English
Noun
iron fist (plural iron fists)
- Ruthless and usually unrestricted control.
- Josef Stalin ruled the Soviet Union with an iron fist.
- Symbol of an army's tank or cavalry branch.
Synonyms
- (ruthless control): iron hand
- (symbol): armoured fist, armored fist, mailed fist
Related terms
Translations
ruthless control
- Arabic: قُبْضَة حَدِيدِيَّة f (qubḍa ḥadīdiyya)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 鐵腕 (zh), 铁腕 (zh) (tiěwàn), 鐵拳 (zh), 铁拳 (zh) (tiěquán)
- Czech: železná ruka f
- Danish: jernnæve
- Dutch: ijzeren vuist
- Finnish: teräksinen ote (figurative)
- French: main de fer (fr) f
- German: eiserne Hand f
- Greek: σιδηρά πυγμή f (sidirá pygmí)
- Hungarian: vasököl (hu)
- Italian: pugno di ferro (it) m
- Japanese: 圧政 (ja) (あっせい, assei), 圧制 (ja) (あっせい, assei)
- Kazakh: темір жұдырық (temir judırıq)
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- Korean: 폭정 (ko) (pogjeong), 압제 (ko) (apje)
- Lithuanian: geležinis kumštis m
- Malay: kuku besi
- Mongolian: төмөр нударга (tömör nudarga)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: jernhånd m, f
- Nynorsk: jernhand f
- Portuguese: punho de ferro m
- Romanian: mână de fier f
- Russian: желе́зный кула́к m (želéznyj kulák), желе́зная рука́ f (želéznaja ruká) (iron hand)
- Spanish: mano dura f
- Swedish: järnhand c
- Tagalog: kamay na bakal
- Vietnamese:
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