plaintiff

Etymology
From, from , from from the verb. .

Noun

 * 1)  A party bringing a suit in civil law against a defendant; accuser.

Usage notes
Plaintiff is used in civil law, and should not be confused with, the alleged victim in a criminal prosecution (who is not a party to the legal proceeding).

Derived terms

 * plaintiff in error

Translations

 * Albanian:, paditëse
 * Arabic: مُدَّعٍ,  الْمُدَّعِي
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: ісце́ц, iсьце́ц
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:, тъжи́телка, , ищца́
 * Burmese:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 原告
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: žalobce, žalobkyně
 * Danish: sagsøger
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: plendanto
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: stevnandi
 * Finnish:
 * French:, , ,
 * Georgian: მოსარჩელე
 * German: ,
 * Hebrew: תּוֹבֵעַ,
 * Hindi:, ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: stefnandi
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: demandator
 * Irish: éilitheoir, gearánaí
 * Italian:, parte civile, ,
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: қуынушы, талапкер, даулаушы
 * Khmer: ,
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:, , ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ໂຈດ, ສະກະວາທີ
 * Latin: petītor, petītrix
 * Latvian: prasītājs, prasītāja
 * Lithuanian: ieškovas, ieškovė
 * Macedonian: тужител, тужителка, жалител, жалителка
 * Malay: plaintif
 * Malayalam:
 * Manchu: ᡥᠠᠪᡧᠠᡥᠠ ᠨᡳᠶ᠋ᠠᠯᠮᠠ
 * Maori: kaiwhakapae
 * Middle English: actour
 * Mongolian:
 * Classical Mongolian: ᠵᠠᠭᠠᠯᠳᠤᠭᠰᠠᠨ ᠬᠦ᠋ᠮᠦᠨ
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠵᠠᠭ᠋ᠠᠯᠳ᠋ᠤᠭᠴᠢ
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: saksøker
 * Nynorsk: saksøkjar
 * Pashto: مدعي, شاکي, دعوا لرونکی
 * Persian:, , دعویٰ گر, دعویٰ دار,
 * Polish:, powódka
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: жа̀лилац
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: žalobca, žalobkyňa
 * Slovene: tožnik, tožnica
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: nagsasakdal
 * Tajik: даъвогар, муддаӣ
 * Tatar:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: позива́ч, пози́вач, позива́чка, пози́вачка
 * Urdu: مُدَّعِی
 * Uzbek: daʻvogar
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Welsh: achwynydd, achwynwr
 * Yakut: үҥээччи