passer-by

passer-by

See also: passerby

English

Alternative forms

• passerby

Etymology

passer +‎ by

Noun

passer-by (plural passers-by)

1. A person who is passing by (that is, walking past).
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 10, in The China Governess‎:

     With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which was […] in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze.

   When he tripped and fell in the street, several kind passers-by helped him up.

   Synonym: (archaic) passer

Related terms

• passer-through

Translations

a person who is passing by

Arabic: مَارّ‎ (ar) m (mārr), مَارَّة‎ f (mārra) (female passer-by or plural) Armenian: անցորդ (hy) (ancʿord), անցվոր (hy) (ancʿvor) Belarusian: прахо́жы m (praxóžy), прахо́жая f (praxóžaja), міна́к m (minák), міна́чка f (mináčka) Bulgarian: минува́ч m (minuváč), минува́чка f (minuváčka) Catalan: vianant (ca) m, passant (ca) m or f, transeünt (ca) m or f Chinese: Mandarin: 路人 (zh) (lùrén) Czech: kolemjdoucí (cs) m Danish: forbipasserende c Dutch: voorbijganger (nl), passant (nl), omstander (nl) m Estonian: mööduja Finnish: ohikulkija (fi) French: passant (fr) m, passante (fr) f Galician: transeúnte m or f Georgian: გამვლელი (gamvleli) German: Passant (de) m, Passantin (de) f Greek: διαβάτης (el) m (diavátis) Hebrew: עובר אורח \\ עוֹבֵר אֹרַח‎ m (ovér órakh) Hindi: राहगीर (hi) m (rāhgīr) Hungarian: járókelő (hu), arra menő/járó Ido: pasanto (io), pasero (io) Italian: passante (it) m or f Japanese: 通行人 (つうこうにん, tsūkōnin) Kazakh: жолаушы (kk) (jolauşy), жүргінші (jürgınşı) Korean: 통행인(通行人) (tonghaeng'in) Kyrgyz: жолоочу (ky) (jolooçu), каттоочу (kattooçu) Latvian: garāmgājējs m, garāmgājēja f Lithuanian: praeivis m Macedonian: минувач m (minuvač), минувачка f (minuvačka) Norwegian: Bokmål: forbipasserende m Nynorsk: forbipasserande Persian: رهگذر‎ (fa) (rahgozar) Polish: przechodzień (pl) m Portuguese: transeunte (pt) m or f Romanian: trecător (ro) m, trecătoare (ro) f Russian: прохо́жий (ru) m (proxóžij), прохо́жая f (proxóžaja) Scottish Gaelic: neach-dol-seachad m or f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: про́лазнӣк m, про́лазница Roman: prólaznīk (sh) m, prólaznica (sh) f Slovak: okoloidúci m Slovene: mimoidoči m, mimoidoča f Spanish: transeúnte (es) m or f, viandante m or f, paseante Swahili: mwenda Swedish: förbipasserande (sv), förbigående (sv) c Tajik: раҳгузар (rahguzar) Ukrainian: прохо́жий m (proxóžyj), прохо́жа f (proxóža), перехо́жий m (perexóžyj), перехо́жа f (perexóža) Urdu: راہگیر‎ m (rāhgīr) Uzbek: oʻtkinchi (uz), yoʻlovchi (uz)

Anagrams

• bypasser