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Etymology
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execution + -er.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ex‧e‧cu‧tion‧er
Noun
executioner (plural executioners)
- An official person who carries out the capital punishment of a criminal.
- (archaic) Executor.
- A hit man, especially being in some organization.
Related terms
Translations
the person who carries out the execution
- Armenian: դահիճ (hy) (dahič)
- Belarusian: кат m (kat)
- Bulgarian: пала́ч (bg) m (paláč)
- Catalan: botxí (ca) m, botxina f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 劊子手/刽子手 (zh) (guìzishǒu), 刽子手 (zh) (guìzishǒu)
- Czech: kat (cs) m, popravčí (cs) m
- Danish: bøddel c, skarpretter c
- Dutch: beul (nl)
- Esperanto: ekzekutisto
- Estonian: timukas
- Faroese: bøðil m
- Finnish: teloittaja (fi), pyöveli (fi)
- French: exécuteur des hautes œuvres (fr) m, bourreau (fr) m, exécuteur de la haute justice (fr), maître des hautes œuvres (fr)
- Galician: buxeu m, verdugo m
- German: Henker (de) m, Scharfrichter (de) m
- Greek: εκτελεστής (el) m (ektelestís), δήμιος (el) m (dímios)
- Ancient: σπεκουλάτωρ m (spekoulátōr)
- Hungarian: hóhér (hu)
- Icelandic: böðull (is) m
- Indonesian: algojo (id)
- Irish: básadóir m, céastúnach m
- Italian: boia (it) m, carnefice (it) m
- Japanese: 死刑執行人 (しけいしっこうにん, shikeishikkōnin)
- Kazakh: жазалаушы (jazalauşy)
- Latgalian: kāts m
- Latin: carnifex m, carnufex m
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- Latvian: bende m
- Lithuanian: budelis m
- Luxembourgish: Henker m
- Macedonian: џелат m (dželat)
- Malay: algojo, pertanda, jalad, pelebaya
- Maori: kaiwhakamate
- Mirandese: algoç m
- Northern Sami: bievval
- Norwegian: bøddel m, skarpretter m
- Persian: دژخیم (fa) (dežxim)
- Polish: kat (pl) m, oprawca (pl) m
- Portuguese: carrasco (pt) m, algoz (pt) m
- Romanian: călău (ro) m, gâde (ro) m
- Romansch: boier m, sbir m, hentger m
- Russian: пала́ч (ru) m (paláč), экзеку́тор (ru) m (ekzɛkútor), кат (ru) m (kat) (archaic)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: главосек m, главосеча m, крвник m, џелат m
- Roman: glavosek m, glavoseča m, krvnik (sh) m, dželat (sh) m
- Slovak: kat (sk) m, popravca m
- Slovene: krvnik (sl) m, rabelj m
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: kat m
- Spanish: verdugo (es) m
- Swahili: mchinja, mchinjaji, mnyongaji
- Swedish: bödel (sv) c
- Ukrainian: кат (uk) m (kat)
- Welsh: dienyddiwr m
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someone who executes an act or will