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First attested in 1871. From a Bantu language. Compare Kongo nzambi (“god”), zumbi (“fetish”), and Kimbundu nzumbi (“ghost”) (see Portuguese zumbi), and Caribbean folklore's jumbee (“a spirit or demon”). Origin from Spanish sombra (“shadow, phantom”) has also been suggested. May have come through Louisiana Creole [Term?]. See also French zombi (1832).
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈzɒmbi/
- (General American) enPR: zŏmʹbē, IPA(key): /ˈzɑmbi/
- Rhymes: -ɒmbi
- Hyphenation: zom‧bie
zombie (plural zombies)
- (voodoo, horror) A person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces (such as magic), with no soul or will of his or her own.
- Synonyms: deadhead, ghoul, living dead, walker, (slang) walking dead, zed
1943, Curt Siodmak, Ardel Wray, I Walked with a Zombie (motion picture):
Betsy Connell: I don't know about zombies, doctor. Just what is a zombie? / Dr. Maxwell: A ghost. A living dead. It's also a drink.
1962, “Monster Mash”, Bobby "Boris" Pickett and Lenny Capizzi (lyrics), performed by Bobby (Boris) Pickett and The Crypt-Kickers:
The zombies were having fun
The party had just begun
The guests included Wolf-Man, Dracula, and his son.
2017 February 23, Katie Rife, “The Girl With All The Gifts tries to put a fresh spin on overripe zombie clichés”, in The Onion AV Club[1]:
The zombies first show up 20 minutes in, after Melanie volunteers herself as the next child to mysteriously disappear in the middle of the night. That’s when we learn that Melanie and her classmates are all “hungries,” or people infected with a toxic fungus that turns them into mindless flesh-eating animals.
- (figuratively) An apathetic or slow-witted person. [1936]
- (figuratively) A human being in a state of extreme mental exhaustion.
After working for 18 hours on the computer, I was a zombie.
- An information worker who has signed a nondisclosure agreement.[1]
- Synonym: intellectual prostitute
- (computing) A process or task which has terminated but has not been removed from the list of processes, typically because it has an unresponsive parent process.[2]
- 1986, Maurice J. Bach, The Design of the Unix Operating System, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA, See "Process States and Transitions," p. 147.
- 9. The process executed the exit system call and is in the zombie state. The process no longer exists, but it leaves a record containing an exit code and some timing statistics for its parent process to collect. The zombie state is the final state of a process.
- 1986, Maurice J. Bach, The Design of the Unix Operating System, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA, See "Process States and Transitions," p. 147.
- (computing) A computer affected by malware which causes it to do whatever the attacker wants it to do without the user's knowledge.
- A cocktail of rum and fruit juices.
1976, Walter Becker, Donald Fagen (lyrics and music), “Haitian Divorce”, in The Royal Scam, performed by Steely Dan:
She takes the taxi to the good hotel / Bon marché as far as she can tell / She drinks the zombie from the cocoa shell
- 1976, Harvard Advocate CX:ii, pages 8 and 380:
- The maitre d’ introduced us and I had a zombie with him. Those zombies are wicked.
- […]
- I watched Mario and drank zombies out of a thermos.
- (Canada, historical, derogatory) A conscripted member of the Canadian military during World War II who was assigned to home defence rather than to combat in Europe.[3]
- 1944, "Time for Decision," Time (US edition), 6 Nov.,
- Had the time come to order Canada's home defense draftees—some 70,000 zombies idling at home—to battle overseas?
- 1944, "Time for Decision," Time (US edition), 6 Nov.,
- (Australia, slang) Marijuana, or similar drugs.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marijuana
- (philosophy) A hypothetical being that is indistinguishable from a normal human being except in that it lacks conscious experience, qualia, or sentience.
- Synonyms: p-zombie, philosophical zombie
- antizombie
- dezombification
- dezombify
- phone zombie
- smartphone zombie
- xanbie
- zimbo
- zombic
- zombically
- zombie apocalypse
- zombie bank
- zombie banker
- zombie box
- zombie business
- zombie car
- zombie cell
- zombie client
- zombie company
- zombie computer
- zombie dance
- zombie debt
- zombie debtor
- zombie deer disease
- zombie effect
- zombie fire
- zombie fungus
- zombie host
- zombie hypothesis
- zombieing
- zombie institution
- zombie knife
- zombieless
- zombie lie
- zombielike
- zombie mortgage
- zombieness
- zombie network
- zombie organization
- zombie out
- zombie path
- zombiephile
- zombiephilia
- zombie process
- zombie program
- zombie S&L
- zombie software
- zombie star
- zombie state
- zombie statistic
- zombie strip
- zombie system
- zombie tag
- zombie taxon
- zombie theory
- zombie thought experiment
- zombie urbanism
- zombie user
- zombie version
- zombie walk
- zombie world
- zombie worm
- zombification
- zombify
- zomboid
- zombyish
the undead
- Afrikaans: zombie
- Arabic: زُومْبِي m (zūmbī)المَيِّتُ الحَيّ m (al-mayyitu l-ḥayy)
- Hijazi Arabic: زومبي m (zōmbi)
- Armenian: զոմբի (hy) (zombi)
- Basque: zonbi
- Bulgarian: зомби (bg) n (zombi)
- Catalan: zombi m or f
- Chinese:
- Cornish: zombi m
- Czech: zombie (cs) f, zombík m (colloquial)
- Danish: zombie c
- Dutch: zombie (nl)
- Esperanto: zombio, sorĉkadavro
- Finnish: zombi (fi), zombie (fi)
- French: zombi (fr), zombie (fr)
- Galician: zombi (gl)
- Georgian: ზომბი (zombi)
- German: Zombie (de) m
- Greek: ζόμπι (el) n (zómpi)
- Hebrew: זוֹמְבִּי (zom'bí)
- Hindi: ज़ोंबी (zombī), ज़ोम्बी m (zombī), जोंबी m (jombī), जोम्बी m (jombī), जॉम्बी m (jŏmbī), ज़ॉम्बी m (zŏmbī)
- Hungarian: zombi (hu)
- Icelandic: uppvakningur m
- Indonesian: zombi (id)
- Irish: zombaí m
- Italian: zombi (it)
- Japanese: ゾンビ (ja) (zonbi)
- Korean: 좀비 (ko) (jombi)
- Kurdish:
- Lithuanian: zombis m
- Macedonian: зо́мби n (zómbi)
- Malay: zombi
- Maori: poheraka
- Marathi: जॉम्बी (jŏmbī)
- Navajo: daaztsánée yigáłígíí
- Norwegian:
- Persian: زنده لاش (zenda lâš), زامبی (zâmbi)
- Polish: zombie (pl) m, zombi (pl) m, zombiak m (colloquial)
- Portuguese: morto-vivo m, zumbi (pt) (Brazil), zombie (pt) (Portugal)
- Romanian: zombi (ro) m
- Russian: зо́мби (ru) m (zómbi)
- Slovak: zombia f, zombi m, zombie m
- Sotho: sethotsela
- Spanish: zombi (es) m or f, zombie (es) m or f
- Swedish: zombie (sv) c
- Thai: ผีดิบ (th) (pǐi-dìp), ซอมบี (sɔm-bîi)
- Tibetan: རོ་ལངས (ro langs)
- Turkish: zombi (tr), hortlak (tr)
- Urdu: زمبی (zombī), زندہ لاش m or f (zinda lāsh)
- Vietnamese: zom-bi, zom-by, thây ma (vi)
- Welsh: sombi m
- ^ EE Times, "Beware 'zombie' clauses," 2 Aug., 2004
- ^ Maurice J. Bach The Design of the Unix Operating System, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA, 1986. See "Process States and Transitions," p. 147.
- ^ The Canadian Encyclopedia, 2nd edition, Hurtig Publishers, Edmonton Canada, 1988. See "National Resources Mobilization Act," p. 1433.
zombie m anim or f or n
when masculine:
when feminine:
Declension of zombie (indeclinable feminine)
when neuter:
Borrowed from English zombie, from a Bantu language.
zombie m (plural zombies, diminutive zombietje n)
zombie
- Alternative form of zombi.
Inflection of zombie (Kotus type 3/valtio, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | zombie | zombiet | |
genitive | zombien | zombieiden zombieitten | |
partitive | zombieta | zombieita | |
illative | zombieen | zombieihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | zombie | zombiet | |
accusative | nom. | zombie | zombiet |
gen. | zombien | ||
genitive | zombien | zombieiden zombieitten | |
partitive | zombieta | zombieita | |
inessive | zombiessa | zombieissa | |
elative | zombiesta | zombieista | |
illative | zombieen | zombieihin | |
adessive | zombiella | zombieilla | |
ablative | zombielta | zombieilta | |
allative | zombielle | zombieille | |
essive | zombiena | zombieina | |
translative | zombieksi | zombieiksi | |
abessive | zombietta | zombieitta | |
instructive | — | zombiein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
- compounds
- zombie-tähti (“zombie star”)
- “zombie”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-04
zombie
- “zombie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
zombie m or f by sense (invariable)
- Alternative spelling of zombi
- sombi, såmbi, zombi (nonstandard)
From a Bantu language, via English zombie.
zombie m (definite singular zombien, indefinite plural zombier, definite plural zombiene)
- a zombie
- “zombie” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
zombie m (definite singular zombien, indefinite plural zombiar, definite plural zombiane)
- A zombie
Unadapted borrowing from English zombie.
zombie m animal (indeclinable)
Unadapted borrowing from English zombie.
zombie m or f by sense (plural zombies)
- zombie (the undead)
- Synonyms: morto-vivo, (Brazil) zumbi
zombie m anim
- Alternative form of zombi
May also be indeclineable.
- “zombie”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
zombie m (plural zombies)
- Alternative spelling of zombi
Borrowed from English zombie, from a Bantu language.
zombie c
Declension of zombie | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | zombie | zombien | zombies, zombier | zombierna, zombiesarna |
Genitive | zombies | zombiens | zombies, zombiers | zombiernas, zombiersarnas |