international law

English

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Noun

international law (uncountable)

1. Set of rules generally regarded and accepted as binding in relations between states and between nations, serving as a framework for the practice of stable and organized international relations.
   • 2025 November 20, Simmone Shah, “Ukraine to Claim $44bn in Climate Damages From Russia. Why War Is So Bad For Emissions”, in TIME‎^[1]:

     The country's environmental ministry first set out to use international law to get Russia to pay for the environmental damages caused by the war in 2022, originally planning to file a claim to international courts when the war ended.

Translations

set of rules applied to the relations between nations

• Albanian: ligji ndërkombëtar m (definite)
• Arabic: قَانُون دُوَلِيّ m (qānūn duwaliyy)
• Armenian: միջազգային իրավունք (hy) (miǰazgayin iravunkʻ)
• Azerbaijani: beynəlxalq hüquq
• Belarusian: міжнаро́днае пра́ва n (mižnaródnaje práva)
• Bengali: আন্তর্জাতিক আইন (antorjatik ain)
• Bulgarian: междунаро́дно пра́во n (meždunaródno právo)
• Catalan: dret internacional
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 國際法 / 国际法 (gwok³ zai³ faat³), 萬國公法 / 万国公法 (maan⁶ gwok³ gung¹ faat³)

  Mandarin: 國際法 / 国际法 (zh) (guójìfǎ), 萬國公法 / 万国公法 (wànguó gōngfǎ), 萬國法 / 万国法 (wànguófǎ), 國際公法 / 国际公法 (guójì gōngfǎ)

• Czech: mezinárodní právo n
• Danish: folkeret c, international ret c, international lov c
• Dutch: volkenrecht (nl) n, internationaal recht n
• Esperanto: internacia juro
• Estonian: rahvusvaheline õigus
• Finnish: kansainvälinen oikeus (fi)
• French: droit international m
• Galician: dereito internacional (gl) m
• Georgian: საერთაშორისო სამართალი (saertašoriso samartali)
• German: Völkerrecht (de) n
• Greek: διεθνές δίκαιο (el) n (diethnés díkaio)
• Hebrew: משפט בינלאומי / מִשְׁפָּט בֵּינְלְאֻמִּי m (mishpát beinl'umí)
• Hindi: अन्तर्राष्ट्रीय विधि f (antarrāṣṭrīya vidhi)
• Hungarian: nemzetközi jog (hu)
• Indonesian: hukum internasional (id)
• Italian: diritto internazionale (it) m
• Japanese: 国際法 (ja) (こくさいほう, kokusaihō)
• Kazakh: халықаралық құқық (xalyqaralyq qūqyq)
• Korean: 국제법(國際法) (gukjebeop)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: hiqûqa navneteweyî

• Kyrgyz: эл аралык укук (el aralık ukuk)
• Latin: ius gentium n; (New Latin) ius internationale n
• Latvian: starptautiskās tiesības f pl
• Lithuanian: tarptautinė teisė f
• Macedonian: меѓународно право n (meǵunarodno pravo)
• Malay: undang-undang antarabangsa
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: folkerett m

• Pashto: نړيوال قانون m (naṛəywãl qānún)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: حُقوقِ بِیْن‌ُٱلْمِلَل (hoġuġ-e beyn-ol-melal)

• Polish: prawo międzynarodowe (pl) n
• Portuguese: direito internacional (pt) m
• Romanian: drept internațional (ro) n
• Russian: междунаро́дное пра́во (ru) n (meždunaródnoje právo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: међународно право n

  Latin: međunarodno pravo n

• Sicilian: dirittu ntirnazziunali m
• Slovak: medzinárodné právo n
• Slovene: mednarodno pravo (sl) n
• Spanish: derecho internacional m
• Swedish: folkrätt (sv) c, internationell rätt c
• Tagalog: batas-pandaigdig
• Tajik: ҳуқуқи байналмилалӣ (huquq-i baynalmilali)
• Thai: กฎหมายระหว่างประเทศ (gòt-mǎai-rá-wàang-bprà-têet)
• Turkish: milletlerarası hukuk, uluslararası hukuk
• Ukrainian: міжнаро́дне пра́во (uk) n (mižnaródne právo)
• Urdu: بَینَ ٱلْاَقْوامی قَانُون m (baina l-aqvāmī qānūn)
• Uzbek: xalqaro huquq
• Vietnamese: luật quốc tế (vi)
• Welsh: cyfraith ryngwladol