peacemaker

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• /ˈpiːsmeɪkə(ɹ)/
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Compound of peace + maker. First attested in the Tyndale Bible from 1526, as a translation of Koine Greek εἰρηνοποιοί (eirēnopoioí, “peacemaker”), a hapax legomenon found in the New Testament. (The Wycliffe Bible from 1395 instead uses "pesible men", to translate Latin pacifici from the Vulgate)

Proprialisation of peacemaker.

67 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: صانِعُ ٱلسَّلام (ṣāniʕu s-salām) — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Arabic: مُصْلِح (muṣliḥ) — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Armenian: խաղաղարար (xaġaġarar) — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Basque: bakegile — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Belarusian: міратво́рац (miratvórac) — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Bulgarian: миротво́рец (mirotvórec) — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Bulgarian: помири́тел (pomirítel) — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Bulgarian: помири́телка (pomirítelka) — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Carpathian Rusyn: миротворец (myrotvorec) — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Chinese Cantonese: 和事佬 (wo4 si6 lou2) — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Chinese Mandarin: 和事佬 (héshìlǎo) — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Chinese Mandarin: 仲裁人 (zhòngcáirén) — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Crimean Tatar: barıştırıcı — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Czech: mírotvorce — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Czech: mírotvorkyně — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Czech: mírotvůrce — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Czech: mírotvůrkyně — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Czech: usmiřovatel — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Czech: usmiřovatelka — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Danish: fredsstifter — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Dutch: vredestichter — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Dutch: pacificateur — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Faroese: friðarmillumgongufólk — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Faroese: sáttasemjari — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• French: pacificateur — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• French: pacificatrice — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Georgian: დამზავებელი (damzavebeli) — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Georgian: მშვიდობისმყოფელი (mšvidobismq̇opeli) — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Georgian: შემარიგებელი (šemarigebeli) — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• German: Friedensstifter — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• German: Friedensstifterin — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Greek: ειρηνοποιός (eirinopoiós) — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Ancient Greek: εἰρηνοποιός (eirēnopoiós) — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Hungarian: békeszerző — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Italian: pacificatore — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Italian: pacificatrice — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Japanese: ピースメーカー (pīsumēkā) — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Japanese: 仲裁人 (chūsainin) — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Korean: 중재인 (jungjaein) — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Korean: 조정자 (jojeongja) — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Korean: 피스메이커 (piseumeikeo) — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Latin: pācificātor — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Latin: pācātor — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Macedonian: миротворец (mirotvorec) — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Norwegian Bokmål: fredsstifter — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Iranian Persian: مُصْلِح (mosleh) — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Iranian Persian: صُلْحدَهَنْدِه (solh-dahande) — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Polish: rozjemca — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Polish: rozjemczyni — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Polish: negocjator pokojowy — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Portuguese: pacificador — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Romanian: pacificator — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Romanian: pacificatoare — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Russian: миротво́рец (mirotvórec) — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Serbo-Croatian: миротво́рац — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Serbo-Croatian: mirotvórac — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Slovak: mierotvorca — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Slovak: zmierovateľ — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Slovene: mirovnik — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Slovene: mirovnica — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Spanish: pacificador — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Spanish: pacificadora — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Swedish: fredsstiftare — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Turkish: arabulucu — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Ukrainian: миротво́рець (myrotvórecʹ) — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Vietnamese: người hoà giải — someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
• Ewe: avuléla — an early type of American revolver