bodyguard

See also: Bodyguard

English

Etymology

From body +‎ guard.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɒdiɡɑːd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑːdiɡɑːɹd/

Noun

bodyguard (plural bodyguards)

1. A person or group of persons, often armed, responsible for protecting someone.

Translations

person responsible for protecting someone

• Afrikaans: lyfwag
• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: حَرَس خَاصّ m (ḥaras ḵāṣṣ), حَرَس m (ḥaras), حَارِس m (ḥāris), حَارِس شَخْصِيّ m (ḥāris šaḵṣiyy)
• Armenian: թիկնապահ (hy) (tʻiknapah)
• Azerbaijani: cangüdən
• Basque: bizkartzain (eu)
• Belarusian: целаахо́ўнік m (cjelaaxóŭnik), ахо́ва (be) f (axóva) (group of persons), ахо́ўнік m (axóŭnik)
• Bengali: দেহরক্ষী (bn) (dehorokkhi) বরকন্দাজ (bn) (borkondaj), মহাফেজ (bn) (mohaphej)
• Bulgarian: телохрани́тел (bg) m (telohranítel), бодига́рд m (bodigárd)
• Burmese: သက်တော်စောင့် (my) (saktaucaung.)
• Catalan: guardaespatlles (ca) m or f
• Chamorro: a'adahi
• Cherokee: ᎠᏓᎦᏘᏯ (adagatiya)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 保鏢 / 保镖 (bou² biu¹), 護衛 / 护卫 (wu⁶ wai⁶)

  Mandarin: 保鏢 / 保镖 (zh) (bǎobiāo), 護衛 / 护卫 (zh) (hùwèi), 衛士 / 卫士 (zh) (wèishì)

• Czech: tělesná stráž f, bodyguard (cs) m, osobní strážce m
• Danish: livvagt (da) c
• Dutch: lijfwacht (nl), lijfgarde (nl), persoonsbeveiliger, bodyguard (nl) m
• Esperanto: korpogardisto, kapogardisto sg
• Estonian: turvamees, ihukaitsja
• Faroese: lívverji m
• Finnish: turvamies (fi), henkivartija (fi)
• French: garde du corps (fr) m
• Galician: gardacostas (gl) m
• Georgian: მცველი (mcveli), პირადი მცველი (ṗiradi mcveli)
• German: Leibwächter (de) m, Bodyguard (de) m, Personenschützer (de) m
• Greek: σωματοφύλακας (el) m (somatofýlakas)

  Ancient: σωματοφύλαξ m (sōmatophúlax), δορύφορος m (dorúphoros)

• Hebrew: שׁוֹמֵר רֹאשׁ (he) m (shomér rósh), שׁוֹמֶרֶת רֹאשׁ f (shomeret rosh)
• Hindi: अंगरक्षक (hi) m (aṅgrakṣak), बॉडीगार्ड m (bŏḍīgārḍ)
• Hungarian: testőr (hu)
• Ido: korpogardisto (io)
• Irish: garda cosanta m
• Italian: guardia del corpo (it) f
• Japanese: ボディーガード (ja) (bodīgādo), 侍衛 (ja) (じえい, jiei), 親衛兵 (しんえいへい, shin'eihei), 用心棒 (ja) (ようじんぼう, yōjinbō), 警護 (ja) (けいご, keigo), 保鏢 (ほひょう, hohyō), 衛士 (えじ, eji)
• Karelian: henkivarteiččija
• Khmer: អង្គរក្ស (km) (ʼɑngkĕəʼrĕək)
• Korean: 보디가드 (ko) (bodigadeu), 경호원(警護員) (ko) (gyeonghowon), 호위무사(護衛武士) (howimusa)
• Lao: ອົງຄະລັກ (ʼong kha lak)
• Latin: stipator m, satelles (la) m, custōs corporis m
• Latvian: miesassargs m, miesassardze f
• Macedonian: телохранител m (telohranitel), гаваз m (gavaz) (archaic)
• Malay: pengawal peribadi, pengawal
• Malayalam: അംഗരക്ഷകൻ (ml) (aṅgarakṣakaṉ)
• Maori: poutiriao
• Marathi: अंगरक्षक m (aṅgrakṣak), बॉडीगार्ड m (bŏḍīgārḍa)
• Navajo: aa áhályáanii
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: livvakt m or f

  Nynorsk: livvakt f

• Persian: محافظ شخصی (mohâfez-e šaxsi), محافظ (fa) (mohâfez)
• Polish: (person) ochroniarz (pl) m, (group of persons) ochrona (pl) f
• Portuguese: guarda-costas (pt) m
• Romanian: gardă de corp f, bodyguard (ro) m, gardă personală (ro) f
• Russian: телохрани́тель (ru) m (teloxranítelʹ), охра́нник (ru) m (oxránnik), охра́на (ru) f (oxrána) (group of persons)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: телохранитељ m, тјелохранитељ m

  Roman: telohranitelj m, tjelohranitelj (sh) m

• Slovak: osobný strážca m, bodyguard m
• Slovene: telesni stražar m, stražar m
• Spanish: escolta (es) m or f, guardaespaldas (es) m or f, espaldero m (Dominican Republic, Venezuela), patovica (es) m (River Plate)
• Swedish: livvakt (sv) c
• Tajik: муҳофиз (muhofiz)
• Telugu: అంగరక్షకుడు (te) (aṅgarakṣakuḍu)
• Thai: องครักษ์ (th) (ong-ká-rák)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: özlük muhafızı, koruma (tr)
• Ukrainian: тілоохоро́нець m (tilooxorónecʹ), охоро́на (uk) f (oxoróna) (group of persons), охоро́нець m (oxorónecʹ)
• Urdu: محافظ m (muhāfiz), باڈی گارڈ m (bāḍī gārḍ)
• Uyghur: ياساۋۇل (yasawul), مۇھاپىزەتچى (muhapizetchi), نەۋكەر (newker) (obsolete)
• Uzbek: shaxsiy soqchi
• Vietnamese: vệ sĩ (vi)
• Welsh: gwarchodwr (cy) m, gwarchodwr corff m

Verb

bodyguard (third-person singular simple present bodyguards, present participle bodyguarding, simple past and past participle bodyguarded)

1. (transitive) To act as bodyguard for (someone); figuratively, to protect.
   • 2005 March 7, Christopher Hitchens, ‘Burned Out’, Slate:

     The same report, on a news page and not bodyguarded by any news analysis warning, goes on to say that repeated discoveries of cheating and covert activity mean that the credibility of Iran has been harmed.

Romanian

Alternative forms

• bodigard

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English bodyguard.

Noun

bodyguard m (plural bodyguarzi)

1. bodyguard

   Synonym: gardă de corp

Declension

Declension of bodyguard

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	bodyguard	bodyguardul		bodyguarzi	bodyguarzii
genitive-dative	bodyguard	bodyguardului		bodyguarzi	bodyguarzilor
vocative	bodyguardule			bodyguarzilor

Synonyms

• gorilă (figurative, derogatory)

References

• bodyguard in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)