pretuzbrukums — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Lithuanian: kontrataka — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Macedonian: противна́пад (protivnápad) — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Māori: taupaepae — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Māori: whana whakairi — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Norwegian Bokmål: motangrep — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Norwegian Nynorsk: motangrep — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Norwegian Nynorsk: motåtak — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Persian: پاتَک (pâtak) — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Persian: ضِدِّحَمْله (zedd-e-hamle) — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Polish: kontratak — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Polish: kontra — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Portuguese: contra-ataque — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Romanian: contraatac — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Romanian: contra-atac — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Russian: контрата́ка (kontratáka) — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Russian: контрнаступле́ние (kontrnastuplénije) — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Serbo-Croatian: противна́пад — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Serbo-Croatian: протуна́пад — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Serbo-Croatian: protivnápad — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Serbo-Croatian: protunápad — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Slovak: protiútok — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Slovene: protinapad — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Spanish: contraataque — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Swahili: kaunta — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Swedish: motanfall — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Swedish: motangrepp — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Swedish: motattack — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Swedish: kontring — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Tajik: ҳамлаи ҷавобӣ (hamla-yi javobi) — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Tajik: ҳуҷуми ҷавобӣ (hujum-i javobi) — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Tibetan: རྒོལ་ལན (rgol lan) — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Turkish: karşı atak — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Turkish: karşı saldırı — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Turkish: kontratak — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Turkmen: garşy hüjüm — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Ukrainian: контрата́ка (kontratáka) — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Ukrainian: контрна́ступ (kontrnástup) — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Uyghur: قايتۇرما ھۇجۇم (qayturma hujum) — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Uzbek: kontrataka — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Uzbek: qarshi hujum — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Vietnamese: phản công — an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
• Armenian: հակահարձակվել (hakaharjakvel) — to attack in response to an attack by opponents
• Armenian: հակագրոհել (hakagrohel) — to attack in response to an attack by opponents
• Bulgarian: контраатакувам (kontraatakuvam) — to attack in response to an attack by opponents
• Catalan: contraatacar — to attack in response to an attack by opponents
• Chinese Mandarin: 反擊 /反击 (fǎnjī, fǎnjí) — to attack in response to an attack by opponents
• Finnish: tehdä vastahyökkäys — to attack in response to an attack by opponents
• French: contre-attaquer — to attack in response to an attack by opponents
• French: contrattaquer — to attack in response to an attack by opponents
• Greek: αντεπιτίθεμαι (antepitíthemai) — to attack in response to an attack by opponents
• Hungarian: ellentámadást indít — to attack in response to an attack by opponents
• Irish: frithionsaigh — to attack in response to an attack by opponents
• Italian: contrattaccare — to attack in response to an attack by opponents
• Polish: kontratakować — to attack in response to an attack by opponents
• Portuguese: contra-atacar — to attack in response to an attack by opponents
• Russian: контратакова́ть (kontratakovátʹ) — to attack in response to an attack by opponents
• Spanish: contraatacar — to attack in response to an attack by opponents
• Swedish: gå till motanfall/motangrepp/motattack — to attack in response to an attack by opponents
• Swedish: kontra — to attack in response to an attack by opponents
• Tibetan: རྒོལ་ལན་སློག (rgol lan slog) — to attack in response to an attack by opponents
• Tibetan: རྒོལ་ལན་སྤྲོད (rgol lan sprod) — to attack in response to an attack by opponents