From cock + fight .
cockfight (plural cockfights )
A contest , in a cockpit , between gamecocks fitted with cockspurs
Synonym: ( archaic ) cockmatch
contest
Arabic: مصارعة الديوك
Armenian: աքլորակռիվ (hy) ( akʻlorakṙiv )
Assamese: কুকুৰা যুঁজ ( kukura zũz )
Azerbaijani: xoruz döyüşü
Basque: oilar-borroka
Bengali: মোরগের লড়াই (bn) ( mōrger loṛai )
Bikol Central: bulang (bcl)
Burmese: ကြက်တိုက်ခြင်း ( kraktuikhkrang: )
Catalan: baralla de galls f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 鬥雞 / 斗鸡 (zh) ( dòujī )
Dutch: hanengevecht (nl)
Esperanto: batalkoko , kokluktado
Finnish: kukkotappelu (fi)
French: combat de coqs (fr) m
German: Hahnenkampf (de) m
Hebrew: קרב תרנגולים (he)
Hungarian: kakasviadal (hu)
Indonesian: sabung ayam (id)
Italian: combattimento tra galli m , combattimento fra galli m
Japanese: 闘鶏 (ja) ( とうけい , tōkei) , 蹴合 ( けあい , keai) , 鶏合 ( とりあわせ , toriawase; にわとりあわせ , niwatoriawase)
Kannada: ಕೋಳಿ ಅಂಕ (kn) ( kōḷi aṅka )
Khmer: លេងជល់មាន់ ( leeŋ cʊəl moan )
Korean: 투계(鬪鷄) (ko) ( tugye ) , 닭싸움 ( dakssaum )
Lao: please add this translation if you can
Malay: sabung ayam (ms)
Malayalam: കോഴിപ്പോര് (ml) ( kōḻippōrŭ )
Norwegian: hanekamp
Odia: ଗଞ୍ଜା ଲଢ଼େଇ ( gañjā laṛhei )
Polish: walka kogutów f
Portuguese: rinha (pt) f , rinha de galo f
Russian: петуши́ный бой m ( petušínyj boj ) , бойцовый петух ( bojcovyj petux )
Serbo-Croatian: borba pijetlova f
Spanish: pelea de gallos f
Swedish: tuppfäktning (sv) c
Tagalog: sabong
Tamil: சேவல் சண்டை ( cēval caṇṭai )
Telugu: కోడిపందెం (te) ( kōḍipandeṁ )
Thai: ไก่ชน (th)
Turkish: horoz dövüşü (tr)
Volapük: higokakomip
Welsh: gêm geiliog f
cockfight (third-person singular simple present cockfights , present participle cockfighting , simple past and past participle cockfought )
To participate in (as a rooster), or organize and run (as a gambler or bookmaker), a cockfighting event.
1994 , Charlise Lyles, Do I Dare Disturb the Universe? , page 245 :I watched through to the triumphant ending, in which Chicken George cockfought his way to freedom and came back with gold to buy his family out of postwar sharecropping.
participate in a cockfighting event