blood money

English

Noun

blood money (uncountable)

Money obtained at the cost of another's life.
Money paid (as by a killer or the killer's clan) to the family of a person who has been killed.

Translations

blood money

Dutch: bloedprijs m, bloedgeld (nl) n
Finnish: veriraha (fi)
French: prix du sang (fr) m
German: Mörderlohn m, Blutgeld (de) n
Greek: ποινή (el) f (poiní)
Ancient Greek: ποινή (poinē)

Irish: airgead fola m
Ngazidja Comorian: diya class 9
Persian: خونبها‎‎ (fa) (xunbahâ)
Swahili: diya class 9

See also

conscience money

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