desertion

See also: Desertion and désertion

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French désertion.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dɪˈzɜːʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /dɪˈzɝʃən/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ʃən

Noun

desertion (countable and uncountable, plural desertions)

1. The act of deserting.

Derived terms

• antidesertion
• nondesertion
• spiritual desertion

 

Related terms

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ser- (bind) (0 c, 25 e)

Translations

deserting

• Albanian: dezertim (sq) m
• Arabic: فِرَار m (firār), هَجْر (ar) m (hajr), هَرَب (ar) m (harab), هِجْرَان m (hijrān)
• Armenian: դասալքություն (hy) (dasalkʻutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: fərarilik, dezertirlik
• Belarusian: дэзерці́рства n (dezjercírstva), дэзэрты́рства n (dezertýrstva)
• Bulgarian: изоста́вяне (bg) n (izostávjane), напу́скане (bg) n (napúskane), дезертьо́рство (bg) n (dezertjórstvo) (military)
• Catalan: deserció f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 遺棄／遗弃 (zh) (yíqì), 開小差／开小差 (zh) (kāi xiǎochāi) (military), 逃亡 (zh) (táowáng)

• Czech: dezerce (cs) f
• Danish: faneflugt c, desertering c, desertion c, desertation c
• Dutch: desertie (nl) f, vaandelvlucht (nl)
• Estonian: deserteerimine, väejooks (et)
• French: désertion (fr) f
• Georgian: დეზერტირობა (dezerṭiroba)
• German: Fahnenflucht (de) f, Desertion (de) f, Desertation (de) f
• Greek: λιποταξία (el) f (lipotaxía)

  Ancient: ἀυτομολία f (automolía)

• Hebrew: עֲרִיקָה (he) f ('ariqá)
• Hindi: परित्याग (hi) m (parityāg), अपसरण (hi) m (apasraṇ)
• Hungarian: szökés (hu)
• Indonesian: desersi (id)
• Italian: diserzione (it) f
• Japanese: 逃亡 (ja) (とうぼう, tōbō), 脱走 (ja) (だっそう, dassō), 遺棄 (ja) (い​き, iki), 敵前逃亡 (てきぜんとうぼう, tekizen tōbō), 脱営 (だつえい, datsuei) (military)
• Kazakh: қашқындық (qaşqyndyq), қашушылық (qaşuşylyq)
• Korean: 탈영(脫營) (taryeong), 도망(逃亡) (ko) (domang), 유기(遺棄) (ko) (yugi)
• Kyrgyz: дезертирдик (dezertirdik), качкынчылык (kackıncılık), аскерден качуу (askerden kacuu)
• Latin: dēfectiō f
• Latvian: dezertēšana f
• Lithuanian: dezertyravimas m
• Macedonian: дезерте́рство n (dezertérstvo)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: desertering m or f

• Pashto: فراريت m (farāryat), فرار (ps) m (farār)
• Persian: فرار (fa) (farâr), فرار (fa) (ferâr)
• Polish: opuszczenie (pl) n, dezercja (pl) f
• Portuguese: deserção (pt) f
• Romanian: dezertare (ro) f
• Russian: ухо́д (ru) m (uxód), оставле́ние (ru) n (ostavlénije), дезерти́рство (ru) n (dezertírstvo) (military)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дезерте́рство n, напу́шта̄ње n

  Roman: dezertérstvo (sh) n, napúštānje (sh) n

• Slovak: dezercia f
• Slovene: dezerterstvo n, zapustitev f
• Spanish: deserción (es) f
• Swedish: desertering (sv) c, fanflykt (sv) c
• Tajik: фирор (firor)
• Turkish: firar (tr), askerden kaçma
• Ukrainian: зали́шення n (zalýšennja), зане́дбаність (uk) f (zanédbanistʹ), дезерти́рство n (dezertýrstvo) (military)
• Urdu: فرار (firār)
• Uzbek: dezertirlik (uz)
• Vietnamese: sự đào ngũ (vi)
• Yiddish: אַוועקוואַרפֿונג f (avekvarfung)
• Zazaki: remayış, firar

Anagrams

• detersion, enteroids, interdose

Danish

Noun

desertion c (singular definite desertionen, plural indefinite desertioner)

1. desertion

Declension

Declension of desertion

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	desertion	desertionen	desertioner	desertionerne
genitive	desertions	desertionens	desertioners	desertionernes

Further reading

• “desertion” in Den Danske Ordbog