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From French terrorisme terreur -isme terror -ism
The word first appears in English in 1795 in reference to the Jacobin Reign of Terror .
terrorism (usually uncountable , plural terrorisms
( historical ) fear and intimidation put into place during the Reign of Terror in Revolutionary France around 1793-94.
1795 July 7, Thomas Paine, The Constitution Of 1795 (Speech in the French National Convention) :In England I was proscribed for having vindicated the French Revolution, and I have suffered a rigorous imprisonment in France for having pursued a similar mode of conduct. During the reign of terrorism , I was a close prisoner for eight long months, and remained so above three months after the era of the tenth Thermidor.
The use of unlawful violence against people or property to achieve political objectives .
2012 December 14, Simon Jenkins , “We mustn't overreact to North Korea boys' toys”, in The Guardian Weekly [1] 188 , number 2, page 23 :The threat of terrorism to the British lies in the overreaction to it of British governments. Each one in turn clicks up the ratchet of surveillance, intrusion and security. Each one diminishes liberty. David Cameron insists that his latest communications data bill is "vital to counter terrorism ". Yet terror is mayhem. It is no threat to freedom. That threat is from counter-terror, from ministers capitulating to securocrats.
( by extension ) intimidation or bullying tactics. use of terror as a means of coercion
Afrikaans: terrorisme
Albanian: terrorizëm (sq) m
Arabic: إِرْهَاب m ( ʔirhāb )
Armenian: ահաբեկչություն (hy) ( ahabekčʻutʻyun ) , տեռորիզմ (hy) ( teṙorizm )
Asturian: terrorismu m
Azerbaijani: terrorizm tədhiş
Basque: terrorismo (eu) inan
Belarusian: тэрары́зм m ( terarýzm ) , тэра́кт m ( terákt ) ( terror act )
Bengali: সন্ত্রাসবাদ (bn) ( śontrasbad )
Bulgarian: терори́зъм (bg) m ( terorízǎm )
Burmese: အကြမ်းဖက်ဝါဒ ( a.kram:hpak-wada. )
Catalan: terrorisme (ca) m
Cebuano: terorismo
Chechen: терроризм ( terrorizm )
Chinese:
Cantonese: 恐怖主義 ／ 恐怖主义 ( hung2 bou3 zyu2 ji6 )
Mandarin: 恐怖主義 ／ 恐怖主义 (zh) ( kǒngbùzhǔyì )
Cornish: broweghereth f
Czech: terorismus (cs) m
Danish: terrorisme c
Dutch: terrorisme (nl) n
Esperanto: terorismo
Estonian: terrorism (et)
Finnish: terrorismi (fi)
French: terrorisme (fr) m
Galician: terrorismo (gl) m
Georgian: ტერორიზმი ( ṭerorizmi )
German: Terrorismus (de) m
Greek: τρομοκρατία (el) f ( tromokratía )
Gujarati: આતંકવાદ ( ātaṅkvād )
Hebrew: טֶרוֹר (he) m ( téror ) , טֶרוֹרִיזְם m ( terorizm )
Hindi: आतंकवाद (hi) m ( ātaṅkvād ) , दहशतगर्दी f ( dahśatgardī ) , दहशतंगेज़ m ( dahaśtaṅgez )
Hungarian: terrorizmus (hu)
Icelandic: hryðjuverk (is) n
Ido: terorismo
Indonesian: terorisme (id)
Interlingua: terrorismo
Irish: sceimhlitheoireacht
Italian: terrorismo (it) m
Japanese: テロリズム (ja) ( terorizumu ) , テロ (ja) ( tero )
Kannada: ಆತಂಕವಾದ ( ātaṅkavāda ) , ಭಯೋತ್ಪಾದನೆ ( bhayōtpādane )
Kazakh: лаңкестік ( lañkestık ) , терроризм ( terrorizm )
Khmer: ភេរវនិយម ( pheirĕəʼvĕəʼniyum )
Korean: 테러리즘 (ko) ( tereorijeum ) , 테러 (ko) ( tereo ) , 공포주의(恐怖主義) ( gongpojuui ) , 테로 ( tero ) ( North Korea )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: terorîzm (ku) f
Kyrgyz: терроризм ( terrorizm )
Lao: ການກໍ່ການຮ້າຍ ( kān kǭ kān hāi )
Latin: tromocratia f
Latvian: terorisms m
Lithuanian: terorizmas m
Luxembourgish: Terrorismus m
Macedonian: терори́зам m ( terorízam )
Malay: pengganasan terorisme
Malayalam: ഭീകരവാദം ( bhīkaravādaṁ ) , തീവ്രവാദം ( tīvravādaṁ , literally “ extremism ” )
Maltese: terroriżmu m
Marathi: दहशतवाद ( dahśatvād )
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: терроризм (mn) ( terrorizm ) , алан хядлага ( alan xjadlaga )
Norman: terreurisme m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: terrorisme (no) m
Nynorsk: terrorisme m
Occitan: terrorisme (oc) m
Ottoman Turkish: بلݣلمه ( beliŋleme )
Pashto: ترهګري f ( trahgari ) , تروريزم m ( trorizǝm )
Persian: تِروریسْم (fa) ( terorism ) , تِروریزْم ( terorizm ) , اِرْعابْگری (fa) ( er'âbgari ) ( rare )
Polish: terroryzm (pl) m
Portuguese: terrorismo (pt) m
Punjabi: ਦਹਿਸ਼ਤਗਰਦੀ ( dahiśtagardī ) , ਦਹਿਸ਼ਤਵਾਦ m ( dahiśtavād ) , ਆਤੰਕਵਾਦ (pa) m ( ātaṅkvād )
Romanian: terorism (ro) n Cyrillic: терорисм n ( terorism )
Russian: террори́зм (ru) m ( terrorízm ) , тера́кт (ru) m ( terákt ) ( terror act ) , терро́р (ru) m ( terrór )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: терорѝзам m
Roman: terorìzam (sh) m
Sinhalese: ත්රස්තවාදය ( trastawādaya )
Slovak: terorizem m
Slovene: terorizem (sl)
Spanish: terrorismo (es) m
Swedish: terrorism (sv) c
Tagalog: terorismo (tl)
Tajik: терроризм ( terrorizm )
Tamil: பயங்கரவாதம் (ta) ( payaṅkaravātam )
Tatar: террорчылык ( terrorçılıq )
Telugu: ఉగ్రవాదం (te) ( ugravādaṁ )
Thai: การก่อการร้าย ( gaan-gɔ̀ɔ-gaan-ráai )
Turkish: terörizm (tr) , yıldırıcılık
Turkmen: terrorizm
Ukrainian: терори́зм m ( terorýzm ) , тера́кт m ( terákt ) ( terror act )
Urdu: دَہْشَت گَرْدی f ( dahśat gardī ) , دَہْشَت پَسَنْدی f ( dahśat pasandī )
Uyghur: تېررورلۇق ( tërrorluq ) , تېررورىزم ( tërrorizm )
Uzbek: terrorizm (uz)
Vietnamese: khủng bố (vi) (恐怖 chính sách khủng bố 政策恐怖 chủ nghĩa khủng bố 主義恐怖
Volapük: jekälim jekidun jekidunot jeikareig (vo)
Welsh: terfysgaeth (cy) f brawychiaeth f
Yiddish: טעראָריזם m ( terorizm )
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