declaration of war

English

Noun

declaration of war (plural declarations of war)

1. A formal announcement by a country or other body with military capability that it is in a state of war with another such entity.
   • 2022 January 12, Dr. Joseph Brennan, “Castles: ruined and redeemed by rail”, in RAIL, number 948, page 55:

     Make no mistake, the sway of the railways' mandate in the middle of the 19th century was, in some quarters, a declaration of war on the old.

Translations

a formal announcement by an entity that it is in a state of war with another entity

• Afrikaans: oorlogsverklaring
• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: gerra-deklarazio
• Belarusian: аб'яўленне вайны (abʺjaŭljennje vajny), абвяшчэнне вайны (abvjaščennje vajny), абвешчанне вайны (abvješčannje vajny)
• Catalan: declaració de guerra f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 宣戰／宣战 (zh) (xuānzhàn)

• Danish: krigserklæring c
• Dutch: oorlogsverklaring (nl) f
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: sõjakuulutus
• Finnish: sodanjulistus (fi)
• French: déclaration de guerre (fr) f
• Galician: declaración de guerra f
• German: Kriegserklärung (de) f
• Greek: κήρυξη πολέμου f (kíryxi polémou)
• Hebrew: הכרזת מלחמה (hakhrazát milhamá)
• Hungarian: hadüzenet (hu)
• Icelandic: stríðsyfirlýsing f
• Italian: dichiarazione di guerra f
• Japanese: 宣戦布告 (ja) (sensen fukoku)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: krigserklæring m or f

  Nynorsk: krigserklæring f

• Polish: wypowiedzenie wojny n
• Portuguese: declaração de guerra f
• Romanian: declarație de război (ro)
• Russian: объявле́ние войны́ (ru) n (obʺjavlénije vojný)
• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: declaración de guerra f
• Swedish: krigsförklaring (sv) c
• Turkish: harp ilâni
• Ukrainian: оголо́шення війни́ n (oholóšennja vijný)
• Volapük: krigisag

See also

• act of war