murderer

English

Alternative forms

• murtherer

Etymology

From murder +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɝdəɹɚ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈmɜːdəɹə/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: mur‧der‧er

Noun

murderer (plural murderers, feminine murderess)

1. A person who commits murder.
   • 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde

     It was two o'clock when she came to herself and called for the police. The murderer was gone long ago; but there lay his victim in the middle of the lane, incredibly mangled. The stick with which the deed had been done, although it was of some rare and very tough and heavy wood, had broken in the middle under the stress of this insensate cruelty

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     I had never defrauded a man of a farthing, nor called him knave behind his back. But now the last rag that covered my nakedness had been torn from me. I was branded a blackleg, card-sharper, and murderer.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:killer

Coordinate terms

• murderess

Related terms

• murder
• murderess

Translations

person who commits murder

• Afrikaans: moordenaar
• Alabama: aatiibi
• Albanian: vrasës (sq) m
• Arabic: قَاتِل (ar) m (qātil)
• Armenian: մարդասպան (hy) (mardaspan)
• Asturian: asesín m
• Azerbaijani: qatil (az)
• Belarusian: забо́йца (be) m or f (zabójca)
• Bengali: খুনী (bn) (khuni)
• Bulgarian: уби́ец (bg) m (ubíec), уби́йца f (ubíjca)
• Burmese: လူသတ်သမား (lusatsa.ma:)
• Catalan: assassí (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 兇手／凶手 (hung¹ sau²), 凶手 (hung¹ sau²), 殺人犯／杀人犯 (saat³ jan⁴ faan^6-2), 杀人犯 (saat³ jan⁴ faan^6-2), 殺手／杀手 (saat³ sau²), 杀手 (saat³ sau²)

  Mandarin: 兇手／凶手 (zh) (xiōngshǒu), 凶手 (zh) (xiōngshǒu), 殺人犯／杀人犯 (zh) (shārénfàn), 杀人犯 (zh) (shārénfàn), 殺手／杀手 (zh) (shāshǒu), 杀手 (zh) (shāshǒu)

  Min Nan: 殺手／杀手 (zh-min-nan), 杀手 (sat-chhiú)

• Czech: vrah (cs) m
• Danish: morder (da) c
• Dutch: moordenaar (nl) m
• Esperanto: murdinto
• Estonian: mõrtsukas
• Finnish: murhaaja (fi)
• French: meurtrier (fr) m, meurtrière (fr) f

  Old French: murtrier m

• Galician: asasino (gl) m
• Georgian: მკვლელი (mḳvleli)
• German: Mörder (de) m, Mörderin (de) f
• Greek: δολοφόνος (el) m or f (dolofónos)

  Ancient: φονεύς m (phoneús)

• Hebrew: רוֹצֵחַ (he) m (rotzéach)
• Hindi: हत्यारा (hi) m (hatyārā), खुनी (hi) m (khunī), क़ातिल m (qātil)
• Hungarian: gyilkos (hu)
• Icelandic: morðingi m
• Indonesian: pembunuh (id)
• Italian: assassino (it) m
• Japanese: 人殺し (ひとごろし, hitogoroshi), 殺人者 (さつじんしゃ, satsujinsha)
• Kalmyk: алач (alaç)
• Kazakh: қанішер (qanışer), қаныпезер (qanypezer)
• Khmer: ឃាតករ (khiət kɑɑ), អ្នកសម្លាប់ (nĕək sɑmlap)
• Korean: 살인자 (ko) (sarinja) (殺人者 (ko))
• Kyrgyz: өлтүргүч (ky) (öltürgüc), өлтүрүүчү (ky) (öltürüücü)
• Lao: ຄາດຕະກອນ (khāt ta kǭn)
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• Latgalian: slapkauņs m
• Latin: homicīda m or f, occīsor m
• Latvian: slepkava f
• Lithuanian: žmogžudys m
• Luxembourgish: Mäerder m, Mäerderin f
• Macedonian: убиец m (ubiec), катиљ m (katilj) (colloquial)
• Malay: pembunuh
• Maori: kaikōhuru
• Mongolian: алуурчин (mn) (aluurčin)
• Norman: meurtriyi m
• Northern Sami: olmmošgoddi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: morder m, drapsmann m

  Nynorsk: mordar m, drapsmann m

• Old English: bana m
• Pashto: قاتل (ps) m (qātél), خوني (ps) m or f (xuní)
• Persian: قاتل (fa) (qâtel)
• Polish: morderca (pl) m, zabójca (pl) m
• Portuguese: assassino (pt) m, assassina (pt) f, homicida (pt) m or f
• Romanian: criminal (ro) m (false friend)
• Russian: уби́йца (ru) m or f (ubíjca), ки́ллер (ru) m (kíller) (hired), душегу́б (ru) m (dušegúb) (colloquial)
• Sanskrit: घातक (sa) m (ghātaka)
• Scottish Gaelic: murtair m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: у̀бица m (Bosnian, Serbian), у̀бојица m (Croatian)

  Roman: ùbica (sh) m (Bosnian, Serbian), ùbojica (sh) m (Croatian)

• Slovak: vrah (sk) m
• Slovene: morilec (sl) m, morilka f
• Spanish: asesino (es) m, asesina (es) f, victimario, matador (es) m
• Swahili: mwuaji class 1/2
• Swedish: mördare (sv) c, mörderska (sv) c
• Tajik: қотил (qotil‍), кушанда (kušanda), одамкуш (odamkuš)
• Telugu: హంతకుడు (te) (hantakuḍu)
• Thai: ฆาตกร (th) (kâat-dtà-gɔɔn)
• Turkish: katil (tr)
• Turkmen: ganhor
• Ukrainian: вби́вця m or f (vbývcja), уби́вця (uk) m or f (ubývcja), душогу́б m (dušohúb) (colloquial)
• Urdu: قاتل m (qātil)
• Uyghur: قاتىل (qatil), شۇمبەن (shumben)
• Uzbek: qotil (uz)
• Vietnamese: kẻ giết người
• Wiradhuri: baluubuunildaayn
• Yiddish: מערדער m (merder), רוצח m (rotseyekh), טויטשלאַגער m (toytshlager)

Anagrams

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