cannibalism

English

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Etymology

Spanish: Canibalis: the name given by Christopher Columbus to the Caribs of Cuba and Haiti who allegedly ate human flesh.

Noun

cannibalism (uncountable)

1. The act of eating another of one's own species.
2. In speech, the occurrence of one word "eating" part or all of the next word, because the syllables ar the same. For example, "Look, an MIT shirt" for "Look, an MIT T-shirt".

Translations

act of eating another of one's own species

• Asturian: antropofaxa (ast) f, canibalismu (ast) m
• Catalan: antropofàgia (ca) f, canibalisme (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 同類相食 (cmn), 同类相食 (cmn) (tónglèi xiāngshí), (of humans) 食人 (cmn) (shírén)

• Czech: kanibalismus (cs) m
• Dutch: kannibalisme (nl) n
• Esperanto: kanibalismo (eo)
• Finnish: kannibalismi (fi), ihmissyönti (fi), antropofagia (fi)
• French: cannibalisme (fr) m
• Galician: antropofaxia (gl) f, canibalismo (gl) m
• German: Kannibalismus (de) m
• Greek: κανιβαλισμός (el) (kanivalizmós) m, ανθρωποφαγία (el) (anthropofagía) f
• Italian: cannibalismo (it) m
• Japanese: カニバリズム (ja) (kanibarizumu)
• Manx: canniblaght (gv) f
• Occitan: antropofagia (oc) f, canibalisme (oc) m

• Persian: همنوع‌خواری (fa) (hamnou'-xâri), (of humans) آدم‌خواری (fa) (âdam-xâri)
• Polish: kanibalizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: antropofagia (pt) f, canibalismo (pt) m
• Romanian: canibalism (ro) n
• Russian: каннибализм (ru) (kannibalízm) m, (of humans) людоедство (ru) (ljudojédstvo) n
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: канибалѝзам (sh) m, људо̀жде̄рство (sh) n

  Roman: kanibalìzam (sh) m, ljudòždērstvo (sh) n

• Spanish: antropofagia (es) f, canibalismo (es) m
• Swedish: kannibalism (sv) c
• Telugu: స్వజాతి భక్షణ (te) (svajati bhakshaNa), నరమాంస భక్షణ (te) (naramaaMsa bhakshaNa)
• Turkish: yamyamlık (tr)
• Vietnamese: ăn thịt đồng loại (vi)

Related terms

• cannibal
• cannibalistic
• autocannibalism

See also

• Kuru
• prion
• Mad Cow Disease