English Alternative forms Etymology From Anglo-Norman emprisonement Old French emprisonnement imprison -ment
Pronunciation Noun imprisonment (countable and uncountable plural imprisonments
A confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail , as punishment for a crime .
Spenser
His sinews waxen weak and raw / Through long imprisonment and hard constraint.
Blackstone
Every confinement of the person is an imprisonment , whether it be in a common prison, or in a private house, or even by forcibly detaining one in the public streets.
Sir Walter Raleigh
Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, betrayings, oppressions, imprisonments , tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and politic subtilty, have these forenamed kings [ …] pulled the vengeance of God upon themselves [ …] Synonyms Translations confinement
Arabic: حَبْس (ar) m ( ḥabs ) , سَجْن (ar) m ( sajn )
Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
Armenian: բանտարկություն (hy) ( bantarkutʻyun )
Aromanian: please add this translation if you can
Asturian: encarcelamientu m
Belarusian: зняво́ленне n ( znjavóljennje ) , пазбаўле́нне во́лі n ( pazbaŭljénnje vóli )
Bulgarian: затваряне n ( zatvarjane )
Catalan: empresonament m
Cherokee: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Mandarin: 徒刑 (zh) ( túxíng ) , 下獄 ／ 下狱 (zh) ( xiàyù ) , 下狱 (zh) ( xiàyù )
Czech: uvěznění n
Danish: fangenskab (da) n
Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: gevangenschap (nl) n
Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
Estonian: vangistus
Faroese: fangilsi n
Finnish: vankeus (fi)
French: emprisonnement (fr) m
Galician: encarceramento (gl) m
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Gefangenschaft (de) f Haft (de) f
Greek: φυλάκιση (el) f ( fylákisi ) , κάθειρξη (el) f ( kátheirxi ) ( law, more than five years )
(deprecated template usage ) {{trans-mid }}Italian: detenzione (it) f incarcerazione (it) f
Japanese: 徒刑 ( とけい, tokei ) , 懲役 (ja) ( ちょうえき, chōeki ) , 投獄 (ja) ( とうごく, tōgoku )
Khmer: ការដាក់គុក ( kaa dak kuk )
Korean: 투옥 (ko) ( tuok ) (投獄 (ko) ), 도형 (ko) ( dohyeong )
Macedonian: заробеништво n ( zarobeništvo ) , затворање n ( zatvoranje )
Maori: mauheretanga
Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:
Bokmål: fengsling (no) m or f
Nynorsk: fengsling f
Occitan: encarceracion f
Polish: uwięzienie (pl) n osadzenie (pl) n pozbawienie wolności n
Portuguese: aprisionamento m
Romanian: întemnițare (ro) , încarcerare (ro)
Russian: (тюре́мное ) заключе́ние n ( (tjurémnoje) zaključénije ) , лише́ние свобо́ды (ru) n ( lišénije svobódy ) , заточе́ние (ru) n ( zatočénije )
Scottish Gaelic: ciomachas m
Slovak: väznenie n uväznenie n
Spanish: encarcelamiento (es) m encarcelación (es) f aprisionamiento m cautiverio m cautividad (es) f
Swedish: fångenskap (sv) c
Turkish: hapsetme (tr)
Ukrainian: ув'я́знення n ( uvʺjáznennja ) , позба́влення во́лі n ( pozbávlennja vóli )
Vietnamese: phạt tù
Volapük: fanäböpam fanäbam (vo)
Walloon: please add this translation if you can
Welsh: carchariad (cy) m
Yiddish: please add this translation if you can