zombie

Etymology
. From a language. Compare 🇨🇬,, and 🇨🇬 (see 🇨🇬), and Caribbean folklore's. Origin from  has also been suggested. May have come through 🇨🇬. See also 🇨🇬 (1832).

Noun

 * 1)  A person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces (such as magic), with no soul or will of his or her own.
 * 2)  An apathetic or slow-witted person.
 * 3)  A human being in a state of extreme mental exhaustion.
 * 4) An information worker who has signed a nondisclosure agreement.
 * 5)  A process or task which has terminated but has not been removed from the list of processes, typically because it has an unresponsive parent process.
 * 6) * 1986, Maurice J. Bach, The Design of the Unix Operating System, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA, See "Process States and Transitions," p. 147.
 * 9. The process executed the exit system call and is in the zombie state. The process no longer exists, but it leaves a record containing an exit code and some timing statistics for its parent process to collect.  The zombie state is the final state of a process.
 * 1)  A computer affected by malware which causes it to do whatever the attacker wants it to do without the user's knowledge.
 * 2) A cocktail of rum and fruit juices.
 * 3) * 1976,  CX:ii, pages 8 and 380:
 * The maitre d’ introduced us and I had a zombie with him. Those zombies are wicked.
 * I watched Mario and drank zombies out of a thermos.
 * 1)  A conscripted member of the Canadian military during World War II who was assigned to home defence rather than to combat in Europe.
 * 2) * 1944, "Time for Decision," Time (US edition), 6 Nov.,
 * Had the time come to order Canada's home defense draftees—some 70,000 zombies idling at home—to battle overseas?
 * 1)  Marijuana, or similar drugs.
 * 2)  A hypothetical being that is indistinguishable from a normal human being except in that it lacks conscious experience, qualia, or sentience.
 * 1) * 1976,  CX:ii, pages 8 and 380:
 * The maitre d’ introduced us and I had a zombie with him. Those zombies are wicked.
 * I watched Mario and drank zombies out of a thermos.
 * 1)  A conscripted member of the Canadian military during World War II who was assigned to home defence rather than to combat in Europe.
 * 2) * 1944, "Time for Decision," Time (US edition), 6 Nov.,
 * Had the time come to order Canada's home defense draftees—some 70,000 zombies idling at home—to battle overseas?
 * 1)  Marijuana, or similar drugs.
 * 2)  A hypothetical being that is indistinguishable from a normal human being except in that it lacks conscious experience, qualia, or sentience.
 * 1)  A hypothetical being that is indistinguishable from a normal human being except in that it lacks conscious experience, qualia, or sentience.
 * 1)  A hypothetical being that is indistinguishable from a normal human being except in that it lacks conscious experience, qualia, or sentience.
 * 1)  A hypothetical being that is indistinguishable from a normal human being except in that it lacks conscious experience, qualia, or sentience.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: zombie
 * Arabic: زُومْبِيالمَيِّتُ الحَيّ
 * Hijazi Arabic: زومبي
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: zonbi
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: zombi
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: or, 喪屍
 * Cornish: zombi
 * Czech:, zombík
 * Danish: zombie
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: zombio, sorĉkadavro
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ზომბი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: זוֹמְבִּי
 * Hindi: ज़ोंबी, ज़ोम्बी, जोंबी, जोम्बी, जॉम्बी, ज़ॉम्बी
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: uppvakningur
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: zombaí
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: زۆمبی
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Lithuanian: zombis
 * Macedonian: зо́мби
 * Malay: zombi
 * Maori: poheraka
 * Marathi: जॉम्बी
 * Navajo: daaztsánée yigáłígíí
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Persian: زنده لاش, زامبی
 * Polish:, , zombiak
 * Portuguese: morto-vivo, ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: zombia, zombi, zombie
 * Sotho: sethotsela
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:, ซอมบี
 * Tibetan: རོ་ལངས
 * Turkish: ,
 * Urdu: زمبی, زندہ لاش
 * Vietnamese: zom-bi, zom-by,
 * Welsh: sombi

Declension
when masculine:

when feminine:

when neuter:

Etymology
Borrowed from, from a Bantu language.

Derived terms

 * compounds

Etymology
From a language, via.

Noun

 * a

Noun

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Etymology
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Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  the undead

Etymology
Ultimately, from a language.

Usage notes
May also be indeclineable.

Etymology
Borrowed from, from a language.