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English
Etymology
self- + defense. First used by Hobbes in the 1650s.
Noun
self-defense (usually uncountable, plural self-defenses)
- The means of defending oneself from physical attack.
- (law) The right to protect oneself against violence by using reasonable force, which can be used as justification in several charges including murder, assault, and battery.
Translations
means of defending oneself from attack
- Albanian: vetëmbrojtje (sq) f
- Arabic: دِفَاع عَنِ النَّفْسِ m (difāʕ ʕani n-nafsi)
- Armenian: ինքնապաշտպանություն (hy) (inkʻnapaštpanutʻyun)
- Azerbaijani: özünüqoruma, özünümüdafiə
- Belarusian: самаабаро́на f (samaabaróna)
- Bulgarian: самоотбра́на (bg) f (samootbrána)
- Catalan: autodefensa f, defensa personal f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 自衛／自卫 (zh) (zìwèi), 護身／护身 (zh) (hùshēn)
- Czech: sebeobrana f
- Danish: selvforsvar n
- Dutch: zelfverdediging (nl) f
- Estonian: enesekaitse
- Faroese: sjálvverja f
- Finnish: itsepuolustus (fi)
- French: autodéfense (fr) f
- Georgian: თავდაცვა (tavdacva)
- German: Selbstverteidigung (de) f, Notwehr (de) f
- Greek: αυτοάμυνα (el) f (aftoámyna)
- Hebrew: הִתְגּוֹנְנוּת f (hitgonenut), הֲגָנָה עַצְמִית f (haganá astmít)
- Hungarian: önvédelem (hu)
- Italian: autodifesa (it) f
- Japanese: 自己防衛 (じこぼうえい, jiko bōei)
- Korean: 자기방어(自己防禦) (jagibang'eo)
- Macedonian: самоодбрана f (samoodbrana)
- Malay: silat (ms)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: selvforsvar n
- Persian: دِفاعِ شَخْصی (defâ'-e šaxsi)
- Polish: samoobrona (pl) f
- Portuguese: autodefesa (pt) f, defesa pessoal f
- Romanian: autoapărare (ro) f
- Russian: самооборо́на (ru) f (samooboróna)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: самоо̀дбрана f, самоо̀брана f
- Roman: samoòdbrana f, samoòbrana (sh) f
- Slovak: sebaobrana f
- Slovene: samoobramba f
- Spanish: autodefensa (es) f, defensa personal f
- Swedish: självförsvar (sv) n
- Tamil: தற்காப்பு (ta) (taṟkāppu)
- Turkish: nefsi müdafaa (tr)
- Ukrainian: самооборо́на f (samooboróna)
- Vietnamese: sự tự vệ (vi)
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law: the right to protect oneself against violence by using reasonable force
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