bodyguard

See also: Bodyguard

English

Etymology

body +‎ guard

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɒdiɡɑːd/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑːdiɡɑːɹd/

Noun

body guard (plural bodyguards)

A person or group of persons, often armed, responsible for protecting an individual.

Translations

person responsible for protecting an individual

Albanian: please add this translation if you can
Arabic: حَرَس خَاصّ‎ m (ḥaras ḵāṣṣ)
Armenian: թիկնապահ (hy) (tʿiknapah)
Basque: bizkartzain (eu)
Belarusian: целаахо́ўнік m (cjelaaxóŭnik)
Bulgarian: телохрани́тел (bg) m (telohranítel)
Burmese: please add this translation if you can
Catalan: guardaespatlles m or f
Chamorro: a'adahi
Chinese:
Cantonese: 保鏢, 保镖 (bou² biu¹), 護衛, 护卫 (wu⁶ wai⁶)

Mandarin: 保鏢 (zh), 保镖 (zh) (bǎobiāo), 護衛 (zh), 护卫 (zh) (hùwèi), 衛士 (zh), 卫士 (zh) (wèishì)
Czech: tělesná stráž f, bodyguard (cs) m, osobní strážce m
Danish: livvagt (da) c
Dutch: lijfwacht (nl), lijfgarde (nl), persoonsbeveiliger, bodyguard (nl) m
Esperanto: korpogardisto
Estonian: turvamees, ihukaitsja
Faroese: lívverji m
Finnish: turvamies (fi), henkivartija (fi)
French: garde du corps (fr) m
Georgian: მცველი (mcveli), პირადი მცველი (ṗiradi mcveli)
German: Leibwächter (de) m, Bodyguard (de) m, Personenschützer m
Greek: σωματοφύλακας (el) m (somatofýlakas)
Ancient: σωματοφύλαξ m (sōmatophúlax), δορύφορος m (dorúphoros)
Hebrew: שומר ראש‎ (he) m (shomer rosh), שומרת ראש‎ f (shomeret rosh)
Hindi: please add this translation if you can
Hungarian: testőr (hu)
Ido: korpogardisto (io)

Italian: guardia del corpo (it) f
Japanese: ボディーガード (bodīgādo), 侍衛 (じえい, jiei), 親衛兵 (しんえいへい, shin'eihei), 用心棒 (ja) (ようじんぼう, yōjinbō), 警護 (ja) (けいご, keigo), 保鏢 (ほひょう, hohyō), 衛士 (えじ, eji)
Khmer: អង្គរក្ស (km) (ɑŋkreak)
Korean: 보디가드 (ko) (bodigadeu), 경호원 (ko) (gyeonghowon) (警護員 (ko))
Lao: please add this translation if you can
Latin: stipator m, satelles (la) m, custōs corporis m
Maori: poutiriao
Navajo: aa áhályáanii
Norwegian:
Bokmål: livvakt m or f

Nynorsk: livvakt f
Polish: (person) ochroniarz (pl) m, (group of persons) ochrona (pl) f
Portuguese: guarda-costas (pt) m
Romanian: gardă de corp f, bodyguard (ro) m
Russian: телохрани́тель (ru) m (teloxranítelʹ), охра́нник (ru) m (oxránnik)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: телохранитељ m

Roman: telohranitelj m
Slovak: please add this translation if you can
Spanish: escolta (es) m or f, guardaespaldas (es) m or f, espaldero m (Dominican Republic, Venezuela)
Swedish: livvakt (sv) c
Telugu: అంగరక్షకుడు (te) (aṅgarakṣakuḍu)
Thai: องครักษ์ (th) (ong-ká-rák)
Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: özlük muhafızı
Ukrainian: тілоохоро́нець (tilooxorónecʹ)
Uyghur: please add this translation if you can

Verb

bodyguard (third-person singular simple present bodyguards, present participle bodyguarding, simple past and past participle bodyguarded)

(transitive) To act as bodyguard for (someone); figuratively, to protect.
- 2005, Christopher Hitchens, ‘Burned Out’, Slate, Mar 7 2005:
  The same report, on a news page and not bodyguarded by any news analysis warning, goes on to say that repeated discoveries of cheating and covert activity mean that the credibility of Iran has been harmed.

Romanian

Alternative forms

bodigard

Etymology

Borrowed from English bodyguard.

Noun

bodyguard m (plural bodyguarzi)

bodyguard

Declension

declension of bodyguard

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) bodyguard	bodyguardul	(niște) bodyguarzi	bodyguarzii
genitive/dative	(unui) bodyguard	bodyguardului	(unor) bodyguarzi	bodyguarzilor
vocative	bodyguardule		bodyguarzilor

Synonyms

gardă de corp
gorilă (figurative, derogatory)

References

bodyguard in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

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