sabotage

See also: Sabotage

English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French sabotage.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsæ.bəˌtɑːʒ/, /ˈsæ.bɒˌtɑːʒ/, (less commonly) /sæ.bɒˈtɑːʒ/, /ˈsæ.bɒˌtɪd͡ʒ/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsæb.əˌtɑʒ/, /ˌsæb.əˈtɑʒ/

Noun

sabotage (usually uncountable, plural sabotages)

1. A deliberate action aimed at weakening someone (or something, a nation, etc) or preventing them from being successful, through subversion, obstruction, disruption, and/or destruction.

Derived terms

• ecotage
• self-sabotage

Translations

deliberate action of subversion, obstruction, disruption, destruction

• Albanian: sabotim (sq) m
• Arabic: أَعْمَال تَخْرِيبِيَّة m pl (ʔaʕmāl taḵrībiyya), تَخْرِيب m (taḵrīb)

  Hijazi Arabic: تَخْريب m (taḵrīb)

• Armenian: սաբոտաժ (hy) (sabotaž), դիվերսիա (hy) (diversia), նենգադուլ (hy) (nengadul) (rare), խափանարարություն (hy) (xapʻanararutʻyun) (Western Armenian)
• Asturian: sabotaxe
• Azerbaijani: təxribat (az), sabotaj, diversiya
• Belarusian: сабата́ж m (sabatáž), шко́дніцтва n (škódnictva), дыве́рсія f (dyvjérsija), дывэ́рсія f (dyvérsija)
• Bulgarian: сабота́ж (bg) m (sabotáž), диве́рсия (bg) f (divérsija)
• Catalan: sabotatge m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蓄意破壞 / 蓄意破坏 (xùyì pòhuài), 破壞 / 破坏 (zh) (pòhuài)

• Czech: sabotáž (cs) f
• Danish: sabotage c
• Dutch: sabotage (nl) m
• Esperanto: sabotado
• Estonian: sabotaaž
• Finnish: sabotaasi (fi)
• French: sabotage (fr) m
• Friulian: sabotaç m
• Galician: sabotaxe f
• Georgian: საბოტაჟი (ka) (saboṭaži), დივერსია (diversia)
• German: Sabotage (de) f
• Greek: δολιοφθορά (el) f (doliofthorá)
• Hebrew: חַבָּלָה f (khabalá)
• Hindi: तोड़-फोड़ f (toṛ-phoṛ), अंतर्ध्वंस m (antardhvans)
• Hungarian: szabotázs (hu)
• Icelandic: skemmdarverk (is) n
• Indonesian: sabotase (id)
• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} sabotage
• Irish: sabaitéireacht f
• Italian: sabotaggio (it) m
• Japanese: 破壊活動 (はかいかつどう, hakai katsudō), サボタージュ (ja) (sabotāju), サボタージ (sabotāji)
• Kazakh: саботаж (sabotaj), бүлдірушілік (büldıruşılık), зияндық (ziändyq), зиянкестік (ziänkestık), қаскүнемдік (qaskünemdık), диверсия (diversiä)
• Khmer: វិច្ឆេទកម្ម (vɨcceetĕəʼkam), អនត្ថការ (ʼaʼnatthaʼkaa)
• Korean: 사보타주 (sabotaju)
• Kyrgyz: саботаж (sabotaj), зыянкечтик (ky) (zıyankectik), кыянатчылык (kıyanatcılık), диверсия (ky) (diversiya)
• Lao: ວິນາດສະກຳ (wi nāt sa kam)
• Latvian: sabotāža f
• Lithuanian: sabotažas m
• Macedonian: сабота́жа f (sabotáža)
• Malay: sabotaj
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sabotasje (no) m

• Old English: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: سابوتاژ (fa) (sâbotâž), خرابکاری (fa) (xarâbkâri)
• Piedmontese: sabotagi m
• Polish: sabotaż (pl) m, szkodzenie (pl) n, dywersja (pl) f
• Portuguese: sabotagem (pt) f
• Romanian: sabotaj (ro) n, sabotare (ro) f, subminare (ro) f
• Russian: сабота́ж (ru) m (sabotáž), вреди́тельство (ru) n (vredítelʹstvo), диве́рсия (ru) f (divérsija) (military or colloquial)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сабота́жа f

  Roman: sabotáža (sh) f

• Slovak: sabotáž m
• Slovene: sabotáža (sl) f
• Spanish: sabotaje (es) m
• Swahili: hujuma
• Swedish: sabotage (sv) n
• Tagalog: sabotahe
• Tajik: коршиканӣ (koršikani), тахрибкорӣ (taxribkori), диверсия (diversiya), вайронкорӣ (vayronkori), харобкорӣ (tg) (xarobkori)
• Thai: วินาศกรรม (wí-nâat-sà-gam)
• Turkish: sabotaj (tr), tahribat (tr)
• Turkmen: sabotaž, diwersiýa
• Ukrainian: сабота́ж m (sabotáž), шкідни́цтво n (škidnýctvo), диве́рсія f (dyvérsija)
• Uzbek: sabotaj (uz), zararkunandalik (uz), diversiya (uz), qoʻporuvchilik (uz)
• Vietnamese: sự phá hoại (vi)
• Volapük: ^{(please verify)} sabotaj
• Walloon: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: difrod (cy) m
• West Frisian: sabotaazje

Verb

sabotage (third-person singular simple present sabotages, present participle sabotaging, simple past and past participle sabotaged)

1. To deliberately destroy or damage something in order to prevent it from being successful.

   The railway line had been sabotaged by enemy commandos.

   Our plans were sabotaged.

   • 2014 October 18, Paul Doyle, “Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Five minutes later, Southampton tried to mount their first attack, but Wickham sabotaged the move by tripping the rampaging Nathaniel Clyne, prompting the referee, Andre Marriner, to issue a yellow card. That was a lone blemish on an otherwise tidy start by Poyet’s team – until, that is, the 12th minute, when Vergini produced a candidate for the most ludicrous own goal in Premier League history.

   • 2021 December 29, Drachinifel, 21:03 from the start, in The USN Pacific Submarine Campaign - The Dark Year (Dec'41 - Dec'42)‎^[2], archived from the original on 19 July 2022:

     The only amusing highlight was Gudgeon having managed to exploit U.S. codebreaking efforts to ambush and destroy the submarine I-173, albeit not for the lack of the Mark 14's trying to sabotage the effort, as the torpedo that had hit the sub had refused to detonate; it seemed, however, that the car-crash levels of kinetic energy involved in the dud simply ramming the sub had nonetheless done enough to fatally damage it.

Derived terms

• self-sabotage

Translations

deliberately destruct to prevent success

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: сабатава́ць impf or pf (sabatavácʹ)
• Bulgarian: саботирам (bg) (sabotiram), възпрепятствам (bg) (vǎzprepjatstvam)
• Catalan: sabotejar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: sabotovat (cs)
• Dutch: saboteren (nl)
• Esperanto: saboti
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: sabotoida (fi)
• French: saboter (fr)
• Galician: sabotar (gl)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: sabotieren (de)
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Interlingua: sabotar
• Italian: sabotare (it)
• Khmer: រារាំង (km) (rie reaŋ), ធ្វើអនត្ថការ (tvəə a’nattʰa’kaa)
• Latin: surruō
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: kōpeka
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Ottoman Turkish: بالطه‌لامق (baltalamak)
• Polish: sabotować (pl)
• Portuguese: sabotar (pt)
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: саботировать (ru) (sabotirovatʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: саботи́рати

  Roman: sabotírati (sh)

• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: sabotear (es)
• Swedish: sabotera (sv)
• Tagalog: manabotahe
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: sabote etmek (tr), baltalamak (tr)
• Ukrainian: саботува́ти impf (sabotuváty)
• Vietnamese: phá hoại (vi), phá hại (vi), lãn công (vi)
• Welsh: difrodi (cy), tanseilio (cy)
• West Frisian: sabotearje

See also

• terrorism

Anagrams

• boatages

Danish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French sabotage.

Noun

sabotage c (singular definite sabotagen, plural indefinite sabotager)

1. sabotage

Declension

Declension of sabotage

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	sabotage	sabotagen	sabotager	sabotagerne
genitive	sabotages	sabotagens	sabotagers	sabotagernes

Related terms

• sabotere
• sabotør

Further reading

• “sabotage” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “sabotage” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Dutch

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French sabotage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saːboːˈtaːʒə/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: sa‧bo‧ta‧ge
• Rhymes: -aːʒə

Noun

sabotage m (uncountable)

1. sabotage

Related terms

• saboteren
• saboteur

Descendants

• → Indonesian: sabotase

French

Etymology

From saboter +‎ -age.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.bɔ.taʒ/

• Audio:

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• Homophone: sabotages
• Hyphenation: sa‧bo‧tage

Noun

sabotage m (plural sabotages)

1. sabotage

Descendants

• → Catalan: sabotatge
• → Czech: sabotáž
• → Danish: sabotage
• → Dutch: sabotage
• → English: sabotage
• → Galician: sabotaxe
• → German: Sabotage
• → Hungarian: szabotázs
• → Italian: sabotaggio
• → Polish: sabotaż
• → Portuguese: sabotagem
• → Romanian: sabotaj
• → Russian: сабота́ж (sabotáž)
• → Spanish: sabotaje
• → Swedish: sabotage
• → Turkish: sabotaj

Further reading

• “sabotage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Swedish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French sabotage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sabʊˈtɑːɧ/

• Audio:

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Noun

sabotage n

1. sabotage

Declension

Declension of sabotage

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	sabotage	sabotages
	definite	sabotaget	sabotagets
plural	indefinite	sabotage	sabotages
	definite	sabotagen	sabotagens

Related terms

• sabotera
• sabotör

Further reading

• sabotage in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)