deserter

See also: déserter

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin desertor (“deserter”), from desero (“I forsake, I abandon”); or from desert +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈzɜːtə(ɹ)/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

deserter (plural deserters)

1. (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
   1. Under the United States Code of Military Justice, a person who has been placed on AWOL status for more than 30 days

Derived terms

• antideserter
• desertress

Related terms

• desert (verb)

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

deserter

1. imperative of desertere