participant

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French participant, from Latin participāns, present participle of participō; see participate.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (RP)

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Noun

participant (plural participants)

1. One who participates.

   All participants must adhere to the rules of the competition.

Synonyms

• entrant, partaker, participator

Translations

one who participates

• Arabic: مُشَارِك‎ m (mušārik)
• Armenian: մասնակից (hy) (masnakicʿ)
• Azerbaijani: iştirakçı (az)
• Bashkir: ҡатнашыусы (qatnašïwsï)
• Belarusian: удзе́льнік m (udzjélʹnik), удзе́льніца f (udzjélʹnica), уча́снік m (učásnik), уча́сніца f (učásnica)
• Bulgarian: уча́стник (bg) m (učástnik)
• Catalan: participant (ca) m or f
• Cebuano: sumasalmot, umaayap, partisipante
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 參加者 (zh), 参加者 (zh) (cānjiāzhě), 參與者 (zh), 参与者 (zh) (cānyùzhě)

• Czech: účastník (cs) m
• Danish: deltager (da) c
• Dutch: deelnemer (nl) m, participant (nl) m
• Esperanto: partoprenanto
• Finnish: osanottaja (fi), osallistuja (fi)
• French: participant (fr) m, participante (fr) f
• Galician: participante (gl) m or f
• German: Teilnehmer (de) m, Teilnehmerin (de) f
• Greek: συμμέτοχος (el) m or f (symmétochos), μετέχων m (metéchon)
• Hungarian: résztvevő (hu)
• Icelandic: þátttakandi (is) 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)
• Korean: 참가자 (ko) (chamgaja) (參加者 (ko))
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: beşdar (ku), pişkdar (ku), tevlîbûyî (ku)

• Lao: ຜູ້ເຂົ້າຮ່ວມ (phū khao hūam)

• Latin: particeps m
• Macedonian: учесник m (učesnik), учесничка f (učesnička)
• Malay: peserta (ms)
• Maori: kaiuru
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: deltaker m, deltager m

  Nynorsk: deltakar m

• Occitan: participant m or f
• Old English: dǣlnimend m
• 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

  Roman: ùčesnīk (sh) m

• Slovak: účastník m
• Slovene: udeleženec m, udeleženka f
• Spanish: participante m or f, partícipe m or f
• Swedish: deltagare (sv) c
• Telugu: పాల్గొను వ్యక్తి (pālgonu vyakti)
• Thai: ผู้เข้าร่วม (pûu-kâo-rûuam)
• Ukrainian: уча́сник (uk) (učásnyk), уча́сниця (uk) (učásnycja)
• Uzbek: qatnashuvchi (uz)
• Vietnamese: người tham gia
• West Frisian: dielnimmer c, meidogger c, partisipant c

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Greek: συμμέτοχος (el) m or f (symmétochos) (noun); 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 1086746628:

     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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• participant in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• participant at OneLook Dictionary Search

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /pəɾ.ti.siˈpant/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /pər.ti.siˈpan/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /paɾ.ti.siˈpant/

Noun

participant m or f (plural participants)

1. participant

Verb

participant

1. present participle of participar

Further reading

• “participant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “participant” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “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.

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French

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Noun

participant m (plural participants, feminine participante)

1. participant

Verb

participant

1. present participle of participer

Further reading

• “participant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Latin

Verb

participant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of participō

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Occitan

Noun

participant m or f (plural participants)

1. participant

Related terms

• participar

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Romanian

Etymology

From French participant

Noun

participant m (plural participanți)

1. participant

Declension

Declension of participant

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) participant	participantul	(niște) participanți	participanții
genitive/dative	(unui) participant	participantului	(unor) participanți	participanților
vocative	participantule		participanților