hijacker

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English hijack

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-os?

Proto-Indo-European *-o-

Proto-Indo-European *-so-

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂so-

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂s(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-āsijos

Proto-Italic *-āsios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

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Latin -ārius

Old French -ierbor.

Middle English -er

English -er

English hijacker

From hijack + -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaɪˌd͡ʒækəɹ/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: hi‧jack‧er

Noun

hijacker (plural hijackers)

1. Someone who hijacks.

   the hijacker of an aeroplane

2. (computing) Hijackware.

Derived terms

• gamejacker
• threadjacker

Translations

someone who hijacks

• Dutch: kaper (nl) m
• Esperanto: aerpirato
• Galician: sequestrador m
• German: Entführer (de) m, Entführerin (de) f
• Irish: haidhléaraí m, haidhléaraithe m pl, haidhléaraí f, haidhléaraithe f pl, haidhléaraithe pl
• Norman: haïjatcheux m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kaprer m

  Nynorsk: kaprar m

• Polish: porywacz (pl) m
• Portuguese: sequestrador (pt) m
• Russian: уго́нщик (ru) m (ugónščik)
• Southern Altai: уурдап апарган кижи (uurdap apargan kiži)
• Spanish: aeropirata m (of aeroplanes), secuestrador (es) m

Anagrams

• rehijack