donor

See also: Donor

English

Alternative forms

• donour (obsolete)

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English donoure, donour; from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  donour, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French doneur (See French donneur).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdoʊnɚ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈdəʊnə/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: do‧nor

Noun

donor (plural donors)

1. One who makes a donation.

   The charity raised $2,000 from various donors.

   The hospital is seeking an organ donor.

2. (chemistry) A group or molecule that donates either a radical, electrons or a moiety in a chemical reaction. Compare acceptor.

   a carbonyl donor molecule

Synonyms

• (person): donator

Derived terms

Derived terms

• blood donor
• donator
• megadonor

• organ donor
• time

Related terms

• donee

Translations

one who donates

• Arabic: مُتَبَرِّع m (mutabarriʕ)
• Catalan: donador (ca) m, donadora (ca) f, donant (ca) m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 捐贈者／捐赠者 (zh), 捐赠者 (zh) (juānzèngzhě)

• Czech: dárce (cs) m
• Dutch: schenker (nl) c
• Esperanto: donanto
• Finnish: lahjoittaja (fi)
• French: donateur (fr) m
• Galician: doador m, doadora f, doante m or f
• German: Schenker (de) m
• Hebrew: תורם m (torem), תורמת f (toremet)
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• Italian: donante (it) m
• Japanese: 寄贈者 (きぞうしゃ, kizōsha)
• Korean: 기부자 (gibuja), 기증자 (gijeungja)
• Latin: donator m
• Occitan: donador m, donaire m, balhaire m
• Persian: بخشنده (fa) (baxŝanda(e))
• Polish: darczyńca (pl)
• Portuguese: doador (pt)
• Romanian: donator (ro) m
• Russian: же́ртвователь (ru) m (žértvovatelʹ), до́нор (ru) m (dónor)
• Serbo-Croatian: davalac (sh) m
• Spanish: donador m, donante (es) m or f
• Swedish: givare (sv) c, donator (sv) c

Anagrams

• Noord, rondo

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) dōnor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of dōnō