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proxy war plural proxy wars
A war where two powers use third parties as a supplement to, or a substitute for, fighting each other directly .
2015 October 12, Anne Barnard, Karam Shoumali, “U.S. Weaponry Is Turning Syria Into Proxy War With Russia”, in The New York Times [1] →ISSN With the enhanced insurgent firepower and with Russia steadily raising the number of airstrikes against the government’s opponents, the Syrian conflict is edging closer to an all-out proxy war between the United States and Russia.
war where two powers use third parties
Arabic: حَرْب بِالوِكَالَة f ( ḥarb bi-l-wikāla )
Armenian: պրոքսի պատերազմ ( prokʻsi paterazm )
Azerbaijani: vasitəçilik müharibəsi
Bulgarian: опосредствана война f ( oposredstvana vojna )
Catalan: guerra per delegació f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 代理人戰爭 / 代理人战争 ( dàilǐrén zhànzhēng )
Czech: zástupná válka f
Danish: stedfortræderkrig c ( war ) , stedfortræderkonflikt c ( where outright war is not the case )
Dutch: oorlog bij volmacht proxy-oorlog
Estonian: varisõda
Finnish: sijaissota (fi)
French: guerre par procuration (fr) f guerre proxy (fr) f
Galician: guerra subsidiaria f
Georgian: არაპირდაპირი ომი ( araṗirdaṗiri omi ) , ომი შუამავლის მეშვეობით ( omi šuamavlis mešveobit )
German: Stellvertreterkrieg (de) m
Greek: πόλεμος μέσω αντιπροσώπων m ( pólemos méso antiprosópon )
Hebrew: מלחמה באמצעות שליח
Hindi: परोक्ष युद्ध ( parokṣ yuddh )
Icelandic: staðgöngustríð n
Indonesian: perang proksi
Italian: guerra per procura f
Japanese: 代理戦争 ( だいりせんそう, dairi sensō )
Korean: 대리 전쟁 ( daeri jeonjaeng )
Lithuanian: karas per trečiąsias šalis m
Luxembourgish: Stellvertriederkrich m
Malay: perang proksi
Malayalam: മുക്ത്യാർ യുദ്ധം ( muktyāṟ yuddhaṁ )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: stedfortrederkrig (no) m stedfortrederkonflikt (no) m ( where outright war is not the case )
Persian: جنگ نیابتی ( jang-e niyâbati ) , جنگ وکالتی ( jang-e vekâlati )
Polish: wojna zastępcza f
Portuguese: guerra por procuração f
Russian: опосре́дованная война́ f ( oposrédovannaja vojná ) , прокси-война (ru) f ( proksi-vojna )
Serbo-Croatian: rat preko posrednika m рат преко посредника m
Sindhi: پرائي جنگ
Spanish: guerra subsidiaria (es) f
Swedish: proxykrig (sv) n ombudskrig n
Thai: สงครามตัวแทน ( sǒng-kraam-dtuua-tɛɛn )
Turkish: temsilî savaş vekâlet savaşı
Ukrainian: посере́дницька війна́ f ( poserédnycʹka vijná )
Vietnamese: chiến tranh ủy nhiệm
