encirclement

encirclement

English

Etymology

From encircle +‎ -ment.

Noun

encirclement (countable and uncountable, plural encirclements)

1. The act of encircling or the state of being encircled
2. (military) The isolation of a target by the formation of a blockade around it
   • 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society 2010, p. 9:

     Not only did it give the Russians an abiding fear of encirclement, whether by nomadic hordes or by nuclear-missile sites, but it also launched them on their relentless drive eastwards and southwards into Asia, and eventually collision with the British in India.

Translations

act of encircling

Belarusian: акружэ́нне n (akružénnje) Bulgarian: обкръже́ние (bg) n (obkrǎžénie) Chinese: Mandarin: 包圍 (zh), 包围 (zh) (bāowéi) Czech: obklíčení n Finnish: ympyröinti (fi) French: please add this translation if you can German: Umzingelung f, Umzingeln n Hindi: please add this translation if you can Japanese: 包囲 (ja) (ほうい, hōi) Korean: 포위(包圍) (ko) (powi) Maori: taiāwhiotanga, ponitakatanga Polish: okrążenie (pl) n Romanian: încercuire (ro) f Russian: окруже́ние (ru) n (okružénije) Slovak: obkľúčenie n Southern Altai: курчу (kurču) Ukrainian: ото́чення n (otóčennja) Welsh: amgylchyniad m

isolation of a target

Albanian: please add this translation if you can Armenian: շրջափակում (hy) (šrǰapʿakum) Chinese: Mandarin: 包围圈 (zh), 包围圈 (zh) (bāowéiquān) Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Estonian: please add this translation if you can Finnish: saarto (fi), piiritys (fi), motitus (fi) French: please add this translation if you can German: Umzingelung f, Umzingeln n, Einkesselung f, Einkesseln n Hindi: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: please add this translation if you can Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Polish: otoczenie (pl) n Romanian: încercuire (ro) f, înconjurare (ro) f Russian: окруже́ние (ru) n (okružénije) Slovak: please add this translation if you can Southern Altai: курчу (kurču) Turkish: please add this translation if you can Ukrainian: ото́чення n (otóčennja) Welsh: amgylchyniad m