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angel of death (plural angels of death)
- A personification of death in fiction, art, mythology, or religion.
- An angel which attends to death, collecting souls at death, ending life at the appointed time of death.
- An angel in Abrahamic scripture or eschatology that attends to death.
- Azrael.
- Death, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
- The Grim Reaper.
- (translations, of Japanese) A shinigami.
- A type of serial killer who is employed as a caregiver and kills people under their care.
personification of death in fiction and in art
- Arabic: مَلَك الْمَوْت m (malak al-mawt) (definite), مَلَك مَوْت m (malak mawt)
- Bashkir: үлем фәрештәһе (ülem fəreştəhe)
- Bulgarian: а́нгел на смъртта́ m (ángel na smǎrttá)
- Chechen: мулкалмуост (mulkalmwost)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 死神 (zh) (sǐshén, literally “God of death”)
- Danish: dødsengel c
- Dutch: engel des doods m, doodsengel m, worgengel (nl) m
- Finnish: kuolemanenkeli
- French: ange de la mort (fr) m
- German: Todesengel (de) m
- Greek: άγγελος θανάτου m (ángelos thanátou)
- Hebrew: מַלְאַךְ הַמָּוֶת (he) m (mal'ákh hamávet)
- Hungarian: halál angyala
- Icelandic: maðurinn með ljáinn m, dauðinn m, engill dauðans m
- Ingush: мулкалмуст (mulkalmust)
- Italian: angelo della morte m
- Japanese: 死神 (ja) (しにがみ, shinigami, literally “death kami, death spirit”)
- Kazakh: өлім періштесі (ölım perıştesı)
- Korean: 사신(死神) (ko) (sasin)
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: فِرِشْتِهٔ مَرْگ (ferešte-ye marg), مَلِکاُلْمُوْت (malek-olmowt)
- Portuguese: anjo da morte (pt) m
- Romanian: îngerul morții m
- Russian: а́нгел сме́рти (ru) m (ángel smérti), смерть (ru) f (smertʹ)
- Spanish: ángel de la muerte m
- Swedish: dödsängel (sv) n
- Turkish: ölüm meleği
- Vietnamese: tử thần (vi) (死神), thần chết
- Yiddish: מלאך־המות m (malakhamoves)
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