life sentence

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42 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: سَجْن مَدَى اَلْحَيَاة (sajn madā l-ḥayāh) — sentence of imprisonment for the rest of the defendant's life
• Arabic: سَجْن مُؤَبَّد (sajn muʔabbad) — sentence of imprisonment for the rest of the defendant's life
• Arabic: حُكْم مُؤَبَّد (ḥukm muʔabbad) — sentence of imprisonment for the rest of the defendant's life
• Arabic: حَبْس مُؤَبَّد (ḥabs muʔabbad) — sentence of imprisonment for the rest of the defendant's life
• Catalan: cadena perpètua — sentence of imprisonment for the rest of the defendant's life
• Chinese Mandarin: 無期徒刑 /无期徒刑 (wúqī túxíng) — sentence of imprisonment for the rest of the defendant's life
• Chinese Mandarin: 終身監禁 /终身监禁 (zhōngshēn jiānjìn) — sentence of imprisonment for the rest of the defendant's life
• Czech: doživotí — sentence of imprisonment for the rest of the defendant's life
• Dutch: levenslang — sentence of imprisonment for the rest of the defendant's life
• Dutch: levenslange gevangenisstraf — sentence of imprisonment for the rest of the defendant's life
• Esperanto: dumviva malliberiĝo — sentence of imprisonment for the rest of the defendant's life
• Esperanto: dumviva karcero — sentence of imprisonment for the rest of the defendant's life
• Esperanto: dumviva malliberejo — sentence of imprisonment for the rest of the defendant's life
• Esperanto: ĝismorta malliberejo — sentence of imprisonment for the rest of the defendant's life
• Finnish: elinkautinen — sentence of imprisonment for the rest of the defendant's life
• French: condamnation à perpétuité — sentence of imprisonment for the rest of the defendant's life
• French: emprisonnement à perpétuité — sentence of imprisonment for the rest of the defendant's life
• German: lebenslange Haftstrafe — sentence of imprisonment for the rest of the defendant's life
• German: lebenslänglich — sentence of imprisonment for the rest of the defendant's life
• Greek: ισόβια (isóvia) — sentence of imprisonment for the rest of the defendant's life
• Hungarian: életfogytiglan — sentence of imprisonment for the rest of the defendant's life
• Italian: ergastolo — sentence of imprisonment for the rest of the defendant's life
• Japanese: 終身刑 (shūshinkei) — sentence of imprisonment for the rest of the defendant's life
• Japanese: 無期懲役 (muki chōeki) — sentence of imprisonment for the rest of the defendant's life
• Korean: 종신형 (jongsinhyeong) — sentence of imprisonment for the rest of the defendant's life
• Korean: 무기징역 (mugijing'yeok) — sentence of imprisonment for the rest of the defendant's life
• Malayalam: ജീവപര്യന്തം തടവ് (jīvaparyantaṁ taṭavŭ) — sentence of imprisonment for the rest of the defendant's life
• Polish: dożywocie — sentence of imprisonment for the rest of the defendant's life
• Portuguese: prisão perpétua — sentence of imprisonment for the rest of the defendant's life
• Romanian: închisoare pe viață — sentence of imprisonment for the rest of the defendant's life
• Russian: пожи́зненное заключе́ние (požíznennoje zaključénije) — sentence of imprisonment for the rest of the defendant's life
• Spanish: cadena perpetua — sentence of imprisonment for the rest of the defendant's life
• Spanish: presidio perpetuo — sentence of imprisonment for the rest of the defendant's life
• Spanish: prisión perpetua — sentence of imprisonment for the rest of the defendant's life
• Swedish: livstidsstraff — sentence of imprisonment for the rest of the defendant's life
• Tagalog: habang-buhay na pagkabilanggo — sentence of imprisonment for the rest of the defendant's life
• Tagalog: habang-buhay na pagkakulong — sentence of imprisonment for the rest of the defendant's life
• Tagalog: kadena-perpetwa — sentence of imprisonment for the rest of the defendant's life
• Urdu: عمر قید (umr qaid) — sentence of imprisonment for the rest of the defendant's life
• Vietnamese: án chung thân — sentence of imprisonment for the rest of the defendant's life
• Vietnamese: chung thân — sentence of imprisonment for the rest of the defendant's life
• Vietnamese: tù chung thân — sentence of imprisonment for the rest of the defendant's life