suicide bomber

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsuːɪˌsaɪd ˈbɑmər/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsuːɪˌsaɪd ˈbɒmə/

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 (zāriʕ al-ʔalḡām)
• Bulgarian: камика́дзе m (kamikádze, literally “kamikaze”)
• 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
• Italian: attentatore suicida m
• 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, canlı bomba

See also

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