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English
Etymology
execution + -er.
Pronunciation
Noun
executioner (plural executioners)
- An official person who carries out the capital punishment of a criminal.
- (archaic) Executor.
- A hit man, especially being in some organization.
Related terms
Translations
the person who carries out the execution
- Albanian: therës (sq) m, thikar (sq) m
- Arabic: جَلَّاد m (jallād)
- Armenian: դահիճ (hy) (dahič)
- Azerbaijani: cəllad (az)
- Bashkir: йәлләт (yəllət)
- Basque: borrero
- Belarusian: кат m (kat)
- Bengali: জল্লাদ (bn) (jollad)
- Bulgarian: пала́ч (bg) m (paláč), джела́т m (dželát)
- Burmese: အာဏာသား (my) (anasa:)
- Catalan: botxí (ca) m, botxina f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 劊子手／刽子手 (zh) (guìzishǒu)
- Czech: kat (cs) m, popravčí (cs) m
- Danish: bøddel c, skarpretter c
- Dutch: beul (nl)
- Esperanto: ekzekutisto
- Estonian: timukas
- Faroese: bøðil m
- Finnish: pyöveli (fi)
- French: exécuteur des hautes œuvres (fr) m, bourreau (fr) m, exécuteur de la haute justice (fr), maître des hautes œuvres (fr), bourrelle (fr) f
- Galician: buxeu m, verdugo m
- Georgian: ჯალათი (ǯalati)
- German: Henker (de) m, Scharfrichter (de) m, Henkerin (de) f, Scharfrichterin (de) f
- Greek: εκτελεστής (el) m (ektelestís), δήμιος (el) m (dímios)
- Ancient: σπεκουλάτωρ m (spekoulátōr)
- Hebrew: תַּלְיָן m
- Hindi: जल्लाद (hi) m (jallād)
- Hungarian: hóhér (hu)
- Icelandic: böðull (is) m
- Indonesian: algojo (id), jalad (id)
- Irish: básadóir m, céastúnach m
- Italian: boia (it) m, carnefice (it) m
- Japanese: 死刑執行人 (しけいしっこうにん, shikeishikkōnin), 処刑人 (しょけいにん, shokeinin)
- Kazakh: жазалаушы (jazalauşy), жендет (jendet)
- Khmer: ពេជ្ឈឃាដ (km) (pɨcchĕəʼkhiət)
- Korean: 사형 집행인 (sahyeong jiphaeng'in), 망나니 (mangnani)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: celad (ku)
- Kyrgyz: желдет (ky) (jeldet)
- Lao: ເພັດຊະຄາດ (phet sa khāt)
- Latgalian: kāts m
- Latin: carnifex m, carnufex m
- Latvian: bende m
- Lithuanian: budelis m
- Luxembourgish: Henker m
- Macedonian: џе́лат m (džélat), гла́восек m (glávosek), гла́ворез m (glávorez), по́губник m (pógubnik), па́лач m (pálač), бе́сач m (bésač)
- Malay: algojo (ms), pertanda, jalad, pelebaya
- Malayalam: ആരാച്ചാർ (ml) (ārāccāṟ)
- Maltese: eżekutur m
- Maori: kaiwhakamate
- Mirandese: algoç m
- Mongolian: зандалчин (mn) (zandalčin)
- Northern Sami: bievval
- Norwegian: bøddel m, skarpretter (no) m
- Ottoman Turkish: جلاد
- Pali: vajjhaghātaka
- Pashto: جلاد (ps) m
- Persian: دژخیم (fa) (dežxim), جلاد (fa) (jallâd)
- Polish: kat (pl) m, oprawca (pl) m
- Portuguese: carrasco (pt) m, algoz (pt) m
- Romanian: călău (ro) m, gâde (ro) m
- Romansch: boier m, sbir m, hentger m
- Russian: пала́ч (ru) m (paláč), экзеку́тор (ru) m (ekzɛkútor), кат (ru) m (kat) (archaic)
- Sanskrit: कालपाशिक (sa) m (kālapāśika), वधकर्माधिकारिन् (sa) m (vadhakarmādhikārin)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: главосек m, главосеча m, крвник m, џелат m
- Roman: glavosek m, glavoseča m, krvnik (sh) m, dželat (sh) m
- Slovak: kat (sk) m, popravca m
- Slovene: krvnik (sl) m, rabelj m
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: kat m
- Spanish: verdugo (es) m, carnífice m (archaic), verduga f
- Swahili: mchinja, mchinjaji, mnyongaji
- Swedish: bödel (sv) c, skarprättare (sv) c
- Tajik: ҷаллод (jallod)
- Tatar: җәллад (tt) (cällad)
- Thai: เพชฌฆาต (th) (pét-chá-kâat)
- Turkish: cellat (tr)
- Turkmen: jellat (tk)
- Ukrainian: кат (uk) m (kat)
- Urdu: جلاد m (jallād)
- Uyghur: جاللات (jallat)
- Uzbek: jallod (uz)
- Vietnamese: người hành hình, đao phủ
- Welsh: dienyddiwr m
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someone who executes an act or will
