English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin desertor (“deserter”), from desero (“I forsake, I abandon”); or from desert + -er.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /dɪˈzɜːtə(ɹ)/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈdəzɚtɚ/
Noun
deserter (plural deserters)
- (military) A person who has physically removed him- or herself from the control or direction of a military or naval unit with the intention of permanently leaving
- Under the United States Code of Military Justice, a person who has been placed on AWOL status for more than 30 days
- One who is familiar with the desert climate and environment.
Derived terms
English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ser- (4 c, 0 e)
Translations
person who leaves a military or naval unit
- Albanian: dezertor (sq) m
- Arabic: هَارِب m (hārib)
- Armenian: դասալիք (hy) (dasalikʻ)
- Azerbaijani: fərari (az), dezertir
- Belarusian: дэзерці́р m (dezjercír), дэзэрты́р m (dezertýr)
- Bulgarian: дезертьо́р (bg) m (dezertjór)
- Burmese: တပ်ပြေး (my) (tappre:)
- Catalan: desertor (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 逃兵 (zh) (táobīng)
- Czech: dezertér (cs) m, dezertérka f, zběh (cs) m
- Danish: desertør (da) c
- Dutch: deserteur (nl) m
- Estonian: desertöör
- Finnish: karkuri (fi), rintamakarkuri (fi), sotilaskarkuri (fi), desertööri (obsolete)
- French: déserteur (fr) m, déserteuse (fr) f
- Georgian: დეზერტირი (dezerṭiri)
- German: Deserteur (de) m, Fahnenflüchtiger m
- Greek: λιποτάκτης (el) m (lipotáktis)
- Ancient: αὐτόμολος m (autómolos), ἀποστάτης m (apostátēs)
- Hebrew: עָרִיק (he) m (arík)
- Hindi: भागू (hi) m (bhāgū), भग्गू (hi) m (bhaggū), पलायक (hi) m (palāyak)
- Hungarian: dezertőr (hu), szökevény (hu)
- Indonesian: desertir (id)
- Italian: disertore (it) m, disertrice f
- Japanese: 脱走兵 (ja) (だっそうへい, dassōhei)
- Kazakh: дезертир (dezertir), қашқын (qaşqyn)
- Khmer: ទាហានរត់ (tiəhiən rŭət), ទាហានរមត់ (tiəhiən rɔmŭət), អ្នករមត់ (nĕək rɔmŭət)
- Korean: 탈영병(脫營兵) (ko) (taryeongbyeong), 탈주병(脫走兵) (ko) (taljubyeong), 탈주자(脫走者) (taljuja), 탈영자(脫營者) (ko) (taryeongja), 변절자(變節者) (ko) (byeonjeolja)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: revok (ku)
- Kyrgyz: дезертир (ky) (dezertir), качкын (ky) (kackın)
- Latin: dēsertor m
- Latvian: dezertieris m
- Lithuanian: dezertyras m
- Macedonian: дезерте́р m (dezertér)
- Malay: pembolos
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: desertør m
- Nynorsk: desertør m
- Ottoman Turkish: قاچاق (kaçak)
- Pashto: پراري m (parārī), ښکری m (x̌karay)
- Persian: فراری (fa) (farâri)
- Polish: dezerter (pl) m, dezerterka (pl) f
- Portuguese: desertor (pt) m
- Romanian: dezertor (ro) m
- Russian: дезерти́р (ru) m (dezertír)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: дезѐрте̄р m
- Roman: dezèrtēr (sh) m
- Slovak: dezertér m, dezertérka f, zbeh m
- Slovene: dezerter (sl) m
- Spanish: desertor (es) m, golondrino (es) m
- Swedish: desertör (sv) c
- Tajik: фирорӣ (firori), гуреза (gureza)
- Thai: ผู้ละทิ้ง (pûu-lá-tíng)
- Turkish: asker kaçağı (tr), firari (tr)
- Ukrainian: дезерти́р m (dezertýr)
- Uzbek: dezertir (uz), qochoq (uz)
- Vietnamese: kẻ đào ngũ
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Verb
deserter
- imperative of desertere