messenger

See also: Messenger

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old French messagier (French: messager), from message. For the additional -n-, compare passenger and harbinger with the same development.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛ.sɪn.dʒəɹ]

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NounEdit

messenger (plural messengers)

1. One who brings messages.
2. (nautical) A light line with which a heavier line may be hauled e.g. from the deck of a ship to the pier.
3. The supporting member of an aerial cable (electric power or telephone or data).
4. (law) A person appointed to perform certain ministerial duties under bankrupt and insolvent laws, such as to take charge of the estate of the bankrupt or insolvent.

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Derived termsEdit

• instant messenger

TranslationsEdit

one who brings messages

• Ancient Greek: ἄγγελος m (ángelos)
• Arabic: رَسُول‏‎ (ar) m (rasūl)
• Armenian: բանբեր (hy) (banber)
• Asturian: mensaxeru m
• Catalan: missatger m, missatgera f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 信使 (zh) (xìnshǐ), 使者 (zh) (shǐzhě)

• Czech: posel (cs) m, kurýr (cs) m
• Danish: bud n
• Dutch: boodschapper (nl) m
• Esperanto: anoncanto
• Faroese: boðberi m, boðsveinur m, sendiboð n, ørindasveinur m
• Finnish: lähetti (fi), sanansaattaja (fi), kuriiri (fi)
• French: messager (fr) m
• Galician: mensaxeiro m
• Georgian: მაცნე (macne), შიკრიკი (šiḳriḳi), მოამბე (moambe), მაუწყებელი (mauc̣q̇ebeli), მომასწავებელი (momasc̣avebeli)
• German: Kurier (de) m, Bote (de) m, Botschafter (de) m
• Gothic: 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌿𐍃 m (airus)
• Greek: αγγελιοφόρος (el) m (angeliofóros)
• Hebrew: מַלְאָךְ‏‎ (he) m (mal'akh) (biblical) שָׁלִיחַ‏‎ m (shalíakh)
• Hungarian: hírvivő (hu), hírnök (hu)
• Icelandic: sendiboði (is) m, boðberi (is) m
• Irish: teachtaire m, scéalaí m
• Italian: messaggero (it) m, corriere (it) m
• Japanese: 使者 (ja) (ししゃ, shisha), メッセンジャー (messenjā)
• Khmer: អ្នកនាំសារ (neak noam saa)

• Korean: 메신저 (mesinjeo)
• Latin: cursor m, nuntius (la) m, nuntia f, viator m, viatrix f
• Latvian: ziņnesis m, kurjers m
• Malay: utusan, pengutus
• Maori: karere, pūrahorua, kaiwaewae
• Ngazidja Comorian: ndrume class 9/10, mtrume class 3/4
• Norwegian: bud (no) n
• Occitan: messatgièr (oc) m
• Old Provençal: messatger m
• Persian: پیغام رسان‏‎ (peyqâm-resân), پیک‏‎ (fa) (peyk)
• Polish: posłaniec (pl) m, kurier (pl) m
• Portuguese: mensageiro (pt) m
• Quechua: chaski
• Russian: посы́льный (ru) m (posýlʹnyj), ве́стник (ru) m (véstnik), гоне́ц (ru) m (gonéc), связно́й (ru) m (svjaznój), курье́р (ru) m (kurʹjér), ме́ссенджер (ru) m (méssendžer) (software)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гласник m, весник m

  Roman: glasnik (sh) m, vesnik (sh) m

• Slovene: sèl m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: pósoł m

• Spanish: mensajero (es) m
• Swedish: bud (sv) n, budbärare (sv) c
• Tibetan: བང་ཆེན (bang chen), ཕོ་ཉ (pho nya)
• Walloon: messaedjî (wa) m
• Wolof: ndaw (wo)
• Yiddish: משולח‏‎ m (meshulekh), שליח‏‎ m (sheliyekh)

VerbEdit

messenger (third-person singular simple present messengers, present participle messengering, simple past and past participle messengered)

1. (transitive) To send something by messenger.

   I'll messenger over the signed documents.