passer-by

See also: passerby

English

Alternative forms

• passerby

Etymology

passer +‎ by

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑː.sə.baɪ/

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• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈpæs.ɚˌbaɪ/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑː.sə.bɑɪ/

Noun

passer-by (plural passers-by)

1. A person who is passing by (that is, walking past).

   Synonym: (archaic) passer

   When he tripped and fell in the street, several kind passers-by helped him up.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 10, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which was […] in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze.

Related terms

• passer-through

Translations

a person who is passing by

• Arabic: مَارّ (ar) m (mārr), مَارَّة f (mārra) (female passer-by or plural)
• Armenian: անցորդ (hy) (ancʻord), անցվոր (hy) (ancʻvor)
• Belarusian: прахо́жы m (praxóžy), прахо́жая f (praxóžaja), міна́к m (minák), міна́чка f (mináčka)
• Bulgarian: минува́ч m (minuváč), минува́чка f (minuváčka)
• Catalan: vianant (ca) m, passant (ca) m or f, transeünt (ca) m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 路人 (zh) (lùrén)

• Czech: kolemjdoucí (cs) m
• Danish: forbipasserende c
• Dutch: voorbijganger (nl), passant (nl), omstander (nl) m
• Estonian: mööduja
• Finnish: ohikulkija (fi)
• French: passant (fr) m, passante (fr) f
• Galician: transeúnte m or f
• Georgian: გამვლელი (gamvleli)
• German: Passant (de) m, Passantin (de) f
• Greek: διαβάτης (el) m (diavátis)
• Hebrew: עובר אורח \ עוֹבֵר אֹרַח m (ovér órakh)
• Hindi: राहगीर (hi) m (rāhgīr)
• Hungarian: járókelő (hu), arra menő/járó
• Ido: pasanto (io), pasero (io)
• Italian: passante (it) m or f
• Japanese: 通行人 (ja) (つうこうにん, tsūkōnin)
• Kazakh: жолаушы (jolauşy), жүргінші (jürgınşı)
• Korean: 통행인(通行人) (tonghaeng'in)
• Kyrgyz: жолоочу (ky) (joloocu), каттоочу (kattoocu)
• Latvian: garāmgājējs m, garāmgājēja f
• Lithuanian: praeivis m
• Macedonian: минувач m (minuvač), минувачка f (minuvačka)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forbipasserende m

  Nynorsk: forbipasserande

• Persian: رهگذر (fa) (rahgozar)
• Polish: przechodzień (pl) m
• Portuguese: transeunte (pt) m or f
• Romanian: trecător (ro) m, trecătoare (ro) f
• Russian: прохо́жий (ru) m (proxóžij), прохо́жая f (proxóžaja)
• Scottish Gaelic: neach-dol-seachad m or f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: про́лазнӣк m, про́лазница

  Roman: prólaznīk (sh) m, prólaznica (sh) f

• Slovak: okoloidúci m
• Slovene: mimoidoči m, mimoidoča f
• Spanish: transeúnte (es) m or f, viandante m or f, paseante
• Swahili: mwenda
• Swedish: förbipasserande (sv), förbigående (sv) c
• Tajik: раҳгузар (rahguzar)
• Ukrainian: прохо́жий m (proxóžyj), прохо́жа f (proxóža), перехо́жий m (perexóžyj), перехо́жа f (perexóža)
• Urdu: راہگیر m (rāhgīr)
• Uzbek: oʻtkinchi (uz), yoʻlovchi (uz)

Anagrams

• bypasser