debtor

English

Alternative forms

• debtour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English dettour, from Old French detour, from Latin debitor, equivalent to debt +‎ -or. Doublet of debitor. Displaced native Old English *sċola.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛt.ə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛt.ɚ/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈdet.ə/
• Rhymes: -ɛtə, -ɛtə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: debt‧or

Noun

debtor (plural debtors)

2. (economics) A person or firm that owes money; one in debt; one who owes a debt.

   Antonym: creditor

3. (law) One who owes another anything, or is under obligation, arising from express agreement, implication of law, or principles of natural justice, to pay money or to fulfill some other obligation; in bankruptcy or similar proceedings, the person who is the subject of the proceeding.

Derived terms

• codebtor
• debtor in possession
• debtorship
• homedebtor
• nondebtor
• zombie debtor

Translations

a person or firm that owes money

• Arabic: مَدِين m (madīn)

  Egyptian Arabic: مديون m (madyūn)

• Armenian: պարտապան (hy) (partapan)
• Asturian: deudor m, deudora f
• Belarusian: даўжні́к m (daŭžník), даўжні́ца f (daŭžníca)
• Bulgarian: длъжни́к (bg) m (dlǎžník), длъжни́ца f (dlǎžníca), длъжни́чка f (dlǎžníčka)
• Catalan: deutor (ca) m, deutora (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 債務人 / 债务人 (zh) (zhàiwùrén), 欠債人 / 欠债人 (qiànzhàirén), 借方 (zh) (jièfāng)

• Czech: dlužník (cs) m, dlužnice f
• Dalmatian: debituar m
• Danish: debitor c, skyldner c
• Dutch: debiteur (nl) m, debitrice (nl) f, schuldenaar (nl) m
• Esperanto: ŝuldanto
• Estonian: võlglane, võlgnik (et)
• Finnish: velallinen (fi), luotonottaja, luotonsaaja
• French: débiteur (fr) m, débitrice (fr) f
• Georgian: მევალე (mevale)
• German: Schuldner (de) m, Schuldnerin (de) f
• Gothic: 𐍃𐌺𐌿𐌻𐌰 m (skula)
• Greek: οφειλέτης (el) m (ofeilétis), οφειλέτρια (el) f (ofeilétria)

  Ancient: ὀφειλέτης m (opheilétēs), χρεωφειλέτης m (khreōpheilétēs)

• Hebrew: חייב / חַיָּב (he) m (khayav), חייבת \ חַיֶּבֶת f (khayevet)
• Hindi: ऋणी (hi) m (ŕṇī), क़र्ज़दार m (qarzadār), धर्ता (hi) m (dhartā), अधमर्ण (hi) m (adhmarṇ)
• Hungarian: adós (hu)
• Icelandic: skuldari m, skuldunautur m
• Italian: debitore (it) m, debitrice (it) f
• Japanese: 債務者 (ja) (さいむしゃ, saimusha), 借方 (ja) (かりかた, karikata)
• Korean: 채무자(債務者) (chaemuja)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: قەرزار (qerzar)

• Latin: dēbitor m, dēbitrix f
• Latvian: parādnieks m, parādniece f
• Lithuanian: skolininkas (lt) m
• Macedonian: должник m (dolžnik), должничка f (dolžnička)
• Maori: kaiwhakatārewa, tangata noho nama, kaitangonama
• Norman: detteur m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: debitor m, skyldner m

  Nynorsk: debitor m, skuldnar m, skyldnar m

• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: длъжьникъ m (dlŭžĭnikŭ)

• Old English: *sċola m
• Plautdietsch: Schildna m
• Polish: dłużnik (pl) m, dłużniczka (pl) f
• Portuguese: devedor (pt) m, devedora f
• Romanian: debitor (ro) m, debitoare (ro) f
• Russian: должни́к (ru) m (dolžník), должни́ца (ru) f (dolžníca), дебито́р (ru) m (debitór)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ду̀жнӣк m, ду̀жница f

  Roman: dùžnīk (sh) m, dùžnica (sh) f

• Slovak: dlžník m, dlžníčka f
• Slovene: dolžnik m, dolžnica f
• Spanish: deudor (es) m, deudora (es) f
• Swahili: mdeni class 1/2
• Swedish: gäldenär (sv) c
• Thai: ลูกหนี้ (th) (lûuk-nîi)
• Ukrainian: боржни́к (uk) m (boržnýk), боржни́ця f (boržnýcja)
• Vietnamese: chủ nợ

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