humanitarian

English

Etymology

Coined around 1820, from humanity +‎ -arian.

Adjective

humanitarian (comparative more humanitarian, superlative most humanitarian)

1. Concerned with people's welfare, and the alleviation of suffering; humane or compassionate.

Translations

concerned with people's welfare

• Armenian: հումանիտար (hy) (humanitar), մարդասիրական (hy) (mardasirakan)
• Bulgarian: хуманен (bg) (humanen), човечен (bg) (čovečen)
• Catalan: humanitari
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 人道主義的／人道主义的 (zh), 人道主义的 (zh) (réndàozhǔyì de)

• Czech: humanitární (cs)
• Esperanto: homama
• Finnish: humanitaarinen (fi)
• French: humanitaire (fr), humanitariste (fr)
• Galician: humanitario
• Georgian: ჰუმანიტარული (humaniṭaruli)
• German: humanitär (de)
• Greek: ανθρωπιστικός (el) (anthropistikós)
• Hebrew: הוּמָנִיטָרִי (humanitári)
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• Icelandic: mannúðar
• Irish: daonchairdiúil
• Japanese: 人道主義的な (jindōshugiteki-na)
• Korean: 박애의 (bagae'ui), 인도주의 (ko) (indojuui)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: مِرۆڤدۆستانە (mirovdostane)

• Luganda: obuyambi
• Occitan: umanitari
• Portuguese: humanitário (pt)
• Romanian: umanitar (ro)
• Russian: гуманита́рный (ru) (gumanitárnyj), (humane) гума́нный (ru) (gumánnyj)
• Spanish: humanitario
• Swedish: humanitär (sv)
• Tagalog: mapagkawanggawa

Noun

humanitarian (plural humanitarians)

1. A person with such concerns; a philanthropist or do-gooder.

Derived terms

• humanitarianism

Translations

person with humanitarian concerns

• Armenian: հումանիստ (hy) (humanist)
• Bulgarian: хуманист m (humanist)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 人道主義者／人道主义者 (réndàozhǔyìzhě)

• French: humanitariste (fr) m or f, humaniste (fr) m or f
• Georgian: ჰუმანიტარი (humaniṭari)
• Japanese: 人道主義者 (じんどうしゅぎしゃ, jindōshugisha)
• Korean: 인도적 (ko) (indojeok)
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• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: مِرۆڤدۆست (mirovdost)

• Portuguese: humanitário (pt) m
• Romanian: umanist (ro) m, umanitarist (ro) m
• Russian: гумани́ст (ru) m (gumaníst), гумани́стка (ru) f (gumanístka)
• Spanish: humanitario
• Tagalog: mapagkawanggawa

Further reading

• humanitarian on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “humanitarian”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “humanitarian”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.