Etymology
Old English propheta, from Latin propheta (later reinforced in English by Anglo-Norman prophete), from Ancient Greek προφήτης (prophētēs, “one who speaks for a god”), from πρό (pro, “before”) + φημί (phēmi, “I tell”).
Pronunciation
Noun
prophet (plural prophets)
- Someone who speaks by divine inspiration.
- Someone who predicts the future; a soothsayer.
Derived terms
Translations
one who speaks by divine inspiration
- Arabic: نَبِيّ (nábiy) m, رَسُول (rasūl) m
- Armenian: մարգարե (hy) (margare)
- Azeri: peyğəmbər (az)
- Bashkir: пәйғәмбәр (päyğämbär)
- Bulgarian: пророк (bg) (prorók) m , пророчица (bg) (proróchitsa) f
- Catalan: profeta (ca) m and f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 先知 (xiānzhī), 預言家, 预言家 (yùyánjiā)
- Czech: prorok (cs) m
- Danish: profet (da) c
- Dutch: profeet (nl) m, profete (nl) f, ziener (nl) m, zieneres (nl) f
- Esperanto: profeto (eo)
- Ewe: nyagblɔɖila
- Finnish: profeetta (fi)
- French: prophète (fr) m, prophétesse (fr) f
- Georgian: წინასწარმეტყველი (ka) (cinascarmetqveli)
- German: Prophet (de) m, Prophetin (de) f
- Greek: προφήτης (el) (profítis) m
- Hebrew: נביא (he) (navi) m, איש האלוהים (he) (ish ha'elohim) m
- Hungarian: próféta (hu)
- Icelandic: spámaður (is) m
- Indonesian: nabi (id)
- Irish: fáidh (ga) m
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- Japanese: 預言者 (よげんしゃ, yogensha)
- Korean: 선지자,예언자 (ko) ((son ji ja,ye on ja))
- Kurdish: پێغهمبهر (ku), resûl (ku), nebî (ku), pêxember (ku)
- Macedonian: пророк (mk) (prórok) m, пророчица (mk) (proróčica) f
- Malay: nabi (ms)
- Norwegian: profet (no) m
- Old Norse: spámaðr m
- Persian: پیامبر (fa)
- Polish: prorok (pl) m
- Portuguese: profeta (pt) m
- Romansch: profet (rm) m
- Russian: пророк (ru) (prorók) m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: пророк (sh) m, пророчица (sh) f
- Roman: pròrok (sh) m, pròročica (sh) f
- Swahili: nabii (sw)
- Swedish: profet (sv) c
- Tajik: расул (tg) (rasul) , пайғамбар (tg) (paigambar)
- Turkish: peygamber (tr), nebi (tr), resul (tr), serdar-ı ekrem (tr), Allah'ın elçisi (tr), yalvaç (tr)
- Uyghur: پەيغەمبەر (ug)
- Volapük: (male or female) profetan (vo), (male) hiprofetan (vo), (female) jiprofetan (vo)
- Welsh: proffwyd (cy) m
- Yiddish: נבֿיא (yi) (novi) m
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one who foretells the future
- Arabic: مَن يَتَنَبّأ (man yatanábba’u)
- Catalan: profeta (ca) m and f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 先知 (xiānzhī), 預言家, 预言家 (yùyánjiā)
- Czech: věštec (cs) m, prorok (cs) m, věštkyně (cs) f, prorokyně (cs) f
- Danish: profet (da) c, spåmand (da) c m, spåkvinde (da) c f
- Dutch: profeet (nl) m, waarzegger (nl) m, waarzegster (nl) f
- Esperanto: profeto (eo)
- Finnish: profeetta (fi), ennustaja (fi)
- French: prophète (fr) m, prophétesse (fr) f, devin (fr) m
- German: Prophet (de) m, Prophetin (de) f
- Greek: προφήτης (el) m (profítis) (profítis)
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- Hebrew: נביא (he) (navi) m, מגד עתידות (he) (maged atidot) m
- Hungarian: próféta (hu), látnok (hu)
- Icelandic: spámaður (is) m
- Irish: fáidh (ga) m
- Japanese: 予言者 (よげんしゃ, yogensha)
- Macedonian: пророк (mk) (prórok) m, претскажувач (mk) (pretskážuvač) m
- Norwegian: profet (no) m, spåmann (no) m
- Russian: пророк (ru) (prorók) m , прорицатель (ru) (proricátel’) m , предсказатель (ru) (predskazátel’) m , провидец (ru) (provídec) m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: видовњак (sh), пророк (sh) m, пророчица (sh) f
- Roman: vidovnjak (sh), pròrok (sh) m, pròročica (sh) f
- Swedish: profet (sv) c
- Volapük: (male or female) profetan (vo), (male) hiprofetan (vo), (female) jiprofetan (vo)
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Translations to be checked
- Esperanto: profeto
- Korean: 예언자 (ye-eonja)
- Kurdish: peyamber, qasid
- Norwegian: profet (no) m
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