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zombie.

zombie; a person who, according to Haitian and Afro-Caribbean belief, has been deprived of their will and made into the servant of a sorcerer through magic, traditionally often conceived of as a living or reanimated corpse

6 characters2 syllables approx.Norsk bokmål language

Meaning & usage

noun/¹sɔm.bi/[ˈsɔ̀m.bǐ]
  1. zombie; a person who, according to Haitian and Afro-Caribbean belief, has been deprived of their will and made into the servant of a sorcerer through magic, traditionally often conceived of as a living or reanimated corpse

    masculine
    I fortellingen gjorde trollmannen mannen om til en zombie.
  2. zombie; a ghost, revenant or reanimated corpse, especially the undead creature of modern horror fiction and popular culture

    masculine
    Filmen handler om en by som blir angrepet av zombier.
  3. a zombie; an abnormally apathetic, sluggish or mechanically acting person, seemingly lacking initiative or independent will

    figuratively · masculine
    Etter nattevakten gikk han rundt som en zombie.
  4. zombie computer; a computer infected with malware and capable of being remotely controlled without its user's knowledge

    masculine
    Den infiserte datamaskinen ble brukt som en zombie i et botnett.
  5. zombie process; a process which has terminated but remains in the operating system's process table until its parent process retrieves its exit status

    masculine
    Barneprosessen ble liggende som en zombie etter at den var ferdig.
  6. philosophical zombie; a hypothetical being physically and functionally indistinguishable from a normal human being but lacking conscious experience or qualia

    masculine
    Zombieargumentet spør om en zombie uten bevisst opplevelse er metafysisk mulig.
Where this word comes from

Unadapted borrowing from English zombie, whose English source is partly from Louisiana Creole zombi (“zombie; ghost”), Haitian Creole zonbi (“zombie”) and French zombi (“zombie”), ultimately from an unidentified Bantu language. Compare nzambi (“god”) and zumbi (“fetish”), and nzumbi (“ghost, spirit”). Compare the parallel borrowings Norwegian Nynorsk zombie, Danish zombie, Swedish zombie, German Zombie, Dutch zombie, Polish zombie and Czech zombie (“zombie”).

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.