penalty

See also pénalty

English

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• pœnalty (archaic)

Noun

penalty (plural penalties)

1. A legal sentence.

   The penalty for his crime was to do hard labor.

2. A punishment for violating rules of procedure.
   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,

     Was it so irreconcilable, Warwick wondered, as still to peal out the curfew bell, which at nine o'clock at night had clamorously warned all negroes, slave or free, that it was unlawful for them to be abroad after that hour, under penalty of imprisonment or whipping?

3. (finance) A payment forfeited for an early withdrawal from an account or an investment.
4. (soccer) A direct free kick from the penalty spot, taken after a defensive foul in the penalty box.
5. (ice hockey) A punishment for an infraction of the rules, often in the form of being removed from play for a specified amount of time.

   A penalty was called when he tripped up his opponent.

Related terms

• penal
• penality (rare)

Translations

legal sentence

Danish: straf (da) c. Dutch: straf (nl) f. Finnish: rangaistus (fi) French: penalisation (fr) f. German: Strafe (de) f. Greek: κύρωση (círosi) f., ποινή (piní) f., τιμωρία (timoría) f. Hungarian: büntetés (hu) Irish: pionós (ga) m.

Latgalian: struope f. Latvian: sods (lv) m. Lithuanian: bausmė (lt) Norwegian: straff (no) m. and f. Polish: kara (pl) f. Romanian: penalizare (ro) f., pedeapsă (ro) f. Russian: наказание (ru), взыскание (ru), штраф (ru) Swedish: straff (sv) n.

punishment for violating rules of procedure

Arabic: جزاء (jazā’) m. Catalan: càstig  (ca) m. Chinese: 惩罚 (chéngfá) Dutch: straf (nl) f. Finnish: sopimussakko, sopimuskorvaus French: peine (fr) f. German: Strafe (de) f. Greek: αντίτιμο (a[n]dítimo) n., τιμωρία (timoría) f. Hungarian: büntetés (hu), bírság (hu) Irish: pionós (ga) m.

Italian: penalità (it) f. Japanese: 罰 (ばつ, batsu) Korean: 형벌 (hyeongbeol) Norwegian: straff (no) m. and f. Polish: kara (pl) f. Portuguese: penalidade (pt) f. Russian: штраф (ru) (štraf) m. Spanish: castigo (es) m. Swedish: straff (sv) n.

free kick in football

Czech: penalta (cs) f. Dutch: penalty (nl) m., strafschop (nl) m. Finnish: rangaistuslaukaus French: penalty (fr) m. German: Strafstoß (de) m., Elfmeter (de) m. Greek: πέναλτι (pénalti) n., η εσχάτη των ποινών (i eskháti ton pinín) f. Hungarian: tizenegyes (hu), büntetőrúgás (hu) Irish: pionós (ga) m.

Italian: calcio di rigore (it) m., rigore (it) Norwegian: straffe (no) m. and f., straffespark (no) n. Romanian: penalti (ro) n. Russian: пенальти (ru) n. Slovene: enajstmetrovka (sl) f. Spanish: penalti (es) m. Swedish: straff (sv) c., straffspark (sv) c.

punishment in ice hockey

Finnish: rangaistus (fi), jäähy (fi) Irish: pionós (ga) m.

Swedish: utvisning (sv) c.

Derived terms

• penalty arc
• penalty box
• penalty kick
• penalty area
• penalty phase
• penalty shot
• penalty shoot-out
• penalty spot

See also

• free kick

Anagrams

• aplenty, netplay

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French

Alternative forms

• pénalty

Etymology

Borrowed from English

Noun

penalty m. (plural penalties)

1. (sports) penalty, penalty kick