English
Etymology
self- + sacrifice
Noun
self-sacrifice (countable and uncountable, plural self-sacrifices)
- The giving up of one's own benefit, especially giving up one's life, for the good of others.
- His brave self-sacrifice won him a posthumous medal, but I think he'd have preferred to receive it in person.
Translations
giving up of one's own benefit
- Azerbaijani: fədakarlıq
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 自我犧牲／自我牺牲 (zh), 自我牺牲 (zh) (zìwǒxīshēng)
- Czech: sebeobětování n
- Esperanto: memofero
- Finnish: uhrautuminen
- French: auto-sacrifice m, sacrifice de soi m
- German: Selbstaufopferung f
- Italian: autosacrificio m, abnegazione (it) f
- Japanese: 自己犠牲 (じこぎせい, jikogisei)
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- Macedonian: самопожртву́вање n (samopožrtvúvanje), самопре́гор m (samoprégor)
- Polish: samopoświęcenie n
- Portuguese: autossacrifício m
- Russian: самопоже́ртвование (ru) n (samopožértvovanije)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: самоодрицање n, саможр̀твова̄ње n, самопрегор m
- Roman: samoodricanje n, samožr̀tvovānje (sh) n, samopregor m
- Spanish: autosacrificio m, abnegación (es) f
- Swedish: självuppoffring c
- Turkish: fedakârlık (tr), özveri (tr)
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