Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: afvalligheid
- Amharic: defection
- Arabic: انشقاق
- Azerbaijani: fərarilik
- Bashkir: дезертирлыҡ
- Belarusian: дэзерцірства
- Bulgarian: изневяра
- Bengali: দলত্যাগ
- Bosnian: prebeg
- Catalan: defection
- Cebuano: pagbiya
- Czech: zběhnutí
- Welsh: defection
- Danish: frafald
- German: Verrat
- Greek: αποστασία
- Esperanto: transfuĝo
- Spanish: deserción
- Estonian: põhimõtete hülgamine
- Basque: joateagatik eskualdean
- Persian: عیب
- Finnish: loikkaus
- French: défection
- Irish: defection
- Scottish Gaelic: na h-eòlaichean
- Galician: deserción
- Gujarati: પક્ષપલટો
- Hebrew: עריקתו.
- Hindi: दलबदल
- Croatian: dezerterstvo
- Haitian: apostazi
- Hungarian: elszakadás
- Armenian: դասալքությունը
- Indonesian: pembelotan
- Icelandic: defection
- Italian: defezione
- Japanese: 離脱
- Javanese: defection
- Georgian: წასვლის
- Kazakh: қашқындық
- Khmer: រត់ចោល
- Kannada: ಪಕ್ಷಾಂತರ
- Korean: 탈북
- Kyrgyz: ошол
- Latin: defection
- Luxembourgish: Verrat
- Lao: ຜິດປົກ
- Lithuanian: defection
- Latvian: defection
- Malagasy: fandosirana hita
- Mari: дезертирство
- Maori: defection
- Macedonian: defection
- Malayalam: defection
- Mongolian: defection
- Marathi: पक्ष
- Hill Mari: дезертирство
- Malay: pembelotan
- Maltese: defection
- Burmese: defection
- Nepali: defection
- Dutch: de afvalligheid
- Norwegian: forlatt
- Punjabi: ਬਦਲੀ
- Papiamento: versión
- Polish: dezercję
- Portuguese: deserção
- Romanian: dezertarea
- Russian: дезертирство
- Sinhalese: පැති මාරු
- Slovak: chyby
- Slovenian: defection
- Albanian: defection
- Serbian: дезертерство
- Sundanese: defection
- Swedish: avhopp
- Swahili: defection
- Tamil: மாறியதால்
- Telugu: ఫిరాయింపుల
- Tajik: фирор
- Thai: defection
- Tagalog: pagkukulang
- Turkish: ihaneti
- Tatar: дезертирство
- Udmurt: дезертирам
- Ukrainian: дезертирство
- Urdu: انحراف
- Uzbek: defection
- Vietnamese: đào tẩu
- Xhosa: defection
- Yiddish: דעזערטירן
- Chinese: 叛逃
Synonyms, close and similar words for defection
- desertion
- abandonment of post
- apostasy
- renunciation
- treason
- betrayal