civil war

See also: Civil War

English

Etymology

Calque of Latin bellum cīvīle, in English from 1651 in reference to the English Civil War, with possible early use in the 15th and 16th centuries as wer cyuile or ciuill warre.

Noun

civil war (plural civil wars)

1. A war fought between factions of the inhabitants of a single country, or a similar political entity.
   • 2015, Shane R. Reeves, David Wallace, “The Combatant Status of the “Little Green Men” and Other Participants in the Ukraine Conflict”, in International Law Studies, US Naval War College‎^[1], volume 91, number 361, Stockton Center for the Study of International Law, page 393:

     The “little green men”—faces covered, wearing unmarked olive uniforms, speaking Russian and using Russian weapons—have played a significant role in both the occupation of Crimea and the civil war in eastern Ukraine.¹⁹⁶

Synonyms

• intestine war

Derived terms

• Civil War

Translations

war between factions within a single country

• Albanian: luftë civile f
• Arabic: حَرْب أَهْلِيَّة f (ḥarb ʔahliyya)
• Armenian: քաղաքացիական պատերազմ (hy) (kʻaġakʻacʻiakan paterazm)
• Assamese: গৃহযুদ্ধ (grihozuddho)
• Asturian: guerra civil f
• Azerbaijani: vətəndaş müharibəsi
• Bashkir: граждандар һуғышы (grajdandar huğışı)
• Basque: gerra zibil
• Belarusian: грамадзя́нская вайна́ f (hramadzjánskaja vajná)
• Bengali: গৃহযুদ্ধ (grihojuddho)
• Bulgarian: гражда́нска война f (graždánska vojna)
• Buryat: эрхэтэнэй дайн (erxetenej dajn)
• Catalan: guerra civil f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 內戰／内战 (zh) (nèizhàn), 内战 (zh) (nèizhàn), 內亂／内乱 (zh) (nèiluàn), 内乱 (zh) (nèiluàn), 國內戰爭／国内战争 (guónèi zhànzhēng), 国内战争 (guónèi zhànzhēng)

• Czech: občanská válka (cs) f
• Danish: borgerkrig (da) c
• Dutch: burgeroorlog (nl) m
• Egyptian: (ḏꜣjs)
• Erzya: ошалянь тюрема (ošaľań ťuŕema)
• Esperanto: enlanda milito
• Estonian: kodusõda
• Faroese: borgarakríggj n
• Finnish: sisällissota (fi)
• French: guerre civile (fr) f, guerre intestine f
• Galician: guerra civil f
• Georgian: სამოქალაქო ომი (samokalako omi)
• German: Bürgerkrieg (de) m
• Greek: εμφύλιος πόλεμος (el) m (emfýlios pólemos)

  Ancient: ἐμφύλιος πόλεμος m (emphúlios pólemos)

• Gujarati: આંતરવિગ્રહ (āntarvigrah)
• Hawaiian: kaua kūloko
• Hebrew: מלחמת אזרחים
• Hindi: गृहयुद्ध (hi) (gŕhyuddh)
• Hungarian: polgárháború (hu)
• Icelandic: borgarastyrjöld f
• Indonesian: perang saudara (id)
• Italian: guerra civile (it) f
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• Japanese: 内戦 (ja) (ないせん, naisen), 内乱 (ないらん, nairan)
• Kannada: ಅಂತಃಕಲಹ (kn) (antaḥkalaha)
• Kazakh: азаматтық соғыс (azamattyq soğys)
• Korean: 내전 (ko) (naejeon) (內戰 (ko))
• Kyrgyz: жарандык согуш (jarandık soguş)
• Latin: bellum civile n
• Malay: perang saudara
• Malayalam: ആഭ്യന്തരയുദ്ധം (ābhyantarayuddhaṁ)
• Maori: kaiākiri
• Marathi: यादवी युद्ध (yādvī yuddha), गृहयुद्ध (gŕhyuddha)
• Mongolian: иргэний дайн (irgenii dajn)
• Newar: गृह हताः (gr̥ha hatā:)
• Norman: dgèrre civile f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: borgerkrig m

  Nynorsk: borgarkrig m

• Occitan: guèrra civila f
• Old English: ingefeoht n
• Ossetian: мидхӕст (midxæst)
• Persian: جنگ داخلی (fa)
• Polish: wojna domowa (pl) f
• Portuguese: guerra civil (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਖ਼ਾਨਾਜੰਗੀ (xānājaṅgī)
• Romanian: război civil (ro) n
• Russian: гражда́нская война́ (ru) f (graždánskaja vojná)
• Scottish Gaelic: cogadh sìobhalta m
• Slovak: občianska vojna f
• Slovene: državljanska vojna (sl) f
• Spanish: guerra civil (es) f
• Swedish: inbördeskrig (sv) n
• Tagalog: bayanhing digmaan (bayanhing digmaan)
• Tajik: ҷанги шаҳрвандӣ (jangi šahrvandī)
• Tamil: உள்நாட்டுப் போர் (uḷnāṭṭup pōr)
• Telugu: పౌర యుద్ధం (paura yuddhaṁ)
• Thai: สงครามกลางเมือง (sǒng-kraam-glaang-mʉʉang)
• Turkish: iç savaş (tr)
• Ukrainian: громадя́нська війна́ f (hromadjánsʹka vijná)
• Uzbek: fuqarolar urushi
• Vietnamese: nội chiến (vi) (內戰)