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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English dettour, from Old French detour, from Latin debitor, equivalent to debt + -or. Doublet of debitor. Displaced native Old English *sċola.
Pronunciation
Noun
debtor (plural debtors)
- (economics) A person or firm that owes money; one in debt; one who owes a debt.
- Antonym: creditor
- (law) One who owes another anything, or is under obligation, arising from express agreement, implication of law, or principles of natural justice, to pay money or to fulfill some other obligation; in bankruptcy or similar proceedings, the person who is the subject of the proceeding.
Derived terms
Translations
a person or firm that owes money
- Arabic: مَدِين m (madīn)
- Egyptian Arabic: مديون m (madyūn)
- Armenian: պարտապան (hy) (partapan)
- Asturian: deudor m, deudora f
- Belarusian: даўжні́к m (daŭžník), даўжні́ца f (daŭžníca)
- Bulgarian: длъжни́к (bg) m (dlǎžník), длъжни́ца f (dlǎžníca), длъжни́чка f (dlǎžníčka)
- Catalan: deutor (ca) m, deutora (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 債務人／债务人 (zh) (zhàiwùrén), 欠債人／欠债人 (qiànzhàirén), 借方 (zh) (jièfāng)
- Czech: dlužník (cs) m, dlužnice f
- Dalmatian: debituar m
- Danish: debitor c, skyldner c
- Dutch: debiteur (nl) m, debitrice (nl) f, schuldenaar (nl) m
- Esperanto: ŝuldanto
- Estonian: võlglane, võlgnik (et)
- Finnish: velallinen (fi), luotonottaja, luotonsaaja
- French: débiteur (fr) m, débitrice (fr) f
- Georgian: მევალე (mevale)
- German: Schuldner (de) m, Schuldnerin (de) f
- Gothic: 𐍃𐌺𐌿𐌻𐌰 m (skula)
- Greek: οφειλέτης (el) m (ofeilétis), οφειλέτρια (el) f (ofeilétria)
- Ancient: ὀφειλέτης m (opheilétēs), χρεωφειλέτης m (khreōpheilétēs)
- Hebrew: חייב / חַיָּב (he) m (khayav), חייבת \ חַיֶּבֶת f (khayevet)
- Hungarian: adós (hu)
- Icelandic: skuldari m, skuldunautur m
- Italian: debitore (it) m, debitrice (it) f
- Japanese: 債務者 (ja) (さいむしゃ, saimusha), 借方 (ja) (かりかた, karikata)
- Korean: 채무자(債務者) (chaemuja)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: قەرزار (qerzar)
- Latin: dēbitor m, dēbitrix f
- Latvian: parādnieks m, parādniece f
- Lithuanian: skolininkas (lt) m
- Macedonian: должник m (dolžnik), должничка f (dolžnička)
- Maori: kaiwhakatārewa, tangata noho nama, kaitangonama
- Norman: detteur m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: debitor m, skyldner m
- Nynorsk: debitor m, skuldnar m, skyldnar m
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: длъжьникъ m (dlŭžĭnikŭ)
- Old English: *sċola m
- Plautdietsch: Schildna m
- Polish: dłużnik (pl) m, dłużniczka (pl) f
- Portuguese: devedor (pt) m, devedora f
- Romanian: debitor (ro) m, debitoare (ro) f
- Russian: должни́к (ru) m (dolžník), должни́ца (ru) f (dolžníca), дебито́р (ru) m (debitór)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ду̀жнӣк m, ду̀жница f
- Roman: dùžnīk (sh) m, dùžnica (sh) f
- Slovak: dlžník m, dlžníčka f
- Slovene: dolžnik m, dolžnica f
- Spanish: deudor (es) m, deudora (es) f
- Swahili: mdeni class 1/2
- Swedish: gäldenär (sv) c
- Thai: ลูกหนี้ (th) (lûuk-nîi)
- Ukrainian: боржни́к (uk) m (boržnýk), боржни́ця f (boržnýcja)
- Vietnamese: chủ nợ
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