believer

English

Etymology

From Middle English bilevar, bileever, belever, equivalent to believe +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /bɪˈlivɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bɪˈliːvə/
• Rhymes: -iːvə(ɹ)

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Noun

believer (plural believers)

1. A person who believes; especially regarding religion.

   She's a believer in life after death.

   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     But the other two were, comparatively speaking, clean shaved, which of course gave the enemy a larger extent of open country to operate on, though in Mahomed's case the mosquitoes, recognising the taste of a true believer, would not touch him at any price.

Antonyms

• infidel
• non-believer, nonbeliever
• unbeliever

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:believer

Derived terms

• co-believer
• crypto-believer
• true believer
• true believer syndrome
• true-believer syndrome

 

Translations

person who believes

• Albanian: besimtar (sq) m
• Arabic: مُؤْمِن m (muʔmin), مُؤْمِنَة f (muʔmina)
• Asturian: creyente m or f
• Azerbaijani: mömin (az), dindar
• Bashkir: (Islam) мөьмин (möʹmin)
• Belarusian: ве́руючы m (vjérujučy), ве́руючая f (vjérujučaja)
• Bengali: আস্তিক (bn) (astik), মুমিন (bn) (mumin) (Islam)
• Bulgarian: вя́рващ (bg) m (vjárvašt)
• Catalan: creient (ca) m or f
• Chinese:

  Dungan: мәмин (məmin)

  Mandarin: 信徒 (zh) (xìntú), 教徒 (zh) (jiàotú)

• Czech: věřící (cs) m
• Danish: troende
• Dutch: gelovige (nl)
• Finnish: uskova (fi), uskovainen (fi)
• French: croyant (fr) m, croyante (fr) f
• Galician: crente m or f, fiel m or f
• Georgian: მორწმუნე (morc̣mune)
• German: Gläubiger (de) m, Gläubige (de) f
• Greek: πιστός (el) m (pistós)
• Hebrew: מַאֲמִין m (ma'amín)
• Hindi: आस्तिक (hi) m (āstik), मूमिन m (mūmin) (Islam)
• Italian: credente (it) m or f
• Japanese: 信徒 (ja) (しんと, shinto), 信者 (ja) (しんじゃ, shinja), 教徒 (ja) (きょうと, kyōto)
• Kazakh: діншіл адам (dınşıl adam)
• Khmer: សាសនិក (km) (saasaʼnɨk), សាសនិកា (saasaʼnikaa) (female)
• Korean: 신도(信徒) (ko) (sindo), 신자(信者) (ko) (sinja), 교인(敎人) (ko) (gyoin), 교도(敎徒) (ko) (gyodo)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: bawermend (ku), mûmin (ku) m

• Kyrgyz: динчил адам (dincil adam)
• Lao: ຜູ້ເຊື່ອຖື (phū sư̄a thư̄), ອຸບາສົກ (ʼu bā sok), ອຸບາສິກາ (ʼu bā si kā) (female)
• Macedonian: верник m (vernik), верничка f (vernička)
• Malay: mumin (Islam), mukmin (Islam)
• Malayalam: വിശ്വാസി (ml) (viśvāsi)
• Navajo: oodláanii
• Ngazidja Comorian: mndru yaamini class 1/2
• Norman: croyant m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: troende

  Nynorsk: truande

• Oromo: amanaa
• Pashto: مومن m (momén)
• Persian: مؤمن (fa) (mo'men)
• Polish: wierzący (pl) m, wierny (pl) m, wyznawca (pl) m, wyznawczyni (pl) f
• Portuguese: crente (pt) m or f
• Romanian: credincios (ro) m, credincioasă f
• Russian: ве́рующий (ru) m (vérujuščij), ве́рующая (ru) f (vérujuščaja)
• Scottish Gaelic: creidmheach m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ве̑рнӣк m, вје̑рнӣк m

  Roman: vȇrnīk (sh) m, vjȇrnīk (sh) m

• Slovak: veriaci (sk) m
• Slovene: vernik m, vernica f
• Spanish: creyente (es) m
• Swahili: muumini (sw)
• Swedish: troende (sv)
• Tajik: муъмин (muʾmin), мӯъмин (tg) (müʾmin)
• Tatar: мөъмин (mö'min)
• Thai: ผู้เชื่อ, ผู้ศรัทธา, ศาสนิกชน (sǎa-sà-ník-gà-chon)
• Turkish: mümin (tr), inanan (tr)
• Turkmen: mömin
• Ukrainian: ві́руючий m (vírujučyj), ві́руюча f (vírujuča)
• Urdu: ماننے والا m (mānne vālā), مومن m (momin)
• Uyghur: مۆمىن (mömin)
• Uzbek: moʻmin (uz), dindor (uz)
• Vietnamese: tín đồ (vi), giáo đồ (vi), giáo dân (vi)
• Yiddish: מאמין m (maymen)