sororicide
/səˈrɒrɪsaɪd/noun
उच्चारण सरॉरिसाइड
बहन की हत्या; बहन का हत्यारा
Advanced wordPYP · asked 2 times
Asked in previous papers
as one-word substitution
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[U, C] formal
the crime of killing your own sister; a person who kills his or her sister
बहन की हत्या; बहन का हत्यारा
- The village was shocked by the sororicide.
- Sororicide is a rare word that most students meet only in vocabulary lists.
- The play deals with the tragic theme of sororicide.
+ 1 more example
- Legal records mention sororicide as a separate offence in some old codes.
AaSpelling
so·ror·i·cide
With -rori- (not 'sorocide').
बीच में -rori- ('sorocide' गलत है)।
⌂Word origin and word building
Soror is Latin for sister, as in sorority (a club for women students).
Soror Latin में बहन है, sorority (छात्राओं का क्लब) की तरह।
✓In the exam
One-word substitution
One-word substitution, asked very often: killing one's sister is sororicide; brother fratricide; father patricide; mother matricide; wife uxoricide; child filicide; king regicide.
यह बहुत पूछा जाता है: बहन की हत्या sororicide; भाई की fratricide; पिता की patricide; माता की matricide; पत्नी की uxoricide; संतान की filicide; राजा की regicide।