human sacrifice

English

Etymology

human +‎ sacrifice

Noun

human sacrifice (countable and uncountable, plural human sacrifices)

The killing of one or more human beings as part of a religious ritual.
A human being killed in this way.

Translations

the ritual killing of a person

Bulgarian: човешко жертвоприношение (čoveško žertvoprinošenie)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 人祭 (jan⁴ zai³)

Mandarin: 人祭 (rénjì)
Greek: ανθρωποθυσία (el) f (anthropothysía)
Ancient: ἀνθρωποθυσία f (anthrōpothusía)
Japanese: 人身御供 (ja) (hitomi gokū)
Maori: raukakai
Norwegian:
Bokmål: menneskeofring m or f

Nynorsk: menneskeofring f
Swedish: människooffer (sv) n
Telugu: నరబలి (te) (narabali)

Further reading

human sacrifice on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

“human sacrifice”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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