punishment

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Etymology

From the Anglo-Norman punisceement, punisement, punishement, punissement, punisshement and the Middle French punissement, from the Old French pugnissement, from puniss- (the long stem (see the French -iss-) of punir, “to punish”) + -ment (see the English -ment). Compare the English nouns punishing and punition.

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Noun

punishment (plural punishments)

1. The act or process of punishing, imposing and/or applying a sanction.
2. A penalty to punish wrongdoing, especially for crime.
3. A suffering by pain or loss imposed as retribution
4. (figuratively) Any treatment or experience so harsh it feels like being punished; rough handling

   a vehicle that can take a lot of punishment

Synonyms

• castigation
• punition
• beating

Antonyms

• reward

Hyponyms

• retribution

Derived terms

• corporal punishment
• mirror punishment
• telishment

Related terms

• punishable
• punisher
• punishing
• punitive
• impunity

Translations

the act of punishing

• Arabic: عقوبة (ʻuqūba) f, عقاب (ʻiqāb) m
• Armenian: պատիժ (hy) (patiž)

  Old Armenian: պատիժ (patiž), պատուհաս (patuhas)

• Catalan: punició (ca) f, puniment (ca) m
• Chinese: 懲罰, 惩罚 (chéngfá)
• Czech: trest (cs) m
• Dutch: bestraffing (nl) f
• Esperanto: puno (eo)
• Finnish: rankaiseminen, rangaistus
• French: punition (fr) f
• German: Strafe (de) f
• Greek: τιμωρία (el) (timoría)
• Hungarian: büntetés (hu)
• Italian: punizione (it) f
• Japanese: 罰 (ja) (ばつ, batsu), 懲罰, ちょうばつ (chōbatsu)

• Jèrriais: peunnition f
• Latvian: sods (lv) m, sodīšana (lv) f
• Macedonian: казна (mk) (kázna) f, казнување (mk) (kaznúvanje) n
• Persian: گوشمالی دادن (fa) (guŝmāli dādan)
• Polish: karanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: punição (pt)
• Romanian: pedepsire (ro) f, pedeapsă (ro) f
• Russian: наказание (ru) (nakazánije) n, кара (ru) (kára) f
• Scottish Gaelic: peanasachadh (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ка̏зна (sh) f

  Roman: kȁzna (sh) f

• Slovene: kazen (sl) n
• Swedish: straff (sv) n

penalty for wrongdoing

• Arabic: عقوبة (ʻuqūba) f, عقاب (ʻiqāb) m
• Armenian: պատիժ (hy) (patiž)

  Old Armenian: պատիժ (patiž), պատուհաս (patuhas)

• Catalan: càstig (ca) m
• Chinese: 刑罰, 刑罚 (xíngfá)
• Czech: trest (cs) m
• Dutch: straf (nl) m and f
• Finnish: rangaistus (fi)
• French: punition (fr) f
• German: Bestrafung (de) f
• Greek: τιμωρία (el) (timoría), ποινή (el) (poiní)
• Hindi: दण्ड (hi) (daṇḍ), सज़ा (hi) (sazā)
• Hungarian: büntetés (hu)
• Irish: pionós (ga) m

• Japanese: 罰 (ja) (ばつ, batsu), 刑罰 (ja) (keibatsu), 処罰 (ja) (shobatsu)
• Jèrriais: peunnition f
• Latvian: sods (lv) m
• Macedonian: казна (mk) (kázna) f
• Polish: kara (pl) f
• Portuguese: castigo (pt) m, punição (pt) f
• Romanian: pedeapsă (ro) f
• Russian: наказание (ru) (nakazánije) n
• Scottish Gaelic: peanas (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ка̏зна (sh) f

  Roman: kȁzna (sh) f

• Spanish: castigo (es) m
• Swedish: straff (sv) n

suffering imposed as retribution

• Catalan: punició (ca) f, puniment (ca) m
• Dutch: afstraffing (nl) f, boetedoening (nl) f, vergelding (nl) f, boete (nl) m and f
• French: punition (fr) f
• Jèrriais: peunnition f

• Macedonian: казна (mk) (kázna) f
• Romanian: penalizare (ro), pedeapsă punitivă (ro) f
• Scottish Gaelic: peanas (gd) m

harsh treatment or experience

• Catalan: punició (ca) f, puniment (ca) m
• Dutch: afstraffing (nl) f, beproeving (nl) f, vergelding (nl) f
• French: punition (fr) f

• Jèrriais: peunnition f
• Polish: wycisk (pl) m

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• Bulgarian: наказание (nakazánie) n (1)
• Hebrew: ענישה f
• Italian: punizione f
• Korean: 벌 (beol)
• Kurdish: ceza m, siza m
• Latin: punitio f
• Old English: wīte n
• Persian: تنبیه (tanbih)
• Portuguese: punição f
• Romanian: pedeapsă f
• Spanish: castigo m, penitencia f
• Telugu: శిక్ష (Siksha), దండన (daMDana)