A necklace consisting of a chain with a
pendant
Etymology
neck + lace
Pronunciation
Noun
necklace (plural necklaces)
- An article of jewelry that is worn around the neck, most often made of a string of precious metal, pearls, gems, beads or shells, and sometimes having a pendant attached.
- (figuratively) Anything resembling a necklace in shape.
- a necklace of coral islands
- (South Africa) A method of informal execution in which a rubber tyre is filled with petrol, placed around the victim's chest and arms, and set on fire.
Necklacing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Necklacing- 4 August, 2004 Headline Pretoria News: Necklacing: 7 held.
- Seven people have been arrested in connection with Saturday's "necklace" murder of three men in the Tjokville informal settlement at Jeffrey's Bay.
- 2000 Beyond Our Wildest Dreams: The United Democratic Front and the Transformation of South Africa by Ineke Van Kessel
- Several of the alledged witches in Apel and GaNkaone were also subjected to a necklace execution
- 2004 A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Woman Confronts the Legacy of Apartheid by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
- In the fluidly unfolding events of a necklace murder, was there time and space to stop the killing?
Translations
jewelry
- Afrikaans: please add this translation if you can
- Ainu: チムッペ (cimutpe)
- Albanian: gjerdan (sq)
- Amharic: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: قلادة (ar) (qilāda) f
- Armenian: մանյակ (hy) (manyak)
- Asturian: collar (ast) m
- Azeri: please add this translation if you can
- Bashkir: please add this translation if you can
- Basque: lepoko (eu), iduneko (eu)
- Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
- Catalan: collar (ca) m, collaret (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 項鏈 (cmn), 项链 (cmn) (xiàngliàn)
- Czech: náhrdelník (cs) m
- Danish: halskæde (da) c
- Dutch: halssnoer (nl) n, halsketting (nl) m and f, ketting (nl)
- Esperanto: kolĉeno (eo)
- Estonian: kaelakee (et)
- Faroese: hálsketa (fo) f
- Finnish: kaulakoru (fi), kaulanauha (fi)
- French: collier (fr) m
- Galician: colar (gl) m
- Georgian: ყელსაბამი (ka) (qelsabami), მანიაკი (ka) (maniaki)
- German: Halskette (de) f
- Greek: κολιέ (el) (kolié) n
- Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
- Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
- Hindi: please add this translation if you can
- Hungarian: nyaklánc (hu)
- Icelandic: hálsfesti (is) f
- Irish: muince (ga) f, bráisléad brád (ga) m
- Italian: collana (it) f
- Japanese: ネックレス (ja) (nekkuresu), 首飾り (ja) (くびかざり, kubi-kazari)
- Jèrriais: colyi m
- Khmer: ខ្សែក (km) (ksae kɑɑ)
- Korean: 목걸이 (ko) (mok-geori)
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: ملوانکه
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Latin: monile (la)
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- Latvian: krelles (lv) pl
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
- Luxembourgish: please add this translation if you can
- Macedonian: please add this translation if you can
- Malay: rantai (ms)
- Maltese: ġiżirana (mt) f, kullana (mt) f
- Marathi: please add this translation if you can
- Mongolian: хүзүүний зүүлт (mn) (hüzüüniy züült)
- Navajo: yooʼ
- Norwegian: halsbånd (no) n
- Novial: please add this translation if you can
- Occitan: please add this translation if you can
- Pashto: please add this translation if you can
- Persian: گردن بند (fa) (gardan band)
- Polish: naszyjnik (pl) m
- Portuguese: colar (pt) m
- Punjabi: please add this translation if you can
- Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can
- Romanian: colan (ro), colier (ro), salbă (ro)
- Romansch: please add this translation if you can
- Russian: ожерелье (ru) (ožerél'je) n, колье (ru) (kol'jé) n (indeclinable), монисто (ru) (monísto) n
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: огрлица (sh) f, ђердан (sh) m
- Roman: ogrlica (sh) f, đerdan (sh) m
- Slovak: náhrdelník (sk) m
- Slovene: verížica (sl) f, ogŕlica (sl) f
- Spanish: collar (es) m
- Swahili: kidani (sw) 7/8
- Swedish: halsband (sv) n
- Tajik: please add this translation if you can
- Tamil: please add this translation if you can
- Telugu: చంద్రహారం (te) (caṅdrahāraṅ)
- Thai: สร้อย (th) (sôi)
- Turkish: gerdanlık (tr), kolye (tr)
- Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
- Urdu: please add this translation if you can
- Vietnamese: chuỗi hạt (vi)
- Volapük: please add this translation if you can
- Welsh: gwddfdorch (cy) f
- Yiddish: please add this translation if you can
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figurative: anything resembling a necklace in shape
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- Russian: ожерелье (ru) (ožerél'je) n
- Swedish: pärlband (sv) n
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method of execution
- Afrikaans: halssnoermoord (af)
- Dutch: executie bij brandende rubberband (nl)
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- French: supplice du pneu (fr) m
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Verb
necklace (third-person singular simple present necklaces, present participle necklacing, simple past and past participle necklaced)
- (South Africa) To informally execute by setting on fire a petrol-filled rubber tyre which has been put around the bound victim's neck.
- May 29 2003: The Star:
- Frustrated residents tied the hands of two suspected criminals, put tyres around their necks and then set them alight. In a manifestation of growing disillusionment with the criminal justice system, residents of Bramfischerville, west of Johannesburg, on Tuesday abducted and necklaced two suspected burglars.
- 2002 Buthelezi: A Biography by Ben Temkin
- Inkatha members have been hacked to death and necklaced, and their houses have been destroyed
- 2000 Beyond Our Wildest Dreams: The United Democratic Front and the Transformation of South Africa by Ineke Van Kessel
- The first instance of necklacing occurred in March 1985 in the Eastern Cape township of KwaNobuhle.
Derived terms
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