mass murder

English

Noun

mass murder (plural mass murders)

1. The killing of a large number of people over a short period of time.

Derived terms

• mass murderer

Related terms

• mass shooting
• killing spree
• massacre
• genocide

Translations

successive killing of many people

• Arabic: قَتْل جَمَاعِيّ m (qatl jamāʕiyy)
• Belarusian: ма́савае забо́йства n (másavaje zabójstva)
• Bulgarian: ма́сово уби́йство n (másovo ubíjstvo)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大規模屠殺／大规模屠杀 (dàguīmó túshā), 大屠殺／大屠杀 (zh) (dàtúshā)

• Czech: masová vražda f
• Danish: massemord n
• Dutch: massamoord (nl) m
• Esperanto: amasmurdo
• Estonian: massimõrv (et)
• Finnish: joukkomurha (fi)
• French: tuerie de masse (fr) f
• German: Massenmord (de) m
• Hindi: सामूहिक हत्या f (sāmūhik hatyā)
• Hungarian: tömeggyilkosság (hu)
• Icelandic: fjöldamorð (is) n
• Indonesian: pembunuhan masal
• Italian: uccisione di massa f
• Japanese: 大量虐殺 (たいりょうぎゃくさつ, tairyō gyakusatsu)
• Kazakh: жаппай өлтіру (jappai öltıru)
• Korean: 대량 살인(大量殺人) (daeryang sarin)
• Macedonian: масовно убиство n (masovno ubistvo)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: massemord n

  Nynorsk: massemord n

• Persian: کشتار جمعی (koštâr-e jam'i)
• Polish: masowe morderstwo n
• Portuguese: assassinato/assassínio em massa m
• Romanian: ucidere în masă f, asasinare în masă f, crimă în masă f
• Russian: ма́ссовое уби́йство (ru) n (mássovoje ubíjstvo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: масовно убојство n, масовно убиство n

  Roman: masovno ubojstvo n, masovno ubistvo n

• Slovak: masová vražda f
• Slovene: množični umor m
• Spanish: asesinato masivo m
• Swedish: massmord (sv) n
• Tajik: куштори ҷамъӣ (kuštor-i jamʾi)
• Ukrainian: ма́сове вби́вство n (másove vbývstvo)
• Vietnamese: giết người hàng loạt, giết người tập thể

References

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