filicide
/ˈfɪlɪsaɪd/noun
उच्चारण फ़िलिसाइड
संतान-हत्या, पुत्र या पुत्री की हत्या
Advanced wordPYP · asked 3 times
Asked in previous papers
as one-word substitution
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[U, C] formal
the crime of killing your own son or daughter
संतान-हत्या, पुत्र या पुत्री की हत्या
- Filicide is among the rarest and most shocking crimes.
- He was charged with filicide, and the entire town was shocked by the news.
- The play tells the tragic story of a king who commits filicide.
+ 2 more examples
- Law books treat filicide as a very serious crime.
- Psychologists study the causes of filicide to help prevent such tragedies.
AaSpelling
fil·i·cide
⌂Word origin and word building
-cide means killing; filius is Latin for son, as in filial (of a son or daughter).
-cide का अर्थ हत्या है; filius Latin में पुत्र है, filial (संतान का) की तरह।
✓In the exam
One-word substitution
One-word substitution, asked very often: killing one's son or daughter is filicide; father patricide; mother matricide; parent parricide; brother fratricide; sister sororicide; wife uxoricide; king regicide; infant infanticide; oneself suicide; mankind genocide (a race); an insect insecticide.
यह बहुत पूछा जाता है: अपने पुत्र या पुत्री की हत्या filicide; पिता की patricide; माता की matricide; माता-पिता की parricide; भाई की fratricide; बहन की sororicide; पत्नी की uxoricide; राजा की regicide; शिशु की infanticide; स्वयं की suicide; किसी जाति की genocide; कीड़ों की insecticide।