suicide bomber

suicide bomber

English

Noun

suicide bomber (plural suicide bombers)

1. One who carries explosives on his or her body or in a vehicle and intends to detonate them (dying in the process) to kill people and inflict widespread damage, usually motivated by a political or religious cause.

Related terms

• suicide bomb
• suicide bombing

Translations

one who carries explosives

Arabic: مُهَاجِم اِنْتِحَارِيّ‎ m (muhājim intiḥāriyy), زَارِع الأَلْغَام‎ m (zāriʿ al-ʾalḡām) Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: 自殺性爆炸／自杀性爆炸 (zìshāxìng bàozhà), 自殺炸彈／自杀炸弹 (zìshā zhàdàn) Esperanto: kamikazo Finnish: itsemurhapommittaja (fi) French: kamikaze (fr) m Georgian: თვითმკვლელი ტერორისტი (tvitmḳvleli ṭerorisṭi) German: Selbstmordattentäter (de) m, Selbstmordattentäterin (de) f (literally “suicide attacker”) Hebrew: מחבל מתאבד‎ m (mekhabél mit'abéd) Hungarian: öngyilkos merénylő (hu) Indonesian: pengebom bunuh diri, pembom bunuh diri Japanese: 自爆テロ (jibaku-tero) Macedonian: бомбаш самоубиец m (bombaš samoubiec) Malay: please add this translation if you can Norwegian: Bokmål: selvmordsbomber m, sjølmordsbomber m Nynorsk: sjølvmordsbombar (nn) m Portuguese: homem-bomba m Romanian: atentator sinucigaș m, terorist sinucigaș m Russian: террори́ст-сме́ртник m (terroríst-smértnik), террори́стка-сме́ртница f (terrorístka-smértnica), сме́ртник (ru) m (smértnik), сме́ртница (ru) m (smértnica), террори́ст (ru) m (terroríst), террори́стка (ru) f (terrorístka), челове́к-бо́мба m (čelovék-bómba) Spanish: hombre bomba m, terrorista suicida m or f Swedish: självmordsbombare (sv) c Turkish: intihar bombacısı

See also

• kamikaze
• last full measure
• martyr
• seppuku
• shaheed
• terrorism