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English
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French coup d’État (literally “stroke (or blow) of state”).
Pronunciation
Noun
coup d'état (plural coups d'état or coup d'états)
- (politics, government) The sudden overthrow of a government, differing from a revolution by being carried out by a small group of people who replace only the leading figures.
- Synonyms: coup, putsch
2024 November 21, Tom Phillips, “Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro charged with plotting coup d’état”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:The former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and some of his closest allies are among dozens of people formally accused by federal police of being part of a criminal conspiracy designed to obliterate Brazil’s democratic system through a rightwing coup d’état.
Descendants
Translations
sudden overthrow of a government
- Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
- Adyghe: please add this translation if you can
- Afrikaans: staatsgreep
- Albanian: grusht shteti m
- Antillean Creole: koudéta m
- Arabic: اِنْقِلَاب (ar) m (inqilāb)
- Hijazi Arabic: اِنْقِلَاب m (ingilāb)
- Armenian: հեղաշրջում (hy) (heġašrǰum), պուտչ (hy) (putčʻ)
- Asturian: golpe d'estáu m
- Azerbaijani: dövlət çevrilişi
- Basque: estatu-kolpe
- Belarusian: пераваро́т m (pjeravarót), дзяржа́ўны пераваро́т m (dzjaržáŭny pjeravarót), путч m (putč)
- Bengali: কুদেতা (bn) (kudeta), অভ্যুত্থান (bn) (obbhutthan)
- Bulgarian: превра́т (bg) m (prevrát), пуч m (puč), държа́вен превра́т m (dǎržáven prevrát)
- Burmese: အာဏာသိမ်းမှု (anasim:hmu.)
- Catalan: cop d'estat (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 政變 / 政变 (zing3 bin3)
- Hokkien: 政變 / 政变 (chèng-piàn)
- Mandarin: 政變 / 政变 (zh) (zhèngbiàn), 苦迭打 (zh) (kǔdiédǎ) (dated)
- Corsican: colpu di statu m
- Czech: puč (cs) m, převrat m, státní převrat (cs) m
- Danish: statskup n
- Dutch: staatsgreep (nl) m, putsch (nl) m, coup (nl) m
- Esperanto: puĉo, ŝtatrenverso
- Estonian: riigipööre
- Faroese: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: vallankaappaus (fi)
- French: coup d’État (fr) m, putsch (fr) m
- Galician: golpe de estado (gl) m
- Georgian: გადატრიალება (gadaṭrialeba), დამხობა (damxoba), სახელმწიფო გადატრიალება (saxelmc̣ipo gadaṭrialeba), სამხედრო გადატრიალება (samxedro gadaṭrialeba), ხელისუფლების დამხობა (xelisuplebis damxoba), მთავრობის დამხობა (mtavrobis damxoba), პუტჩი (ṗuṭči)
- German: Coup (de) m, Staatsstreich (de) m, Putsch (de) m
- Greek: πραξικόπημα (el) n (praxikópima)
- Haitian Creole: koudeta m
- Hebrew: הֲפִיכָה (he) f (hafikhá), פּוּטְשׁ (he) m (putsh)
- Hindi: तख़्ता पलट f (taxtā palaṭ), राज्यविप्लव m (rājyaviplav)
- Hungarian: államcsíny (hu), puccs (hu)
- Icelandic: valdarán, hallarbylting, ríkisbylting
- Indonesian: kudeta (id)
- Italian: colpo di stato (it) m, golpe (it) m
- Japanese: クーデター (ja) (kūdetā), 政変 (ja) (せいへん, seihen)
- Kazakh: мемлекеттік төңкеріс (memlekettık töñkerıs)
- Khmer: រដ្ឋប្រហារ (rŏət prɑhaa)
- Korean: 쿠데타 (ko) (kudeta), 정변(政變) (ko) (jeongbyeon)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: derbeya leşkerî, kudeta (ku), derbe (ku)
- Kyrgyz: мамлекеттик төңкөрүш (mamlekettik töŋkörüş)
- Lao: ຣັຖປະຫານ (rat pa hān)
- Latin: eversio reipublicae
- Latvian: valsts apvērsums m, pučs m
- Lithuanian: valstybės perversmas m, pučas m
- Macedonian: државен удар m (državen udar), пуч m (puč), преврат m (prevrat)
- Malay: rampasan kuasa
- Jawi: کوديتا (ms), کوڤ
- Maori: upokotaua
- Mongolian:
- Mongolian: төрийн эргэлт (töriin ergelt)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: statskupp n
- Nynorsk: statskupp n
- Occitan: còp d'estat m
- Pashto: کودتا (kudetā)
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: کودِتا (kudetâ)
- Polish: zamach stanu (pl) m, przewrót (pl) m, pucz (pl) m
- Portuguese: golpe de estado (pt) m
- Romanian: lovitură de stat (ro) f, puci (ro) n
- Russian: переворо́т (ru) m (perevorót), путч (ru) m (putč), госуда́рственный переворо́т m (gosudárstvennyj perevorót), госпереворо́т (ru) m (gosperevorót)
- S'gaw Karen: တၢ်ဟံးဆူၣ်ကီၢ်တၢ်စိကမီၤ (ta̱ heë hsoò kaw̱ ta̱ soh ka maw̄)
- Scottish Gaelic: please add this translation if you can
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: пре̏вра̄т m, пу̏ч m, др̀жа̄внӣ у̏да̄р m
- Roman: prȅvrāt (sh) m, pȕč (sh) m, dr̀žāvnī ȕdār m
- Slovak: štátny prevrat m, puč m, prevrat m
- Slovene: držávni udár m, púč
- Spanish: golpe de estado (es) m, golpismo m
- Swedish: statskupp (sv) c, kudeta (sv) c
- Tagalog: kudeta (tl)
- Tajik: табаддулоти давлатӣ (tabaddulot-i davlati)
- Tamil: இராணுவப் புரட்சி (irāṇuvap puraṭci)
- Tatar: дәүләт түнтәрелеше (däwlät tüntäreleşe)
- Thai: รัฐประหาร (th) (rát-tà-bprà-hǎan)
- Tigrinya: ዕልዋ መንግስቲ (ʿəlwa mängəsti)
- Turkish: darbe (tr), askerî darbe
- Turkmen: döwlet agdarylyşygy
- Ukrainian: переворо́т m (perevorót), держа́вний переворо́т m (deržávnyj perevorót), путч m (putč), держпереворо́т m (deržperevorót)
- Urdu: مُسَلَّح بَغاوَت f (musallah baġāvat), بَغاوَت f (baġāvat)
- Uzbek: davlat toʻntarilishi
- Vietnamese: chính biến (vi), đảo chính (vi)
- Welsh: cipiad awdurdod (cy) m, gwrthryfel m
- Yiddish: איבערקערעניש f (iberkerenish), פּוטש m (putsh)
- Zhuang: please add this translation if you can
- Zulu: please add this translation if you can
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Further reading
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