eyewitness

See also: eye-witness and eye witness

English

Alternative forms

• eye-witness
• eye witness

Etymology

eye +‎ witness

Noun

eyewitness (plural eyewitnesses)

1. Someone who sees an event and can report or testify about it. [from 16th c.]
   • 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 can testify about an event

• Afrikaans: ooggetuie sg
• Arabic: شاهد عيان‎
• Armenian: ականատես (hy) (akanates), վկա (hy) (vka)
• Azerbaijani: şahid (az)
• Bashkir: шаһит (šahit)
• Belarusian: відавочца (vidavóčca)
• Bulgarian: очевидец (bg) m (očevidec)
• Catalan: testimoni ocular
• 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
• Danish: øjenvidne n
• Dutch: ooggetuige (nl) 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)

  Ancient: αὐτόπτης m (autóptēs)

• Hebrew: עד ראיה‎ ('ad raiah)
• Hindi: गवाह (hi) (gavāh)
• Hungarian: szemtanú (hu)
• Indonesian: saksi mata (id)
• Italian: testimone oculare

• Japanese: 目撃者 (ja), 実見者
• Kazakh: көз көрген (köz körgen), куә (kwä)
• Korean: 목격자 (ko) (mokgyeokja)
• Latin: arbiter (la) m, arbitra f
• Latvian: aculiecinieks m
• Lithuanian: liùdininkas m
• Luxembourgish: Aenzeien m or f
• Mongolian: гэрч (mn) (gerch)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: øyenvitne n, øyevitne n

  Nynorsk: augevitne n, augnevitne n

• Persian: شاهد عینی‎
• Polish: naoczny świadek m
• 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