bullfighting

See also: bull-fighting

English

Alternative forms

• bull-fighting

Etymology

bull +‎ fighting

Noun

bullfighting (usually uncountable, plural bullfightings)

1. A traditional spectacle, popular in Spain and many former Spanish colonies, in which a matador manipulates and ultimately kills a bull at close range.

Synonyms

• tauromachy (formal), bullfight

Translations

spectacle of manipulating and killing a bull

• Armenian: ցլամարտ (hy) (cʻlamart)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 公牛戰鬥／公牛战斗, 公牛战斗 (gōngniú zhàndòu), 鬥牛／斗牛 (zh) (dòuniú), 斗牛 (zh) (dòuniú)

• Dutch: stierenvechten n
• Finnish: härkätaistelu (fi)
• French: tauromachie (fr) f, corrida (fr) f
• Galician: toureo m, tauromaquia f, corrida de touros f
• German: Stierkampf (de)
• Greek: ταυρομαχία (el) (tavromachía)
• Hebrew: מלחמת שוורים f (milkhemet shvarym)
• Hungarian: bikaviadal (hu)
• Italian: toromachia f, corrida (it) f
• Japanese: 闘牛 (ja) (とうぎゅう, tōgyū), 雄牛の戦い (おうしのたたかい, oushi-no tatakai)
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• Korean: 황소 싸움 (hwangso ssaum)
• Latin: tauromachia f
• Maltese: ġlieda tat-toru
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tyrefekting m or f, tyrefektning m or f

  Nynorsk: tyrefekting f

• Portuguese: tauromaquia (pt) f, tourada (pt) f, corrida de touros f
• Romanian: coridă (ro) f
• Russian: бой быко́в (ru) m (boj bykóv), корри́да (ru) f (korrída)
• Spanish: toreo (es) m, tauromaquia (es) f, corrida de toros f
• Swedish: tjurfäktning (sv) c
• Turkish: boğa güreşi (tr)

See also

• Wikipedia article on bullfighting