angel of death

English

Noun

angel of death (plural angels of death)

1. A personification of death in fiction, art, mythology, or religion.
   1. An angel which attends to death, collecting souls at death, ending life at the appointed death.
   2. An angel in Abrahamic scripture or eschatology that attends to death.
      1. Azrael.
      2. Death, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
   3. Grim Reaper
   4. (translations, of Japanese) shinigami
2. A type of serial killer, who is employed as a caregiver and kills people under their care.

Synonyms

• death angel
• (type of serial killer): angel of mercy

Translations

personification of death in fiction and in art

• Arabic: مَلَك الْمَوْت m (malak al-mawt)
• Bashkir: үлем фәрештәһе (ülem fəreştəhe)
• Bulgarian: а́нгел на смъ́ртта m (ángel na smǎ́rtta)
• Chechen: мулкалмуост (mulkalmwost)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 死神 (zh) (sǐshén) (lit.: God of death)

• Danish: dødsengel c
• Dutch: engel des doods m, doodsengel m, worgengel m
• Finnish: kuolemanenkeli
• French: ange de la mort (fr) m
• German: Todesengel (de) m
• Greek: άγγελος θανάτου m (ángelos thanátou)
• Hebrew: מַלְאַךְ הַמָּוֶת (he) m (mal'ách hamávet)
• Hungarian: halál angyala
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• Icelandic: maðurinn með ljáinn m, dauðinn m, engill dauðans m
• Ingush: мулкалмуст (mulkalmust)
• Italian: angelo della morte m
• Japanese: 死神 (ja) (しにがみ, shinigami) (lit.: God of death)
• Kazakh: өлім періштесі (ölım perıştesı)
• Korean: 사신 (ko) (sasin) (死神 (ko))
• Portuguese: anjo da morte m
• Romanian: îngerul morții m
• Russian: а́нгел сме́рти (ru) m (ángel smérti), смерть (ru) f (smertʹ)
• Spanish: ángel de la muerte m
• Swedish: dödsängel n
• Turkish: ölüm meleği
• Vietnamese: tử thần (vi) (死神), thần chết
• Yiddish: מלאך־המות m (malakhamoves)

type of serial killer

• Finnish: kuolemanenkeli
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• Hungarian: halál angyala

Further reading

• Angel of Mercy (criminology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia