child abuse

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtʃaɪldəbjuːs/

Noun

child abuse (uncountable)

1. (criminology) Physical, sexual or emotional mistreatment of a child that causes long-term or permanent damage. [from 20th c.]

   Coordinate term: elder abuse

Hyponyms

• child molestation
• child neglect

Derived terms

• child abuser

Translations

mistreatment of a child

• Afrikaans: kindermishandeling
• Catalan: maltractament infantil m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 兒童虐待／儿童虐待 (zh) (értóng nüèdài), 虐待兒童／虐待儿童 (nüèdài értóng), 虐童 (zh) (nüètóng)

• Dutch: kindermishandeling (nl) f, kindermisbruik (nl) n
• Finnish: lasten hyväksikäyttö
• French: maltraitance sur mineur f
• German: Kindesmisshandlung (de) f, Kindesmissbrauch (de) m
• Hungarian: gyermekbántalmazás (hu)
• Italian: abuso minorile
• Japanese: 児童虐待 (ja) (じどうぎゃくたい, jidō gyakutai)
• Kazakh: балаға зорлық (balağa zorlyq)
• Korean: 아동 학대 (ko) (adong hakdae)
• Norwegian: barnemishandling (no)
• Portuguese: abuso infantil m
• Romanian: abuz asupra copilului
• Russian: наси́лие над детьми́ n (nasílije nad detʹmí)
• Spanish: abuso de menores m
• Swedish: barnmisshandel (sv) c, övergrepp mot barn
• Turkish: çocuk istismarı

Further reading

• child abuse on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “child abuse”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.