murderer: difference between revisions

 

===Etymology===

 

===Pronunciation===

{{head|en|noun|plural|murderers|feminine|murderess}}

 

#* '''1886''', {{w|Robert Louis Stevenson}}, {{w|Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde}}

#*: It was two o'clock when she came to herself and called for the police. The '''murderer''' was gone long ago; but there lay his victim in the middle of the lane, incredibly mangled. The stick with which the deed had been done, although it was of some rare and very tough and heavy wood, had broken in the middle under the stress of this insensate cruelty

 

====Derived terms====

|archmurderer

|axe murderer

|axe-murderer

|desk murderer

|murderers' row

 

====Translations====

* Bengali: {{t+|bn|খুনী}}, {{t|bn|কাতেল|tr=qatel}}

* Breton: {{t+|br|lazher|m}}

* Burmese: {{t|my|လူသတ်သမား}}

* Cherokee: {{t|chr|ᎠᏓᎯᎯ}}

* Chickasaw: {{t|cic|hattak-abi'}}

* Crimean Tatar: {{t|crh|qatil}}

* Czech: {{t+|cs|vrah|m}}, {{t+|cs|vražedkyně|f}}

* Estonian: {{t|et|mõrtsukas}}

* Finnish: {{t+|fi|murhaaja}}

* French: {{t+|fr|meurtrier|m}}, {{t+|fr|meurtrière|f}}, {{t+|fr|assassin|m}}, {{t+|fr|assassine|f}}

*: Old French: {{t|fro|murtrier|m}}

* Georgian: {{t|ka|მკვლელი}}

* German: {{t+|de|Mörder|m}}, {{t+|de|Mörderin|f}}

* Gujarati: {{t|gu|હત્યારો}}

* Hindi: {{t+|hi|हत्यारा|m}}, {{t|hi|ख़ूनी|m}}, {{t|hi|क़ातिल|m}}

* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|gyilkos}}

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* Latgalian: {{t|ltg|slapkauņs|m}}

* Luxembourgish: {{t|lb|Mäerder|m}}, {{t|lb|Mäerderin|f}}

* Malay: {{t+|ms|pembunuh}}

* Malayalam: {{t+|ml|കൊലപാതകി}}

* Northern Sami: {{t|se|olmmošgoddi}}

* Norwegian:

* Old English: {{t|ang|bana|m}}

* Pashto: {{t+|ps|قاتل|m|tr=qātél}}, {{t+|ps|خوني|m|f|tr=xuní}}

* Persian: {{t+|fa|قاتل|tr=qâtel|sc=fa-Arab}}, {{t+|fa|آدمکش|tr=âdamkoš}}

* Plautdietsch: {{t|pdt|Merda|m}}

* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|assassino|m}}, {{t+|pt|assassina|f}}, {{t+|pt|homicida|m|f}}

* Sanskrit: {{t+|sa|घातक|m}}, {{t+|sa|ताडक|m}}

* Scottish Gaelic: {{t|gd|murtair|m}}

* Serbo-Croatian:

* Sinhalese: {{t|si|මිනීමරුවා}}

* Slovak: {{t+|sk|vrah|m}}, {{t+|sk|vrahyňa|f}}

* Slovene: {{t+|sl|morilec|m}}, {{t|sl|morilka|f}}

* Swahili: {{t|sw|mwuaji|c1|c2}}

* Tajik: {{t|tg|қотил‍|sc=Cyrl}}, {{t|tg|кушанда|sc=Cyrl}}, {{t|tg|одамкуш|sc=Cyrl}}

* Tamil: {{t+|ta|கொலைகாரன்}}