self-sacrifice

English

Etymology

self- +‎ sacrifice

Noun

self-sacrifice (countable and uncountable, plural self-sacrifices)

The giving up of one's own benefit, especially giving up one's life, for the good of others.
His brave self-sacrifice won him a posthumous medal, but I think he'd have preferred to receive it in person.

Related terms

Translations

giving up of one's own benefit

Azerbaijani: fədakarlıq
Chinese:
Mandarin: 自我犧牲 (zh), 自我牺牲 (zh) (zìwǒxīshēng)
Czech: sebeobětování n
Esperanto: memofero
Finnish: uhrautuminen
French: auto-sacrifice m, sacrifice de soi m
German: Selbstaufopferung f
Italian: autosacrificio m

Japanese: 自己犠牲 (じこぎせい, jikogisei)
Macedonian: самопожртвување n (samopožrtvúvanje), самопрегор m (samoprégor)
Polish: samopoświęcenie n
Portuguese: autossacrifício m
Russian: самопоже́ртвование (ru) n (samopožértvovanije)
Serbo-Croatian: samoodricanje n, samožrtvovanje (sh) n, samopregor m
Spanish: autosacrificio m
Swedish: självuppoffring c
Turkish: fedakârlık (tr), özveri (tr)

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