putsch

See also Putsch

English

Etymology

From German Putsch, from Alemannic German.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /pʊtʃ/
• Rhymes: -ʊtʃ

Noun

putsch (plural putsches)

1. A coup; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government.

   • Afterward, the ringleaders of the failed putsch were publicly executed.

   • 2010, Thompson, M. 2010. Modernisation theory’s last redoubt: democratisation in east and south east Asia. In Yin-wah Chu and Siu-lun Wong (ed), 'East Asia's new democracies: deepening, reversal, non-liberal alternatives'. London, Routledge.p98.

     "They have broken the democratic rules of the game by supporting popular mobilisation that has resulted in what can be dubbed a "people power putsch"."

Quotations

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Synonyms

• coup
• coup d'état, coup d'etat

Translations

A coup; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government

• Armenian: պուտչ (hy) (putčʿ), խռովարարություն (hy) (xṙovararutʿyun)
• Catalan: cop d'estat (ca) m
• Czech: puč (cs) m
• Estonian: putš (et)
• French: coup d'état (fr) m, putsch (fr)
• German: Putsch (de) m
• Hungarian: puccs (hu)

• Polish: pucz (pl) m
• Romanian: puci (ro) n
• Russian: путч (ru) (putč) m
• Serbo-Croatian: prevrat m, puč (sh) m, državni udar (sh) m
• Spanish: putsh (es), alzamiento (es), pronunciamiento (es), golpe (es)
• Volapük: luvolut (vo)

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French

Etymology

From German Putsch.

Noun

putsch m (plural putschs)

1. putsch; military coup d'etat