missing person

English

Noun

missing person (plural missing persons or missing people)

1. A person whose whereabouts are unknown and who is being sought.

Usage notes

• The usual plural is missing persons.

Translations

person whose whereabouts are unknown

• Armenian: անհետ կորած (anhet korac)
• Azerbaijani: itkin (az)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 失蹤人員／失踪人员 (shīzōng rényuán)

• Czech: pohřešovaný (cs)
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: vermiste persoon m or f
• Finnish: kadonnut (fi)
• French: personne disparue f, disparu (fr) m
• German: Vermisster (de) m
• Greek: αγνοούμενος (el) m (agnooúmenos), αγνοούμενη (el) f (agnooúmeni)
• Irish: duine ar iarraidh m
• Italian: persone scomparse f
• Japanese: 行方不明者 (ゆくえふめいしゃ, yukue fumeisha)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: osoba zaginiona
• Portuguese: desaparecido (pt) m, pessoa desaparecida
• Russian: пропа́вший бе́з вести (ru) m (propávšij béz vesti)
• Spanish: persona desaparecida

Further reading

• missing person on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• promisingness