English
Etymology
Borrowed from French saboteur.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌsæbəˈtɜː(ɹ)/, /ˌsæbəˈtʊə(ɹ)/
Noun
saboteur (plural saboteurs)
- A person who intentionally causes the destruction of property in order to hinder the efforts of their enemy.
- Synonym: sabotageur
- Coordinate term: saboteuse
Derived terms
Translations
a person who intentionally causes the destruction of property
- Albanian: sabotator (sq) m, diversant (sq) m (especially military)
- Arabic: مُخَرِّب m (muḵarrib) (vandal, wrecker)
- Armenian: դիվերսանտ (hy) (diversant)
- Azerbaijani: sabotajçı, diversant (especially military)
- Belarusian: сабата́жнік m (sabatážnik), сабата́жніца f (sabatážnica), дыверса́нт m (dyvjersánt), дыверса́нтка f (dyvjersántka) (especially military)
- Bulgarian: саботьо́р (bg) m (sabotjór), саботьо́рка f (sabotjórka), диверса́нт (bg) m (diversánt), диверса́нтка f (diversántka) (especially military)
- Catalan: sabotejador m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 蓄意破壞者 / 蓄意破坏者 (xùyì pòhuài zhě), 陰謀分子 / 阴谋分子 (yīnmóu fēnzǐ), 陰謀破壞者 / 阴谋破坏者 (yīnmóu pòhuài zhě)
- Czech: sabotér (cs) m, sabotérka f
- Danish: sabotør c
- Dutch: saboteur (nl) m
- Esperanto: sabotanto, sabotulo
- Estonian: sabotöör, saboteerija, diversant (especially military)
- Finnish: sabotööri (fi), sabotoija (fi)
- French: saboteur (fr) m, saboteuse (fr) f
- Georgian: მესაბოტაჟე (mesaboṭaže), დივერსანტი (diversanṭi) (especially military)
- German: Saboteur m, Saboteurin f
- Greek: δολιοφθορέας m (doliofthoréas), σαμποτέρ (el) m (sampotér)
- Hebrew: מְחַבֵּל m (m'khabél)
- Hungarian: szabotőr (hu)
- Interlingua: saboteur
- Italian: sabotatore m, sabotatrice f
- Japanese: サボタージ員 (サボタージいん, sabotājiin), 妨業員 (ぼうぎょういん, bōgyōin), 妨害工作員 (ぼうがいこうさくいん, bōgaikōsakuin), 破壊者 (ja) (はかいしゃ, hakaisha)
- Korean: 파괴자(破壞者) (pagoeja), 사보타주 하는 사람 (sabotaju haneun saram)
- Latvian: sabotieris m, diversants m (especially military)
- Lithuanian: sabotažininkas m, sabotuotojas m, diversantas m (especially military)
- Macedonian: саботе́р m (sabotér), саботе́рка f (sabotérka)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: sabotør m
- Persian: خرابکار (fa) (xarâbkâr) (vandal, wrecker), مخرب (fa) (moxarreb)
- Polish: sabotażysta m pers, sabotażystka f, dywersant (pl) m, dywersantka f (especially military)
- Portuguese: sabotador (pt) m
- Romanian: sabotor (ro) m, sabotoare (ro) f
- Russian: сабота́жник (ru) m (sabotážnik), сабота́жница (ru) f (sabotážnica), диверса́нт (ru) m (diversánt), диверса́нтка (ru) f (diversántka) (especially military), вреди́тель (ru) m (vredítelʹ), вреди́тельница (ru) f (vredítelʹnica)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: сабо̀те̄р m, сабо̀те̄рка f
- Roman: sabòtēr (sh) m, sabòtērka (sh) f
- Slovak: sabotér m, sabotérka f
- Slovene: saboter m, saboterka f
- Spanish: saboteador (es) m, saboteadora (es) f
- Swedish: sabotör (sv) c
- Turkish: sabotajcı (tr)
- Ukrainian: сабота́жник m (sabotážnyk), сабота́жниця f (sabotážnycja), диверса́нт m (dyversánt), диверса́нтка f (dyversántka) (especially military)
- Uzbek: sabotajchi (uz), diversant (uz) (especially military)
- Volapük: sabotan
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Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French saboteur.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌsaː.boːˈtøːr/
- Hyphenation: sa‧bo‧teur
- Rhymes: -øːr
Noun
saboteur m (plural saboteurs)
- saboteur
French
Etymology
From saboter (“to sabotage”) + -eur, from sabot (“clog”) (where mill workers would throw their wooden clogs into the machinery to make it halt or break down).
Pronunciation
Noun
saboteur m (plural saboteurs, feminine saboteuse)
- saboteur
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