participant

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pɑːˈtɪsɪpənt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /pɑːɹˈtɪsəpənt/, /pəɹˈtɪsəpənt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

participant (plural participants)

1. One who participates.

   Synonym: participator

   Near-synonyms: entrant, partaker

   All participants must adhere to the rules of the competition.

   2. (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

• healthy participant effect
• participant evolution
• participant observation
• participant observer
• participant-observer
• spaceflight participant
• speech act participant

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

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Greek: ^{(please verify)} συμμέτοχος (el) m or f (symmétochos) (noun); ^{(please verify)} συμμετέχων (el) (symmetéchon) (present participle)

Adjective

participant (not comparable)

1. Sharing; participating; having a share of part.
   • 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] 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[li] Smith, editors (1911), “participant”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “participant”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [pər.ti.siˈpan]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [pər.ti.siˈpant]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [paɾ.ti.siˈpant]

Noun

participant m or f by sense (plural participants)

1. participant

Verb

participant

1. gerund of participar

Further reading

• “participant”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 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

• IPA^(key): /paʁ.ti.si.pɑ̃/

• Audio:

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Noun

participant m (plural participants, feminine participante)

1. participant

Participle

participant

1. present participle of participer

Further reading

• “participant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Verb

participant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of participō

Occitan

Noun

participant m or f (plural participants)

1. participant

Related terms

• participar

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French participant.

Noun

participant m (plural participanți)

1. participant

Declension

Declension of participant

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	participant	participantul		participanți	participanții
genitive-dative	participant	participantului		participanți	participanților
vocative	participantule			participanților