minister

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• US: /ˈmɪn.əˌstɚ/
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• US: /ˈmɪn.ɪ-/
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• UK: /ˈmɪn.ɪs.tə/
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• Ireland: /ˈmɪn.ə.stɚ/
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• /ˈmɪn.ə.stɐ/ Dublin
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• /ˈmɪn.ə.stɚ/ Dublin
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• South-Asia: /mɪˈnɪsʈə(ɾ)/
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• CMU ARPABET: M IH1 N AH0 S T ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English ministre, from Old French ministre, from Latin minister (“an attendant, servant, assistant, a priest's assistant or other under official”), from minor (“less”) + -ter; see minor. Doublet of Minorite.

Inherited from Middle English mynystren, from Middle French ministrer, from Old French menistrer, ministrer and Latin ministrō, from minister.

267 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: predikant — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Afrikaans: dominee — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Albanian: prift — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Arabic: قِسِّيس (qissīs) — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Arabic: دَاعِيَة (dāʕiya) — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Arabic: كَاهِن (kāhin) — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Armenian: քահանա (kʻahana) — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Belarusian: свяшчэ́ннiк (svjaščénnik) — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Bulgarian: свеще́ник (svešténik) — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Burmese: ဘုန်းကြီး (bhun:kri:) — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Catalan: ministre de l'església — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Cherokee: ᎠᎵᏣᏙᎲᏍᎩ (alitsadohvsgi) — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Chichewa: mbusa — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Chinese Cantonese: 牧師 /牧师 (muk6 si1) — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Eastern Min Chinese: 牧師 /牧师 (mŭk-sṳ̆) — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Chinese: 牧師 /牧师 (bo̍k-su) — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Chinese Mandarin: 牧師 /牧师 (mùshī) — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Czech: kněz — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Czech: duchovní — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Danish: præst — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Danish: pastor — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Dutch: dominee — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Erzya: туростор (turostor) — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Esperanto: pastoro — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Esperanto: pastro — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Estonian: preester — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Finnish: pappi — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• French: pasteur — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• French: prêtre — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Galician: ministro — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Georgian: მღვდელი (mɣvdeli) — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• German: Pfarrer — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• German: Priester — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Greek: πάστορας (pástoras) — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Hebrew: כֹּמֶר — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Hebrew: כומר (kómer) — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Hebrew: כּוֹהֵן — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Hebrew: כֹּהֵן (kohén) — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Hindi: पादरी (pādrī) — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Hindi: काहिन (kāhin) — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Hindi: याजक (yājak) — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Hungarian: lelkész — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Hungarian: lelkipásztor — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Icelandic: prestur — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Italian: prete — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Japanese: 牧師 (bokushi) — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Korean: 목사 (moksa) — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Northern Kurdish: qeşe — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Lao: ນິຄົນ (ni khon) — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Latvian: priesteris — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Latvian: mācītājs — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Lithuanian: kunigas — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Macedonian: све́штеник (svéštenik) — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Māori: minita — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Navajo: ééʼ neishoodii — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Norwegian Bokmål: prest — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Church Slavic: свѧщеникъ (svęštenikŭ) — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Pashto: پادري (pādri) — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Pashto: کاهن (kāhǝn) — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Pashto: کشیش (kašiš) — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Dari: کَاهِن (kāhin) — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Dari: کَشِیش (kašīš) — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Iranian Persian: کاهِن (kâhen) — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Iranian Persian: کَشیش (kašiš) — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Pijin: minista — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Plautdietsch: Prädja — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Polish: ksiądz — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Polish: pastor — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Polish: duchowny — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Portuguese: pastor — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Romanian: pastor — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Romanian: preot — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Russian: свяще́нник (svjaščénnik) — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Scottish Gaelic: ministear — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Serbo-Croatian: свѐштенӣк — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Serbo-Croatian: свѐћенӣк — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Serbo-Croatian: духо̀внӣк — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Serbo-Croatian: svèštenīk — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Serbo-Croatian: svèćenīk — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Serbo-Croatian: duhòvnīk — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Slovak: kňaz — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Slovak: duchovný — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Slovene: duhovnik — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Sotho: moruti — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Spanish: ministro — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Swedish: präst — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Tagalog: kataluna — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Tagalog: ministro — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Thai: บาทหลวง (bàat-lǔuang) — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Tok Pisin: minista — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Turkmen: ruhany — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Ukrainian: свяще́ник (svjaščényk) — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Urdu: خادِمِ دِین (xādim-i dīn) — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Urdu: پادْری (pādrī) — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Urdu: کاہِن (kāhin) — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Uzbek: ruhoniy — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Vietnamese: mục sư — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Vietnamese: linh mục — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• Welsh: gweinidog — person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church
• German: Dienstamtsträger — person who is commissioned to perform some act on behalf of the Catholic Church
• German: Dienstamtsträgerin — person who is commissioned to perform some act on behalf of the Catholic Church
• Vietnamese: thừa tác viên — person who is commissioned to perform some act on behalf of the Catholic Church
• Afrikaans: minister — politician who heads a ministry
• Albanian: ministër — politician who heads a ministry
• Albanian: ministre — politician who heads a ministry
• Amharic: ሚኒስትር (ministər) — politician who heads a ministry
• Arabic: وَزِير (wazīr) — politician who heads a ministry
• Arabic: وَزِيرَة (wazīra) — politician who heads a ministry
• Arabic: وزير (wazīr) — politician who heads a ministry
• Armenian: նախարար (naxarar) — politician who heads a ministry
• Assamese: মন্ত্ৰী (montri) — politician who heads a ministry
• Assamese: উজীৰ (uzir) — politician who heads a ministry
• Assamese: মিনিষ্টাৰ (ministar) — politician who heads a ministry
• Azerbaijani: nazir — politician who heads a ministry
• Azerbaijani: vəzir — politician who heads a ministry
• Bashkir: министр (ministr) — politician who heads a ministry
• Basque: ministro — politician who heads a ministry
• Belarusian: міні́стр (minístr) — politician who heads a ministry
• Belarusian: міні́стар (minístar) — politician who heads a ministry
• Belarusian: міні́стрка (minístrka) — politician who heads a ministry
• Belarusian: міні́старка (minístarka) — politician who heads a ministry
• Bengali: মন্ত্রী (montri) — politician who heads a ministry
• Bengali: উজির (ujir) — politician who heads a ministry
• Bole: minista — politician who heads a ministry
• Bulgarian: мини́стър (minístǎr) — politician who heads a ministry
• Bulgarian: мини́стърка (minístǎrka) — politician who heads a ministry
• Burmese: ဝန်ကြီး (wankri:) — politician who heads a ministry
• Catalan: ministre — politician who heads a ministry
• Chichewa: nduna — politician who heads a ministry
• Chinese Cantonese: 大臣 (daai6 san4) — politician who heads a ministry
• Chinese Cantonese: 部長 /部长 (bou6 zoeng2) — politician who heads a ministry
• Hakka Chinese: 大臣 (thai-sṳ̀n) — politician who heads a ministry
• Chinese: 大臣 (tāi-sîn) — politician who heads a ministry
• Chinese Mandarin: 大臣 (dàchén) — politician who heads a ministry
• Chinese Mandarin: 部長 /部长 (bùzhǎng) — politician who heads a ministry
• Crimean Tatar: nazir — politician who heads a ministry
• Czech: ministr — politician who heads a ministry
• Czech: ministryně — politician who heads a ministry
• Danish: minister — politician who heads a ministry
• Dhivehi: ވަޒީރު (vazīru) — politician who heads a ministry
• Dutch: minister — politician who heads a ministry
• Erzya: туростор (turostor) — politician who heads a ministry
• Esperanto: ministro — politician who heads a ministry
• Estonian: minister — politician who heads a ministry
• Finnish: ministeri — politician who heads a ministry
• French: ministre — politician who heads a ministry
• Galician: ministro — politician who heads a ministry
• Georgian: მინისტრი (minisṭri) — politician who heads a ministry
• German: Minister — politician who heads a ministry
• German: Ministerin — politician who heads a ministry
• Greek: υπουργός (ypourgós) — politician who heads a ministry
• Ancient Greek: ὑπουργός (hupourgós) — politician who heads a ministry
• Gujarati: મંત્રી (mantrī) — politician who heads a ministry
• Hausa: minista — politician who heads a ministry
• Hebrew: שַׂר (sar) — politician who heads a ministry
• Hebrew: שָׂרָה (sará) — politician who heads a ministry
• Hindi: वज़ीर (vazīr) — politician who heads a ministry
• Hindi: मंत्री (mantrī) — politician who heads a ministry
• Hungarian: miniszter — politician who heads a ministry
• Iban: menteri — politician who heads a ministry
• Icelandic: ráðherra — politician who heads a ministry
• Indonesian: menteri — politician who heads a ministry
• Japanese: 大臣 (daijin) — politician who heads a ministry
• Japanese: 長官 (chōkan) — politician who heads a ministry
• Javanese: mantri — politician who heads a ministry
• Kannada: ಮಂತ್ರಿ (mantri) — politician who heads a ministry
• Kazakh: министр (ministr) — politician who heads a ministry
• Kazakh: уәзір (uäzır) — politician who heads a ministry
• Khmer: រដ្ឋមន្ត្រី (rŏət mŭəntrəy) — politician who heads a ministry
• Khmer: មន្ត្រី (mŭəntrəy) — politician who heads a ministry
• Korean: 대신 (daesin) — politician who heads a ministry
• Korean: 장관 (janggwan) — politician who heads a ministry
• Korean: 상 (sang) — politician who heads a ministry
• Northern Kurdish: wezîr — politician who heads a ministry
• Northern Kurdish: şalyar — politician who heads a ministry
• Kyrgyz: министр (ministr) — politician who heads a ministry
• Kyrgyz: вазир (vazir) — politician who heads a ministry
• Ladino: bakan — politician who heads a ministry
• Ladino: agá — politician who heads a ministry
• Ladino: vezir — politician who heads a ministry
• Lao: ລັດຖະມົນຕີ (lat tha mon tī) — politician who heads a ministry
• Latvian: ministrs — politician who heads a ministry
• Latvian: ministre — politician who heads a ministry
• Lithuanian: ministras — politician who heads a ministry
• Lithuanian: ministrė — politician who heads a ministry
• Macedonian: министер (minister) — politician who heads a ministry
• Macedonian: министерка (ministerka) — politician who heads a ministry
• Malay: menteri — politician who heads a ministry
• Malayalam: മന്ത്രി (mantri) — politician who heads a ministry
• Māori: minita — politician who heads a ministry
• Marathi: मंत्री (mantrī) — politician who heads a ministry
• Mongolian: сайд (sajd) — politician who heads a ministry
• Mongolian: ᠰᠠᠶᠢᠳ (sayid) — politician who heads a ministry
• Nepali: मन्त्री (mantrī) — politician who heads a ministry
• Norwegian Bokmål: minister — politician who heads a ministry
• Norwegian Nynorsk: minister — politician who heads a ministry
• Occitan: ministre — politician who heads a ministry
• Odia: ମନ୍ତ୍ରୀ (mantri) — politician who heads a ministry
• Old English: þeġen — politician who heads a ministry
• Pashto: وزير (wazīr) — politician who heads a ministry
• Dari: وَزِیر (wazīr) — politician who heads a ministry
• Iranian Persian: وَزیر (vazir) — politician who heads a ministry
• Polish: minister — politician who heads a ministry
• Portuguese: ministro — politician who heads a ministry
• Romanian: ministru — politician who heads a ministry
• Romanian: ministră — politician who heads a ministry
• Russian: мини́стр (minístr) — politician who heads a ministry
• Sanskrit: मन्त्रि (mantri) — politician who heads a ministry
• Sanskrit: मन्त्रिन् (mantrin) — politician who heads a ministry
• Scottish Gaelic: ministear — politician who heads a ministry
• Serbo-Croatian: мѝнистар — politician who heads a ministry
• Serbo-Croatian: мѝнистрица — politician who heads a ministry
• Serbo-Croatian: мѝниста̄рка — politician who heads a ministry
• Serbo-Croatian: mìnistar — politician who heads a ministry
• Serbo-Croatian: mìnistrica — politician who heads a ministry
• Serbo-Croatian: mìnistārka — politician who heads a ministry
• Slovak: minister — politician who heads a ministry
• Slovak: ministryňa — politician who heads a ministry
• Slovene: minister — politician who heads a ministry
• Slovene: ministrica — politician who heads a ministry
• Sotho: tona — politician who heads a ministry
• Spanish: ministro — politician who heads a ministry
• Swahili: waziri — politician who heads a ministry
• Swedish: minister — politician who heads a ministry
• Tajik: вазир (vazir) — politician who heads a ministry
• Tamil: அமைச்சர் (amaiccar) — politician who heads a ministry
• Tamil: மந்திரி (mantiri) — politician who heads a ministry
• Tatar: министр (ministr) — politician who heads a ministry
• Tatar: вәзир (wäzir) — politician who heads a ministry
• Telugu: మంత్రి (mantri) — politician who heads a ministry
• Thai: รัฐมนตรี (rát-tà-mon-dtrii) — politician who heads a ministry
• Tibetan: བློན་པོ (blon po) — politician who heads a ministry
• Tocharian B: āmaś — politician who heads a ministry
• Tumbuka: nduna — politician who heads a ministry
• Turkish: bakan — politician who heads a ministry
• Turkish: vezir — politician who heads a ministry
• Turkmen: ministr — politician who heads a ministry
• Turkmen: wezir — politician who heads a ministry
• Ukrainian: міні́стр (minístr) — politician who heads a ministry
• Ukrainian: міні́стрка (minístrka) — politician who heads a ministry
• Urdu: وَزِیر (vazīr) — politician who heads a ministry
• Uyghur: ۋەزىر (wezir) — politician who heads a ministry
• Uzbek: vazir — politician who heads a ministry
• Uzbek: ministr — politician who heads a ministry
• Vietnamese: bộ trưởng — politician who heads a ministry
• Vietnamese: tổng trưởng — politician who heads a ministry
• Vietnamese: đại thần — politician who heads a ministry
• Volapük: ninisteran — politician who heads a ministry
• Welsh: gweinidog — politician who heads a ministry
• Yiddish: מיניסטער (minister) — politician who heads a ministry
• Zazaki: wezır — politician who heads a ministry
• Zazaki: weyner — politician who heads a ministry
• Afrikaans: dienaar — someone who serves others
• Dutch: dienaar — someone who serves others
• Finnish: palvelija — someone who serves others
• Gothic: 𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌱𐌰𐌷𐍄𐍃 (andbahts) — someone who serves others
• Polish: służebnik — someone who serves others
• Polish: sługa — someone who serves others
• Russian: исполни́тель (ispolnítelʹ) — someone who serves others
• Bulgarian: служа (služa) — to attend to; to tend
• German: sich kümmern — to attend to; to tend
• German: sorgen — to attend to; to tend
• Russian: служи́ть (služítʹ) — to attend to; to tend
• Russian: помога́ть (pomogátʹ) — to attend to; to tend
• Spanish: ministrar — to attend to; to tend
• Swedish: vårda — to attend to; to tend
• Swedish: ta hand om — to attend to; to tend