voyeur

See also Voyeur

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

French voyeur, from the verb voir (“to see”)

Noun

voyeur (plural voyeurs)

1. A person (especially a man) who derives sexual pleasure from secretly observing other people, especially when such people are engaged in some sexual activity.
2. An obsessive observer of sensational or sordid subjects.

Synonyms

• peeping tom

Related terms

• voyeurism
• voyeuse (voyeur who is female)

Translations

a person who derives sexual pleasure from secretly observing other people

• Arabic: متلصص (ar) (mutalaSSiS) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 偷窺者 (cmn), 偷窥者 (cmn) (tōukuī-zhě)

• Finnish: tirkistelijä (fi), voyeuristi (fi)
• French: voyeur (fr) m
• German: Voyeur (de) m, Spanner (de) m, Voyeurin (de) f
• Italian: guardone (it) m

• Japanese: 出歯亀 (ja) (でばかめ, debakame, でばがめ, debagame), 覗魔 (ja) (のぞきま, nozokima)
• Polish: podglądacz (pl) m
• Russian: вуайерист (ru) (vuajeríst) m , вуайёр (ru) (vuajór) m , соглядатай (ru) (sogljadátaj) m , подглядывающий (ru) (podgljádyvajuščij) m 
• Spanish: voyer (es) m and f, mirón (es) m
• Turkish: röntgenci (tr)

an obsessive observer of sensational or sordid subjects

• Finnish: tirkistelijä (fi)

See also

• scopophile

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French

Etymology

From voir (“to see”)

Pronunciation

• IPA: /vwa.jœʁ/

Noun

voyeur m (plural voyeurs; feminine voyeuse, plural voyeuses)

1. observer; watcher
2. voyeur