debtor

English

Alternative forms

• debtour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English dettour, from Old French detour, from Latin debitor. Doublet of debitor.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛt.ə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛt.ɚ/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈdet.ə/
• Rhymes: -ɛtə, -ɛtə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: debt‧or

Noun

debtor (plural debtors)

1. (economics) A person or firm that owes money; one in debt; one who owes a debt
2. (law) One who owes another anything, or is under obligation, arising from express agreement, implication of law, or principles of natural justice, to pay money or to fulfill some other obligation; in bankruptcy or similar proceedings, the person who is the subject of the proceeding.

Antonyms

• creditor

Translations

a person or firm that owes money

• Arabic: مَدِين‎ m (madīn)

  Egyptian Arabic: مديون‎ m (madyūn)

• Armenian: պարտապան (hy) (partapan)
• Belarusian: даўжні́к m (daŭžník)
• Bulgarian: длъжни́к (bg) m (dlǎžník)
• Catalan: deutor m, deutora f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 債務人 (zh), 债务人 (zh) (zhàiwùrén), 欠債人, 欠债人 (qiànzhàirén), 借方 (zh) (jièfāng)

• Czech: dlužník m
• Dalmatian: debituar m
• Danish: debitor c, skyldner c
• Dutch: debiteur (nl) m, debitrice (nl) f, schuldenaar (nl) m
• Esperanto: ŝuldanto
• Estonian: võlglane, võlgnik (et)
• Finnish: velallinen (fi), luotonottaja, luotonsaaja
• French: débiteur (fr) m, débitrice (fr) f
• Georgian: მევალე (mevale)
• German: Schuldner (de) m, Schuldnerin (de) f
• Greek: οφειλέτης (el) m (ofeilétis), οφειλέτρια (el) f (ofeilétria)

  Ancient: ὀφειλέτης m (opheilétēs), χρεωφειλέτης m (khreōpheilétēs)

• Hebrew: חייב‎ (he) m (khayav), חייבת‎ f (khayevet)
• Hungarian: adós (hu)
• Icelandic: skuldari m, skuldunautur m
• Italian: debitore (it) m, debitrice (it) f

• Japanese: 債務者 (ja) (さいむしゃ, saimusha), 借方 (ja) (かりかた, karikata)
• Korean: 채무자 (chaemuja)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: قەرزار‎ (ku) (qerzar)

• Latin: dēbitor m, dēbitrix f
• Macedonian: должник m (dolžnik)
• Maori: kaiwhakatārewa, tangata noho nama
• Norman: detteur m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: debitor m, skyldner m

  Nynorsk: debitor m, skuldnar m, skyldnar m

• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: длъжьникъ (dlŭžĭnikŭ)

• Old English: sċola m
• Polish: dłużnik (pl) m, dłużniczka (pl) f
• Portuguese: devedor (pt) m, devedora f
• Romanian: debitor (ro) m
• Russian: должни́к (ru) m (dolžník), должни́ца (ru) f (dolžníca), дебито́р (ru) m (debitór)
• Serbo-Croatian: дужник m (dužnik), dužnik (sh) m
• Slovak: dlžník m
• Slovene: dolžnik m, dolžnica f
• Spanish: deudor (es) m deudora (es) f
• Swahili: mdeni class 1/2
• Swedish: gäldenär (sv) c
• Thai: ลูกหนี้ (th) (lûuk-nîi)
• Ukrainian: боржни́к (uk) m (boržnýk)
• Vietnamese: chủ nợ

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