culprit

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• /ˈkʌlpɹɪt/
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From Anglo-Norman cul. prit, contraction of culpable: prest (d'averrer nostre bille) 'guilty: ready (to prove our case)', words used by prosecutor in opening a trial, mistaken in English for an address to the defendant. See culpable. It may have been influenced by Latin culpa (“blame, fault”).

82 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: مُجْرِم (mujrim) — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Arabic: جَانِي (jānī) — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Azerbaijani: günahkar — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Azerbaijani: müqəssir — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Azerbaijani: təqsirkar — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Basque: errudun — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Bulgarian: обвиняем (obvinjaem) — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Bulgarian: подсъдим (podsǎdim) — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Catalan: culpable — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Chinese Mandarin: 元凶 (yuánxiōng) — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Chinese Mandarin: 肇事者 (zhàoshìzhě) — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Chinese Mandarin: 肇因 (zhàoyīn) — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Czech: viník — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Dutch: schuldige — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Dutch: dader — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Esperanto: krimulo — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Finnish: syyllinen — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Finnish: syypää — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• French: coupable — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• German: Beschuldigter — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• German: Missetäter — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• German: Schuldiger — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• German: Täter — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• German: Übeltäter — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• German: Beklagter — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Greek: ένοχος (énochos) — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Greek: φταίχτης (ftaíchtis) — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Hebrew: אשם (ashém) — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Hungarian: bűnös — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Hungarian: tettes — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Hungarian: elkövető — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Indonesian: pembuat ulah — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Indonesian: pelaku — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Irish: ciontach — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Italian: colpevole — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Italian: reo — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Japanese: 犯人 (hannin) — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Korean: 범인 (beomin) — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Latin: reus — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Latin: nocens — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Latin: noxius — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Latvian: vaininieks — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Latvian: vaininiece — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Macedonian: ви́новник (vínovnik) — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Macedonian: кри́вец (krívec) — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Malayalam: കുറ്റവാളി (kuṟṟavāḷi) — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Norwegian Bokmål: synder — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Old Church Slavonic: виньникъ (vinĭnikŭ) — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Polish: delikwent — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Polish: delikwentka — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Polish: winowajca — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Polish: winowajczyni — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Polish: sprawca — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Polish: sprawczyni — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Portuguese: culpado — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Russian: вино́вник (vinóvnik) — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Russian: обвиня́емый (obvinjájemyj) — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Russian: подсуди́мый (podsudímyj) — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Serbo-Croatian: krivac — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Serbo-Croatian: vinovnik — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Spanish: culpable — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Spanish: nocente — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Swahili: mkosaji — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Swedish: brottsling — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Swedish: förövare — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Swedish: gärningsman — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Thai: คนร้าย (kon-ráai) — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Thai: ผู้ร้าย (pûu-ráai) — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Turkish: mücrim — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Turkish: suçlu — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Turkish: zanlı — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Turkish: hükümlü — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Turkish: sanık — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Vietnamese: thủ phạm — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Walloon: coupåbe — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Welsh: euog — person or thing at fault of problem or crime
• Arabic: مُتَّهَم (muttaham) — person accused but not yet tried
• Hungarian: vádlott — person accused but not yet tried
• Polish: podejrzany — person accused but not yet tried
• Polish: podejrzana — person accused but not yet tried
• Russian: подозреваемый (podozrevajemyj) — person accused but not yet tried
• Russian: подследственный (podsledstvennyj) — person accused but not yet tried