voyeur

voyeur

See also: Voyeur

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French voyeur, from the verb voir (“to see”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /vwɑː.ˈjɜː/ /vɔɪ.ˈjɜː/

• Audio (UK)

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• (US) IPA^(key): /vwɑ.ˈjɜɹ/ /vɔɪ.ˈjɜr/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)

Noun

voyeur (plural voyeurs)

1. A person who derives sexual pleasure from secretly observing other people, especially when such people are engaged in some sexual activity.
2. An obsessive observer of sensational or sordid subjects.

Synonyms

• inspectionist (dated)
• peeping tom

Related terms

• voyeurism
• voyeuse (voyeur who is female)
• exhibitionist

Translations

a person who derives sexual pleasure from secretly observing other people

Arabic: مُتَلَصِّص‎ m (mutalaṣṣiṣ) Bulgarian: воайор m (voajor) Chinese: Mandarin: 偷窺者／偷窥者 (tōukuīzhě), 偷窺狂／偷窥狂 (zh) (tōukuīkuáng) Finnish: tirkistelijä (fi), voyeuristi (fi) French: voyeur (fr) m German: Voyeur (de) m, Spanner (de) m, Voyeurin (de) f Greek: ηδονοβλεψίας (el) m (idonovlepsías) Italian: guardone (it) m, voyeur m or f Japanese: 出歯亀 (ja) (でばかめ, debakame, でばがめ, debagame), 覗き魔 (のぞきま, nozokima) Macedonian: воаје́р m (voajér), па́зач m (pázač) Plautdietsch: Glotzkopp m Polish: podglądacz (pl) m Portuguese: voyeur m or f Russian: вуайери́ст (ru) m (vuajeríst), вуайёр (ru) m (vuajjór), согляда́тай (ru) m (sogljadátaj), подгля́дывающий (ru) m (podgljádyvajuščij) Spanish: voyerista m or f, mirón (es) m Swedish: voyeur (sv) c, tittare (sv) c Tagalog: mamboboso (tl) Turkish: röntgenci (tr)

an obsessive observer of sensational or sordid subjects

Bulgarian: воайор m (voajor) Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Finnish: tirkistelijä (fi) Russian: please add this translation if you can

See also

• creepshot
• scopophile

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Czech

Noun

voyeur m

1. voyeur

Related terms

• See vize

Further reading

• voyeur in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
• voyeur in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Noun

voyeur m (plural voyeurs, diminutive voyeurtje n)

1. voyeur

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French

Etymology

From voir (“to see”) +‎ -eur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vwa.jœʁ/

• Audio

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Noun

voyeur m (plural voyeurs, feminine voyeuse)

1. observer; watcher
2. voyeur, peeping tom

Further reading

• “voyeur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Portuguese

Noun

voyeur m or f by sense (plural voyeurs)

1. voyeur (person who derives sexual pleasure from secretly observing others having sex)

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Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French voyeur.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /bwaˈʝeɾ/ [bwaˈʝeɾ]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /bwaˈʝeɾ/ [bwaˈʝeɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /bwaˈʃeɾ/ [bwaˈʃeɾ]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /bwaˈʒeɾ/ [bwaˈʒeɾ]

• Rhymes: -eɾ

Noun

voyeur m (plural voyeurs or voyeur)

1. voyeur

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

• “voyeur”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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Swedish

Noun

voyeur c

1. a voyeur (who derives sexual pleasure from watching other people's erotic activity)

Declension

Declension of voyeur
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	voyeur	voyeuren	voyeurer	voyeurerna
Genitive	voyeurs	voyeurens	voyeurers	voyeurernas

See also

• flukta

References

• voyeur in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• voyeur in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• voyeur in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)