vandalism

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• General-American: /ˈvændəlɪzm̩/
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• CMU ARPABET: V AE1 N D AH0 L IH0 Z AH0 M Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from French vandalisme, first used by Henri Grégoire to decry the pillage and destruction of art in the course of the French Revolution, in reference to the East Germanic tribe of the Vandals, which looted Rome in 455. By surface analysis, vandal + -ism.

64 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Akan: basabasayɔ — needless damage or destruction of property
• Akan: nneɛmasɛeɛ — needless damage or destruction of property
• Arabic: تَخْرِيب (taḵrīb) — needless damage or destruction of property
• Azerbaijani: vandalizm — needless damage or destruction of property
• Belarusian: вандалі́зм (vandalízm) — needless damage or destruction of property
• Bulgarian: вандали́зъм (vandalízǎm) — needless damage or destruction of property
• Catalan: vandalisme — needless damage or destruction of property
• Chinese Mandarin: 蓄意破壞 /蓄意破坏 (xùyìpòhuài) — needless damage or destruction of property
• Crimean Tatar: vandalizm — needless damage or destruction of property
• Czech: vandalismus — needless damage or destruction of property
• Czech: vandalství — needless damage or destruction of property
• Danish: vandalisme — needless damage or destruction of property
• Danish: hærværk — needless damage or destruction of property
• Dutch: vandalisme — needless damage or destruction of property
• Esperanto: vandalismo — needless damage or destruction of property
• Estonian: vandalism — needless damage or destruction of property
• Finnish: vandalismi — needless damage or destruction of property
• Finnish: ilkivalta — needless damage or destruction of property
• French: vandalisme — needless damage or destruction of property
• Galician: vandalismo — needless damage or destruction of property
• Georgian: ვანდალიზმი (vandalizmi) — needless damage or destruction of property
• Georgian: ბარბაროსობა (barbarosoba) — needless damage or destruction of property
• German: Vandalismus — needless damage or destruction of property
• Greek: βανδαλισμός (vandalismós) — needless damage or destruction of property
• Hebrew: ונדליזם — needless damage or destruction of property
• Hungarian: vandalizmus — needless damage or destruction of property
• Icelandic: skemmdarverk — needless damage or destruction of property
• Icelandic: spjöll — needless damage or destruction of property
• Ido: vandaleso — needless damage or destruction of property
• Ido: vandalajo — needless damage or destruction of property
• Indonesian: perusakan — needless damage or destruction of property
• Indonesian: sifat suka merusak — needless damage or destruction of property
• Interlingua: vandalismo — needless damage or destruction of property
• Irish: loitiméireacht — needless damage or destruction of property
• Italian: vandalismo — needless damage or destruction of property
• Japanese: 荒らし (arashi) — needless damage or destruction of property
• Japanese: ヴァンダリズム (vandarizumu) — needless damage or destruction of property
• Korean: 반달리즘 (bandallijeum) — needless damage or destruction of property
• Latin: corruptiō — needless damage or destruction of property
• Latin: ruptiō — needless damage or destruction of property
• Latin: vandalismus — needless damage or destruction of property
• Macedonian: вандали́зам (vandalízam) — needless damage or destruction of property
• Macedonian: ди́вјаштво (dívjaštvo) — needless damage or destruction of property
• Malay: vandalisme — needless damage or destruction of property
• Norwegian Bokmål: hærverk — needless damage or destruction of property
• Norwegian Bokmål: vandalisme — needless damage or destruction of property
• Norwegian Nynorsk: hærverk — needless damage or destruction of property
• Polish: wandalizm — needless damage or destruction of property
• Portuguese: vandalismo — needless damage or destruction of property
• Romanian: vandalism — needless damage or destruction of property
• Russian: вандали́зм (vandalízm) — needless damage or destruction of property
• Serbo-Croatian: вандалѝзам — needless damage or destruction of property
• Serbo-Croatian: vandalìzam — needless damage or destruction of property
• Spanish: vandalismo — needless damage or destruction of property
• Spanish: gamberrada — needless damage or destruction of property
• Swedish: vandalism — needless damage or destruction of property
• Tagalog: bandalismo — needless damage or destruction of property
• Tagalog: pambababoy — needless damage or destruction of property
• Tibetan: གཅག་གཏོར་བྱེད་ཡག (gcag gtor byed yag) — needless damage or destruction of property
• Turkish: vandalizm — needless damage or destruction of property
• Ukrainian: вандалі́зм (vandalízm) — needless damage or destruction of property
• Vietnamese: phá hoại — needless damage or destruction of property
• Volapük: vandalöm — needless damage or destruction of property
• Welsh: fandaliaeth — needless damage or destruction of property