suicide

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈs(j)uːɪˌsaɪd/
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• Canada, General-American: /ˈsuɪˌsaɪd/
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• Australian: /ˈsʉːɪˌsɑed/
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• New-Zealand: [ˈsʉːəˌsɑe̯d]
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• Philippines: /ˌsuːɪˈsaɪd/
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• Philippines: /ˈswisaɪd/
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• rhymes with -uːɪsaɪd
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• CMU ARPABET: S UW1 AH0 S AY2 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: S UW1 IH0 S AY2 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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First attested in Thomas Browne's Religio Medici (1643) in noun sense 1, ostensibly from New Latin suīcīdium, from suī (genitive reflexive pronoun) + -cīdium (“act of killing or murder”), but often believed to have originated in English before entering Latin. Displaced native Middle English seolf-cwale from Old English selfcwalu (literally “self-slaughter”), after which suicide may have been modelled, or calqued (compare manuscript). Noun sense 3 is perhaps by analogy with words like homicide, patricide (see -cide), or, although unlikely, from Medieval Latin suīcīda; see the Etymology section at suīcīdium.

259 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abkhaz: аҽшьра́ (aĉšrá) — instance of killing oneself
• Afrikaans: selfmoord — instance of killing oneself
• Afrikaans: selfdood — instance of killing oneself
• Albanian: vetëvrasje — instance of killing oneself
• Amharic: ራስን መግደል (rasn mägdäl) — instance of killing oneself
• Arabic: اِنْتِحَار (intiḥār) — instance of killing oneself
• Armenian: ինքնասպանություն (inkʻnaspanutʻyun) — instance of killing oneself
• Assamese: আত্মহত্যা (atmohoitta) — instance of killing oneself
• Asturian: suicidiu — instance of killing oneself
• Azerbaijani: intihar — instance of killing oneself
• Azerbaijani: özünü öldürmə — instance of killing oneself
• Basque: suizidio — instance of killing oneself
• Belarusian: самагу́бства (samahúbstva) — instance of killing oneself
• Belarusian: самазабо́йства (samazabójstva) — instance of killing oneself
• Belarusian: суіцы́д (suicýd) — instance of killing oneself
• Bengali: আত্মহত্যা (attohotta) — instance of killing oneself
• Bengali: খোদকুশী (khōdkuśi) — instance of killing oneself
• Bulgarian: самоуби́йство (samoubíjstvo) — instance of killing oneself
• Burmese: ကိုယ်ကိုသတ်ခြင်း (kuiykuisathkrang:) — instance of killing oneself
• Catalan: suïcidi — instance of killing oneself
• Chinese Cantonese: 自殺 /自杀 (zi6 saat3) — instance of killing oneself
• Eastern Min Chinese: 自殺 /自杀 (cê̤ṳ-sák) — instance of killing oneself
• Hakka Chinese: 自殺 /自杀 (chhṳ-sat) — instance of killing oneself
• Chinese: 自殺 /自杀 (zh-min-nan) — instance of killing oneself
• Jin Chinese: 自殺 /自杀 (zi3 sah4) — instance of killing oneself
• Chinese Mandarin: 自殺 /自杀 (zìshā) — instance of killing oneself
• Wu Chinese: 自殺 /自杀 — instance of killing oneself
• Czech: sebevražda — instance of killing oneself
• Danish: selvmord — instance of killing oneself
• Dutch: zelfmoord — instance of killing oneself
• Dutch: zelfdoding — instance of killing oneself
• Esperanto: sinmortigo — instance of killing oneself
• Esperanto: memmortigo — instance of killing oneself
• Estonian: enesetapp — instance of killing oneself
• Faroese: sjálvmorð — instance of killing oneself
• Finnish: itsemurha — instance of killing oneself
• French: suicide — instance of killing oneself
• Friulian: suicidi — instance of killing oneself
• Galician: suicidio — instance of killing oneself
• Georgian: თვითმკვლელობა (tvitmḳvleloba) — instance of killing oneself
• German: Suizid — instance of killing oneself
• German: Freitod — instance of killing oneself
• German: Selbstmord — instance of killing oneself
• Greek: αυτοκτονία (aftoktonía) — instance of killing oneself
• Greek: αυτοχειρία (aftocheiría) — instance of killing oneself
• Hebrew: הִתְאַבְּדוּת (hit'abdút) — instance of killing oneself
• Hindi: आत्महत्या (ātmahatyā) — instance of killing oneself
• Hindi: आत्मघात (ātmaghāt) — instance of killing oneself
• Hindi: आत्मवध (ātmavadh) — instance of killing oneself
• Hindi: खुदकुशी (khudkuśī) — instance of killing oneself
• Hindi: ख़ुद-कुशी (xud-kuśī) — instance of killing oneself
• Hindi: स्वहंता (svahantā) — instance of killing oneself
• Hindi: आत्महिंसा (ātmahinsā) — instance of killing oneself
• Hindi: ख़ुदकुशी (xudkuśī) — instance of killing oneself
• Hungarian: öngyilkosság — instance of killing oneself
• Icelandic: sjálfsmorð — instance of killing oneself
• Icelandic: sjálfsvíg — instance of killing oneself
• Ido: su-ocido — instance of killing oneself
• Ilocano: ᜉᜈᜄ᜔ᜉᜃᜋᜆᜌ᜔ (panagpakamatay) — instance of killing oneself
• Indonesian: bunuh diri — instance of killing oneself
• Irish: féinmharú — instance of killing oneself
• Italian: suicidio — instance of killing oneself
• Japanese: 自殺 (jisatsu) — instance of killing oneself
• Japanese: 自害 (jigai) — instance of killing oneself
• Japanese: 自決 (jiketsu) — instance of killing oneself
• Kannada: ಆತ್ಮಹತ್ಯೆ (ātmahatye) — instance of killing oneself
• Kazakh: өзін-өзі өлтіру (özın-özı öltıru) — instance of killing oneself
• Kazakh: өзін-өзі қол жұмсау (özın-özı qol jūmsau) — instance of killing oneself
• Khmer: សម្លាប់ខ្លួនឯង (sɑmlap khluən ʼaeng) — instance of killing oneself
• Khmer: អត្តឃាត (ʼattaʼkhiət) — instance of killing oneself
• Korean: 자살 (jasal) — instance of killing oneself
• Korean: 자결 (jagyeol) — instance of killing oneself
• Korean: 극단적 선택 (geukdanjeok seontaek) — instance of killing oneself
• Northern Kurdish: întixar — instance of killing oneself
• Northern Kurdish: xwekujî — instance of killing oneself
• Northern Kurdish: xwekuştin — instance of killing oneself
• Kyrgyz: өзүн өзү өлтүрүү (özün özü öltürüü) — instance of killing oneself
• Lao: ການຂ້າຕົວຕາຍ (kān khā tūa tāi) — instance of killing oneself
• Lao: ອັດຕະວິນິບາດກໍາ (ʼat ta wi ni bāt kam) — instance of killing oneself
• Latin: mors voluntāria — instance of killing oneself
• Latin: suīcīdium — instance of killing oneself
• Latvian: pašnāvība — instance of killing oneself
• Lithuanian: savižudybė — instance of killing oneself
• Luxembourgish: Suicide — instance of killing oneself
• Macedonian: самоубиство (samoubistvo) — instance of killing oneself
• Macedonian: суици́д (suicíd) — instance of killing oneself
• Malay: bunuh diri — instance of killing oneself
• Malayalam: ആത്മഹത്യ (ātmahatya) — instance of killing oneself
• Manx: hene-varroo — instance of killing oneself
• Māori: mate whakamomori — instance of killing oneself
• Māori: whakamomori — instance of killing oneself
• Marathi: आत्महत्या (ātmahatyā) — instance of killing oneself
• Mongolian: амиа хорлох (amia xorlox) — instance of killing oneself
• Nepali: आत्महत्या (ātmahatyā) — instance of killing oneself
• Norman: suicide — instance of killing oneself
• Norwegian Bokmål: selvmord — instance of killing oneself
• Norwegian Nynorsk: sjølvmord — instance of killing oneself
• Old English: selfcwalu — instance of killing oneself
• Ossetian: хиамарын (xiamaryn) — instance of killing oneself
• Pacoh: dyáq — instance of killing oneself
• Pashto: انتحار (entehār) — instance of killing oneself
• Persian: خْوَدْکُشِی (xwadkušī) — instance of killing oneself
• Persian: اِنْتِحَار (intihār) — instance of killing oneself
• Dari: خوَدْکُشِی (xudkušī) — instance of killing oneself
• Dari: اِنْتِحَار (intihār) — instance of killing oneself
• Iranian Persian: خودْکُشی (xodkoši) — instance of killing oneself
• Iranian Persian: اِنْتِحار (entehâr) — instance of killing oneself
• Piedmontese: suissidi — instance of killing oneself
• Polish: samobójstwo — instance of killing oneself
• Portuguese: suicídio — instance of killing oneself
• Romanian: sinucidere — instance of killing oneself
• Russian: самоуби́йство (samoubíjstvo) — instance of killing oneself
• Russian: суици́д (suicíd) — instance of killing oneself
• Northern Sami: iešsorbmen — instance of killing oneself
• Northern Sami: iešsoardin — instance of killing oneself
• Scottish Gaelic: fèin-mhurt — instance of killing oneself
• Serbo-Croatian: самоу̀бо̄јство — instance of killing oneself
• Serbo-Croatian: самоуби́ство — instance of killing oneself
• Serbo-Croatian: суѝцӣд — instance of killing oneself
• Serbo-Croatian: samoùbōjstvo — instance of killing oneself
• Serbo-Croatian: samoubístvo — instance of killing oneself
• Serbo-Croatian: sȕicīd — instance of killing oneself
• Slovak: samovražda — instance of killing oneself
• Slovene: samomor — instance of killing oneself
• Spanish: suicidio — instance of killing oneself
• Spanish: autolisis — instance of killing oneself
• Swahili: jiua — instance of killing oneself
• Swedish: självmord — instance of killing oneself
• Tagalog: pagpapatiwakal — instance of killing oneself
• Tagalog: pagpapakamatay — instance of killing oneself
• Tajik: интиҳор (intihor) — instance of killing oneself
• Tajik: худкушӣ (xudkuši) — instance of killing oneself
• Tamil: தற்கொலை (taṟkolai) — instance of killing oneself
• Telugu: ఆత్మహత్య (ātmahatya) — instance of killing oneself
• Thai: การฆ่าตัวตาย (gaan-kâa-dtuua-dtaai) — instance of killing oneself
• Thai: อัตวินิบาตกรรม — instance of killing oneself
• Tibetan: རང་ཤི་རྒྱབ་པ (rang shi rgyab pa) — instance of killing oneself
• Turkish: intihar — instance of killing oneself
• Turkish: özkıyım — instance of killing oneself
• Turkmen: özüni öldürme — instance of killing oneself
• Ukrainian: самогу́бство (samohúbstvo) — instance of killing oneself
• Ukrainian: суїци́д (sujicýd) — instance of killing oneself
• Urdu: خُود کُشی (xūd kuśī) — instance of killing oneself
• Urdu: خُودْکُشی (xūdkuśī) — instance of killing oneself
• Urdu: اِنْتِحار (intihār) — instance of killing oneself
• Urdu: اِنْتِہار (intihār) — instance of killing oneself
• Uyghur: ئۆلۈۋېلىش (ölüwëlish) — instance of killing oneself
• Uzbek: xudkushlik — instance of killing oneself
• Uzbek: suitsid — instance of killing oneself
• Uzbek: oʻzini oʻldirish — instance of killing oneself
• Uzbek: oʻzini-oʻzi oʻldirish — instance of killing oneself
• Vietnamese: tự sát — instance of killing oneself
• Vietnamese: tự tử — instance of killing oneself
• Volapük: oksasen — instance of killing oneself
• Walloon: sucide — instance of killing oneself
• Welsh: hunanladdiad — instance of killing oneself
• Yiddish: אַליינמאָרד (aleynmord) — instance of killing oneself
• Yiddish: זעלבסטמאָרד (zelbstmord) — instance of killing oneself
• Zhuang: gaggaj — instance of killing oneself
• Zulu: ukuzibulala — instance of killing oneself
• Abkhaz: аҽшьҩы́ (aĉšjwə́) — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Afrikaans: selfmoordenaar — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Arabic: مُنْتَحِر (muntaḥir) — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Arabic: مُنْتَحِرَة (muntaḥira) — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Armenian: ինքնասպան (inkʻnaspan) — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Belarusian: самагу́бец (samahúbjec) — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Belarusian: самагу́бца (samahúbca) — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Belarusian: самазабо́йца (samazabójca) — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Bengali: খোদকুশ (khōdokuś) — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Bulgarian: самоуби́ец (samoubíec) — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Bulgarian: самоуби́йца (samoubíjca) — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Catalan: suïcida — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Chinese Mandarin: 自殺者 /自杀者 (zìshāzhě) — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Czech: sebevrah — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Czech: sebevražedkyně — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Danish: selvmorder — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Dutch: zelfmoordenaar — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Dutch: zelfmoordenaares — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Dutch: zelfmoordenaarster — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Estonian: enesetapja — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Finnish: itsemurhaaja — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• French: suicidé — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• French: suicidée — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• French: suicidant — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• French: suicidante — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• German: Selbstmörder — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• German: Selbstmörderin — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• German: Suizidant — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• German: Suizidantin — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• German: Suizident — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• German: Suizidentin — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Greek: αυτόχειρας (aftócheiras) — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Hebrew: מתאבד (mit'abéd) — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Hebrew: מתאבדת (mit'abédet) — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Hindi: आत्मघाती (ātmaghātī) — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Hungarian: öngyilkos — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Icelandic: sjálfsmorðingi — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Icelandic: sjálfsbani — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Indonesian: pembunuh diri — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Irish: féinmharfóir — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Italian: suicida — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Japanese: 自殺者 (jisatsusha) — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Korean: 자살자 (jasalja) — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Latin: suicida — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Macedonian: самоубиец (samoubiec) — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Manx: hene-varrooder — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Norwegian Bokmål: selvmord — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Norwegian Bokmål: selvmordsoffer — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Norwegian Bokmål: selvmorder — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Old English: āgenslaga — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Old English: selfbana — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Old English: selfcwala — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Iranian Persian: اِنْتِحاری (entehâri) — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Polish: denat — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Polish: denatka — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Polish: samobójca — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Polish: samobójczyni — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Portuguese: suicida — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Romanian: sinucigaș — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Romanian: sinucigașă — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Russian: самоуби́йца (samoubíjca) — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Scottish Gaelic: fèin-mhurtair — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Serbo-Croatian: самоу̀бојица — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Serbo-Croatian: самоуби́ца — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Serbo-Croatian: самоубилац — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Serbo-Croatian: samoùbojica — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Serbo-Croatian: samoubíca — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Serbo-Croatian: samoubilac — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Slovak: samovrah — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Slovak: samovrahyňa — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Slovene: samomorilec — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Slovene: samomorilka — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Spanish: suicida — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Swedish: självmördare — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Turkish: müntehir — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Ukrainian: самогу́бець (samohúbecʹ) — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Ukrainian: самогу́бця (samohúbcja) — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Urdu: خُود کُش (xūd kuś) — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Urdu: خُودْکُش (xūdkuś) — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Uyghur: ئۆلۈۋالغۇچى (ölüwalghuchi) — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Welsh: hunanladdwr — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Welsh: hunanladdwraig — person who has killed himself/herself, is killing (is attempting/has attempted to kill) himself/herself
• Catalan: suïcidi — figurative: action
• Estonian: enesehävitus — figurative: action
• Finnish: itsemurha — figurative: action
• Galician: suicidio — figurative: action
• Greek: αυτοκτονία (aftoktonía) — figurative: action
• Japanese: 自爆 (jibaku) — figurative: action
• Macedonian: самоу́биство (samoúbistvo) — figurative: action
• Polish: samobójstwo — figurative: action
• Polish: samobój — figurative: action
• Romanian: sinucidere — figurative: action
• Russian: самоуби́йство (samoubíjstvo) — figurative: action
• Slovak: samovražda — figurative: action
• Turkish: intihar — figurative: action
• Polish: miks wszystkich smaków — beverage
• Polish: suicide — diabolo trick
• Polish: bieg wahadłowy — run comprising a series of sprints
• Polish: ściana — children's game