Etymology
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cannibal + -ism
Pronunciation
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cannibalism (usually uncountable, plural cannibalisms)
- The act of eating another of one's own species.
1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 31:Cannibalism does not openly figure amongst aboriginal misdeeds, but in the northern part of Queensland it is no uncommon vice.
- (figurative) An act in which one thing consumes or takes over another of the same kind.
- (linguistics) In speech, the occurrence of one word eliding part or all of the next word, because the syllables are the same. For example, "Look, an MIT shirt" for "Look, an MIT T-shirt".
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Translations
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act of eating another of one's own species
- Armenian: մարդակերություն (hy) (mardakerutʻyun) (of humans)
- Asturian: antropofaxa f, canibalismu m
- Catalan: antropofàgia f, canibalisme m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 同類相食／同类相食 (zh) (tónglèi xiāngshí), (of humans) 食人 (zh) (shírén)
- Czech: kanibalismus (cs) m
- Danish: kannibalisme (da) c
- Dutch: kannibalisme (nl) n
- Esperanto: kanibalismo, samspecimanĝado
- Faroese: mannaát n
- Finnish: kannibalismi (fi)
- French: cannibalisme (fr) m
- Galician: antropofaxia (gl) f, canibalismo (gl) m
- German: Kannibalismus (de) m
- Greek: κανιβαλισμός (el) m (kanivalismós), ανθρωποφαγία (el) f (anthropofagía)
- Ancient: ἀνθρωποφαγία (anthrōpophagía), ἀλληλοφαγία (allēlophagía)
- Indonesian: kanibalisme (id)
- Italian: cannibalismo (it) m
- Japanese: カニバリズム (kanibarizumu), 共食い (tomogui), (of humans) 人食い (ja) (hitokui)
- Kazakh: (of humans) адам жегіштік (adam jegıştık)
- Malay: kanibalisme (ms)
- Manx: canniblaght f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: kannibalisme (no) m
- Nynorsk: kannibalisme m
- Occitan: antropofagia (oc) f, canibalisme m
- Persian: همنوعخواری (hamnow'-xâri), (of humans) آدمخواری (âdam-xâri)
- Polish: antropofagia (pl) f, (literary) ludożerstwo (pl) n, kanibalizm (pl) m
- Portuguese: antropofagia (pt) f, canibalismo m
- Romanian: canibalism (ro) n
- Russian: каннибали́зм (ru) m (kannibalízm), (of humans) людое́дство (ru) n (ljudojédstvo)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: канибалѝзам m, људо̀жде̄рство n
- Roman: kanibalìzam (sh) m, ljudòždērstvo (sh) n
- Slovak: ľudožrútstvo n, ľudojedstvo n, kanibalizmus m
- Spanish: antropofagia (es) f, canibalismo (es) m
- Swedish: kannibalism (sv) c
- Telugu: స్వజాతి భక్షణ (svajāti bhakṣaṇa), నరమాంస భక్షణ (naramāṁsa bhakṣaṇa)
- Turkish: yamyamlık (tr)
- Ukrainian: канібалі́зм m (kanibalízm), людоже́рство n (ljudožérstvo), людої́дство n (ljudojídstvo)
- Vietnamese: ăn thịt đồng loại
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See also
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References
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cannibalism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 