mordar

Borrowed from Esperanto mordi, French mordre, Italian mordere, Spanish morder, from Latin mordeō.

• IPA^(key): /morˈdar/

mordar (present mordas, past mordis, future mordos, conditional mordus, imperative mordez)

1. (transitive) to bite

From Old Norse morðari; equivalent to mord (“murder”) +‎ -ar (“-er”).

mordar m (definite singular mordaren, indefinite plural mordarar, definite plural mordarane)

1. murderer

   Synonyms: drapskvinne f, drapsmann m, drapsperson m, morderske f

   Kven er mordaren?

   Who's the murderer?

   • 1912, Erik Eggen, transl., Jonsok-Draumen, Eit Gamanspel‎^[1], Oslo: Der Norske Samlaget, translation of original by William Shakespeare, page 57:

     Eit lik, men ingin mordar liknar eg;
     di hjarteløyse ho hev drepi meg.
     Men endaa likso væn du mordar er
     som avdagsstjerna, du der uppe ser.

     A corpse, but I am not like a murderer;
     the heartless one has killed me.
     But still, you are like a murderer
     like the morning star you see up there.

   • 1923, Gustav Indrebø, Skrifter‎^[2], Tjuvholmen, page 73:

     Stegeløyi nær Kartnes i Valberg sokn i Lofoten skal ha namn av at ein mordar hev vorte avretta der og hovudet hans sett på stake.

     Stegeløyi near Kartnes in Valberg parish in Lofoten is said to have been named after a murderer who was executed there and whose head was placed on a stake.

   • 1949, Olav Duun, Minneutgave; skrifter‎^[3], page 132:

     Men mordar er ho, tenkte Håkon, han fekk ikkje tanken utor den ringen.

     But she's a murderer, thought Håkon, he couldn't get the thought out of his head.

Differentiated from drapsmann, which is a more neutral term, whereas mordar has an attached negative value for someone who has killed.

• mord

• morder (Bokmål)

• “mordar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.