serial killer

English

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɪlə

Noun

serial killer (plural serial killers)

1. A person who commits multiple (more than two) murders, especially similar ones with no obvious motive over a period of time with a "cooling-off" period between each murder.

Derived terms

• serial kill
• serial killer van

Translations

person who commits multiple murders

• Afrikaans: reeksmoordenaar
• Albanian: vrasësi serik m
• Arabic: قاتل متسلسل m (qātil mutasalsil)
• Asturian: asesín en serie m, asesín serial m
• Azerbaijani: seriyalı qatil
• Basque: serieko hiltzaile
• Bulgarian: сериен убиец m (serien ubiec)
• Catalan: assassí en sèrie m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 連環殺手 / 连环杀手 (lin⁴ waan⁴ saat³ sau²)

  Mandarin: 連環殺手 / 连环杀手 (liánhuán shāshǒu)

• Czech: sériový vrah m
• Danish: seriemorder (da) c
• Dutch: seriemoordenaar (nl) m
• Esperanto: seria murdisto
• Estonian: sarimõrvar
• Finnish: sarjamurhaaja (fi)
• French: tueur en série (fr) m
• Galician: asasino en serie m, asasina en serie f
• Georgian: სერიული მკვლელი (seriuli mḳvleli)
• German: Serienmörder (de) m, Serienkiller (de) m
• Greek: σίριαλ κίλερ n (sírial kíler)
• Hebrew: רוֹצֵחַ סִדְרָתִי m (rotseakh sidrati)
• Hindi: सिलसिलेवार क़ातिल (silsilevār qātil), सिलसिलेवार हत्यारा (silsilevār hatyārā)
• Hungarian: sorozatgyilkos (hu)
• Icelandic: raðmorðingi m
• Indonesian: pembunuh berantai
• Inupiaq: iñuaqtuqti
• Italian: assassino seriale m, assassina seriale f, serial killer (it) m or f, omicida seriale m, pluriomicida (it) m or f, pluriassassino m
• Japanese: シリアルキラー (shiriaru kirā)
• Korean: 연쇄살인범 (yeonswaesarinbeom)
• Latvian: sērijveida slepkava m
• Luxembourgish: Seriemäerder m
• Macedonian: сериски убиец m (seriski ubiec)
• Malay: pembunuh bersiri
• Mongolian: цуврал алуурчин (cuvral aluurčin)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: seriemorder m

• Polish: seryjny morderca (pl) m
• Portuguese: assassino em série (pt) m, assassina em série (pt) f, serial killer (pt) m or f
• Romanian: asasin în serie m, ucigaș în serie m
• Russian: сери́йный уби́йца (ru) m (seríjnyj ubíjca)
• Serbo-Croatian: serijski ubojica m, serijska ubojica f, serijski ubojice pl
• Slovak: sériový vrah m
• Spanish: asesino en serie m, asesina en serie f, asesino serial m
• Swedish: seriemördare (sv) c
• Thai: ฆาตกรต่อเนื่อง (th) (kâat-dtà-gɔɔn-dtɔ̀ɔ-nʉ̂ʉang)
• Turkish: seri katil
• Ukrainian: серійний убивця m (serijnyj ubyvcja)
• Uzbek: serial qotil
• Welsh: llofrudd cyfresol m
• West Frisian: searjemoardner c

See also

• mass murderer

Further reading

• serial killer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English serial killer. Compare assassino seriale, which is a calque.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.rjal ˈkil.ler/, /ˈsi.rjal ˈkil.ler/
• Hyphenation: sè‧rial‧kìl‧ler

Noun

serial killer m or f by sense (invariable)

1. serial killer

   Synonym: assassino seriale

   Hypernym: pluriomicida

Related terms

• killer

Further reading

• serial killer on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English serial killer.

Noun

serial killer m or f by sense (plural serial killers)

1. serial killer (person who commits multiple murders)

   Synonym: assassino em série