murder

Etymology
From, , , alteration of earlier (see ), from  and 🇨🇬, both from , from , from , from , ,. Akin to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and.

The -d- in the 🇨🇬 form may have been influenced in part by 🇨🇬, from 🇨🇬, from 🇨🇬 (whence the English ), from 🇨🇬,, from the same root, though this may also have been wholly the result of internal development (compare , from ).

Attested at least since 1475.

Noun

 * 1)  The crime of killing a person unlawfully, especially with predetermination.
 * 2)  The act of committing or abetting a crime that results in the killing of a person, regardless of intent, and even if the committer or abettor is not the one who killed the person: felony murder.
 * 3)  The act of killing a person (or sometimes another being) unlawfully, especially with predetermination
 * 4)  Something terrible to endure.
 * 5)  A group of crows;
 * 6)  Something remarkable or impressive.
 * 1)  The act of killing a person (or sometimes another being) unlawfully, especially with predetermination
 * 2)  Something terrible to endure.
 * 3)  A group of crows;
 * 4)  Something remarkable or impressive.
 * 1)  Something terrible to endure.
 * 2)  A group of crows;
 * 3)  Something remarkable or impressive.
 * 1)  Something terrible to endure.
 * 2)  A group of crows;
 * 3)  Something remarkable or impressive.
 * 1)  Something remarkable or impressive.
 * 1)  Something remarkable or impressive.
 * 1)  Something remarkable or impressive.

Collocations

 * Adjectives often applied to “murder”: atrocious, attempted, brutal, cold-blooded, double, heinous, horrible, premeditated, triple, terrible, unsolved.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: asesinatu
 * Azerbaijani:, öldürmə
 * Basque: erailketa
 * Belarusian:
 * Bengali: খূন
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 殺人, 謀殺
 * Hokkien: ,
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:, roim
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Old French: murtre
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: მკვლელობა
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐌼𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌸𐍂
 * Greek:, ,
 * Ancient: φόνος
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ख़ून, क़त्ल, ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Kabyle: timenɣiwt
 * Kazakh:, кісі өлтіру
 * Khmer:, ការឃាត, ការគុត
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: کوشتن
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: адам өлтүрүү,
 * Lao:
 * Latin: interfectiō, homicīdium,
 * Latvian: slepkavība
 * Lithuanian: nužudymas, žmogžudystė
 * Macedonian: убиство
 * Malagasy:
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: ,
 * Maori: kōhuru
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Norman: meurtre
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: mord
 * Ojibwe: nitaagewin
 * Old Church Slavonic: оубииство
 * Old English: mansliht, sleġe
 * Pashto:, وژنه
 * Persian:, ,
 * Plautdietsch: Mort
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: mort, murt
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: уби́ство, у̀бо̄јство, умо́рство
 * Roman:, ,
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: pagpatay
 * Tajik: қатл, одамкушӣ,
 * Tamil:
 * Tarifit: tamenɣiwt
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Tocharian B: kāwälñe
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: уби́вство, вби́вство
 * Urdu: قتل
 * Uyghur: قاتىللىق
 * Uzbek:, qatl etish
 * Vietnamese:, vụ giết người, , vụ ám sát
 * Welsh:
 * Xhosa: ukubulala
 * Yiddish: מאָרד
 * Yoruba: ìpànìyàn
 * Zulu: ukubulala


 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic: قَتْلٌ عَمْدٌ
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:, öldürmə
 * Belarusian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 謀殺
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:, roim
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: მკვლელობა
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐌼𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌸𐍂
 * Greek:, ,
 * Ancient: φόνος
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean:, , 모살(謀殺)
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: کوشتن
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Latin: interfeciō, homicīdium
 * Latvian: slepkavība
 * Lithuanian: nužudymas
 * Macedonian: убиство
 * Malagasy:
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam:
 * Norman: meurtre
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: mord
 * Ojibwe: nitaagewin
 * Old English: mansliht, sleġe
 * Plautdietsch: Mort
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: mort, murt
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: уби́ство, у̀бо̄јство, умо́рство
 * Roman:, ,
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: pagpatay
 * Tamil:
 * Tarifit: tamenɣiwt
 * Telugu:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: уби́вство, вби́вство
 * Vietnamese: (tội) giết người, (tội) ám sát


 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Portuguese:
 * Slovak:


 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * Hebrew: להקת עורבים
 * Portuguese:
 * Serbo-Croatian: vrane
 * Swedish:


 * Albanian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Esperanto:
 * Georgian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Romanian:
 * Swahili:
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Uyghur:
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish:

Verb

 * 1) To illegally kill  with intent, especially with predetermination
 * 2)  To defeat decisively.
 * 3)  To kick someone's ass or chew someone out (used to express one’s anger at somebody).
 * 4) To botch or mangle.
 * 5)  To devour, ravish.
 * 1)  To kick someone's ass or chew someone out (used to express one’s anger at somebody).
 * 2) To botch or mangle.
 * 3)  To devour, ravish.
 * 1)  To devour, ravish.
 * 1)  To devour, ravish.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: ,
 * Bengali: কতল করা
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 殺害, 謀殺, 殺人
 * Hokkien: 殺害,, , 刣人
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:, , roimama
 * Finnish:
 * French:,  ,
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐌳𐌰𐌿𐌸𐌾𐌰𐌽
 * Greek:, ,
 * Ancient: φονεύω
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ingrian: murhata
 * Irish: dúnmharaigh
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 殺害する
 * Kabyle: enɣ
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: کوشت
 * Lao:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: noslepkavot, slepkavot
 * Maori: kōhuru, whakatoke, tōwhare
 * Norman: assâsinner
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: myrde
 * Nynorsk: myrde
 * Occitan:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: mort, murt
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: убити, умо̀рити
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: vraždiť, zavraždiť
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: ཀྲོངས, ལྐོག་གསོད་གཏོང་བ, ལྐོག་གསོད་བཏང་བ
 * Tok Pisin: kilim
 * Turkish: ,
 * Vietnamese:, ,
 * Welsh: ,
 * Wiradjuri: baluubuunil


 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: de grond in boren
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Icelandic: rústa
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian: ta knekken på
 * Portuguese:, , , acabar com,
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish:,  , ,


 * Czech:
 * Danish:, slå ihjel
 * Dutch:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: הביע כעס,
 * Japanese:
 * Lithuanian: užmušti
 * Norwegian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: ,
 * Swedish:


 * Czech: sprovodit ze světa
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Hebrew:
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:, meterse entre pecho y espalda
 * Swedish:

Etymology
From, from , , , alteration of earlier  (see ), from  and 🇨🇬, both from , from , from , ,.

Verb

 * 1) to ; to deliberately kill
 * 2)  to mispronounce or misspell a person's name

Noun

 * 1) an act of deliberate killing of another being, especially a human
 * 2) the crime of deliberate killing of another human