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English
Etymology
body + guard
Pronunciation
Noun
bodyguard (plural bodyguards)
- A person or group of persons, often armed, responsible for protecting someone.
Translations
person responsible for protecting someone
- Afrikaans: lyfwag
- Albanian: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: حَرَس خَاصّ m (ḥaras ḵāṣṣ), حَرَس m (ḥaras), حَارِس m (ḥāris), حَارِس شَخْصِيّ m (ḥāris šaḵṣiyy)
- Armenian: թիկնապահ (hy) (tʻiknapah)
- Azerbaijani: cangüdən
- Basque: bizkartzain (eu)
- Belarusian: целаахо́ўнік m (cjelaaxóŭnik), ахо́ва (be) f (axóva) (group of persons), ахо́ўнік m (axóŭnik)
- Bengali: দেহরক্ষী (bn) (dehorokkhi) বরকন্দাজ (bn) (borkondaj), মহাফেজ (bn) (mohaphej)
- Bulgarian: телохрани́тел (bg) m (telohranítel), бодига́рд m (bodigárd)
- Burmese: သက်တော်စောင့် (my) (saktaucaung.)
- Catalan: guardaespatlles (ca) m or f
- Chamorro: a'adahi
- Cherokee: ᎠᏓᎦᏘᏯ (adagatiya)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 保鏢／保镖 (bou2 biu1), 護衛／护卫 (wu6 wai6)
- Mandarin: 保鏢／保镖 (zh) (bǎobiāo), 護衛／护卫 (zh) (hùwèi), 衛士／卫士 (zh) (wèishì)
- Czech: tělesná stráž f, bodyguard (cs) m, osobní strážce m
- Danish: livvagt (da) c
- Dutch: lijfwacht (nl), lijfgarde (nl), persoonsbeveiliger, bodyguard (nl) m
- Esperanto: korpogardisto, kapogardisto sg
- Estonian: turvamees, ihukaitsja
- Faroese: lívverji m
- Finnish: turvamies (fi), henkivartija (fi)
- French: garde du corps (fr) m
- Galician: gardacostas (gl) m
- Georgian: მცველი (mcveli), პირადი მცველი (ṗiradi mcveli)
- German: Leibwächter (de) m, Bodyguard (de) m, Personenschützer (de) m
- Greek: σωματοφύλακας (el) m (somatofýlakas)
- Ancient: σωματοφύλαξ m (sōmatophúlax), δορύφορος m (dorúphoros)
- Hebrew: שׁוֹמֵר רֹאשׁ (he) m (shomér rósh), שׁוֹמֶרֶת רֹאשׁ f (shomeret rosh)
- Hindi: अंगरक्षक (hi) m (aṅgrakṣak), बॉडीगार्ड m (bŏḍīgārḍ)
- Hungarian: testőr (hu)
- Ido: korpogardisto (io)
- Irish: garda cosanta m
- Italian: guardia del corpo (it) f
- Japanese: ボディーガード (bodīgādo), 侍衛 (ja) (じえい, jiei), 親衛兵 (しんえいへい, shin'eihei), 用心棒 (ja) (ようじんぼう, yōjinbō), 警護 (ja) (けいご, keigo), 保鏢 (ほひょう, hohyō), 衛士 (えじ, eji)
- Karelian: henkivarteiččija
- Khmer: អង្គរក្ស (km) (ʼɑngkĕəʼrĕək)
- Korean: 보디가드 (ko) (bodigadeu), 경호원(警護員) (ko) (gyeonghowon)
- Lao: ອົງຄະລັກ (ʼong kha lak)
- Latin: stipator m, satelles (la) m, custōs corporis m
- Latvian: miesassargs m, miesassardze f
- Macedonian: телохранител m (telohranitel)
- Malay: pengawal peribadi, pengawal
- Malayalam: അംഗരക്ഷകൻ (ml) (aṅgarakṣakaṉ)
- Maori: poutiriao
- Navajo: aa áhályáanii
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: livvakt m or f
- Nynorsk: livvakt f
- Persian: محافظ شخصی (mohâfez-e šaxsi), محافظ (fa) (mohâfez)
- Polish: (person) ochroniarz (pl) m, (group of persons) ochrona (pl) f
- Portuguese: guarda-costas (pt) m
- Romanian: gardă de corp f, bodyguard (ro) m, gardă personală (ro) f
- Russian: телохрани́тель (ru) m (teloxranítelʹ), охра́нник (ru) m (oxránnik), охра́на (ru) f (oxrána) (group of persons)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: телохранитељ m, тјелохранитељ m
- Roman: telohranitelj m, tjelohranitelj (sh) m
- Slovak: osobný strážca m, bodyguard m
- Slovene: telesni stražar m, stražar m
- Spanish: escolta (es) m or f, guardaespaldas (es) m or f, espaldero m (Dominican Republic, Venezuela)
- Swedish: livvakt (sv) c
- Tajik: муҳофиз (muhofiz)
- Telugu: అంగరక్షకుడు (te) (aṅgarakṣakuḍu)
- Thai: องครักษ์ (th) (ong-ká-rák)
- Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: özlük muhafızı, koruma (tr)
- Ukrainian: тілоохоро́нець m (tilooxorónecʹ), охоро́на (uk) f (oxoróna) (group of persons), охоро́нець m (oxorónecʹ)
- Urdu: محافظ m (muhāfiz), باڈی گارڈ m (bāḍī gārḍ)
- Uyghur: ياساۋۇل (yasawul), مۇھاپىزەتچى (muhapizetchi), نەۋكەر (newker) (obsolete)
- Uzbek: shaxsiy soqchi
- Welsh: gwarchodwr (cy) m, gwarchodwr corff m
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Verb
bodyguard (third-person singular simple present bodyguards, present participle bodyguarding, simple past and past participle bodyguarded)
- (transitive) To act as bodyguard for (someone); figuratively, to protect.
2005 March 7, Christopher Hitchens, ‘Burned Out’, Slate:The same report, on a news page and not bodyguarded by any news analysis warning, goes on to say that repeated discoveries of cheating and covert activity mean that the credibility of Iran has been harmed.
Romanian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English bodyguard.
Noun
bodyguard m (plural bodyguarzi)
- bodyguard
- Synonym: gardă de corp
Declension
Synonyms
- gorilă (figurative, derogatory)
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