The five women on trial were almost all activists for the full repeal (not just a moratorium) of lapidation, ie stoning, from Iran’s law books.
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Lapidation
//ˌlæpɪˈdeɪʃən//
Synonyms for "lapidation" (38 found)
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43 translations across 29 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- رَجْم noun (act of stoning, sometimes to the point of death)
Armenian
1 entries- քարկոծում noun (act of stoning, sometimes to the point of death)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- daşqalaq noun (act of stoning, sometimes to the point of death)
- rəcm noun (act of stoning, sometimes to the point of death)
Belarusian
1 entries- пабіванне камянямі noun (act of stoning, sometimes to the point of death)
Bulgarian
1 entries- пребиване с камъни noun (act of stoning, sometimes to the point of death)
Catalan
1 entries- lapidació noun (act of stoning, sometimes to the point of death)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 投石 noun (act of stoning, sometimes to the point of death)
- 投石刑 noun (act of stoning, sometimes to the point of death)
- 石刑 noun (act of stoning, sometimes to the point of death)
Czech
1 entries- kamenování noun (act of stoning, sometimes to the point of death)
Dutch
1 entries- steniging noun (act of stoning, sometimes to the point of death)
Finnish
2 entries- kivittäminen noun (act of stoning, sometimes to the point of death)
- kivitys noun (act of stoning, sometimes to the point of death)
French
1 entries- lapidation noun (act of stoning, sometimes to the point of death)
German
3 entries- Lapidation noun (act of stoning, sometimes to the point of death)
- Radschm noun (act of stoning, sometimes to the point of death)
- Steinigung noun (act of stoning, sometimes to the point of death)
Greek
1 entries- λιθοβολισμός noun (act of stoning, sometimes to the point of death)
Hungarian
1 entries- megkövezés noun (act of stoning, sometimes to the point of death)
Ido
1 entries- ston-agar noun (act of stoning, sometimes to the point of death)
Italian
1 entries- lapidazione noun (act of stoning, sometimes to the point of death)
Japanese
2 entries- 石打ち noun (act of stoning, sometimes to the point of death)
- 石撃ち noun (act of stoning, sometimes to the point of death)
Korean
1 entries- 투석형 noun (act of stoning, sometimes to the point of death)
Latin
1 entries- lapidatio noun (act of stoning, sometimes to the point of death)
Macedonian
1 entries- каменување noun (act of stoning, sometimes to the point of death)
Persian
2 entries- رجم noun (act of stoning, sometimes to the point of death)
- سنگسار noun (act of stoning, sometimes to the point of death)
Polish
1 entries- ukamienowanie noun (act of stoning, sometimes to the point of death)
Portuguese
2 entries- apedrejamento noun (act of stoning, sometimes to the point of death)
- lapidação noun (act of stoning, sometimes to the point of death)
Russian
4 entries- забра́сывание камня́ми noun (act of stoning, sometimes to the point of death)
- лапида́ция noun (act of stoning, sometimes to the point of death)
- побива́ние камня́ми noun (act of stoning, sometimes to the point of death)
- раджм noun (act of stoning, sometimes to the point of death)
Spanish
1 entries- lapidación noun (act of stoning, sometimes to the point of death)
Swedish
1 entries- stening noun (act of stoning, sometimes to the point of death)
Turkish
2 entries- recm noun (act of stoning, sometimes to the point of death)
- taşlama noun (act of stoning, sometimes to the point of death)
Ukrainian
1 entries- побиття́ камі́нням noun (act of stoning, sometimes to the point of death)
Urdu
2 entries- رجم noun (act of stoning, sometimes to the point of death)
- سنگسار noun (act of stoning, sometimes to the point of death)
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