English [ edit ]
Alternative forms [ edit ]
Etymology [ edit ]
eye + witness
eyewitness (plural eyewitnesses )
Someone who sees an event and can report or testify about it. [from 16th c.]
1915 , Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan :And the girl's fate he could picture as plainly as though he were an eyewitness to it.
1960 September, “Talking of Trains: Accident at Holmes Chapel”, in Trains Illustrated , page 522 :The evidence of eyewitnesses and the distance travelled after the initial derailment confirmed that the train was travelling at 45 to 50 m.p.h. as it became derailed.
Translations [ edit ]
person who has seen and can testify about an event
Afrikaans: ooggetuie sg
Albanian: please add this translation if you can
Arabic: شاهد عيان
Armenian: ականատես (hy) ( akanates ) , վկա (hy) ( vka )
Azerbaijani: şahid (az)
Bashkir: шаһит ( şahit )
Belarusian: відавочца ( vidavóčca )
Bulgarian: очевидец (bg) m ( očevidec )
Catalan: testimoni ocular
Chinese:
Mandarin: 目擊者 / 目击者 (zh) ( mùjīzhě ) , 目擊者 / 目击者 (zh) ( mùjīzhě ) , 目擊 證人 / 目击 证人 ( mùjī zhèngrén )
Czech: očitý svědek m
Danish: øjenvidne n
Dutch: ooggetuige (nl) m
Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
Estonian: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: silminnäkijä (fi)
French: témoin oculaire (fr) m
Georgian: თვითმხილველის ( tvitmxilvelis )
German: Augenzeuge (de) m , Augenzeugin (de) f
Greek: αυτόπτης μάρτυρας (el) ( aftóptis mártyras )
Ancient: αὐτόπτης m ( autóptēs )
Hebrew: עד ראיה ( 'ad raiah )
Hindi: गवाह (hi) ( gavāh )
Hungarian: szemtanú (hu)
Indonesian: saksi mata (id)
Italian: testimone oculare
Japanese: 目撃者 (ja) , 実見者
Kazakh: көз көрген ( köz körgen ) , куә ( kuä )
Korean: 목격자 (ko) ( mokgyeokja )
Latin: arbiter (la) m , arbitra f
Latvian: aculiecinieks m
Lithuanian: liùdininkas m
Luxembourgish: Aenzeien m or f
Macedonian: оче́видец m ( očévidec )
Malayalam: ദൃക്സാക്ഷി ( dr̥ksākṣi )
Mongolian: гэрч (mn) ( gerč )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: øyenvitne n , øyevitne n
Nynorsk: augevitne n , augnevitne n
Persian: شاهد عینی
Polish: naoczny świadek m
Portuguese: testemunha ocular (pt) f
Romanian: martor ocular (ro) m
Russian: очеви́дец (ru) m ( očevídec ) , свиде́тель (ru) m ( svidételʹ )
Serbo-Croatian: očevidac (sh)
Spanish: testigo ocular (es)
Swedish: ögonvittne (sv)
Tajik: шоҳид ( šohid )
Thai: , ประจักษ์พยาน ( bprà-jàk-pá-yaan ) , สักขีพยาน ( sàk-kǐi-pá-yaan )
Turkish: görgü tanığı (tr)
Ukrainian: очеви́дець m ( očevýdecʹ ) самови́дець m ( samovýdecʹ )
Uzbek: guvoh (uz)
eyewitness (third-person singular simple present eyewitnesses , present participle eyewitnessing , simple past and past participle eyewitnessed )
To be present at an event, and see it