honor killing

Anglais

Étymologie

 Composé de honor et de killing.

Locution nominale

honor killing (États-Unis) ou honour killing (Royaume-Uni) \Prononciation ?\

1. (Sociologie) (Criminologie) Crime d’honneur.
   • Medine, who had never been to school, lived in Kahta, a town in the mainly Kurdish south-east of Turkey, where most honour killings have taken place. — (Jonathan Head, Turkish girl ’buried alive’ in family garden, BBC News, 5 February 2010)

Voir aussi

• honor killing sur l’encyclopédie Wikipédia (en anglais)