bodyguard

See also: Bodyguard

English

Etymology

body +‎ guard

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɒdiɡɑːd/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑːdiɡɑːɹd/

Noun

bodyguard (plural bodyguards)

A person or group of persons, often armed, responsible for protecting an individual.

Translations

person responsible for protecting an individual

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) (tʿiknapah)
Azerbaijani: cangüdən
Basque: bizkartzain (eu)
Belarusian: целаахо́ўнік m (cjelaaxóŭnik), ахо́ва (be) f (axóva) (group of persons), ахо́ўнік m (axóŭnik)
Bengali: মহাফেজ (bn) (môhafez), বরকন্দাজ (bn) (bôrqôndaz)
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: please add this translation if you can
Italian: guardia del corpo (it) f
Japanese: ボディーガード (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)
Lao: ອົງຄະລັກ (ʼong kha lak)
Latin: stipator m, satelles (la) m, custōs corporis m
Macedonian: телохранител m (telohranitel)
Malay: pengawal peribadi, pengawal
Malayalam: അംഗരക്ഷകൻ (ml) (aṅgarakṣakaṉ)
Maori: poutiriao
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)
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: please add this translation if you can
Uzbek: shaxsiy soqchi

Verb

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

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

bodyguard

Declension

Declension of bodyguard

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) bodyguard	bodyguardul	(niște) bodyguarzi	bodyguarzii
genitive/dative	(unui) bodyguard	bodyguardului	(unor) bodyguarzi	bodyguarzilor
vocative	bodyguardule		bodyguarzilor

Synonyms

gardă de corp
gorilă (figurative, derogatory)

References

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