baptismal font

English

Noun

baptismal font (plural baptismal fonts)

1. (Christianity) A large basin used for baptism in or near a church.

Synonyms

• baptismal, lavacre, lavatory

Derived terms

• baptismal

Translations

a basin used for baptism

• Arabic: جُرْنُ المَعْمُودِيّة (jurnu l-maʕmūdiyya)
• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܐܘܙܢܐ m (awzana)

• Armenian: ավազան (hy) (avazan)
• Basque: bataiarri
• Belarusian: купель f (kupjelʹ)
• Breton: maen-badez (br) m
• Bulgarian: купел (bg) f (kupel)
• Catalan: pila baptismal f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 領洗池／领洗池 (lǐngxǐchí)

• Czech: křtitelnice (cs) f
• Danish: døbefont (da) c
• Dutch: doopvont (nl) f or n
• Esperanto: baptujo
• Estonian: ristimiskivi
• Finnish: kastemalja (fi)
• French: fonts baptismaux (fr) m pl
• Galician: pía bautismal f
• Georgian: სანათლავი (sanatlavi)

  Old Georgian: ავაზანი (avazani)

• German: Taufbecken (de) n
• Greek: κολυμβήθρα (el) f (kolymvíthra)
• Hebrew: אגן טבילה (agan tavilakh)
• Hungarian: keresztelőkút
• Icelandic: skírnarfontur m
• Irish: umar baiste m
• Italian: fonte battesimale (it) f
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• Japanese: 洗礼盤 (せんれいばん, senreiban)
• Korean: 세례대 (seryedae)
• Latvian: kristāmtrauks m
• Lithuanian: krikštykla f
• Macedonian: крстилница f (krstilnica), купел f (kupel)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: døpefont

  Nynorsk: døypefont

• Persian: حوضچۀ تعمید (hozčeye ta'mid)
• Plautdietsch: Doopsteen m
• Polish: chrzcielnica (pl) f, baptysterium (pl) n
• Portuguese: pia batismal f
• Romanian: cristelniță (ro) f, baptisteriu (ro) n
• Russian: купе́ль (ru) f (kupélʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: amar-bàistidh
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: крстио́ница f

  Roman: krstionica (sh) f

• Slovak: krstiteľnica f
• Slovene: krstilnik m
• Spanish: pila bautismal (es) f
• Swedish: dopfunt (sv) c
• Tagalog: benditahan
• Udi: авазан (avazan)
• Ukrainian: купіль християнства f (kupilʹ xrystyjanstva), купіль f (kupilʹ)
• Welsh: bedyddfaen m
• Yiddish: טויפֿבעקן m (toyfbekn)

Further reading

• baptismal font on Wikipedia.Wikipedia