zombie

Betekenis (Engels)

1. A person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces (such as magic), with no soul or will of his or her own.
2. (figuratively) An apathetic or slow-witted person.
3. (figuratively) A human being in a state of extreme mental exhaustion.
4. (figuratively) Someone or something that should be dead but is not.
5. An information worker who has signed a nondisclosure agreement.
6. 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.
7. A computer affected by malware which causes it to do whatever the attacker wants it to do without the user's knowledge.
8. A cocktail of rum and fruit juices.
9. (Canada, derogatory, historical) A conscripted member of the Canadian military during World War II who was assigned to home defence rather than to combat in Europe.
10. (Australia, slang) Marijuana, or similar drugs.
11. A hypothetical being that is indistinguishable from a normal human being except in that it lacks conscious experience, qualia, or sentience.

Sinonieme

zombi

living dead

vampire

🧛

zombie spirit

automaton

zombi spirit

ghost

👻

snake god

apparition

wraith

zombies

dracula

spirit

doppelganger

ghoul

phantasm

revenant

robot

🤖

specter

spectre

Vertalings

zombi

🧟

zombie

zombi

🧟

Zombie

🧟

zombi

🧟

zombi

🧟

zumbi

zombie

🧟

ζόμπι

άψυχος άνθρωπος

Zombi

wiederbeseelte Leiche

unmögliche Gestalt

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈzɒmbi/

Etimologie (Engels)

Verwante met Kongolees: nzambi

Verwante met Kimbundu: nzumbi

Verwante met Portugees: zumbi

Verwante met Frans: zombi

In summary

First attested in 1871.
From a Bantu language. Compare Kongo nzambi (“god”), zumbi (“fetish”), and Kimbundu nzumbi (“ghost”) (see Portuguese zumbi, Sranan Tongo dyumbi), 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 zombi (“zombie; ghost”). See also French zombi (“zombie”) (1832).