servant

English

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Alternative forms

• servaunt (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old French servant.

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈsɜːvənt/, X-SAMPA: /"s3:v@nt/
• (GenAm) IPA: /ˈsɝvənt/, X-SAMPA: /"s3`v@nt/

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Noun

servant (plural servants)

1. One who serves another, providing help in some manner.

   She is quite the humble servant, the poor in this city owe much to her but she expects nothing.

2. One who is hired to perform regular household or other duties, and receives compensation. As opposed to a slave.

   There are three servants in the household, the butler and two maids.

Derived terms

• assigned servant
• civil servant
• manservant
• maidservant
• public servant

Translations

one who serves another, providing help in some manner

• Amharic: ሎሌ (am) (lole) m
• Arabic: خادم (ar) (xādim) m
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  僕人 (cmn), 仆人 (cmn) (púrén)

• Czech: služebník (cs) m

• Finnish: palvelija (fi)
• German: Helfer (de) m
• Greek: υπηρέτης (el) (ypirétis) m
• Indonesian: pelayan (id)
• Khmer: អ្នកបំរើ (km) (neak bɑmrəə)
• Scottish Gaelic: searbhanta (gd) m and f, seirbhiseach (gd) m
• Tigrinya: ከዳሚ (ti) (kedami) m

one who is hired to perform regular household or other duties, and receives compensation

• Czech: sluha (cs) m, služebný (cs) m
• Finnish: palvelija (fi)
• German: Diener (de) m
• Greek: υπάλληλος (el) (ypállilos) m and f
• Indonesian: pembantu (id)

• Polish: służący (pl) m, służąca (pl) f
• Russian: слуга́ (ru) (slugá) m, служа́нка (ru) (služánka) f
• Scottish Gaelic: searbhanta (gd) m and f, seirbhiseach (gd) m

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• Albanian: shërbëtor (sq) m
• Arabic: خادم (ar) (khaadim) m, خادمة (ar) (khaadima) f

  Egyptian Arabic: خدام (khadam) m

• Armenian: ծառա (hy) (çaṙa), սպասավոր (hy) (spasavor)
• Catalan: criat (ca) m, criada (ca) f
• Dutch: hulp (nl) (2), hulpje (nl), (2), huishoudhulp (nl) (2), bediende (nl) (2), knecht (nl) m (2), meid (nl) f (2)
• Esperanto: servisto (eo)
• Estonian: teener (et)
• Ewe: dɔla
• Tagalog: tagapaglingkod (tl)
• French: domestique (fr), serviteur (fr) m
• Greek: υπηρέτης (el) (ipirétis) m, υπάλληλος (el) (ipálilos) m
• Haitian Creole: sèvitè
• Hebrew: עבד (he) (eved)
• Hindi: नौकर (hi) (naukar) m
• Hungarian: szolga (hu), cseléd (hu)
• Italian: servo (it) m, servitore (it) m and f

• Japanese: 召使い (ja) (めしつかい, meshitsukai)
• Korean: 하인 (ko) (hain)
• Kurdish: نۆکه‌ر (ku) (noker)

  Sorani: به‌رده‌ست (ku) (berdest), خزمه‌تکار (ku) (xizmetkár)

• Macedonian: слуга (mk) (slúga) m, слугинка (mk) (slúginka) f, измеќар (mk) (ízmeḱar) m, измеќарка (mk) (ízmeḱarka) f, момок (mk) (mómok) m
• Maltese: qaddej (mt) m, qaddeja (mt) f, servjent (mt) m, servjenta (mt) f, seftur (mt) m, seftura (mt) f, rufjan (mt) m, rufjana (mt) f
• Old English: þeġen (ang) m (1)
• Portuguese: servente (pt) m and f, criado (pt) m, serviçal (pt) m and f
• Romanian: servitor (ro) m, slugă (ro) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic слу́га (sh) f, слу̀жа̄вка (sh) f

  Roman: slúga (sh) f, slùžāvka (sh) f

• Spanish: sirviente (es) m and f, criado (es) m, criada (es) f
• Swahili: utumishi (sw)
• Swedish: betjänt (sv), tjänare (sv) c, tjänstefolk (sv) n, hjon (sv) n
• Telugu: సేవకుడు (te) (sēvakuḍu)
• Urdu: نوکر (ur) (naukar) m

Verb

servant (third-person singular simple present servants, present participle servanting, simple past and past participle servanted)

1. (obsolete) To subject.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Statistics

• Most common English words before 1923: prove · engaged · America · #993: servant · doctor · Michael · fee

Anagrams

• taverns, versant

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French

Verb

servant

1. Present participle of servir.

Noun

servant m (plural servants; feminine servante, plural servantes)

1. servant

Related terms

• serveur, serveuse

Anagrams

• versant

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Latin

Verb

servant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of servō

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Middle English

Etymology

Old French servant, originally the present participle of servir

Noun

servant (plural servants)

1. servant

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Norwegian

Noun

servant (m)

1. any washbasin
2. a sink

Synonym

• vask

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Old French

Adjective

servant

1. that serves; that fulfils a role

Noun

servant m (oblique plural servanz, nominative singular servanz, nominative plural servant)

1. servant (one who serves)

Descendants

• English: servant (borrowed)
• French: servant