human sacrifice

English

Etymology

human +‎ sacrifice

Noun

human sacrifice (countable and uncountable, plural human sacrifices)

1. The killing of one or more human beings as part of a religious ritual.
2. A human being killed in this way.

Translations

the ritual killing of a person

• Bulgarian: човешко жертвоприношение (čoveško žertvoprinošenie)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 人祭 (jan⁴ zai³)

  Mandarin: 人祭 (rénjì)

• Greek: ανθρωποθυσία (el) f (anthropothysía)

  Ancient: ἀνθρωποθυσία f (anthrōpothusía)

• Japanese: 人身御供 (ja) (hitomi gokū)
• Maori: raukakai
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: menneskeofring m or f

  Nynorsk: menneskeofring f

• Swedish: människooffer (sv) n
• Telugu: నరబలి (te) (narabali)

Further reading

• human sacrifice on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• “human sacrifice”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.