Etymology
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Borrowed from Middle French amnestie (Modern French amnistie), a borrowing from Latin amnestia, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀμνηστία (amnēstía).
Pronunciation
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- IPA(key): /ˈæm.nɪ.sti/
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amnesty (countable and uncountable, plural amnesties)
- Forgetfulness; cessation of remembrance of wrong; oblivion.
- An act of the sovereign power granting oblivion, or a general pardon, for a past offense, as to subjects concerned in an insurrection.
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act of the sovereign power
- Albanian: amnisti (sq) f
- Arabic: عَفْو (ar) m (ʕafw)
- Armenian: համաներում (hy) (hamanerum), ամնիստիա (hy) (amnistia)
- Azerbaijani: amnistiya
- Belarusian: амні́стыя f (amnístyja)
- Bulgarian: амни́стия (bg) f (amnístija), поми́лване (bg) n (pomílvane)
- Burmese: လွတ်ငြိမ်းချမ်းသာခွင့် (my) (lwatngrim:hkyam:sahkwang.)
- Catalan: amnistia (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 大赦 (zh) (dàshè), (by an emperor) 恩赦 (zh) (ēnshè)
- Czech: amnestie (cs) f
- Danish: amnesti (da) c
- Dutch: amnestie (nl) f
- Esperanto: amnestio
- Estonian: amnestia (et)
- Finnish: armahdus (fi)
- French: amnistie (fr)
- Georgian: ამნისტია (amnisṭia)
- German: Amnestie (de) f
- Greek: αμνηστία (el) f (amnistía)
- Hindi: आम माफ़ी f (ām māfī)
- Hungarian: amnesztia (hu), kegyelem (hu), közkegyelem (hu)
- Irish: maithiúnas m
- Italian: amnistia (it) f
- Japanese: 大赦 (ja) (たいしゃ, taisha), 恩赦 (ja) (おんしゃ, onsha), 特赦 (ja) (とくしゃ, tokusha), 赦免 (ja) (しゃめん, shamen)
- Kazakh: амнистия (amnistiä)
- Khmer: និទ្ទោសកម្ម (nittoosaʼkam)
- Korean: 특사(特赦) (ko) (teuksa), 사면(赦免) (ko) (samyeon)
- Kyrgyz: амнистия (ky) (amnistiya)
- Lao: ນິລະໂທດກຳ (ni la thōt kam)
- Latvian: amnestija f
- Lithuanian: amnestija f
- Macedonian: амнестија f (amnestija)
- Malay: pengampunan
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: өршөөл (mn) (öršööl)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: amnesti (no) n, abolisjon (no) m
- Persian: عفو (fa) ('afv)
- Polish: amnestia (pl)
- Portuguese:
- Brazilian: anistia (pt) f
- European: amnistia (pt) f
- Romanian: amnistie (ro) f
- Russian: амни́стия (ru) f (amnístija), поми́лование (ru) n (pomílovanije)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: амнѐстија f
- Roman: amnèstija (sh) f
- Slovak: amnestia (sk) f
- Slovene: amnestija f
- Spanish: amnistía (es) f
- Swedish: amnesti (sv) c
- Tajik: авф (tg) (avf)
- Thai: นิรโทษกรรม (th) (ní-rá-tôot-sà-gam)
- Turkmen: amnistiýa (tk)
- Ukrainian: амні́стія (uk) f (amnístija)
- Urdu: عام معافی f ('ām māfī)
- Uzbek: amnistiya (uz)
- Vietnamese: sự ân xá (vi)
- Volapük: stiam (vo)
- Welsh: amnest m
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amnesty (third-person singular simple present amnesties, present participle amnestying, simple past and past participle amnestied)
- To grant a pardon (to a group)
Translations
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to grant a pardon (to a group)
Further reading
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- “amnesty”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “amnesty”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “amnesty”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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