zombie

Pronunciation: /¹sɔm.bi/

“zombie” is a Norwegian Bokmål word. Its 6 meanings in English:

noun

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
zombie; a ghost, revenant or reanimated corpse, especially the undead creature of modern horror fiction and popular culture
a zombie; an abnormally apathetic, sluggish or mechanically acting person, seemingly lacking initiative or independent will
zombie computer; a computer infected with malware and capable of being remotely controlled without its user's knowledge
zombie process; a process which has terminated but remains in the operating system's process table until its parent process retrieves its exit status
philosophical zombie; a hypothetical being physically and functionally indistinguishable from a normal human being but lacking conscious experience or qualia

Etymology

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…

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