persecution

persecution

See also: persécution

English

Etymology

Equivalent to persecute +‎ -ion. From Middle English persecucioun, from Old French persecucion [1], from Ecclesiastical Latin persecūtio (“persecution; chase, pursuit”), from Latin persequor (“follow up, pursue”), from per- (“through”) +‎ sequor (“follow”). Displaced native Old English ēhtnes.

Pronunciation

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

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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, 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 Bulgarian: преследване (bg) n (presledvane), гонение (bg) n (gonenie) Catalan: persecució (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 迫害 (zh) (pòhài) Czech: perzekuce f Danish: forfølgelse c Dutch: vervolging (nl) f Esperanto: persekutado Finnish: vainoaminen (fi), vaino (fi), sorto (fi) French: persécution (fr) f Georgian: დევნა (devna) German: Verfolgung (de) f, Schikane (de) f, Drangsalierung f, Plage (de) f, Belästigung (de) f Gothic: 𐍅𐍂𐌴𐌺𐌴𐌹 f (wrēkei), 𐍅𐍂𐌰𐌺𐌰 f (wraka) Greek: καταδίωξη (el) f (katadíoxi), δίωξη (el) f (díoxi) Ancient: διωγμός m (diōgmós) Hungarian: üldözés (hu), üldöztetés (hu) Italian: persecuzione (it) f Japanese: 迫害 (ja) (はくがい, hakugai) Korean: 박해(迫害) (ko) (bakhae) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: چەوساندنەوە‎ (çewsandnewe) Luxembourgish: Verfollegung f Norwegian: Bokmål: forfølgelse m Old English: ēhtnes f Persian: آزار‎ (fa) (âzâr) Plautdietsch: Forcht f 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 (sv) 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) Bulgarian: гонения (bg) n pl (gonenija) Catalan: persecució (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 压迫特定人的行动 Czech: perzekuce f Danish: forfølgelse c 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) Italian: persecuzione (it) f Ladino: afrision f, afriisyon f Norwegian: Bokmål: forfølgelse m Old English: ēhtnes f Plautdietsch: Forcht f Portuguese: perseguição (pt) f Russian: гоне́ние (ru) n (gonénije), тра́вля (ru) f (trávlja), напа́дки (ru) m pl (napádki) Spanish: persecución (es) f Swedish: förföljelse (sv) c

References

1. Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “persecution”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.