English
Noun
John Doe (plural John Does)
- A fictitious name used in legal documents for an unknown or anonymous male person.
- (idiomatic) Any unknown or anonymous male person.
- 1885: i.e. "to Tom, Dick or Harry:" the names like John Doe and Richard Roe are used indefinitely in Arab. — The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Vol. 4 Footnote 5, Richard Burton
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name used in legal documents
- French: X (fr)
- Hebrew: ישראל ישראלי (he) (Israel Israeli)
- Latin: NN m, f
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any unknown or anonymous male person
- Arabic: فلان (ar) m
- Moroccan Arabic: فْلان m (flæn), فْلان بن فْلان m (flæn bən flæn)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 佚名
- Esperanto: Ajnulo
- Finnish: Matti Meikäläinen
- French: Jean Dupont, Tartempion (fr)
- German: Otto Normalverbraucher (de)
- Hebrew: פלוני (he) m from Plony Almony - an unknown person in the biblical book of Ruth.
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- Icelandic: Jón Jónsson m
- Macedonian: Петар Петровски m (Pétar Pétrovski)
- Norwegian: Ola Nordmann
- Polish: Jan Kowalski (pl) m, Kowalski (pl) m
- Portuguese: Fulano m
- Russian: имярек (ru) m (imjarek)
- Serbo-Croatian: (literally means "Unknown Someone") Nepoznati Netko
- Spanish: Fulano m, Mengano m, Zutano m
- Walloon: Tibî Meyî (wa) c
- Yiddish: משה גרויס m (moyshe groys)
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