persecution

See also: persécution

English

Etymology

Equivalent to persecute +‎ -ion, Borrowed from Old French persecucion , from Ecclesiastical Latin persecūtio (“persecution; chase, pursuit”), from Latin persequor (“follow up, pursue”), from per- (“through”) +‎ sequor (“follow”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌpɝsəˈkjuʃən/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌpɜːsəˈkjuːʃən/

• Audio (US)

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• Hyphenation: per‧se‧cu‧tion

Noun

persecution (countable and uncountable, plural persecutions)

1. The act of persecuting.
2. A program or campaign to subjugate or eliminate a specific group of people, often based on race, religion, sexuality, or social beliefs.
   • 2012 March-April, Jan Sapp, “Race Finished”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 100, number 2, page 164:

     Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?

Translations

the act of persecuting

• Arabic: اِضْطِهَاد‎ m (iḍṭihād)
• Armenian: հալածանք (hy) (halacankʿ)
• Bourguignon: porsécucion f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 迫害 (zh) (pòhài)

• Dutch: vervolging (nl) f
• Esperanto: persekutado
• Finnish: vainoaminen (fi)
• French: persécution (fr) f
• Georgian: დევნა (devna)
• German: Verfolgung (de) f, Schikane (de) f, Drangsalierung f, Plage (de) f, Belästigung (de) f
• Greek: καταδίωξη (el) f (katadíoxi), δίωξη (el) f (díoxi)

  Ancient: διωγμός m (diōgmós)

• Japanese: 迫害 (ja) (はくがい, hakugai)

• Korean: 박해 (ko) (bakhae) (迫害 (ko))
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: چەوساندنەوە‎ (ku) (çewsandnewe)

• Luxembourgish: Verfollegung f
• Persian: آزار‎ (fa) (âzâr)
• Polish: prześladowanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: perseguição (pt) f
• Romanian: persecutare (ro) f
• Russian: пресле́дование (ru) n (preslédovanije), гоне́ние (ru) n (gonénije)
• Serbo-Croatian: progon (sh) m, proganjanje n
• Spanish: persecución (es) f
• Swedish: förföljelse c
• Turkish: zulüm (tr)
• Vietnamese: sự khủng bố (vi)

a program or campaign to subjugate or eliminate a specific group of people

• Armenian: հալածանք (hy) (halacankʿ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 压迫特定人的行动

• Dutch: vervolging (nl) f
• Finnish: vaino (fi)
• French: persécution (fr) f
• Georgian: დევნა (devna)
• German: Verfolgung (de) f

• Greek: διωγμός (el) m (diogmós)

  Ancient: διωγμός m (diōgmós)

• Hebrew: רדיפה‎ f (redifá)
• Hungarian: üldöztetés (hu)
• Portuguese: perseguição (pt) f
• Russian: гоне́ние (ru) n (gonénije), тра́вля (ru) f (trávlja), напа́дки (ru) m pl (napádki)
• Swedish: förföljelse c