firing squad

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42 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Armenian: գնդակահարողների խումբ (gndakaharoġneri xumb) — a group of soldiers detailed to execute someone or to discharge weapons ceremonially
• Azerbaijani: atəş dəstəsi — a group of soldiers detailed to execute someone or to discharge weapons ceremonially
• Chinese Mandarin: 行刑隊 /行刑队 (xíngxíngduì) — a group of soldiers detailed to execute someone or to discharge weapons ceremonially
• Danish: eksekutionspeleton — a group of soldiers detailed to execute someone or to discharge weapons ceremonially
• Dutch: vuurpeloton — a group of soldiers detailed to execute someone or to discharge weapons ceremonially
• Esperanto: pafeskadro — a group of soldiers detailed to execute someone or to discharge weapons ceremonially
• Faroese: fyribeiningarfylgi — a group of soldiers detailed to execute someone or to discharge weapons ceremonially
• Finnish: teloituskomppania — a group of soldiers detailed to execute someone or to discharge weapons ceremonially
• Finnish: teloituspartio — a group of soldiers detailed to execute someone or to discharge weapons ceremonially
• French: peloton d’exécution — a group of soldiers detailed to execute someone or to discharge weapons ceremonially
• Georgian: ათეული (ateuli) — a group of soldiers detailed to execute someone or to discharge weapons ceremonially
• German: Erschießungskommando — a group of soldiers detailed to execute someone or to discharge weapons ceremonially
• German: Exekutionskommando — a group of soldiers detailed to execute someone or to discharge weapons ceremonially
• German: Hinrichtungskommando — a group of soldiers detailed to execute someone or to discharge weapons ceremonially
• German: Peloton — a group of soldiers detailed to execute someone or to discharge weapons ceremonially
• German: Ehrensalutkommando — a group of soldiers detailed to execute someone or to discharge weapons ceremonially
• Greek: εκτελεστικό απόσπασμα (ektelestikó apóspasma) — a group of soldiers detailed to execute someone or to discharge weapons ceremonially
• Hebrew: כיתת יורים — a group of soldiers detailed to execute someone or to discharge weapons ceremonially
• Hungarian: kivégzőosztag — a group of soldiers detailed to execute someone or to discharge weapons ceremonially
• Icelandic: aftökusveit — a group of soldiers detailed to execute someone or to discharge weapons ceremonially
• Indonesian: regu tembak — a group of soldiers detailed to execute someone or to discharge weapons ceremonially
• Irish: scuad lámhaigh — a group of soldiers detailed to execute someone or to discharge weapons ceremonially
• Italian: plotone d'esecuzione — a group of soldiers detailed to execute someone or to discharge weapons ceremonially
• Italian: plotone di esecuzione — a group of soldiers detailed to execute someone or to discharge weapons ceremonially
• Japanese: 銃殺隊 (jūsatsutai) — a group of soldiers detailed to execute someone or to discharge weapons ceremonially
• Khmer: បាញ់ក្រុមជម្រើសជាតិ (baɲ krom cumrəəh ciet) — a group of soldiers detailed to execute someone or to discharge weapons ceremonially
• Khmer: ក្រុមទាហានពេជ្ឈឃាដ (krom tiehien pɨcchea’khiet) — a group of soldiers detailed to execute someone or to discharge weapons ceremonially
• Macedonian: стрелачки вод (strelački vod) — a group of soldiers detailed to execute someone or to discharge weapons ceremonially
• Malay: skuad tembak — a group of soldiers detailed to execute someone or to discharge weapons ceremonially
• Norwegian Bokmål: eksekusjonspelotong — a group of soldiers detailed to execute someone or to discharge weapons ceremonially
• Norwegian Nynorsk: eksekusjonspelotong — a group of soldiers detailed to execute someone or to discharge weapons ceremonially
• Persian: جوخه آتش (juxe âtaš) — a group of soldiers detailed to execute someone or to discharge weapons ceremonially
• Polish: pluton egzekucyjny — a group of soldiers detailed to execute someone or to discharge weapons ceremonially
• Portuguese: pelotão de fuzilamento — a group of soldiers detailed to execute someone or to discharge weapons ceremonially
• Romanian: pluton de execuție — a group of soldiers detailed to execute someone or to discharge weapons ceremonially
• Russian: расстре́льная кома́нда (rasstrélʹnaja kománda) — a group of soldiers detailed to execute someone or to discharge weapons ceremonially
• Spanish: pelotón de fusilamiento — a group of soldiers detailed to execute someone or to discharge weapons ceremonially
• Spanish: pelotón de ejecución — a group of soldiers detailed to execute someone or to discharge weapons ceremonially
• Spanish: piquete de ejecución — a group of soldiers detailed to execute someone or to discharge weapons ceremonially
• Swedish: exekutionspluton — a group of soldiers detailed to execute someone or to discharge weapons ceremonially
• Swedish: arkebuseringspluton — a group of soldiers detailed to execute someone or to discharge weapons ceremonially
• Turkish: idam mangası — a group of soldiers detailed to execute someone or to discharge weapons ceremonially