hunger strike

English

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," 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.

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), 绝食 (zh) (juéshí)

• Czech: hladovka (cs) f
• Dutch: hongerstaking (nl) f
• Finnish: nälkälakko (fi)
• French: grève de faim f
• German: Hungerstreik (de) m
• Gujarati: ભૂખહડતાળ (bhūkhhaḍtāḷ)
• Hungarian: éhségsztrájk (hu)
• Icelandic: hungurverkfall (is) n
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• Irish: stailc ocrais f
• Japanese: ハンガー・ストライキ (hangā-sutoraiki), ハンスト (ja) (hansuto)
• Kalmyk: харһнлт (xarğnlt)
• Korean: 단식파업 (dansikpa'eop)
• Lithuanian: bado streikas
• Malay: mogok lapar
• Polish: głodówka (pl) f
• Portuguese: greve de fome f
• Russian: голодо́вка (ru) f (golodóvka)
• Slovak: hladovka f
• Southern Altai: торолош (toroloş)
• Spanish: huelga de hambre (es) f
• Swedish: hungerstrejk (sv) c
• Ukrainian: голодо́вка f (holodóvka), голоді́вка f (holodívka)
• Vietnamese: tuyệt thực (vi)