violation

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French violation, from Latin violātiō (“injury, profanation”), from violō (“I treat with violence; I maltreat; I violate, defile, profane”). Morphologically violate +‎ -ion

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌvaɪ.əˈleɪ.ʃən/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

violation (countable and uncountable, plural violations)

1. The act or an instance of violating or the condition of being violated.
   1. An infraction or a failure to follow a rule.
   2. (euphemistic) Rape; sexual activity forced on another person without their consent.

Synonyms

• transgression
• desecration

See breach.

Antonyms

• compliance
• obedience

Derived terms

• access violation
• carrying violation
• civil violation
• half-court violation
• hog line violation
• lane violation
• moving violation
• moving violation
• parking violation
• sharing violation
• time violation
• traffic violation

 

Related terms

• violate
• violable
• violative
• violator

Translations

act or instance of violating

• Arabic: اِنْتِهَاك m (intihāk)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Azerbaijani: pozma, pozulma, pozuntu
• Belarusian: парушэнне n (parušennje)
• Bulgarian: наруше́ние (bg) n (narušénie)
• Catalan: vulneració f, violació (ca) f
• Cebuano: paglapas, paglipas
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 違規／违规 (zh) (wéiguī)

• Czech: porušení n
• Danish: krænkning c
• Dutch: overtreding (nl) f, schending (nl) f
• Finnish: loukkaus (fi), rikkomus (fi)
• French: infraction (fr) f
• Galician: vulneración (gl) f, violación (gl) f
• Georgian: დარღვევა (darɣveva), შელახვა (šelaxva)
• German: Verletzung (de) f
• Greek: παραβίαση (el) f (paravíasi), καταστρατήγηση (el) f (katastratígisi), παράβαση (el) f (parávasi)
• Hebrew: עבירה (he) f (`averah)
• Hungarian: megsértés (hu), megszegés (hu), szabálysértés (hu)
• Ido: violaco (io)
• Italian: violazione (it) f
• Japanese: 違反 (ja) (いはん, ihan)
• Korean: 위반(違反) (ko) (wiban), (rights) 침해(侵害) (ko) (chimhae); 유린(蹂躪) (ko) (yurin), 유린(蹂躙) (ko) (yurin), 유린(蹂蹸) (ko) (yurin)
• Macedonian: нарушување n (narušuvanje)
• Malayalam: ലംഘനം (ml) (laṅghanaṁ)
• Manx: aggair m
• Maori: takahanga, hāpiro
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: overtredelse m

• Polish: naruszenie (pl) n, pogwałcenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: violação (pt) f
• Russian: наруше́ние (ru) n (narušénije), несоблюде́ние (ru) n (nesobljudénije)
• Spanish: violación (es) f, vulneración (es) f
• Swahili: ukiukwaji
• Swedish: kränkning (sv)
• Tagalog: paglabag, pagsuway
• Telugu: ఉల్లంఘన (te) (ullaṅghana), అతిక్రమణ (te) (atikramaṇa)
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

rape — see rape

Anagrams

• avolition

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

violation f (plural violations)

1. violation

Further reading

• “violation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.