Emperor Maximilian of Mexico being executed by a firing squad. (Manet)
firing squad (plural firing squads)
- A group of soldiers or paramilitaries detailed to execute someone, usually by rifle shot, or to discharge their weapons ceremonially at a funeral.
- Synonym: firing party
a group of soldiers detailed to execute someone or to discharge weapons ceremonially
- Armenian: գնդակահարողների խումբ (gndakaharoġneri xumb) (for executing)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 行刑隊／行刑队 (zh) (xíngxíngduì)
- Danish: eksekutionspeleton
- Dutch: vuurpeloton (nl) n
- Esperanto: pafeskadro
- Faroese: fyribeiningarfylgi
- Finnish: teloituskomppania (fi), teloituspartio
- French: peloton d’exécution (fr) m
- Georgian: ათეული (ateuli)
- German: Erschießungskommando (de) n, Exekutionskommando n, Hinrichtungskommando n, Peloton (de) n, Ehrensalutkommando n
- Greek: εκτελεστικό απόσπασμα n (ektelestikó apóspasma)
- Hebrew: כיתת יורים f
- Hungarian: kivégzőosztag (hu)
- Icelandic: aftökusveit f
- Indonesian: regu tembak
- Irish: scuad lámhaigh m
- Italian: plotone d'esecuzione, plotone di esecuzione m
- Japanese: 銃殺隊 (じゅうさつたい, jūsatsutai)
- Khmer: បាញ់ក្រុមជម្រើសជាតិ (baɲ krom cumrəəh ciet), ក្រុមទាហានពេជ្ឈឃាដ (krom tiehien pɨccʰea’kʰiet)
- Macedonian: стрелачки вод m (strelački vod)
- Malay: skuad tembak
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: eksekusjonspelotong
- Nynorsk: eksekusjonspelotong
- Persian: جوخه آتش (juxe âtaš)
- Polish: pluton egzekucyjny m
- Portuguese: pelotão de fuzilamento m
- Romanian: pluton de execuție (ro) n
- Russian: расстре́льная кома́нда f (rasstrélʹnaja kománda)
- Spanish: pelotón de fusilamiento m, pelotón de ejecución m, piquete de ejecución m
- Swedish: exekutionspluton c, arkebuseringspluton c
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: idam mangası
- Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
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