necklace

English

A necklace consisting of a chain with a pendant

Etymology

From neck +‎ lace.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈnɛkləs/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈnɛklɪs/, /ˈnɛkləs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈnɛkləs/, /ˈnɛklæɪs/
• Rhymes: -ɛkləs, (UK) -ɛklɪs

Noun

necklace (plural necklaces)

2. (jewelry) An article of jewelry that is worn around the neck, most often made of a string of precious metal, pearls, gems, beads or shells, and sometimes having a pendant attached.
3. (figuratively) Anything resembling a necklace in shape.

   a necklace of coral islands

4. (South Africa) A device used in necklacing (an informal execution); a rubber tyre that is filled with petrol. It is placed around the victim's chest and arms, and set on fire.
   • Necklacing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
   • 4 August, 2004, “Necklacing: 7 held”, in Headline Pretoria News:

     Seven people have been arrested in connection with Saturday's "necklace" murder of three men in the Tjokville informal settlement at Jeffrey's Bay.

   • 2000 Beyond Our Wildest Dreams: The United Democratic Front and the Transformation of South Africa by Ineke Van Kessel

     Several of the alledged witches in Apel and GaNkaone were also subjected to a necklace execution

   • 2004 A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Woman Confronts the Legacy of Apartheid by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

     In the fluidly unfolding events of a necklace murder, was there time and space to stop the killing?

Derived terms

• anodyne necklace
• Casal's necklace
• Colombian necklace
• necklace poplar
• pearl necklace

 

Translations

jewelry

• Adyghe: джэгъучэлъ (džɛğʷučɛlˢ)
• Afrikaans: halssnoer (af)
• Ainu: チムッペ (cimutpe)
• Albanian: varesë f, varq m,
• Amharic: ሐብል (ḥäbl), ድሪ (dəri)
• Arabic: قِلَادَة f (qilāda)

  Egyptian Arabic: عقد m (ʕuʔd)

  Hijazi Arabic: سِلْسال m (silsāl), عُقْد m (ʕugd)

  Moroccan Arabic: سنسلة (sansla), قلادة (qlāda)

• Aramaic:

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܬܵܘܩܵܐ m (tāwqā), ܗܲܡܢܝܼܟ݂ܵܐ m (hamnīḵā)

  Classical Syriac: ܗܡܢܝܟܐ m (hamnīḵāʾ, hemnīḵāʾ), ܥܩܐ m (ˁeqqā)

• Armenian: մանյակ (hy) (manyak)
• Assamese: হাৰ (har)
• Asturian: collar (ast) m
• Avar: махал (maxal)
• Aymara: wallqa
• Azerbaijani: boyunbağı (az)
• Banjarese: kakalung (bjn)
• Bashkir: мунсаҡ (munsaq)
• Basque: lepoko, iduneko
• Belarusian: кара́лі m pl (karáli), калье́ n (kalʹjé), мані́ста f (manísta)
• Bengali: হার (bn) (har), মালা (bn) (mala)
• Bikol Central: kulintas
• Bobongko: oloʼ
• Breton: tro-c'houzoug (br) f
• Bulgarian: огъ́рлица (bg) f (ogǎ́rlica), колие́ (bg) n (kolié), герда́н (bg) m (gerdán)
• Burmese: ဒါလီ (my) (dali), ဘယက် (my) (bha.yak), လည်ဆွဲ (my) (lanyhcwai:)
• Catalan: collar (ca) m, collaret (ca) m
• Cebuano: kuwintas
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵜⴰⵣⵔⴰⵔⵜ m (tazrart)
• Cherokee: ᎠᏯᏟᏗ (ayatlidi)
• Chickasaw: innoʼchiʼ
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 項鏈／项链 (hong⁶ lin^6-2)

  Hokkien: 項鏈／项链 (hǎng-liān)

  Mandarin: 項鏈／项链 (zh) (xiàngliàn)

• Cornish: delk m
• Crimean Tatar: gerdanlıq
• Czech: náhrdelník m
• Dakota: wanápʾį
• Danish: halskæde (da) c
• Dupaningan Agta: ulay
• Dutch: halssnoer (nl) n, halsketting (nl) m or f, ketting (nl)
• Esperanto: kolĉeno
• Estonian: kaelakee, kee (et)
• Faroese: hálsketa f
• Fijian: itaube
• Finnish: kaulakoru (fi), kaulanauha, kaulaketju (fi)
• French: collier (fr) m
• Galician: colar (gl) m
• Georgian: ყელსაბამი (ka) (q̇elsabami), ყელსაკიდი (q̇elsaḳidi)
• German: Halskette (de) f, Collier n, Halsband (de) n
• Greek: κολιέ (el) n (kolié), περιδέραιο (el) n (peridéraio)

  Ancient: δέραιον n (déraion), ὅρμος m (hórmos)

• Greenlandic: ujamik
• Guaraní: ajurigua
• Gujarati: કંઠી f (kaṇṭhī)
• Hebrew: עֲנָק (he) m (anák), שרשרת (he) f (sharshéret)
• Hindi: हार (hi) m (hār), हँसली (hi) f (hãslī)
• Hungarian: nyaklánc (hu), nyakék (hu)
• Icelandic: hálsfesti (is) f, hálsmen (is) n
• Ilocano: gargantília
• Indonesian: kalung (id)
• Ingrian: virka
• Inuktitut: nuġluġun
• Irish: muince (ga) f, bráisléad brád m
• Italian: collana (it) f, girocollo m
• Japanese: ネックレス (ja) (nekkuresu), 首飾り (ja) (くびかざり, kubikazari)
• Jarai: añŭ
• Javanese: kalung (jv)
• Kannada: ಪಟ್ಟಡೆ (kn) (paṭṭaḍe)
• Kansa: wanáⁿp'iⁿ
• Karachay-Balkar: мынчакъла (mınçaqla)
• Karakalpak: dizbek
• Kazakh: алқа (kk) (alqa)
• Khiamniungan Naga: làk
• Khmer: ខ្សែក (km) (khsae kɑɑ)
• Kikuyu: mũgathĩ class 3
• Korean: 목걸이 (ko) (mokgeori)
• Koyraboro Senni: jindehiiri
• Kumyk: гьамарча (hamarça), минчакълар (minçaqlar)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ملوانکە (ckb) (milwanke)

  Northern Kurdish: gerdenî (ku) f

• Kyrgyz: шуру (ky) (şuru), мончок (moncok)
• Lakota: wanápʼiŋ
• Lao: ສາຍຄໍ (lo) (sāi khǭ), ປອກຄໍ (pǭk khǭ), ສ້ອຍ (sǭi)
• Latin: monīle n
• Latvian: kaklarota f
• Lithuanian: vėrinys m
• Luxembourgish: Collier m, Halsband m, Ketten f
• Macedonian: ѓе́рдан m (ǵérdan)
• Maguindanao: balig
• Malagasy: vadim-bozo (mg)
• Malay: rantai (ms), kalung (ms)
• Malayalam: കണ്ഠമാല (ml) (kaṇṭhamāla)
• Maltese: ġiżirana f, kullana f, ħannieqa f
• Maori: tāhei
• Marathi: हार (mr) m (hār)
• Marwari: ठुसी (ṭhusī)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: хүзүүний зүүлт (xüzüünii züült)

• Nahuatl: cozcatl (nah)
• Navajo: yooʼ
• Ngazidja Comorian: nkami class 9/10
• Nogai: мойшак (moyşak)
• Norman: colyi m (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: halsbånd n, halskjede m or n

  Nynorsk: halskjede f

• Nǀuu: ǀx’âinsi
• Occitan: colar (oc) m
• Odia: ମାଳା (or) (māḷā)
• Ojibwe: naabikaagan
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: монисто n (monisto)

• Old English: mene m
• Old Javanese: kaluṅ
• Omaha-Ponca: wanóⁿp'iⁿ
• Oneida: yunihtyástaʔ
• Ottoman Turkish: قلاده (kılade)
• Pali: gīveyyaka
• Pashto: همېل m (hamel)
• Persian: گردن بند (fa) (gardan band), هار (fa) (hâr)
• Pirahã: xáihoi
• Polish: naszyjnik (pl) m
• Portuguese: colar (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਹਾਰ m (hār)
• Quechua: walqa
• Rapa Nui: karone
• Romanian: colan (ro) n, colier (ro), salbă (ro) f
• Romansch: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: ожере́лье (ru) n (ožerélʹje), колье́ (ru) n (kolʹjé), мони́сто (ru) n (monísto)
• Saek: ส่อย
• Sanskrit: कण्ठभूषा (sa) f (kaṇṭhabhūṣā)
• Scottish Gaelic: seud-muineil m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: о̀грлица f, ђѐрда̄н m

  Roman: ògrlica (sh) f, đèrdān (sh) m

• Shipibo-Conibo: téo
• Sicilian: cuddana (scn) f, cullana (scn) f
• Sinhalese: මාලය (mālaya)
• Slovak: náhrdelník m
• Slovene: verížica f, ogŕlica (sl) f
• Spanish: collar (es) m
• Sundanese: kangkalung
• Swahili: kidani (sw) class 7/8
• Swedish: halsband (sv) n
• Tagalog: binaysok, kuwintas
• Tajik: гарданбанд (tg) (gardanband)
• Tamil: அட்டிகை (ta) (aṭṭikai)
• Tatar: колйә (qolyä), муенча (muyença)
• Telugu: చంద్రహారం (candrahāraṁ), కంఠిక (te) (kaṇṭhika), హారము (te) (hāramu)
• Thai: สร้อย (th) (sɔ̂i)
• Tibetan: སྐེ་རྒྱན (ske rgyan)
• Tongan: kahoa
• Tswana: sebaga class 7
• Turkish: gerdanlık (tr), kolye (tr)
• Turkmen: monjuk
• Ukrainian: нами́сто (uk) n (namýsto), мони́сто n (monýsto), наши́йник m (našýjnyk), кольє́ n (kolʹjé)
• Urdu: ہار m (hār), مالا f (mālā)
• Uzbek: marjon (uz), shoda (uz)
• Vietnamese: chuỗi hạt
• Vilamovian: puttynystyn
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: gwddfdorch f, mwclis (cy) m, neclis f
• White Hmong: txog saw
• Yámana: polesif
• Ye'kwana: wo'mo
• Yiddish: האַלדזבאַנד f (haldzband)
• Yurok: ˀekeˀr
• Zulu: umgexo class 3/4

figurative: anything resembling a necklace in shape

• Dutch: halssnoer-achtig
• Finnish: helminauha (fi)
• Russian: ожере́лье (ru) n (ožerélʹje)
• Swedish: pärlband n

method of execution

• Afrikaans: halssnoermoord
• Dutch: executie bij brandende rubberband
• French: supplice du pneu m

Verb

necklace (third-person singular simple present necklaces, present participle necklacing, simple past and past participle necklaced)

1. (South Africa) To informally execute by necklacing; by setting on fire a petrol-filled rubber tyre which has been put around the bound victim's neck.
   • May 29 2003, The Star:

     Frustrated residents tied the hands of two suspected criminals, put tyres around their necks and then set them alight. In a manifestation of growing disillusionment with the criminal justice system, residents of Bramfischerville, west of Johannesburg, on Tuesday abducted and necklaced two suspected burglars.

   • 2002 Buthelezi: A Biography by Ben Temkin

     Inkatha members have been hacked to death and necklaced, and their houses have been destroyed

   • 2000 Beyond Our Wildest Dreams: The United Democratic Front and the Transformation of South Africa by Ineke Van Kessel

     The first instance of necklacing occurred in March 1985 in the Eastern Cape township of KwaNobuhle.

Derived terms

• necklacing

See also

• necklace on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• collar (necklace for animals)