missionary

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *mey-?

Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-

Proto-Indo-European *-eti

Proto-Indo-European *méyth₂eti

Proto-Italic *meitō

Old Latin mītō

Latin mittō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin missiōlbor.

English mission

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-so-

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂so-

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂s(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-āsijos

Proto-Italic *-āsios

Latin -āriusder.

Middle English -arie

English -ary

English missionary

From mission + -ary.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪʃ.əˌnɛɹ.ɪ/

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪʃ.ən(ə).ɹɪ/
• Hyphenation: mis‧sion‧ary

Noun

missionary (countable and uncountable, plural missionaries)

1. One who is sent on a mission.

   Near-synonym: emissary

2. (religion) A person who travels attempting to spread a religion or creed (Particularly used in context of Christianity).

   A missionary was just trying to convert me to his religion.

3. (derogatory) A religious messenger.
4. (uncountable) The missionary position for sexual intercourse.

   My boyfriend only cums during missionary.

5. (uncountable, slang) Sexual intercourse in the missionary position.

Derived terms

• antimissionary
• missionaries and cannibals problem
• missionarily
• missionary bishop
• missionarying
• missionaryism
• missionaryize
• missionarylike
• missionary-linguist
• missionary linguist
• missionary position
• missionary rector
• missionaryship
• missionary zeal
• nonmissionary
• premissionary
• unmissionary

Related terms

• emissary
• emission

Descendants

• → Māori: Mihinare
  • → English: Mihanere
• → Mokilese: mijneri

Translations

person traveling to spread a religion

• Albanian: misionar (sq) m
• Arabic: مُبَشِّر m (mubaššir), مُنَصِّر m (munaṣṣir), مُبَلِّغ m (muballiḡ) (Islam)

  Egyptian Arabic: مبشر m (mubaššir)

• Armenian: քարոզիչ (hy) (kʻarozičʻ)
• Asturian: misioneru m
• Azerbaijani: missioner, mübəlliğ
• Basque: misiolari
• Belarusian: місіяне́р m (misijanjér), місіяне́рка f (misijanjérka), місіянэ́р m (misijanér), місіянэ́рка f (misijanérka)
• Bengali: ধর্মপ্রচারক (bn) (dhormoprocarok)
• Bulgarian: мисионе́р m (misionér), мисионе́рка f (misionérka)
• Catalan: missioner (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 傳教士 / 传教士 (cyun⁴ gaau³ si⁶), 宣教士 (syun¹ gaau³ si⁶)

  Mandarin: 傳教士 / 传教士 (zh) (chuánjiàoshì), 傳道者 / 传道者 (zh) (chuándàozhě), 宣教士 (xuānjiàoshì)

• Czech: misionář (cs) m
• Danish: missionær c
• Dutch: (Roman Catholic) missionaris m, (Protestant in a non-Christian environment) zendeling m, (Protestant in a Christian environment) evangelist m
• Esperanto: misiisto
• Estonian: misjonär
• Finnish: lähetyssaarnaaja (fi)
• French: missionnaire (fr) m
• Galician: misioneiro (gl) m
• Georgian: მისიონერი (misioneri)
• German: Missionar (de) m, Missionarin (de) f
• Greek: ιεραπόστολος (el) m or f (ierapóstolos)
• Greenlandic: ajoqersuiartortitaq
• Hawaiian: mikanele
• Hebrew: מִיסְיוֹנֶר (misyonér)
• Hindi: धर्मप्रचारक m (dharmapracārak), धर्म-प्रचारक m (dharm-pracārak), मिशनरी (hi) m (miśanrī)
• Hungarian: hittérítő (hu), misszionárius (hu)
• Icelandic: kristniboði (is) m, trúboði m
• Indonesian: misionaris (id)
• Irish: misinéir m
• Italian: missionario (it) m, missionaria (it) f
• Japanese: 宣教師 (ja) (せんきょうし, senkyōshi)
• Kazakh: дінге үндеуші (dinge ündewši), дін таратушы (din taratuwšı), миссионер (mıyssıyoner)
• Korean: 선교사(宣敎師) (ko) (seon'gyosa)
• Kyrgyz: миссионер (missioner)
• Latin: missiōnārius m
• Latvian: misionārs m
• Lithuanian: misionierius (lt) m
• Macedonian: мисионе́р m (misionér), мисионе́рка f (misionérka)
• Malay: mubaligh
• Maltese: missjunarju m
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: номлогч (mn) (nomlogč), миссионер (missioner)

• Norman: missionnaithe m or f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: misjonær m

• Old English: ār m
• Pashto: مبلغ m (mobaléǧ)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: میسْیونِر (fa) (misyoner), مُبَلِّغ (fa) (moballeġ)

• Plautdietsch: Missionoa m
• Polish: misjonarz (pl) m, misjonarka (pl) f
• Portuguese: missionário (pt) m, missionária f
• Romanian: misionar (ro) m, misionară (ro) f
• Russian: миссионе́р (ru) m (missionér), миссионе́рка (ru) f (missionérka)
• Scottish Gaelic: teachdaire m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мисио̀на̄р m

  Latin: misiònār (sh) m

• Slovak: misionár m, misionárka f
• Slovene: misijonar (sl) m
• Southern Altai: миссионер (missioner)
• Spanish: misionero (es) m, misionera f, misionario (es)
• Swahili: mmisionari
• Swedish: missionär (sv) c
• Tagalog: misyonero
• Tajik: миссионер (missioner), мубаллиғ (muballiġ)
• Thai: มิชชันนารี, หมอสอนศาสนา
• Turkish: misyoner (tr) (Christian missionary), mübelliğ (tr) (Islam)
• Ukrainian: місіоне́р m (misionér), місіоне́рка f (misionérka)
• Urdu: مُبَلِّغ m (muballiġ), مُرَبّی m (murabbī), مِشْنَری m (miśnarī)
• Uzbek: missioner (uz)
• Vietnamese: người truyền giáo (𠊛傳教), cha truyền đạo (𤕔傳道)
• Welsh: misiynari, cenhadol (cy)

missionary position — see missionary position

Adjective

missionary (not comparable)

1. Relating to a (religious) mission.

Translations

relating to a mission

• Bulgarian: мисионерски (misionerski)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 傳教的 / 传教的 (chuánjiào de)

• Finnish: lähetys- (fi)
• German: missionarisch (de)
• Kazakh: миссионерлік (mıyssıyonerlik)
• Polish: misyjny (pl), misjonarski (pl)

See also

• missionary on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Missionary (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia