participation

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from Middle French [Term?], from Old French participacion, from Late Latin participatiō; synchronically analyzable as participate +‎ -ion.

PronunciationEdit

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

NounEdit

participation (countable and uncountable, plural participations)

1. The act of participating, of taking part in something.
2. The state of being related to a larger whole.
3. The process during which individuals, groups and organizations are consulted about or have the opportunity to become actively involved in a project or program of activity.
4. An ownership interest or profit-sharing right.

Related termsEdit

• participate
• participant

TranslationsEdit

act of participating

• Afrikaans: deelname
• Arabic: مُسَاهَمَة‎‎ f (musāhama)
• Belarusian: удзе́л m (udzjél)
• Bulgarian: уча́стие (bg) n (učástie)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 參加 (zh-yue), 参加 (zh-yue) (caam¹ gaa¹)

  Mandarin: 參加 (zh), 参加 (zh) (cānjiā), 參與 (zh), 参与 (zh) (cānyù)

• Czech: účast (cs) f
• Danish: deltagelse c
• Dutch: deelname (nl) f, deelneming (nl) f
• Esperanto: partopreno
• Finnish: osallistuminen (fi)
• French: participation (fr) f
• German: Partizipation (de) f, Beteiligung (de) f, Teilnahme (de) f
• Hebrew: השתתפות‎‎ f (hishtatfút)
• Hungarian: részvétel (hu)
• Ido: parto-prenar (io)
• Japanese: 参加 (ja) (さんか, sanka)

• Kurdish:

  Sorani: به‌شداری‎‎

• Macedonian: учество n (účestvo)
• Maltese: parteċipazzjoni f
• Polish: udział (pl) m, uczestnictwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: participação (pt) f
• Russian: уча́стие (ru) n (učástije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: учешће

  Roman: učešće (sh) n

• Slovak: účasť f
• Slovene: sodelovanje n
• Spanish: participación (es) f, colaboración (es) f, constribución f
• Swedish: deltagande (sv) n
• Ukrainian: участь f (účastʹ)
• Yiddish: אָנטייל‎‎ m (onteyl), אָנטיילונג‎‎ f (onteylung)

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FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin participātiō.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /paʁ.ti.si.pa.sjɔ̃/

NounEdit

participation f (plural participations)

1. participation

Further readingEdit

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