disarmament

English

Etymology

disarm +‎ -ment.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /dɪsˈɑːməmənt/

Noun

disarmament (countable and uncountable, plural disarmaments)

The reduction or the abolition of the military forces and armaments of a nation, and of its capability to wage war.
The act of disarming an opponent in a fight.
- 1974, Black Belt (volume 12, number 11, page 15)
  With spears, swords and knives flying off the stage from intended defensive disarmament, no one sitting near the stage could afford to even blink his eyes.

Translations

the reduction of military forces and armaments

Arabic: نَزْع السِلَاح‎ m (nazʿ as-silāḥ)
Armenian: զինաթափում (hy) (zinatʿapʿum), զինաթափություն (zinatʿapʿutʿyun)
Belarusian: раззбраенне n (razzbrajénnje)
Bulgarian: разоръжаване n (razorǎžavane)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 裁軍 (zh), 裁军 (zh) (cáijūn)
Czech: odzbrojení (cs) n
Dutch: ontwapening (nl)
Esperanto: malarmado
Faroese: avdubbing f, avvápning f, avvápnan f
Finnish: aseistariisunta, aseidenriisunta (fi)
French: désarmement (fr) m
Galician: desarmamento (gl) m
Georgian: განიარაღება (ganiaraɣeba)
German: Abrüstung (de) f

Greek: αφοπλισμός (el) m (afoplismós)
Italian: disarmo (it) m
Japanese: 軍縮 (ja) (ぐんしゅく, gunshuku)
Korean: 군축 (ko) (gunchuk) (軍縮 (ko))
Polish: rozbrojenie n
Portuguese: desarmamento m
Russian: разоруже́ние (ru) n (razoružénije)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: разоружање n

Roman: razoružanje n
Slovak: odzbrojenie n
Spanish: desarme (es) m
Swedish: nedrustning (sv) c
Ukrainian: роззброєння n (rozzbrójennja)

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