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Etymology
From Old French messagier (French: messager), from message.
Pronunciation
Noun
messenger (plural messengers)
- One who brings messages.
- (nautical) A light line with which a heavier line may be hauled e.g. from the deck of a ship to the pier.
- The supporting member of an aerial cable (electric power or telephone or data).
Derived terms
Translations
one who brings messages
- Ancient Greek: ἄγγελος m
- Arabic: رسول (ar) (rasūl) m
- Armenian: բանբեր (hy) (banber)
- Asturian: mensaxeru (ast) m
- Catalan: missatger (ca) m, missatgera (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 信使 (cmn) (xìnshǐ)
- Czech: posel (cs) m, kurýr (cs) m
- Danish: bud (da) n
- Dutch: boodschapper (nl) m
- Faroese: boðberi (fo) m, boðsveinur (fo) m, sendiboð (fo) n, ørindasveinur (fo) m
- Finnish: lähetti (fi), sanansaattaja (fi), kuriiri (fi)
- French: messager (fr) m
- Galician: mensaxeiro (gl) m
- German: Kurier (de) m, Bote (de) m, Botschafter (de) m
- Greek: αγγελιοφόρος (el) (angeliofóros) m
- Hebrew: מַלְאָךְ (he) (mal'akh) m
- Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
- Icelandic: sendiboði (is) m, boðberi (is) m
- Irish: teachtaire (ga) m, scéalaí (ga) m
- Italian: messaggero (it) m, corriere (it) m
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- Japanese: 使者 (ja) (ししゃ, sisha), メッセンジャー (ja) (messenjā)
- Khmer: អ្នកនាំសារ (km) (neak noam saa)
- Korean: 메신저 (ko) (mesinjeo)
- Latin: cursor (la) m, nuntius (la) m
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Malay: utusan (ms)
- Norwegian: bud (no) n
- Occitan: messatgièr (oc) m
- Old Provençal: messatger m
- Polish: posłaniec (pl) m, kurier (pl) m
- Portuguese: mensageiro (pt) m
- Russian: посыльный (ru) (posýl'nyj) m , вестник (ru) (véstnik) m , гонец (ru) (gonéc) m , связной (ru) (svjaznój) m , курьер (ru) (kur'jér) m , мессенджер (ru) (méssendžer) m (software)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: гласник (sh) m, весник (sh) m
- Roman: glasnik (sh) m, vesnik (sh) m
- Slovene: sèl (sl) m
- Spanish: mensajero (es) m
- Swedish: bud (sv) n, budbärare (sv) c
- Tibetan: བང་ཆེན (bo) (bang chen), ཕོ་ཉ (bo) (pho-nya)
- Yiddish: please add this translation if you can
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Verb
messenger (third-person singular simple present messengers, present participle messengering, simple past and past participle messengered)
- (transitive) To send something by messenger.
- I'll messenger over the signed documents.
