Grim Reaper

Etymology
From, first attested 1847. The word previously had a stronger meaning ("fierce, angry, sinister") and had more of an association with ghostliness (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (n.)). The association between and  dates back to at least the late 16th century (the line "grim death, how foul and loathsome is thine image" appears in Shakespeare's  around 1590). The element comes from the personification of Death as a reaper (harvester) of souls in connection to to the popular depiction of Death wielding a scythe. The symbol of the scythe itself comes from a partially unintentional conflation of (the Titan associated with the harvest, said to have used his scythe to castrate his father ) and  (the personification of Father Time).

Proper noun

 * 1) A personification of Death as an old man, or a skeleton, carrying a scythe, taking souls to the afterlife.

Synonyms

 * ,, /Death, the pale rider/rider, the angel of death, the Shinigami, psychopomp

Translations

 * Afrikaans: skoppensboer
 * Arabic: حِفَاف الْأَرْوَاح
 * Basque: Herio
 * Bulgarian: а́нгел на смъртта́
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:, smrťák
 * Danish: manden med leen
 * Dutch: Magere Hein, Pietje de Dood, engel des doods,
 * Esperanto: Falĉilulo, Mortulo
 * Estonian: vikatimees
 * Finnish:
 * French:, , ,
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:, άγγελος θανάτου,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:, halál angyala, a halál megszemélyesített formája
 * Icelandic: maðurinn með ljáinn, engill dauðans
 * Irish: Bás
 * Italian: Tristo Mietitore, Cupo Mietitore, Sinistro Mietitore, angelo della morte
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: ажал, өлім періштесі
 * Korean:, 저승사자
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: mannen med ljåen
 * Polish: Ponury Żniwiarz, ,
 * Portuguese: Morte, Ceifador, anjo da morte
 * Romanian: înger al morții
 * Russian:, ,  ,  , стару́ха с косо́й
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Смрт
 * Roman: Smrt
 * Silesian: śmjertka
 * Slovak: smrťka,, zubatá
 * Spanish:, (la) , Parca, Muerte, ángel del la muerte
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: Kamatayan
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:, ölüm meleği
 * Vietnamese: (死神), thần chết
 * Walloon:, ,
 * Welsh: Angau, Medelwr mawr