corpse

English

Etymology

From Old French cors, from Latin corpus (“body”)

Alternative forms

• corse (obsolete)

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔː(ɹ)ps/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ps

Noun

corpse (plural corpses)

1. A dead body.
2. (archaic, sometimes derogatory) A human body in general, whether living or dead.

Synonyms

• body
• cadaver
• carcass
• See also Wikisaurus:corpse

Related terms

• corporate
• corporation
• corporeal
• corps
• corpulent
• corpus

Translations

dead body

• Afrikaans: lyk
• Ainu: ケウ (kew), ケウェ (kewe)
• Albanian: kufomë f
• Arabic: جثة f (juṯṯa), جثمان m (juṯmān), جيفة f (jīfa), مَيِّت m (mayyit), جَسَد m (jasad)
• Armenian: դիակ (diak), դի (di), աճյուն (hy) (ačyun)
• Azeri: cəsəd, meyit, leş
• Bashkir: мәйет (mäyet)
• Belarusian: труп m (trup), мярцвя́к m (mjarcvják)
• Bulgarian: труп (bg) m (trup)
• Burmese: အသေ (my) (əθèi)
• Catalan: cadàver (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 屍體 (zh), 尸体 (zh) (shītǐ)

• Chuvash: виле (vile)
• Crimean Tatar: ceset
• Czech: mrtvola f
• Danish: lig (da) n
• Dutch: lijk (nl) n
• Esperanto: kadavro
• Estonian: laip (et)
• Finnish: raato (fi), ruumis (fi), kalmo (fi)
• French: cadavre (fr) m
• Georgian: გვამი (gvami)
• German: Leiche (de) f, Leichnam (de) m
• Greek: πτώμα (el) n (ptóma), κουφάρι (el) n (koufári)
• Haitian Creole: kadav
• Hebrew: גופה f (gufa)
• Hidatsa: nóogdé
• Hindi: लाश f (lāś)
• Hungarian: holttest (hu), hulla (hu)
• Icelandic: lík (is) n
• Indonesian: mayat (id)
• Isthmus Zapotec: gueʼtuʼ
• Japanese: 死体 (ja) (したい, shitai), 屍体 (ja) (したい, shitai)
• Jèrriais: cadâvre m
• Kazakh: мәйіт (mäyit), өлік (ölik)
• Khmer: សាកសព (km) (saak sɑp)
• Korean: 시체 (ko) (siche)
• Kurdish: cenaze (ku), term (ku), kelex (ku)
• Kyrgyz: өлүк (ky) (ölük)
• Lao: ກະເລວະຣາ (ká léː wā rȃːk), ຄາບ (kʰȃːp), ຂອນຜີ (kʰɔ̆ːn pʰĭː)
• Latvian: līķis m
• Lithuanian: lavonas m

• Luhya: kumubili
• Macedonian: труп m (trup), леш m (leš)
• Malay: mayat, jenazah, jasad
• Maori: tūpāpaku
• Meru: mukou
• Mongolian: хүүр (hüür)
• Neapolitan: cadavere m
• Ngarrindjeri: krinkari
• Norwegian: lik (no) n
• Old East Slavic: трупъ m (trupŭ)
• Old English: lic n
• Persian: جسد (fa) (jasad), کالبد (fa) (kâlbod), لاشه (fa) (lâše)
• Pitjantjatjara: miri
• Polish: zwłoki (pl) f pl, trup (pl) m, gnijąca f
• Portuguese: cadáver (pt) m
• Romanian: cadavru (ro) n, corp mort m
• Russian: труп (ru) m (trup), мёртвое те́ло n (mjórtvoje télo), мертве́ц (ru) m (mertvéc), мертвя́к (ru) m (mertvják), мёртвый (ru) m (mjórtvyj)
• Sanskrit: शव (zava)
• Scottish Gaelic: corp m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: леш m

  Roman: leš m

• Slovak: mŕtvola f
• Slovene: truplo (sl) n
• Spanish: cadáver (es) m
• Swahili: maiti (sw), mfu (sw)
• Swedish: lik (sv) n, kadaver (sv) n
• Tajik: майит (mayit)
• Tatar: мәет (tt) (mäyet)
• Telugu: శవం (te) (śavam)
• Thai: ศพ (th) (sòp), อสุภ (a-sùp)
• Tok Pisin: daiman
• Turkish: ceset (tr)
• Turkmen: meýit, jeset (tk), läsh
• Ukrainian: труп (uk) m (trup), мертве́ць m (mertvécʹ), мрець m (mrecʹ)
• Urdu: لاش f (lāś), جسد m (jasad)
• Uyghur: جەسەت (jeset), مۇردا (murda)
• Uzbek: oʻlik, jasad, murda
• Vietnamese: thi thể (vi), xác chết, tử thi (vi)
• Volapük: fun (vo), menafun
• West Frisian: lyk
• ǃXóõ: ǀʻáã

Verb

corpse (third-person singular simple present corpses, present participle corpsing, simple past and past participle corpsed)

1. (intransitive, slang, of an actor) to lose control during a performance and laugh uncontrollably

Anagrams

• copers