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English
Pronunciation
Noun
serial killer (plural serial killers)
- A person who commits multiple (more than two) murders, especially similar ones with no obvious motive over a period of time with a "cooling-off" period between each murder.
Derived terms
Translations
person who commits multiple murders
- Afrikaans: reeksmoordenaar
- Albanian: vrasësi serik m
- Arabic: قاتل متسلسل m (qātil mutasalsil)
- Asturian: asesín en serie m, asesín serial m
- Azerbaijani: seriyalı qatil
- Basque: serieko hiltzaile
- Bulgarian: сериен убиец m (serien ubiec)
- Catalan: assassí en sèrie m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 連環殺手 / 连环杀手 (lin4 waan4 saat3 sau2)
- Mandarin: 連環殺手 / 连环杀手 (liánhuán shāshǒu)
- Czech: sériový vrah m
- Danish: seriemorder (da) c
- Dutch: seriemoordenaar (nl) m
- Esperanto: seria murdisto
- Estonian: sarimõrvar
- Finnish: sarjamurhaaja (fi)
- French: tueur en série (fr) m
- Galician: asasino en serie m, asasina en serie f
- Georgian: სერიული მკვლელი (seriuli mḳvleli)
- German: Serienmörder (de) m, Serienkiller (de) m
- Greek: σίριαλ κίλερ n (sírial kíler)
- Hebrew: רוֹצֵחַ סִדְרָתִי m (rotseakh sidrati)
- Hindi: सिलसिलेवार क़ातिल (silsilevār qātil), सिलसिलेवार हत्यारा (silsilevār hatyārā)
- Hungarian: sorozatgyilkos (hu)
- Icelandic: raðmorðingi m
- Indonesian: pembunuh berantai
- Inupiaq: iñuaqtuqti
- Italian: assassino seriale m, assassina seriale f, serial killer (it) m or f, omicida seriale m, pluriomicida (it) m or f, pluriassassino m
- Japanese: シリアルキラー (shiriaru kirā)
- Korean: 연쇄살인범 (yeonswaesarinbeom)
- Latvian: sērijveida slepkava m
- Luxembourgish: Seriemäerder m
- Macedonian: сериски убиец m (seriski ubiec)
- Malay: pembunuh bersiri
- Mongolian: цуврал алуурчин (cuvral aluurčin)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: seriemorder m
- Polish: seryjny morderca (pl) m
- Portuguese: assassino em série (pt) m, assassina em série (pt) f, serial killer (pt) m or f
- Romanian: asasin în serie m, ucigaș în serie m
- Russian: сери́йный уби́йца (ru) m (seríjnyj ubíjca)
- Serbo-Croatian: serijski ubojica m, serijska ubojica f, serijski ubojice pl
- Slovak: sériový vrah m
- Spanish: asesino en serie m, asesina en serie f, asesino serial m
- Swedish: seriemördare (sv) c
- Thai: ฆาตกรต่อเนื่อง (th) (kâat-dtà-gɔɔn-dtɔ̀ɔ-nʉ̂ʉang)
- Turkish: seri katil
- Ukrainian: серійний убивця m (serijnyj ubyvcja)
- Uzbek: serial qotil
- Welsh: llofrudd cyfresol m
- West Frisian: searjemoardner c
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Further reading
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English serial killer. Compare assassino seriale, which is a calque.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɛ.rjal ˈkil.ler/, /ˈsi.rjal ˈkil.ler/
- Hyphenation: sè‧rial‧kìl‧ler
Noun
serial killer m or f by sense (invariable)
- serial killer
- Synonym: assassino seriale
- Hypernym: pluriomicida
Further reading
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English serial killer.
Noun
serial killer m or f by sense (plural serial killers)
- serial killer (person who commits multiple murders)
- Synonym: assassino em série
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