[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
body + guard
bodyguard (plural bodyguards)
- A person or group of persons, often armed, responsible for protecting an individual.
[edit] Translations
person responsible for protecting an individual
- Arabic: حرس خاص (ar) (Háras khaaSS) m.
- Armenian: թիկնապահ (hy) (t'iknapah)
- Basque: bizkartzain (eu)
- Belarusian: целаахоўнік (be) (celaaxóŭnik) m.
- Bulgarian: телохранител (bg) (telohranítel) m.
- Catalan: guardaespatlles (ca) m. and f.
- Chamorro: a'adahi (ch)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 保鑣 (zh), 保镳 (zh) (bǎobiāo), 護衛 (zh), 护卫 (zh) (hùwèi), 衛士 (zh), 卫士 (zh) (wèishì)
- Dutch: lijfwacht (nl), lijfgarde (nl), persoonsbeveiliger (nl)
- Esperanto: korpogardisto (eo)
- Finnish: turvamies (fi), henkivartija (fi)
- French: garde du corps (fr) m.
- Georgian: მცველი (ka) (mtsveli), პირადი მცველი (ka) (piradi mtsveli)
- German: Leibwächter (de) m., Bodyguard (de) m., Personenschützer (de) m.
- Greek: σωματοφύλακας (el) (somatofýlakas) m.
- Hebrew: שומר ראש (he) (shomer rosh) m., שומרת ראש (he) (shomeret rosh) f.
- Hungarian: testőr (hu)
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- Italian: guardia del corpo (it) f.
- Japanese: ボディーガード (ja) (bodīgādo), 侍衛 (ja) (じえい, jiei), 親衛兵 (ja) (しんえいへい, shin'eihei), 用心棒 (ja) (ようじんぼう, yōjinbō)
- Korean: 보디가드 (ko) (bodigadeu), 경호원 (ko) (gyeonghowon) (警護員 (ko))
- Latin: stipator (la) m., satelles (la) m., satelles (la) m.
- Polish: (person) ochroniarz m., (group of persons) ochrona f.
- Portuguese: guarda-costas (pt) m.
- Romanian: protector de persoane (ro)
- Russian: телохранитель (ru) (teloxranítel’) m., охранник (ru) (oxránnik) m.
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: телохранитељ (sh) m.
- Roman: telohranitelj (sh) m.
- Spanish: guardaespaldas (es) m. and f.
- Swedish: livvakt (sv) c.
- Telugu: అంగరక్షకుడు (te)(angarakshakuDu)
- Turkish: özlük muhafızı (tr)
- Ukrainian: тілоохоронець (uk) (tilooxorónec')
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bodyguard (third-person singular simple present bodyguards, present participle bodyguarding, simple past and past participle bodyguarded)
- (transitive) To act as bodyguard for (someone); figuratively, to protect.
- 2005, Christopher Hitchens, ‘Burned Out’, Slate, Mar 7 2005:
- The same report, on a news page and not bodyguarded by any news analysis warning, goes on to say that repeated discoveries of cheating and covert activity mean that the credibility of Iran has been harmed.
