📖 Meaning (English Terms)
Incarcerated (adjective or past participle of the verb “incarcerate”) means:
- Imprisoned or confined – especially by legal authority.
- Figuratively restrained – being trapped or restricted (e.g., “incarcerated by fear”).
🛠 Uses
- Legal/Criminal Justice: “The suspect was incarcerated pending trial.”
- Medical (Anatomy): “An incarcerated hernia” (a trapped tissue or organ).
- Figurative: “She felt incarcerated by her own doubts.”
🕰 Etymology
- From Latin incarceratus, past participle of incarcerare (“to imprison”).
- Root words: in- (“in”) + carcer (“prison, jail”).
- Entered English in the late 16th century.
⚖ Legal Context
In law, “incarcerated” refers to being confined in a jail or prison after arrest, conviction, or sentencing. It can apply to:
Pre-trial detention.
- Post-conviction imprisonment.
- Sometimes used in civil law (e.g., contempt of court).
Example legal phrase:
“The defendant shall remain incarcerated until the next hearing.”
✍ Example Sentences
- After the verdict, the thief was incarcerated for three years.
- Political dissidents were incarcerated without a fair trial.
- The doctor diagnosed an incarcerated hernia requiring surgery.
- Feeling incarcerated by routine, she longed for adventure.
🌍 Translations of “Incarcerated” (50 Languages)
| Language | Translation | Language | Translation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | مسجون (masjoon) | Greek | φυλακισμένος (fylakisménos) |
| Armenian | բանտարկված (bant’ark’vats) | Gujarati | કેદ (kēda) |
| Bengali | বন্দী (bondi) | Hausa | daure |
| Bosnian | zatvoren | Hebrew | כלוא (kalú) |
| Bulgarian | затворен (zatvoren) | Hindi | कैद (kaid) |
| Catalan | empresonat | Hungarian | bebörtönzött |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 被监禁 (bèi jiānjìn) | Icelandic | fangelsaður |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 被監禁 (bèi jiānjìn) | Igbo | e mechiri |
| Croatian | zatvoren | Indonesian | dipenjara |
| Czech | uvězněný | Italian | incarcerato |
| Danish | fængslet | Japanese | 投獄された (tōgoku sareta) |
| Dutch | opgesloten | Javanese | dipenjara |
| Estonian | vangistatud | Kannada | ಬಂಧಿತ (bandhita) |
| Filipino/Tagalog | nakakulong | Kazakh | түрмеге қамалған |
| Finnish | vangittu | Khmer | ត្រូវឃុំខ្លួន (trauv khum khluon) |
| French | incarcéré | Korean | 투옥된 (tuokdoen) |
| Georgian | დაპატიმრებული (dapat’imrebuli) | Latvian | ieslodzīts |
| German | inhaftiert | Lithuanian | įkalintas |
| Haitian Creole | nan prizon | Malay | dipenjara |
| Hausa | daure | Malayalam | തടവിലായ (ṭaṭavilāya) |
| Hungarian | bebörtönzött | Mongolian | хоригдсон |
| Icelandic | fangelsaður | Nepali | कारागारमा (kārāgārmā) |
| Igbo | e mechiri | Norwegian | fengslet |
| Indonesian | dipenjara | Pashto | بند شوی (band shwī) |
| Italian | incarcerato | Persian (Farsi) | زندانی (zendāni) |
| Japanese | 投獄された (tōgoku sareta) | Polish | uwięziony |
| Javanese | dipenjara | Portuguese | encarcerado |
| Kannada | ಬಂಧಿತ (bandhita) | Punjabi | ਕੈਦ (kaid) |
| Kazakh | түрмеге қамалған | Romanian | încarcerat |
| Khmer | ត្រូវឃុំខ្លួន | Russian | заключённый (zaklyuchonnyy) |
| Korean | 투옥된 | Serbian | затворен (zatvoren) |
| Latvian | ieslodzīts | Sinhala | සිරගත වූ (siragatha vu) |
| Lithuanian | įkalintas | Slovak | uväznený |
| Malay | dipenjara | Spanish | encarcelado |
| Malayalam | തടവിലായ | Swahili | kufungwa |
| Mongolian | хоригдсон | Swedish | fängslad |
| Nepali | कारागारमा | Tamil | சிறையில் அடைக்கப்பட்ட (siṟaiyil aṭaikkappaṭṭa) |
| Norwegian | fengslet | Telugu | కారాగారంలో ఉన్న (kārāgāralō unna) |
| Pashto | بند شوی | Thai | ถูกจำคุก (thùuk jam khúk) |
| Persian | زندانی | Turkish | hapsedilmiş |
| Polish | uwięziony | Ukrainian | ув’язнений (uv’yaznenyi) |
| Portuguese | encarcerado | Urdu | قید (qaid) |
| Punjabi | ਕੈਦ | Vietnamese | bị giam cầm |
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