drug addict

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

drug addict (plural drug addicts)

A person with a chemical or psychological dependency on a drug, especially one which is illegal or improperly procured.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:addict

Related terms

drug addiction

Translations

person with a chemical or psychological dependency on drugs — see also narcomaniac

Afar: please add this translation if you can
Amharic: please add this translation if you can
Arabic: مُدْمِن m (mudmin), حَشَّاش m (ḥaššāš), مَنْزُولِيّ m (manzūliyy)
Armenian: թմրամոլ (hy) (tʻmramol)
Bambara: please add this translation if you can
Belarusian: наркама́н m (narkamán), наркама́нка f (narkamánka)
Bulgarian: наркоман (bg) m (narkoman), зависим (bg) m (zavisim)
Catalan: drogoaddicte (ca) m, drogoaddicta (ca) f, drogodependent (ca) m or f, toxicòman (ca) m, toxicòmana (ca) f, ionqui (ca) m or f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 道友 (yue) (dou⁶ jau⁵), 白粉仔 (baak⁶ fan² zai²) (general)

Mandarin: 吸毒者 (zh) (xīdúzhě), 癮君子 / 瘾君子 (zh) (yǐnjūnzǐ)
Czech: narkoman m, narkomanka f, feťák (cs) m, smažka (cs) f
Danish: narkoman (da) c, stofmisbruger c
Dutch: drugsverslaafde (nl) m or f, drugverslaafde (nl) m or f
Esperanto: toksomaniulo, toksomaniulino (female)
Estonian: narkar, narkomaan
Faroese: misnýtari m, rúsevnismisnýtari m
Finnish: huumeiden käyttäjä (literally “drug user”), narkomaani (fi), (colloquial, derogatory) huumehörhö (fi), hörhö (fi), narkkari (fi), narkki (fi), narkkis, nisti (fi)
French: toxicomane (fr) m or f, tox (fr) m or f (slang), toxico (fr) m or f (colloquial), drogué (fr) m, droguée (fr) f, accro (fr) m or f (slang), camé (fr) m (pejorative), camée (fr) f (pejorative), junkie (fr) m or f,
Fula: please add this translation if you can
Galician: drogadicto (gl) m, drogadicta f, toxicómano m, toxicómana f
German: Drogensüchtiger (de) m, Drogensüchtige (de) f, Drogenabhängiger (de) m, Drogenabhängige (de) f, Junkie (de) m or f, Drogi m, Rauschgiftsüchtiger m, Rauschgiftsüchtige f, Narkomane (de) m, Narkomanin (de) f, Junkie (de) m or f, Fixer (de) m, Fixerin (de) f
Greek: τοξικομανής (el) m or f (toxikomanís), ναρκομανής (el) m or f (narkomanís)
Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
Harari: please add this translation if you can
Hebrew: נַרְקוֹמָן (he) m (narqomán), נַרְקוֹמָנִים m pl (narqománim), נַרְקוֹמָנִית f (narqománit), נַרְקוֹמָנִיּוֹת f pl (narqomániyot)
Hindi: please add this translation if you can
Hungarian: kábítószerfüggő (hu), drogfüggő (hu), kábítószer-élvező, narkós (hu), heroinfüggő
Icelandic: dópisti (is) m
Igbo: please add this translation if you can
Irish: andúileach drugaí m, andúileach m
Italian: drogato (it) m, drogata (it) f
Japanese: 麻薬常習者 (まやくじょうしゅうしゃ, mayakujōshūsha), 麻薬中毒者 (まやくちゅうどくしゃ, mayakuchūdokusha), ジャンキー (ja) (jankī)
Korean: 마약중독자 (mayakjungdokja), 중독자 (ko) (jungdokja)
Kyrgyz: баңги (ky) (baŋgi)
Lithuanian: narkomanas m, narkomanė f
Macanese: pacfanista
Macedonian: дрогира́ш m (drogiráš), дрогира́шка f (drogiráška), наркома́н m (narkomán), наркома́нка f (narkománka)
Malay: penagih dadah
Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:
Bokmål: narkoman (no) m, narkotiker m, stoffmisbruker m, stoffmisbrukar m

Nynorsk: narkoman m, narkotikar m
Persian:
Iranian Persian: مُعْتاد (mo'tâd)
Polish: narkoman (pl) m pers, narkomanka (pl) f, ćpun (pl) (slang)
Portuguese: drogado (pt) m, drogada f, viciado em drogas m, , viciada em drogas f
Romanian: drogat m, drogată f
Russian: наркома́н (ru) m (narkomán), наркома́нка (ru) f (narkománka), торчо́к (ru) m (torčók) (rude), объебо́с (ru) m (obʺjebós) (vulgar, derogatory, slang), объебо́ска f (obʺjebóska) (vulgar), джа́нки m or f (džánki), на́рик (ru) m (nárik) (derogatory, slang)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: нарко̀ма̄н m, нарко̀ма̄нка f

Latin: narkòmān (sh) m, narkòmānka (sh) f, narkić m (slang, diminutive)
Slovak: narkoman (sk) m, narkomanka f
Somali: please add this translation if you can
Spanish: drogadicto (es) m, drogadicta (es) f, toxicómano (es) m, toxicómana (es) f, pichicatero (es) m (Peru), pichicatera f (Peru), yonqui m or f (colloquial), yonki m or f (colloquial), drogata (es) m or f (colloquial), heroinómano (es) m, drogodependiente (es) c, drogota m or f, falopero (es) m, huelepega m or f, cocainómano (es) m, morfinómano m
Swedish: narkoman (sv) c, pundare (sv) c, knarkare (sv) c
Tajik: нашъаманд (naš'amand)
Tamil: please add this translation if you can
Telugu: please add this translation if you can
Tigre: please add this translation if you can
Tigrinya: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: keş (tr), esrarkeş (tr), eroinman (tr)
Ukrainian: наркома́н (uk) m (narkomán), наркома́нка f (narkománka)
Wolof: please add this translation if you can
Yoruba: please add this translation if you can

References

“drug addict”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
“drug addict”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.