hunger strike

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Noun

hunger strike (plural hunger strikes)

1. A fast undertaken as a means of protest, often by a prisoner.
   • 2013 September 23, Masha Gessen, “Life in a Russian Prison”, in New York Times, retrieved 24 September 2013:

     Alekhina has become a vocal advocate for prisoners’ rights, a sort of jailhouse lawyer who has exposed numerous violations, filed copious complaints, and, in May, held an 11-day hunger strike that succeeded in changing conditions in her penal colony.

Derived terms

• hunger striker

Translations

a fast undertaken as a means of protest

• Armenian: հացադուլ (hy) (hacʻadul)
• Bashkir: аслыҡ (aslıq)
• Basque: gose greba
• Belarusian: галадо́ўка f (haladóŭka)
• Catalan: vaga de fam f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 絕食 / 绝食 (zh) (juéshí), 絕食抗議 / 绝食抗议

• Czech: hladovka (cs) f
• Danish: sultestrejke (da) c
• Dutch: hongerstaking (nl) f
• Esperanto: malsatstriko
• Estonian: näljastreik
• Faroese: hungursverkfall n
• Finnish: nälkälakko (fi), syömälakko (fi)
• French: grève de la faim (fr) f
• Georgian: შიმშილობა (šimšiloba)
• German: Hungerstreik (de) m
• Gujarati: ભૂખહડતાળ (bhūkhhaḍtāḷ)
• Haitian Creole: grèv grangou
• Hungarian: éhségsztrájk (hu)
• Icelandic: hungurverkfall (is) n
• Indonesian: mogok makan (id)
• Irish: stailc ocrais f
• Italian: sciopero della fame m
• Japanese: ハンガー・ストライキ (ja) (hangā-sutoraiki), ハンスト (ja) (hansuto)
• Kalmyk: харһнлт (xarğnlt)
• Korean: 단식투쟁(斷食鬪爭) (dansiktujaeng)
• Latvian: badastreiks m
• Lithuanian: bãdo strei̇̃kas
• Malay: mogok lapar, mogok makan (Indonesian Malay)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sultestreik m

  Nynorsk: sveltestreik m

• Occitan: cauma de la fam f, grèva de la fam f
• Persian: اعتصاب غذا (fa) (e'tesâb-e ğazâ)
• Polish: głodówka (pl) f, strajk głodowy (pl) m
• Portuguese: greve de fome f
• Romanian: greva foamei (ro) f
• Russian: голодо́вка (ru) f (golodóvka)
• Slovak: hladovka f
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: hłodowy stawk m

• Southern Altai: торолош (torološ)
• Spanish: huelga de hambre (es) f
• Swedish: hungerstrejk (sv) c
• Tamil: உண்ணாவிரத போராட்டம் (uṇṇāvirata pōrāṭṭam)
• Turkish: açlık grevi (tr)
• Ukrainian: голодо́вка f (holodóvka), голоді́вка f (holodívka)
• Vietnamese: tuyệt thực (vi)
• Welsh: streic newyn f