baptism

English

An infant baptism.

Etymology

From Middle English bapteme, baptesme, from Old French batesme or bapteme, from Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin baptisma, from , from .

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbæptɪzəm/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

baptism (countable and uncountable, plural baptisms)

1. A Christian sacrament, by which one is received into a church and sometimes given a name, generally involving the candidate to be anointed with or submerged in water.
2. A similar ceremony of initiation, purification or naming.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• adult baptism
• anabaptism, Anabaptism
• affusion baptism, baptism by affusion
• aspersion baptism, baptism by aspersion
• baptismal
• baptismally
• baptism by immersing (immersion baptism)
• baptism by pouring (affusion baptism)
• baptism by sprinkling (aspersion baptism)
• baptism by submerging (submersion baptism)
• baptism for the dead, baptism by proxy
• baptism of fire, baptism by fire, fire baptism
• baptism of the Holy Spirit, baptism in the Holy Spirit, baptism with the Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit baptism
• believer's baptism, believers' baptism, believers baptism
• credobaptism, credo-baptism
• immersion baptism, baptism by immersion

• infant baptism
• infantile baptism
• paedobaptism, pædobaptism, pedobaptism
• paedo-baptism, pædo-baptism, pedo-baptism
• rebaptism, re-baptism
• submersion baptism, baptism by submersion
• vicarious baptism
• water baptism

Related terms

Related terms

• anabaptise, anabaptize
• anabaptist, Anabaptist
• anabaptistic, Anabaptistic
• anabaptistical, Anabaptistical
• anabaptistically, Anabaptistically
• antipaedobaptist, antipædobaptist, antipedobaptist
• anti-paedobaptist, anti-pædobaptist, anti-pedobaptist
• credobaptist, credo-baptist
• baptisand, baptizand
• baptisation, baptization
• baptise, baptize
• baptiser, baptizer
• baptising, baptizing

• baptist, Baptist
• baptistery, baptistry
• baptistic, Baptistic
• baptistical, Baptistical
• baptistically, Baptistically
• paedobaptist, pædobaptist, pedobaptist
• paedo-baptist, pædo-baptist, pedo-baptist
• rebaptisation, rebaptization
• re-baptisation, re-baptization
• rebaptise, rebaptize
• re-baptise, re-baptize
• rebaptising, rebaptizing
• re-baptising, re-baptizing

Translations

Christian sacrament

• Albanian: pagëzim (sq) m
• Arabic: مَعْمُودِيَّة f (maʕmūdiyya); تَعْمِيد m (taʕmīd)
• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܡܥܡܘܕܝܬܐ f (maʿmōḏīṯā)

• Armenian: մկրտություն (hy) (mkrtutʻyun), կնունք (hy) (knunkʻ)
• Aromanian: pãtigiuni f, pãtedz n
• Azerbaijani: vəftiz
• Belarusian: хрышчэ́нне n (xryščénnje)
• Bulgarian: кръще́ние n (krǎšténie)
• Catalan: baptisme (ca) m
• Central Melanau: baptais
• Chichewa: ubatizo
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 洗禮／洗礼 (sai² lai⁵), 洗礼 (sai² lai⁵), 浸禮／浸礼 (zam³ lai⁵), 浸礼 (zam³ lai⁵)

  Hakka: 洗禮／洗礼, 洗礼 (sé-lî)

  Mandarin: 洗禮／洗礼 (zh) (xǐlǐ), 洗礼 (zh) (xǐlǐ), 浸禮／浸礼 (jìnlǐ), 浸礼 (jìnlǐ)

  Min Nan: 洗禮／洗礼 (zh-min-nan), 洗礼 (sé-lé, sóe-lé), 浸禮／浸礼, 浸礼 (chìm-lé)

• Czech: křest (cs) m
• Danish: dåb (da) c
• Dutch: doop (nl) m
• Esperanto: bapto
• Estonian: ristimine
• Faroese: dópur m
• Finnish: kaste (fi)
• French: baptême (fr) m
• Friulian: batisim m, bàtem
• Galician: bautismo (gl) m
• Gallurese: battìsgimu
• Georgian: ბაპტიზმი (baṗṭizmi), ნათლობა (natloba), ნათვლა (natvla), მონათვლა (monatvla)
• German: Taufe (de) f
• Gothic: 𐌳𐌰𐌿𐍀𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 f (daupeins)
• Greek: βάπτισμα (el) n (váptisma) (sacrament), βαφτίσια (el) n pl (vaftísia) (ceremony)

  Ancient:

• Hebrew: טְבִילָה
• Hindi: बपतिस्मा (hi) m (baptismā), बाप्तिस्मा m (bāptismā)
• Hungarian: keresztelő (hu)
• Hunsrik: Daaf f
• Iban: baptisa
• Icelandic: skírn f
• Indonesian: baptis (id)
• Interlingue:
• Irish: baisteadh m
• Italian: battesimo (it) m
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• Japanese: 洗礼 (ja) (せんれい, senrei)
• Kazakh: шоқындыру (şoqyndyru)
• Korean: 세례 (ko) (serye)
• Latvian: kristības m
• Lithuanian: krikštas m
• Luxembourgish: Daf f
• Macedonian: крштевање n (krštevanje)
• Malay: baptis
• Maltese: magħmudija f
• Maori: iriiringa
• Norman: bâptême m
• Norwegian: dåp m
• Old English: fulwiht n
• Persian: غسل تعمید (fa)
• Polish: chrzest (pl) m
• Portuguese: (Brazil) batismo (pt) m, (Portugal) baptismo (pt) m
• Quechua: uliyay
• Romanian: botez (ro) n
• Russian: креще́ние (ru) n (kreščénije) (ceremony), бапти́зм (ru) m (baptízm) (sacrament)
• Sardinian:

  Campidanese: battìsimu

  Logudorese: battìsimu

• Sassarese: battijiumu
• Scottish Gaelic: baisteadh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: крштење n, крст m

  Roman: krštenje (sh) n, krst (sh) m

• Sicilian: battìu (scn) m, vattìu (scn), battizzu (scn)
• Slovak: krst (sk) m
• Slovene: krst (sl) m
• Spanish: bautismo (es), bautizo (es) m
• Sudovian: krikstīsinis m
• Swahili: ubatizo (sw)
• Swedish: dop (sv) n
• Tagalog: binyag, pagbibinyag
• Tajik: баптизм (baptizm)
• Turkish: vaftiz (tr)
• Ukrainian: хреще́ння n (xreščénnja)
• Urdu: بپتسمہ m (baptismā), اصطباغ m (istibāġ)
• Venetian: batéxemo m, batédo, batézxo, batizxo
• Vietnamese: lể rữa tội
• Volapük: cilibluned, daülanibluned
• Welsh: bedydd
• Westrobothnian:

See also

• affusion
• aspersion
• dunking
• godchild
• goddaughter
• godfather
• godmother
• godparent
• godson
• immersing
• immersion
• pouring
• sprinkling
• submersion

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