manslaughter

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• UK: /ˈmænˌslɔːtə/
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• US: /ˈmænˌslɔtɚ/
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From Middle English manslaȝter, manslauter, equivalent to man + slaughter, or taken as an adaptation of Old English mansliht (“murder; killing of a person”), from mann (“person”) + sliht (“killing”), see manslaught. Cognate with Scots manslauchter (“homicide”). Compare also Old Frisian monslaga (“murder”).

50 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: manslag — act of killing unlawfully
• Bulgarian: непредумишлено убийство (nepredumišleno ubijstvo) — act of killing unlawfully
• Catalan: homicidi involuntari — act of killing unlawfully
• Chinese Mandarin: 誤殺 /误杀 (wùshā) — act of killing unlawfully
• Chinese Mandarin: 過失殺人 /过失杀人 (guòshī shārén) — act of killing unlawfully
• Chinese Mandarin: 非預謀殺人罪 /非预谋杀人罪 (fēi yùmóu shārén zuì) — act of killing unlawfully
• Cornish: denladh — act of killing unlawfully
• Czech: zabití z nedbalosti — act of killing unlawfully
• Czech: zabití — act of killing unlawfully
• Czech: neúmyslné zabití — act of killing unlawfully
• Danish: manddrab — act of killing unlawfully
• Dutch: doodslag — act of killing unlawfully
• Faroese: manndráp — act of killing unlawfully
• Finnish: kuolemantuottamus — act of killing unlawfully
• Finnish: tappo — act of killing unlawfully
• French: homicide involontaire — act of killing unlawfully
• French: homicide involontaire coupable — act of killing unlawfully
• Georgian: განუზრახველი მკვლელობა (ganuzraxveli mḳvleloba) — act of killing unlawfully
• German: Totschlag — act of killing unlawfully
• German: [Verbrechen] mit Todesfolge — act of killing unlawfully
• German: fahrlässige Tötung — act of killing unlawfully
• Greek: ανθρωποκτονία (anthropoktonía) — act of killing unlawfully
• Hebrew: הריגה ברשלנות — act of killing unlawfully
• Hungarian: gondatlanságból elkövetett emberölés — act of killing unlawfully
• Hungarian: előre meg nem fontolt szándékkal elkövetett emberölés — act of killing unlawfully
• Hungarian: erős felindulásban elkövetett emberölés — act of killing unlawfully
• Icelandic: manndráp — act of killing unlawfully
• Irish: dúnorgain — act of killing unlawfully
• Italian: omicidio colposo — act of killing unlawfully
• Japanese: 故殺 — act of killing unlawfully
• Japanese: 過失致死 — act of killing unlawfully
• Japanese: 過失致死罪 (kashitsuchishizai) — act of killing unlawfully
• Korean: 고살 (gosal) — act of killing unlawfully
• Manx: dunverys neuvyskidagh — act of killing unlawfully
• Māori: matenga pokerehū — act of killing unlawfully
• Māori: whakamate ohonoa — act of killing unlawfully
• Norwegian Bokmål: uaktsomt drap — act of killing unlawfully
• Polish: nieumyślne spowodowanie śmierci — act of killing unlawfully
• Portuguese: homicídio culposo — act of killing unlawfully
• Russian: непредумы́шленное уби́йство (nepredumýšlennoje ubíjstvo) — act of killing unlawfully
• Scottish Gaelic: duine-mharbhadh — act of killing unlawfully
• Serbo-Croatian: ubojstvo iz nehaja — act of killing unlawfully
• Spanish: homicidio — act of killing unlawfully
• Spanish: homicidio involuntario — act of killing unlawfully
• Swedish: dråp — act of killing unlawfully
• Swedish: vållande till annans död — act of killing unlawfully
• Swedish: dödsvållande — act of killing unlawfully
• Telugu: నరహత్య (narahatya) — act of killing unlawfully
• Vietnamese: ngộ sát — act of killing unlawfully
• Welsh: dynladdiad — act of killing unlawfully