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English
Etymology
clergy + -man
Pronunciation
Noun
clergyman (plural clergymen)
- A male member of a clergy; especially, an ordained (male) Christian minister.
- Hypernyms: clergyperson, cleric
- Holonym: clergy
- Coordinate term: clergywoman
Translations
ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy
- Arabic: قِسِّيس (ar) m (qissīs), كَاهِن m (kāhin)
- Belarusian: свяшчэннаслужы́цель m (svjaščennaslužýcjelʹ), сьвяшчэннаслужы́цель m (sʹvjaščennaslužýcjelʹ) (Taraškievica), свяшчэ́ннік m (svjaščénnik), сьвяшчэ́ньнiк m (sʹvjaščénʹnik) (Taraškievica), свята́р m (svjatár), сьвята́р m (sʹvjatár) (Taraškievica)
- Bulgarian: свещенослужи́тел (bg) m (sveštenoslužítel), духо́вник (bg) m (duhóvnik), свеще́ник (bg) m (svešténik)
- Catalan: clergue (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 牧師／牧师 (zh) (mùshī)
- Czech: duchovní (cs) m
- Dutch: geestelijke (nl) m
- Esperanto: (♂♀) pastro, (♂) virpastro, (neologism, ♂) pastriĉo
- Finnish: pappi (fi)
- French: prêtre (fr) m, clerc (fr) m
- Galician: crego (gl) m
- German: Pfarrer (de) m, Pastor (de) m, Kleriker (de) m, Geistlicher (de) m, Seelsorger (de) m, Seelenhirt m, Seelenhirte (de) m
- Greek: κληρικός (el) m (klirikós)
- Ancient: κληρικός m (klērikós)
- Hungarian: pap (hu), lelkész (hu)
- Indonesian: klerus (id)
- Irish: eaglaiseach
- Italian: chierico (it) m, prete (it) m, sacerdote (it) m, ecclesiastico (it) m
- Japanese: 牧師 (ja) (ぼくし, bokushi), 聖職者 (ja) (せいしょくしゃ, seishokusha)
- Korean: 성직자(聖職者) (seongjikja)
- Latin: clericus m, sacerdos (la)
- Macedonian: духовник m (duhovnik), свештеник m (sveštenik)
- Navajo: ééʼ neishoodii
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: свѧщеникъ m (svęštenikŭ)
- Old East Slavic: свѧщеникъ m (svęščenikŭ), свѧщеньникъ m (svęščenĭnikŭ)
- Polish: duchowny (pl) m, kleryk (pl) m
- Portuguese: clérigo (pt)
- Romagnol: prid m, prit m
- Romanian: cleric (ro)
- Russian: священнослужи́тель (ru) m (svjaščennoslužítelʹ), свяще́нник (ru) m (svjaščénnik), кли́рик (ru) m (klírik)
- Scottish Gaelic: clèireach m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: духо̀внӣк m, свѐштенӣк m, свѐћенӣк m
- Roman: duhòvnīk (sh) m, svèštenīk (sh) m, svèćenīk m
- Slovak: duchovný m
- Slovene: duhovnik (sl) m
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: faraŕ m
- Spanish: clérigo (es) m
- Ukrainian: священнослужи́тель m (svjaščennoslužýtelʹ), свяще́нник m (svjaščénnyk), духівни́к m (duxivnýk), клі́рик m (klíryk)
- Vietnamese: mục sư (vi)
- Volapük: (♂♀) kultan (vo) (general), (♂) hikultan, (♀) jikultan, (♂♀) pädan (vo) (Catholic), (♂) hipädan, (♀) jipädan, (♂♀) pastan (vo) (Evangelical, Protestant), (♂) hipastan, (♀) jipastan
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Italian
Etymology
Pseudo-anglicism; transferred sense from English clergyman.
Noun
clergyman m (invariable)
- a clergyman's suite of clothes