eyewitness

See also: eye-witness and eye witness

English

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Alternative forms

• eye-witness
• eye witness

Etymology

From eye + witness

Noun

eyewitness ‎(plural eyewitnesses)

1. Someone who sees an event and can report or testify about it.
   • 1915, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan:

     And the girl's fate he could picture as plainly as though he were an eyewitness to it.

Translations

person who has seen and testify about an event

• Arabic: شاهد عيان
• Armenian: ականատես (hy) ‎(akanates), վկա (hy) ‎(vka)
• Azeri: şahid (az)
• Bashkir: шаһит ‎(šahit)
• Belarusian: відавочца ‎(vidavočca)
• Bulgarian: очевидец (bg) m ‎(očevidec)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 目擊者 (zh), 目擊者 (zh) ‎(mùjīzhě), 目擊證人, 目击证人 (mùjī zhèngrén)

• Czech: očitý svědek m
• Finnish: silminnäkijä (fi)
• French: témoin oculaire (fr) m
• Georgian: თვითმხილველის ‎(tvitmxilvelis)
• German: Augenzeuge (de) m, Augenzeugin (de) f
• Greek: αυτόπτης μάρτυρας (el) ‎(aftóptis mártyras)
• Hebrew: עד ראיה ‎('ad raiah)
• Hindi: गवाह (hi) ‎(gavāh)
• Hungarian: szemtanú (hu)
• Indonesian: saksi mata (id)

• Italian: testimone oculare
• Japanese: 目撃者 (ja)
• Kazakh: көз көрген ‎(köz körgen), куә ‎(kwä)
• Korean: 목격자 (ko) ‎(mokgyeokja)
• Luxembourgish: Aenzeien m, f
• Mongolian: гэрч (mn) ‎(gerč)
• Norwegian: øyenvitne
• Persian: شاهد عینی
• Portuguese: testemunha ocular (pt) f
• Russian: очеви́дец (ru) m ‎(očevídec), свиде́тель (ru) m ‎(svidételʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: očevidac (sh)
• Spanish: testigo ocular (es)
• Swedish: ögonvittne (sv)
• Tajik: шоҳид ‎(šohid)
• Thai: , ประจักษ์พยาน ‎(bprà-jàk-pá-yaan), สักขีพยาน ‎(sàk-kǐi-pá-yaan)
• Turkish: görgü tanığı (tr)
• Ukrainian: очевидець ‎(očevydecʹ)
• Uzbek: guvoh (uz)

Verb

eyewitness ‎(third-person singular simple present eyewitnesses, present participle eyewitnessing, simple past and past participle eyewitnessed)

1. To be present at an event, and see it