punishment

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Punishment

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EtymologyEdit

From the Anglo-Norman punisceement, punisement, punishement, punissement, punisshement and the Middle French punissement, from the Old French pugnissement, from puniss- (the long stem (see the French -iss-) of punir (“to punish”)) + -ment (see the English -ment). Compare the English nouns punishing and punition.

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NounEdit

punishment (plural punishments)

The act or process of punishing, imposing and/or applying a sanction.
A penalty to punish wrongdoing, especially for crime.
A suffering by pain or loss imposed as retribution
(figuratively) Any treatment or experience so harsh it feels like being punished; rough handling
a vehicle that can take a lot of punishment

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AntonymsEdit

reward

HyponymsEdit

retribution

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the act of punishing

Arabic: عقوبة f (ʻuqūba), عقاب (ar) m (ʻiqāb)
Egyptian Arabic: عقاب m (ʕeqaab)
Armenian: պատիժ (hy) (patiž)
Old Armenian: պատիժ (patiž), պատուհաս (patuhas)
Asturian: castigu m
Catalan: punició f, puniment m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 懲罰 (zh), 惩罚 (zh) (chéngfá)
Czech: trest m
Dutch: bestraffing (nl) f
Esperanto: puno
Finnish: rankaiseminen, rangaistus (fi)
French: punition (fr) f
Galician: castigo (gl) m, punición (gl) f
German: Strafe (de) f
Greek: τιμωρία (el) (timoría)
Hungarian: büntetés (hu)

Italian: punizione (it) f
Japanese: 罰 (ja) (ばつ, batsu), 懲罰 (ja) (ちょうばつ, chōbatsu)
Jèrriais: peunnition f
Latvian: sods m, sodīšana f
Macedonian: казна f (kázna), казнување n (kaznúvanje)
Persian: گوشمالی دادن (guŝmāli dādan)
Polish: karanie (pl) n
Portuguese: punição (pt) f
Romanian: pedepsire (ro) f, pedeapsă (ro) f
Russian: наказание (ru) n (nakazánije), кара (ru) f (kára)
Scottish Gaelic: peanasachadh m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ка̏зна f

Roman: kȁzna f
Slovene: kazen (sl) n
Spanish: castigo (es) m
Swedish: straff (sv) n

penalty for wrongdoing

Arabic: عقوبة f (ʻuqūba), عقاب (ar) m (ʻiqāb)
Armenian: պատիժ (hy) (patiž)
Old Armenian: պատիժ (patiž), պատուհաս (patuhas)
Asturian: castigu m
Catalan: càstig (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 刑罰 (zh), 刑罚 (zh) (xíngfá)
Czech: trest m
Dutch: straf (nl) m, f
Finnish: rangaistus (fi)
French: punition (fr) f
Galician: castigo (gl) m
German: Bestrafung (de) f
Greek: τιμωρία (el) (timoría), ποινή (el) (poiní)
Hindi: दण्ड (daṇḍ), सज़ा (sazā)
Hungarian: büntetés (hu)

Irish: pionós (ga) m
Japanese: 罰 (ja) (ばつ, batsu), 刑罰 (keibatsu), 処罰 (ja) (shobatsu)
Jèrriais: peunnition f
Latvian: sods m
Macedonian: казна f (kázna)
Polish: kara (pl) f
Portuguese: castigo (pt) m, punição (pt) f
Romanian: pedeapsă (ro) f
Russian: наказание (ru) n (nakazánije)
Scottish Gaelic: peanas m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ка̏зна f

Roman: kȁzna f
Spanish: castigo (es) m
Swedish: straff (sv) n

suffering imposed as retribution

Catalan: punició f, puniment m
Dutch: afstraffing f, boetedoening f, vergelding (nl) f, boete (nl) m, f
French: punition (fr) f
Jèrriais: peunnition f

Macedonian: казна f (kázna)
Romanian: penalizare (ro), pedeapsă punitivă f
Scottish Gaelic: peanas m
Spanish: penitencia (es) f

harsh treatment or experience

Catalan: punició f, puniment m
Dutch: afstraffing f, beproeving (nl) f, vergelding (nl) f
French: punition (fr) f

Jèrriais: peunnition f
Polish: wycisk m

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Bulgarian: наказание (nakazánie) n (1)
Hebrew: ענישה f
Italian: punizione f
Korean: 벌 (beol)
Kurdish: ceza m, siza m
Latin: punitio f
Old English: wīte n
Persian: تنبیه (fa) (tanbih)
Portuguese: punição f
Romanian: pedeapsă f
Spanish: castigo m, penitencia f
Telugu: శిక్ష (Siksha), దండన (daMDana)

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