counter-offensive

See also: counteroffensive

English

Alternative forms

• counteroffensive

Etymology

From counter- +‎ offensive.

Noun

counter-offensive (plural counter-offensives)

1. An attack made in response to a previous offensive, and intended to stop it.

Synonyms

• counter-attack

Translations

attack made in response to a previous offensive

• Albanian: kundërsulm (sq) m
• Arabic: هُجُوم مُضَادّ m (hujūm muḍādd)
• Armenian: հակահարձակում (hy) (hakaharjakum)
• Azerbaijani: əks-hücum
• Belarusian: контрнаступле́нне n (kontrnastupljénnje)
• Bulgarian: контранастъпле́ние n (kontranastǎplénie)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 反攻 (faan² gung¹)

  Mandarin: 反攻 (zh) (fǎngōng)

• Czech: protiofenzíva f
• Danish: modoffensiv c
• Dutch: tegenoffensief (nl) n
• Esperanto: kontraŭofensivo, kontraŭatako
• Estonian: vastupealetung
• Finnish: vastahyökkäys
• French: contre-offensive (fr) f
• Georgian: კონტრშეტევა (ḳonṭršeṭeva)
• German: Gegenoffensive (de) f
• Greek: αντεπίθεση (el) f (antepíthesi)
• Hindi: जवाबी हमला m (javābī hamlā), प्रत्याक्रमण (hi) (pratyākramaṇ)
• Hungarian: ellentámadás (hu)
• Icelandic: gagnsókn (is) f
• Italian: controffensiva (it) f
• Japanese: 反攻 (ja) (はんこう, hankō)
• Kazakh: қарсы шабуыл (qarsy şabuyl)
• Korean: 반공(反攻) (ko) (ban'gong)
• Kyrgyz: каршы чабуул (karşı cabuul)
• Latvian: pretuzbrukums m
• Lithuanian: kontrpuolimas m
• Macedonian: контраофанзи́ва f (kontraofanzíva), противофанзи́ва f (protivofanzíva)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: motoffensiv m

• Persian: ضدحمله (fa) (zedd-e-hamle)
• Polish: kontrofensywa (pl) f, kontrnatarcie n
• Portuguese: contraofensiva f
• Romanian: contraofensivă (ro) f
• Russian: контрнаступле́ние (ru) n (kontrnastuplénije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: контраофанзива f, противофанзива f, протофензива f

  Roman: kontraofanziva f, protivofanziva f, protofenziva f

• Slovak: protiofenzíva f
• Slovene: protiofenziva f
• Spanish: contraofensiva f
• Swedish: motoffensiv (sv) c
• Tajik: ҳуҷуми ҷавобӣ (hujum-i javobi), ҳамлаи ҷавобӣ (hamla-yi javobi), зидди ҳамла (zidd-i hamla)
• Tibetan: རྒོལ་ལན (rgol lan), ཕར་རྒོལ་དམག་འཐབ (phar rgol dmag 'thab), རྒོལ་ལན་གྱི་དམག་འཐབ (rgol lan gyi dmag 'thab)
• Turkish: karşı saldırı (tr)
• Ukrainian: контрна́ступ m (kontrnástup)
• Urdu: جَوابی حَمْلَہ m (javābī hamlā)
• Uyghur: قايتۇرما ھۇجۇم (qayturma hujum)
• Uzbek: qarshi hujum
• Vietnamese: phản công (vi), sự phản công (vi)

Adjective

counter-offensive (comparative more counter-offensive, superlative most counter-offensive)

1. Being or relating to an attack in response to a previous offensive, and intended to stop it.

Derived terms

• counteroffensively