deserter

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• US: /ˈdəzɚtɚ/
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Borrowed from Latin desertor (“deserter”), from desero (“to forsake, to abandon”); or from desert + -er.

87 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: dezertor — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Arabic: هَارِب (hārib) — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Aramaic: ܕܝܼܣܸܪܛܘܿܪܵܐ (dīserṭōrā) — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Armenian: դասալիք (dasalikʻ) — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Azerbaijani: fərari — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Azerbaijani: dezertir — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Belarusian: дэзерці́р (dezjercír) — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Belarusian: дэзэрты́р (dezertýr) — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Bulgarian: дезертьо́р (dezertjór) — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Burmese: တပ်ပြေး (tappre:) — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Catalan: desertor — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Chinese Mandarin: 逃兵 (táobīng) — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Czech: dezertér — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Czech: dezertérka — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Czech: zběh — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Danish: desertør — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Dutch: deserteur — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Estonian: desertöör — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Finnish: karkuri — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Finnish: rintamakarkuri — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Finnish: sotilaskarkuri — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Finnish: desertööri — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• French: déserteur — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• French: déserteuse — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Georgian: დეზერტირი (dezerṭiri) — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• German: Deserteur — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• German: Fahnenflüchtiger — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Greek: λιποτάκτης (lipotáktis) — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Ancient Greek: αὐτόμολος (autómolos) — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Ancient Greek: ἀποστάτης (apostátēs) — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Hebrew: עָרִיק (arík) — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Hindi: भागू (bhāgū) — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Hindi: भग्गू (bhaggū) — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Hindi: पलायक (palāyak) — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Hungarian: dezertőr — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Hungarian: szökevény — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Indonesian: desertir — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Italian: disertore — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Italian: disertrice — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Japanese: 脱走兵 (dassōhei) — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Kazakh: дезертир (dezertir) — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Kazakh: қашқын (qaşqyn) — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Khmer: ទាហានរត់ (tiəhiən rŭət) — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Khmer: ទាហានរមត់ (tiəhiən rɔɔrɔmŭət) — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Khmer: អ្នករមត់ (nĕək rɔɔrɔmŭət) — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Korean: 탈영병 (taryeongbyeong) — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Korean: 탈주병 (taljubyeong) — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Korean: 탈주자 (taljuja) — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Korean: 탈영자 (taryeongja) — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Korean: 변절자 (byeonjeolja) — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Northern Kurdish: revok — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Kyrgyz: дезертир (dezertir) — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Kyrgyz: качкын (kackın) — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Latin: dēsertor — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Latvian: dezertieris — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Lithuanian: dezertyras — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Macedonian: дезерте́р (dezertér) — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Malay: pembolos — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Norwegian Bokmål: desertør — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Norwegian Nynorsk: desertør — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Pashto: پراري (parārī) — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Pashto: ښکری (x̌karay) — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Persian: فراری (farâri) — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Polish: dezerter — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Polish: dezerterka — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Portuguese: desertor — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Romanian: dezertor — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Russian: дезерти́р (dezertír) — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Serbo-Croatian: дезѐрте̄р — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Serbo-Croatian: dezèrtēr — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Slovak: dezertér — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Slovak: dezertérka — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Slovak: zbeh — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Slovene: dezerter — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Spanish: desertor — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Spanish: golondrino — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Swedish: desertör — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Tajik: фирорӣ (firori) — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Tajik: гуреза (gureza) — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Thai: ผู้ละทิ้ง (pûu-lá-tíng) — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Turkish: asker kaçağı — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Turkish: firari — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Ottoman Turkish: قاچاق (kaçak) — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Ukrainian: дезерти́р (dezertýr) — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Uzbek: dezertir — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Uzbek: qochoq — person who leaves a military or naval unit
• Vietnamese: kẻ đào ngũ — person who leaves a military or naval unit