banishment

English

Etymology

From banish +‎ -ment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbænɪʃmənt/
• Hyphenation: ban‧ish‧ment

Noun

banishment (countable and uncountable, plural banishments)

1. The act of banishing.

   The judge pronounced banishment upon the war criminal.

2. The state of being banished, exile.
   • 2006, James Fenton, Jerusalem:

     You are in error. / This is terror. / This is your banishment. This land is mine. / This is what you earn. / This is the Law of No Return. / This is the sour dough, this the sweet wine. / This is my history, this my race / And this unhappy man threw acid in my face.

   He has been in banishment from his home country for well over four years.

Synonyms

• exile

Translations

The act of banishing

• Armenian: աքսորում (hy) (akʻsorum)
• Azerbaijani: sürgün
• Bashkir: һөргөн (hörgön)
• Bulgarian: прогонване (progonvane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 流放 (zh) (liúfàng), 流刑 (zh) (liúxíng)

• Dutch: verbanning (nl) f
• Finnish: karkotus (fi)
• French: bannissement (fr)
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: ὑπερορισμός m (huperorismós)

• Hindi: निर्वासन (hi) (nirvāsan)
• Hungarian: száműzés (hu)
• Indonesian: pembuangan (id), pengucilan, pengusiran (id)
• Japanese: 流刑 (ja) (ryūkei)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: mişextkirin (ku) f, sirgûn (ku) f

• Malay: buang negeri
• Maori: whakapakotanga
• Polish: banicja (pl) f, wygnanie (pl) n
• Russian: изгна́ние (ru) n (izgnánije), вы́сылка (ru) f (výsylka)
• Spanish: exilio (es) m
• Turkish: sürgün (tr)

The state of being banished, exile

• Armenian: աքսոր (hy) (akʻsor)
• Bashkir: һөргөн (hörgön)
• Bulgarian: изгнание (bg) (izgnanie), заточение (bg) (zatočenie)
• Dutch: ballingschap (nl) f
• Finnish: maanpako (fi)
• French: banni (fr)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἐξορία f (exoría)

• Hindi: देश निकाला m (deś nikālā)
• Hungarian: száműzetés (hu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: mişextî (ku) f, sirgûn (ku) f

• Latin: exsilium n, ablēgātiō f
• Maori: whakapakonga
• Polish: banicja (pl) f, wygnanie (pl) n
• Russian: изгна́ние (ru) n (izgnánije), ссы́лка (ru) f (ssýlka)
• Spanish: exilio (es) m