English [ edit ] Etymology [ edit ] cannibal -ism
Pronunciation [ edit ] cannibalism (usually uncountable , plural cannibalisms
The act of eating another of one's own species .
1887 Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia , page 31 :Cannibalism does not openly figure amongst aboriginal misdeeds, but in the northern part of Queensland it is no uncommon vice.
( figurative ) ( linguistics ) eliding part or all of the next word, because the syllables are the same. For example, "Look, an MIT shirt" for "Look, an MIT T-shirt".Hyponyms [ edit ] Related terms [ edit ] Translations [ edit ] act of eating another of one's own species
Armenian: մարդակերություն (hy) ( mardakerutʻyun ) ( of humans )
Asturian: antropofaxa f canibalismu m
Catalan: antropofàgia f canibalisme m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 同類相食 ／ 同类相食 (zh) ( tónglèi xiāngshí ) , ( of humans ) 食人 (zh) ( shírén )
Czech: kanibalismus (cs) m
Danish: kannibalisme (da) c
Dutch: kannibalisme (nl) n
Esperanto: kanibalismo samspecimanĝado
Faroese: mannaát n
Finnish: kannibalismi (fi)
French: cannibalisme (fr) m
Galician: antropofaxia (gl) f canibalismo (gl) m
German: Kannibalismus (de) m
Greek: κανιβαλισμός (el) m ( kanivalismós ) , ανθρωποφαγία (el) f ( anthropofagía )
Ancient: ἀνθρωποφαγία ( anthrōpophagía ) , ἀλληλοφαγία ( allēlophagía )
Indonesian: kanibalisme (id)
Italian: cannibalismo (it) m
Japanese: カニバリズム ( kanibarizumu ) , 共食い ( tomogui ) , ( of humans ) 人食い (ja) ( hitokui )
Kazakh: ( of humans ) адам жегіштік ( adam jegıştık )
Malay: kanibalisme (ms)
Manx: canniblaght f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kannibalisme (no) m
Nynorsk: kannibalisme m
Occitan: antropofagia (oc) f canibalisme m
Persian: همنوعخواری ( hamnow'-xâri ) , ( of humans ) آدمخواری ( âdam-xâri )
Polish: antropofagia (pl) f ( literary ) ludożerstwo (pl) n kanibalizm (pl) m
Portuguese: antropofagia (pt) f canibalismo m
Romanian: canibalism (ro) n
Russian: каннибали́зм (ru) m ( kannibalízm ) , ( of humans ) людое́дство (ru) n ( ljudojédstvo )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: канибалѝзам m људо̀жде̄рство n
Roman: kanibalìzam (sh) m ljudòždērstvo (sh) n
Slovak: ľudožrútstvo n ľudojedstvo n kanibalizmus m
Spanish: antropofagia (es) f canibalismo (es) m
Swedish: kannibalism (sv) c
Telugu: స్వజాతి భక్షణ ( svajāti bhakṣaṇa ) , నరమాంస భక్షణ ( naramāṁsa bhakṣaṇa )
Turkish: yamyamlık (tr)
Ukrainian: канібалі́зм m ( kanibalízm ) , людоже́рство n ( ljudožérstvo ) , людої́дство n ( ljudojídstvo )
Vietnamese: ăn thịt đồng loại
See also [ edit ] References [ edit ] 
cannibalism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 