bastinado

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. A blow with a cudgel or stick.
2. Beating the bare soles of the feet with a stick as a form of corporal punishment used primarily within prisons in various countries. The receiving person is required to be barefoot.

Verb

To punish a person by beating the bare soles of the feet, using a stick or truncheon.

Sinònims

falanga

give the bastinado

Traduccions

ضربة العصا

فلق

Bastonade

κτύπημα στις φτέρνες

ραβδίζω στις φτέρνες

pak

📦

slaag

bastonnade

cacete

dayak

dayak atmak

dövmek

falaka

falaka değneği

falakaya yatırmak

Etimologia (Anglès)

Cognat amb francès: bastonnade

In summary

From Spanish bastonada (compare French bastonnade), from baston (“a stick or staff”).