participation

English

Etymology

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Borrowed from Middle French [Term?], from Old French participacion, from Late Latin participatiō; synchronically analyzable as participate +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

participation (countable and uncountable, plural participations)

1. The act of participating, of taking part in something.
2. The state of being related to a larger whole.
3. The process during which individuals, groups and organizations are consulted about or have the opportunity to become actively involved in a project or program of activity.
4. An ownership interest or profit-sharing right.

Related terms

• participate
• participant

Translations

act of participating

• Afrikaans: deelname
• Arabic: مُسَاهَمَة f (musāhama)
• Azerbaijani: iştirak
• Belarusian: удзе́л m (udzjél)
• Bulgarian: уча́стие (bg) n (učástie)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 參加／参加 (caam¹ gaa¹), 参加 (caam¹ gaa¹)

  Mandarin: 參加／参加 (zh) (cānjiā), 参加 (zh) (cānjiā), 參與／参与 (zh), 参与 (zh) (cānyù)

• Czech: účast (cs) f
• Danish: deltagelse c
• Dutch: deelname (nl) f, deelneming (nl) f, meedoen (nl) n, participatie (nl) f
• Esperanto: partopreno
• Finnish: osallistuminen (fi)
• French: participation (fr) f
• German: Partizipation (de) f, Beteiligung (de) f, Teilnahme (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: μετάληψις f (metálēpsis), μετοχή f (metokhḗ)

• Hebrew: השתתפות f (hishtatfút)
• Hungarian: részvétel (hu)
• Ido: parto-prenar (io)
• Japanese: 参加 (ja) (さんか, sanka)
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• Kurdish:

  Sorani: بەشداری (beşdarî)

• Latin: participium (la) n
• Luxembourgish: Bedeelegung f
• Macedonian: учество n (učestvo)
• Maltese: parteċipazzjoni f
• Polish: udział (pl) m, uczestnictwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: participação (pt) f
• Russian: уча́стие (ru) n (učástije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: учешће

  Roman: učešće (sh) n

• Slovak: účasť f
• Slovene: sodelovanje n
• Spanish: participación (es) f, colaboración (es) f, constribución f
• Swedish: deltagande (sv) n
• Ukrainian: у́часть f (účastʹ)
• Welsh: cyfranogiaeth f, cyfranogiad m
• West Frisian: dielname c, dielnimming c, meidwaan n, partisipaasje c
• Yiddish: אָנטייל m (onteyl), אָנטיילונג f (onteylung)

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin participātiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paʁ.ti.si.pa.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

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Noun

participation f (plural participations)

1. participation

Further reading

• “participation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.