challenger

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃælɪn(d)ʒə/
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• General-American: /ˈt͡ʃælənd͡ʒəɹ/
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• CMU ARPABET: CH AE1 L AH0 N JH ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: CH AE1 L IH0 N JH ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From challenger.

Inherited from Middle English chalengere, chalangeour, chalenger (“one who causes injury, or makes false charges or slanderous statements; one who disputes, disputant, objector; claimant”), and then partly from both of the following: * From Middle English chalengen (“to accuse; to accuse falsely or maliciously, slander; to treat unjustly, wrong; to dispute, object; to make a claim or demand; to rebuke, scold; to issue a challenge to; etc.”) + -er, -ere (suffix forming agent nouns). Chalengen is derived from Anglo-Norman chalenger, and Old French chalenger, chalongier (“to challenge, dispute; to claim; etc.”) (modern French challenger), from Late Latin calumniāre, the second-person singular present active imperative or indicative of calumnior (“to accuse falsely; to make hurtful untrue comments about; etc.”), from Latin calumnia (“artifice, trickery; false accusation; false statement; etc.”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱeh1l-, *keh1l- (“to beguile, deceive”)) + -or (the first-person singular present passive indicative of -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs)). * From Old French chalengeor (“claimant, plaintiff; false accuser, slanderer”) (modern French challengeur), from chalenger, chalongier (see above) + -eor (variant of -or (suffix forming agent nouns)). By surface analysis, challenge (verb) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns).

52 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Chinese Mandarin: 挑戰者號 /挑战者号 (Tiǎozhànzhě hào) — name of a space shuttle
• Japanese: チャレンジャー (Charenjā) — name of a space shuttle
• Russian: Че́лленджер (Čéllendžer) — name of a space shuttle
• Armenian: հավակնորդ (havaknord) — one who challenges
• Bulgarian: предизвикател (predizvikatel) — one who challenges
• Bulgarian: претенде́нт (pretendént) — one who challenges
• Chinese Mandarin: 挑戰者 /挑战者 (tiaǒzhànzhě) — one who challenges
• Czech: vyzývatel — one who challenges
• Danish: udfordrer — one who challenges
• Dutch: uitdager — one who challenges
• Finnish: haastaja — one who challenges
• French: challengeur — one who challenges
• French: concurrent — one who challenges
• Galician: desafiador — one who challenges
• Georgian: გამომწვევი (gamomc̣vevi) — one who challenges
• Georgian: მეტოქე (meṭoke) — one who challenges
• Georgian: მოცილე (mocile) — one who challenges
• Georgian: ოპონენტი (oṗonenṭi) — one who challenges
• Georgian: პრეტენდენტი (ṗreṭendenṭi) — one who challenges
• German: Herausforderer — one who challenges
• German: Herausforderin — one who challenges
• Old High German: urheizo — one who challenges
• Hindi: दावेदार (dāvedār) — one who challenges
• Indonesian: penantang — one who challenges
• Irish: agóideoir — one who challenges
• Italian: sfidante — one who challenges
• Italian: sfidatore — one who challenges
• Japanese: 挑戦者 (chōsensha) — one who challenges
• Korean: 도전자 (dojeonja) — one who challenges
• Latin: prōvocātor — one who challenges
• Norwegian Bokmål: utfordrer — one who challenges
• Norwegian Nynorsk: utfordrar — one who challenges
• Persian: چالشانگیز (čâlešangiz) — one who challenges
• Polish: konkurent — one who challenges
• Portuguese: desafiador — one who challenges
• Portuguese: desafiante — one who challenges
• Quechua: tupaq — one who challenges
• Romanian: pretendent — one who challenges
• Romanian: pretendentă — one who challenges
• Romanian: persoană care contestă ceva — one who challenges
• Russian: претенде́нт (pretendént) — one who challenges
• Serbo-Croatian: изазѝва̄ч — one who challenges
• Serbo-Croatian: izazìvāč — one who challenges
• Slovak: vyzývateľ — one who challenges
• Spanish: desafiador — one who challenges
• Spanish: retante — one who challenges
• Thai: คู่แข่ง (kûu-kɛ̀ng) — one who challenges
• Ukrainian: претенде́нт (pretendént) — one who challenges
• Vietnamese: người thách — one who challenges
• Welsh: heriwr — one who challenges
• Finnish: haastaja — one who plays against the current champion of a contest or game in hopes of winning and becoming the new champion
• Finnish: haastaja — match, tournament, or tour of the second-highest tier organized by the Association of Tennis Professionals