traitor

Etymology
From, , , from (🇨🇬), from. Displaced native from, and 🇨🇬 and  borrowed directly from 🇨🇬. The general Old English word denoting "traitor" was or. .

Pronunciation

 * Homophone: trader (in dialects with flapping)
 * Homophone: trader (in dialects with flapping)
 * Homophone: trader (in dialects with flapping)

Noun

 * 1) Someone who violates an allegiance and betrays their country; someone guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers their country to an enemy, or yields up any fort or place entrusted to their defense, or surrenders an army or body of troops to the enemy, unless when vanquished.
 * 2) Someone who takes arms and levies war against their country; or one who aids an enemy in conquering their country.
 * 3)  One who betrays any confidence or trust.
 * 1) Someone who takes arms and levies war against their country; or one who aids an enemy in conquering their country.
 * 2)  One who betrays any confidence or trust.

Hyponyms

 * ; see also Thesaurus:informant

Translations

 * Afrikaans: verraaier
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: خَائِن, خَائِنَة, غَدَّار, غَدَّارَة
 * Aramaic: ܡܫܠܡܢܐ
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: satqın,
 * Basque: saltzaile
 * Belarusian: здра́днік, здра́дніца
 * Bengali:
 * Breton:, treitourez
 * Bulgarian:, преда́телка, , изме́нничка, изме́нница
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chechen:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Cornish: traytour, traytoures
 * Crimean Tatar:
 * Czech:, , vlastizrádce, vlastizrádkyně, velezrádce, velezrádkyně
 * Danish: forræder
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: perfidulo, perfidulino
 * Estonian: reetur, äraandja
 * Finnish: maanpetturi,
 * French: ,
 * Galician: treidor, catralvo, turdio, tredo, aleive, ransoño, suiño
 * Georgian: მოღალატე
 * German:, ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: προδότης, προδότις
 * Haitian Creole: trèt
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ग़द्दार,, ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: svikari
 * Ido:, trahizinto, , trahizemo
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: ,
 * Italian:, , , , , proditore, proditrice
 * Japanese:, , , ,
 * Kazakh: сатқын
 * Khmer: អ្នកក្បត់
 * Korean:, ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ຜູ້ທໍລະຍົດ
 * Latin: prōditor, prōditrīx, trāditor, trāditrīx,
 * Latvian: nodevējs, nodevēja
 * Lithuanian: išdavikas, išdavikė
 * Macedonian: предавник, предавничка, издајник, издајничка
 * Malay: pembelot, penderhaka, pengkhianat
 * Malayalam:
 * Maori: kaikaiwaiū
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Nepali: देशद्रोही,
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ,
 * Nynorsk: svikar,
 * Occitan:, traïdoira, , traita
 * Old English: lǣwa
 * Pashto: ,
 * Persian:
 * Iranian Persian:, , خِیانَت‌کار
 * Polish:, , , ,
 * Portuguese:, traidora
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Sanskrit:, द्रोहप्रवेशक, राजद्रोही
 * Scottish Gaelic:, * Scottish Gaelic: brathadair
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ѝзда̄јнӣк, ѝздајица, ѝзда̄јница
 * Roman:, , ìzdājnica
 * Slovak: zradca, zradkyňa
 * Slovene:, izdajalka
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tajik: хоин, хиёнаткор, хиёнатгар
 * Tamil:, தேசத்துரோகி
 * Telugu: ,
 * Thai:, ผู้ทรยศ, คนทรยศ
 * Turkish:, sadakâtsiz,
 * Turkmen: haýyn
 * Ukrainian: зра́дник, зра́дниця
 * Urdu: غَدَّار, خِیانَت گَر
 * Uyghur: خائىن, ساتقىن
 * Uzbek:, , ,
 * Vietnamese: kẻ phản bội
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh: bradwr
 * Yiddish:
 * Zazaki: xayın, ğedar

Verb

 * 1) To act the traitor toward; to betray; to deceive.

Adjective

 * 1) Traitorous.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Macedonian: преда́внички, изда́јнички
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:

Etymology
Adaptation of.

Etymology
From.