German

Noun

Mord m ‎(genitive Mordes or Mords, plural Morde)

1. murder
   • 1929, Kurt Tucholsky, Das Lächeln der Mona Lisa (Sammelband), Ernst Rowohlt Verlag, page 40:

     Der Mord ist, wie jedem gebildeten Staatsanwalt bekannt, eine Tat, die in der äußersten Ekstase und mit der kältesten Roheit begangen wird.

     Murder is, as known to every educated prosecutor, an act that is committed in utmost ecstasy and with the coldest brutality.

Usage notes

• Certain milder cases of murder, such as the American second-degree murder, are often covered by Totschlag in German legal terminology and do not then qualify as Mord.
• An English phrase like “Peter's murder” is ambiguous as it can mean either “the murder that Peter committed” or “the murder by which Peter was killed”. In German, „Peters Mord” can only mean the former. The latter is expressed as „der Mord an Peter“ or by using the word Ermordung („Peters Ermordung”).

Declension

Related terms

• Ermordung

Derived terms

• Ehrenmord
• Rufmord

Czech

Noun

mord m

1. (colloquial) murder

Synonyms

• vražda

Related terms

• mordovat
• mordýř

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse morð, from Proto-Indo-European *mer- ‎(“die”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /moːr/, [moɐ̯ˀ]

Noun

mord n (singular definite mordet, plural indefinite mord)

1. murder

Inflection

French

Verb

mord

1. third-person singular present indicative of mordre

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmord]

Adjective

mord (comparative mordabb, superlative legmordabb)

1. grim

Declension

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse morð.

Noun

mord n ‎(definite singular mordet, indefinite plural mord, definite plural morda or mordene)

1. murder

Synonyms

• drap

Derived terms

• folkemord
• mordvåpen
• selvmord

References

• “mord” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse morð.

Noun

mord n ‎(definite singular mordet, indefinite plural mord, definite plural morda)

1. murder

Synonyms

• drap

Derived terms

• folkemord
• mordvåpen
• sjølvmord

References

• “mord” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *murþą.

Noun

mord m

1. murder

Descendants

• German: Mord

Polish

Etymology

From German Mord, from Old High German mord, from Proto-Germanic *murþą.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔrt/

Noun

mord m inan

1. murder

Declension

Related terms

• (verb) mordować
• (noun) morderca
• (adjective) morderczy

Synonyms

• (murder): morderstwo

Noun

mord f

1. genitive plural of morda

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse morð, from Proto-Germanic *murþą, from Proto-Indo-European *mṛtóm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /muːɖ/, /muːrd/

Noun

mord n

1. murder

Declension

Welsh

Noun

mord

1. Nasal mutation of bord.