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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French participant, from Latin participāns, present participle of participō; see participate. Displaced native Old English dǣlnimend (literally “part taker”).
Pronunciation
Noun
participant (plural participants)
- One who participates.
- Synonym: participator
- Near-synonyms: entrant, partaker
All participants must adhere to the rules of the competition.
- (sciences, medicine) A human subject in a scientific experiment, such as a clinical trial: a research participant.
- Hypernyms: subject; person
In this study, participants were randomly assigned to either a control arm or a treatment arm.
Derived terms
Translations
one who participates
- Albanian: pjesëmarrës (sq) m
- Arabic: مُشَارِك m (mušārik), مُشَارِكَة f (mušārika)
- Armenian: մասնակից (hy) (masnakicʻ)
- Azerbaijani: iştirakçı (az)
- Bashkir: ҡатнашыусы (qatnaşıwsı)
- Belarusian: удзе́льнік m (udzjélʹnik), удзе́льніца f (udzjélʹnica), уча́снік m (učásnik), уча́сніца f (učásnica)
- Bengali: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: уча́стник (bg) m (učástnik), уча́стничка f (učástnička), уча́стница f (učástnica)
- Burmese: please add this translation if you can
- Catalan: participant (ca) m or f
- Cebuano: sumasalmot, umaayap, partisipante
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 參加者 / 参加者 (zh) (cānjiāzhě), 參與者 / 参与者 (zh) (cānyùzhě)
- Czech: účastník (cs) m, účastnice (cs) f
- Danish: deltager (da) c
- Dutch: deelnemer (nl) m, participant (nl) m
- Esperanto: partoprenanto
- Estonian: osaleja, osavõtja
- Finnish: osanottaja (fi), osallistuja (fi)
- French: participant (fr) m, participante (fr) f
- Galician: participante (gl) m or f
- Georgian: მონაწილე (monac̣ile)
- German: Teilnehmer (de) m, Teilnehmerin (de) f
- Greek: συμμέτοχος (el) m or f (symmétochos), μετέχων m (metéchon)
- Hebrew: מִשׁתַתֵף m (mishtatéf)
- Hindi: भागी (hi) m (bhāgī), भागिनी f (bhāginī)
- Hungarian: résztvevő (hu)
- Icelandic: þátttakandi (is) m
- Indonesian: peserta (id), partisipan (id)
- Irish: rannpháirtí m
- Italian: partecipante (it) m or f, che partecipa
- Japanese: 参加者 (さんかしゃ, sankasha), 関与者 (かんよしゃ, kan'yosha)
- Kazakh: қатысушы (qatysuşy), қатынасушы (qatynasuşy)
- Khmer: អ្នកចូលរួម (km) (nĕək coul ruəm)
- Korean: 참가자(參加者) (ko) (chamgaja)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: beşdar (ku), pişkdar (ku), tevlîbûyî (ku)
- Kyrgyz: катышуучу (katışuucu)
- Lao: ຜູ້ເຂົ້າຮ່ວມ (phū khao hūam)
- Latin: particeps m
- Latvian: dalībnieks m, dalībniece f
- Lithuanian: dalyvis (lt) m, dalyvė f
- Macedonian: учесник m (učesnik), учесничка f (učesnička)
- Malay: peserta (ms)
- Malayalam: പങ്കാളി (ml) (paṅkāḷi)
- Maori: kaiuru
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: оролцогч (mn) (orolcogč)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: deltaker m, deltager m
- Nynorsk: deltakar m
- Occitan: participant (oc) m or f
- Old English: dǣlnimend m
- Persian: شِرْکَتکُنَنْدِه (šerkat-konande), شَریک (fa) (šarik)
- Polish: uczestnik (pl) m, uczestniczka (pl) f
- Portuguese: participante (pt) m or f
- Romanian: participant (ro) m, participantă (ro) f
- Russian: уча́стник (ru) m (učástnik), уча́стница (ru) f (učástnica)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: у̀чеснӣк m, у̀чесница f
- Roman: ùčesnīk (sh) m, ùčesnica (sh) f
- Slovak: účastník m, účastníčka f
- Slovene: udeleženec m, udeleženka f
- Spanish: participante (es) m or f, partícipe (es) m or f
- Swedish: deltagare (sv) c
- Tajik: иштирокчӣ (tg) (ištirokči), шарӣк (šarik), шарик (šarik)
- Tamil: பங்கேற்பாளர் (paṅkēṟpāḷar)
- Tatar: катнашучы (tt) (qatnaşuçı)
- Telugu: పాల్గొను వ్యక్తి (pālgonu vyakti)
- Thai: ผู้เข้าร่วม (pûu-kâo-rûuam)
- Turkish: katılımcı (tr), iştirakçı (tr), müşterekçi
- Turkmen: gatnaşyjy
- Ukrainian: уча́сник (uk) m (učásnyk), уча́сниця (uk) f (učásnycja)
- Urdu: شَرِیک m (śarīk)
- Uyghur: قاتناشقۇچى (qatnashquchi)
- Uzbek: qatnashuvchi (uz)
- Vietnamese: người tham gia
- Welsh: cyfrannog m, cyfrannwr (cy) m
- West Frisian: dielnimmer c, meidogger c, partisipant c
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Adjective
participant (not comparable)
- Sharing; participating; having a share of part.
1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban , The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, , London: W Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:Therefore during the parliament he published his royal proclamation, offering pardon and grace of restitution to all such as had taken arms, or been participant of any attempts against him;
Further reading
- “participant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E Smith, editors (1911), “participant”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “participant”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Catalan
Pronunciation
Noun
participant m or f by sense (plural participants)
- participant
Verb
participant
- gerund of participar
Further reading
- “participant”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies , 2007 April
- “participant”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
- “participant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “participant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Pronunciation
Noun
participant m (plural participants, feminine participante)
- participant
Participle
participant
- present participle of participer
Further reading
Latin
Verb
participant
- third-person plural present active indicative of participō
Occitan
Noun
participant m or f (plural participants)
- participant
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French participant.
Noun
participant m (plural participanți)
- participant
Declension