beheading

English

From behead +‎ -ing.

beheading

beheading (countable and uncountable, plural beheadings)

An instance of a person being beheaded.
A large crowd gathered to see the beheading.
The guillotine was meant to humanize beheadings, but allowed the French Revolution to execute people at an industrial rate.

an instance of beheading

Chinese:
Mandarin: 斬首／斩首 (zh) (zhǎnshǒu), 斬罪／斩罪 (zh) (zhǎnzuì), 斷頭／断头 (zh) (duàntóu), 杀头 (zh), 殺頭／杀头 (zh) (shātóu), 問斬／问斩 (zh) (wènzhǎn)
Czech: dekapitace (cs) f, stětí n
Danish: halshugning c
Dutch: onthoofding (nl)
Esperanto: senkapigo
Estonian: pea maha raiumine
Finnish: mestaus (fi)
French: décapitation (fr)
German: Enthauptung (de) f
Greek: αποκεφαλισμός (el) m (apokefalismós)
Hebrew: עריפה‎ (he) f (a'rifa)
Hungarian: lefejezés
Italian: decapitazione (it) f
Japanese: 打ち首 (ja) (uchikubi)
Khmer: ការកាត់ក្បាល (kaa kat kbaal)
Kurdish:
Korean: 참수(斬首) (ko) (chamsu)
Northern Kurdish: please add this translation if you can
Macedonian: обезглавување n (obezglavuvanje)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: halshugging m or f, halshugning m
Polish: ścięcie (pl) n, kęsim (pl) n
Portuguese: decapitação (pt) f
Russian: обезгла́вливание (ru) n (obezglávlivanije)
Scottish Gaelic: dì-cheannadh m
Spanish: decapitación f, degüello (es) m, descabezamiento (es) m
Swedish: halshuggning (sv) c
Turkish: boynunu vurma