behead

English

Etymology

From Middle English beheden, bihefden, biheveden, from Old English behēafdian (“to behead”), equivalent to be- (“off, away”) +‎ head.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛd

Verb

behead (third-person singular simple present beheads, present participle beheading, simple past and past participle beheaded)

1. (transitive) To remove the head of; to cut someone's head off.

Synonyms

• decapitate
• decollate

Derived terms

• beheaded
• beheading

Translations

to remove the head

• Arabic: ضَرَبَ عُنُقَهُ (ḍaraba ʕunuqahu)
• Armenian: գլխատել (hy) (glxatel), գլուխը կտրել (gluxə ktrel)
• Aromanian: gushuescu
• Belarusian: абезгало́ўліваць impf (abjezhalóŭlivacʹ), абезгало́віць pf (abjezhalóvicʹ)
• Bulgarian: обезглавя́вам (bg) impf (obezglavjávam)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: decapitar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (informal) 砍頭／砍头 (zh) (kǎntóu), 砍头 (zh) (kǎntóu), (formal) 斬首／斩首 (zh) (zhǎnshǒu), 斩首 (zh) (zhǎnshǒu)

• Czech: stít
• Danish: halshugge
• Dutch: onthoofden (nl)
• Esperanto: senkapigi
• Estonian: pead maha raiuma
• Faroese: hálshøgga
• Finnish: katkaista kaula, mestata (fi)
• French: décapiter (fr)
• Georgian: თავის მოჭრა (tavis moč̣ra), თავის მოკვეთა (tavis moḳveta), თავის წაგდებინება (tavis c̣agdebineba)
• German: enthaupten (de), köpfen (de)
• Greek: αποκεφαλίζω (el) (apokefalízo), καρατομώ (el) (karatomó)

  Ancient: πελεκίζω (pelekízō), ἀποκεφαλίζω (apokephalízō)

• Hebrew: לערוף ראשים, עָרַף (he) ('aráf)
• Hungarian: lefejez (hu), lefejezni
• Indonesian: memenggal (id), memancung
• Interlingue:
• Italian: decapitare (it)
• Japanese: (phrase) 首を刎ねる (くびをはねる, kubi o haneru), 斬首する (ざんしゅする, zanshu suru), 刎ねる (ja) (はねる, haneru), (phrase) 打ち首にする (うちくびにする, uchikubi ni suru)
• Khmer: កាត់ក្បាល (kat kbaal), កាត់ក (km) (kat kɑɑ)
• Korean: 목을 베다 (mogeul beda)
• Kurdish:
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• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: dēcollō, dētruncō, obtruncō; decapitare (Late Latin)
• Luxembourgish: käppen
• Macedonian: обезглавува (obezglavuva)
• Malay: pancung
• Maori: pōuto (i te kaki)
• Norwegian: halshugge, halshogge
• Old English: beheafdian, heafdian
• Old Saxon: gihōfdon, hōfdon
• Persian: گردن زدن (fa) (gardan zadan)
• Polish: ściąć głowę pf
• Portuguese: decapitar (pt), degolar (pt)
• Quechua: qhuruy
• Romanian: decapita (ro)
• Russian: обезгла́вливать (ru) impf (obezglávlivatʹ), обезгла́вить (ru) pf (obezglávitʹ), отруба́ть го́лову impf (otrubátʹ gólovu), отруби́ть го́лову pf (otrubítʹ gólovu)
• Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can
• Slovak: sťať pf, stínať impf
• Slovene: obglaviti (sl)
• Spanish: descabezar (es), decapitar (es)
• Swedish: halshugga (sv), dekapitera (sv)
• Tagalog: pugutan
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: ตัดศีรษะ (dtàt sǐi-sà)
• Turkish: boynunu vurmak (tr), (colloquial) kafasını uçurmak (tr), (colloquial) kellesini uçurmak (tr)
• Ukrainian: обезголо́влювати impf (obezholóvljuvaty), обезголо́вити pf (obezholóvyty), обезгла́влювати impf (obezhlávljuvaty), обезгла́вити pf (obezhlávyty)
• Urdu: سرقلم کرنا (sar qalam karna)
• Uyghur: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: chặt đầu, chém đầu
• Welsh: torfynyglu