passer-by

See also: passerby

English

Alternative forms

• passerby

Etymology

passer +‎ by

Noun

passer-by (plural passers-by)

1. A person who is passing by (that is, walking past).
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 10, in The China Governess‎^[1]:

     With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which was […] in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze.

   When he tripped and fell in the street, several kind passers-by helped him up.

Translations

a person who is passing by

• Arabic: مَارّ (ar) m (mārr)
• Belarusian: прахо́жы m (praxóžy), міна́к m (minák)
• Bulgarian: минувач m (minuvač)
• Catalan: vianant (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 路人 (zh) (lùrén)

• Czech: kolemjdoucí (cs)
• Danish: forbipasserende c
• Dutch: voorbijganger (nl), passant (nl)
• Finnish: ohikulkija (fi)
• French: passant (fr) m, passante (fr) f
• Galician: transeúnte m or f
• German: Passant (de) m, Passantin (de) f
• Greek: διαβάτης (el) m (diavátis)
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: járókelő (hu), arramenő
• Ido: pasanto (io), pasero (io)
• Italian: passante (it) m, passanti (it) m
• Japanese: 通行人 (つうこうにん, tsūkōnin)
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• Korean: 통행인 (tonghaeng'in)
• Macedonian: минувач m (minuvač)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forbipasserende m

  Nynorsk: forbipasserande

• Polish: przechodzień (pl) m
• Portuguese: transeunte (pt) m or f
• Romanian: trecător (ro) m
• Russian: прохо́жий (ru) m (proxóžij), прохо́жая f (proxóžaja)
• Scottish Gaelic: neach-dol-seachad m or f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: про́лазнӣк m

  Roman: prólaznīk (sh) m

• Slovak: okoloidúci m
• Slovene: mimoidoči m, mimoidoča f
• Spanish: transeúnte (es) m or f, viandante m or f, paseante
• Swahili: mwenda
• Swedish: förbipasserande (sv), förbigående (sv) c
• Ukrainian: прохо́жий m (proxóžyj), перехо́жий m (perexóžyj)

Anagrams

• bypasser