disarmament

English

Etymology

disarm +‎ -ment, after armament.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪsˈɑː(r)məmənt/

Noun

disarmament (countable and uncountable, plural disarmaments)

1. The reduction or the abolition of the military forces and armaments of a nation, and of its capability to wage war.
2. The act of disarming an opponent in a fight.
   • 1974, Black Belt, volume 12, number 11, page 15:

     With spears, swords and knives flying off the stage from intended defensive disarmament, no one sitting near the stage could afford to even blink his eyes.

Translations

the reduction of military forces and armaments

• Arabic: نَزْع السِلَاح m (nazʕ as-silāḥ)
• Armenian: զինաթափում (hy) (zinatʻapʻum), զինաթափություն (zinatʻapʻutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: tərksilah
• Belarusian: раззбрае́нне n (razzbrajénnje)
• Bulgarian: разоръжа́ване n (razorǎžávane)
• Catalan: desarmament m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 裁軍／裁军 (zh) (cáijūn)

• Czech: odzbrojení (cs) n
• Danish: nedrustning (da) c
• Dutch: ontwapening (nl) f
• Esperanto: malarmado
• Estonian: desarmeerimine
• Faroese: avdubbing f, avvápning f, avvápnan f
• Finnish: aseistariisunta, aseidenriisunta (fi)
• French: désarmement (fr) m
• Galician: desarmamento (gl) m
• Georgian: განიარაღება (ganiaraɣeba)
• German: Abrüstung (de) f
• Greek: αφοπλισμός (el) m (afoplismós)
• Hebrew: פירוק נשק \ פֵּרוּק הַנֶּשֶׁק m (perúk ha-néshek)
• Hindi: निरस्त्रीकरण m (nirastrīkaraṇ), निशस्त्रीकरण m (niśastrīkaraṇ)
• Hungarian: lefegyverzés (hu), leszerelés (hu)
• Italian: disarmo (it) m
• Japanese: 軍縮 (ja) (ぐんしゅく, gunshuku)
• Kazakh: қарусыздандыру (qarusyzdandyru), құралсыздану (qūralsyzdanu)
• Korean: 군축(軍縮) (ko) (gunchuk)
• Kyrgyz: куралсыздануу (kuralsızdanuu), куралсыздандыруу (kuralsızdandıruu)
• Latvian: atbruņošanās f
• Lithuanian: nusiginklavimas m
• Macedonian: разоружување n (razoružuvanje)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nedrustning m

• Persian: خلع سلاح (fa) (xal'-e selâh), کاهش تسلیحات (kâheš-e taslihât)
• Piedmontese: disarmament m
• Polish: rozbrojenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: desarmamento m
• Romanian: dezarmare (ro) f
• Russian: разоруже́ние (ru) n (razoružénije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: разоружање n

  Roman: razoružanje n

• Slovak: odzbrojenie n
• Slovene: razorožitev f, razoroževanje f
• Spanish: desarme (es) m
• Swedish: nedrustning (sv) c
• Tajik: халъи силоҳ (xalʾi siloh)
• Turkish: silahsızlanma
• Ukrainian: роззбро́єння n (rozzbrójennja)
• Urdu: تَخْفِیفِ اَسْلِحَہ (taxfīf-e aslihā)
• Uzbek: qurolsizlantirish

See also

• demilitarisation