Protestantism

See also: protestantism

Contents

English

Etymology

From Protestant +‎ -ism

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɒtɪstəntɪzəm/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɑtɪstəntɪzəm/

Noun

Protestantism (usually uncountable, plural Protestantisms)

1. The Protestant (rather than the Roman Catholic or Orthodox) Christian faith.
2. Collectively, the Protestant churches or the Protestants.
3. The beliefs held by the Protestant churches.

Hypernyms

• Christianity

Translations

faith

• Albanian: protestantizmi
• Arabic: بُرُوتِسْتَانْتِيَّة‎ f (burūtistāntiyya)
• Armenian: բողոքականություն (hy) (bołokʿakanutʿyun)
• Basque: protestantismo
• Belarusian: пратэстанцтва n (pratestanctva)
• Bulgarian: протестантство n (protestantstvo)
• Catalan: protestantisme m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 新教 (san¹ gaau³), 基督新教 (gei¹ duk¹ san¹ gaau³), 抗議宗, 抗议宗 (kong³ ji⁵ zung¹), 抗羅宗, 抗罗宗 (kong³ lo⁴ zung¹), 反羅宗, 反罗宗 (faan² lo⁴ zung¹), 反對教, 反对教 (faan² deoi³ gaau³), 誓反教 (sai⁶ faan² gaau³), 更正教 (gang¹ zing³ gaau³), 改新教 (goi² san¹ gaau³)

  Hakka: 新教 (Sîn-kau), 基督新教 (Kî-tuk Sîn-kau)

  Mandarin: 新教 (zh) (xīnjiào), 基督新教 (zh) (Jīdū xīnjiào), 抗議宗, 抗议宗 (Kàngyìzōng), 抗羅宗, 抗罗宗 (Kàngluózōng), 反羅宗, 反罗宗 (Fǎnluózōng), 反對教, 反对教 (Fǎnduìjiào), 誓反教 (Shìfǎnjiào), 更正教 (Gēngzhèngjiào), 改新教 (Gǎixīnjiào)

  Min Nan: 新教 (Sin-kàu), 更正教 (Keng-chèng-kàu), 抗議教, 抗议教 (Khòng-gī-kàu), 基督新教 (Ki-tok Sin-kàu)

• Czech: protestantství n
• Danish: protestantisme c
• Dutch: protestantisme (nl) n
• Esperanto: protestantismo
• Estonian: protestantism
• Finnish: protestanttinen usko, protestanttisuus (fi)
• French: protestantisme (fr) m
• Georgian: პროტესტანტიზმი (ṗroṭesṭanṭizmi)
• German: Protestantismus (de) m
• Greek: προτεσταντισμός (el) m (protestantismós)
• Hungarian: protestantizmus (hu)
• Irish: Protastúnachas m
• Italian: protestantesimo (it) m

• Japanese: 新教 (しんきょう, shinkyō), プロテスタンティズム (purotesutantizumu)
• Korean: 개신교 (ko) (gaesin-gyo)
• Latvian: protestantisms m
• Lithuanian: protestantizmas m
• Macedonian: протестантизам m (protestantizam)
• Malay: Protestan
• Norwegian: protestantisme (no) m
• Persian: پروتستانتیسم‎
• Polish: protestantyzm (pl) m
• Portuguese: protestantismo (pt) m
• Romanian: protestantism (ro) n
• Russian: протеста́нтство (ru) n (protestántstvo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: протестантизам m

  Roman: protestantizam (sh) m

• Slovak: protestantizmus m
• Slovene: protestantizem m
• Spanish: protestantismo (es) m
• Swahili: Uprotestanti
• Swedish: protestantismen (sv) c, protestantism (sv) c
• Thai: โปรเตสแตนต์ (bproo-dtées-dtɛ́n)
• Turkish: Protestanlık (tr)
• Ukrainian: протестанти́зм m (protestantýzm)
• Vietnamese: Tin Lành (vi)

Protestant churches or the Protestants collectively

• Finnish: protestantit pl

beliefs

• Finnish: protestanttinen usko, protestanttisuus (fi)