complainant

English

Alternative forms

• complainaunt (obsolete, rare)

Etymology

Old French complaignant, present participle of complaindre.

Noun

Wikipedia complainant (plural complainants)

1. (law) the party that brings a civil lawsuit against another; the plaintiff
2. One who makes complaint.
   • Collier

     Eager complainants of the dispute.

Translations

plaintiff

• Bulgarian: тъжител (bg) m (tǎžitel), ищец (bg) m (ištec)
• Esperanto: plendanto (eo)
• Finnish: kantaja (fi)
• French: plaignant (fr) m
• Russian: исте́ц (ru) (istéc) m 

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: жалилац m, подносилац жалбе m

  Roman: žalilac m, podnosilac žalbe m, podnosioc žalbe m

• Swahili: mlalamishi (sw)