clergyman

English

Etymology

From clergy +‎ -man.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈklɝd͡ʒimən/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈklɜːdʒimən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: cler‧gy‧man

Noun

clergyman (plural clergymen)

1. A male member of a clergy; especially, an ordained (male) Christian minister.

   Hypernyms: clergyperson, cleric

   Holonym: clergy

   Coordinate term: clergywoman

   • 1883, United States. War Department, Annual Reports of the War Department, volume 1, page 128:

     I think if post commanders of the unchaplained posts could employ acceptable clergymen […] then the needs might be met.

   • 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 263:

     The king experienced his first attack in autumn 1788, and as his condition worsened and the physicians-in-ordinary proved unable to cope or cure, the Reverend Dr Francis Willis (1717–1807), a clergyman doctor who ran a madhouse in Lincolnshire, was called in.

Derived terms

• nonclergyman

Translations

ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy

• Arabic: قِسِّيس (ar) m (qissīs), كَاهِن m (kāhin)
• Belarusian: свяшчэннаслужы́цель m (svjaščennaslužýcjelʹ), сьвяшчэннаслужы́цель m (sʹvjaščennaslužýcjelʹ) (Taraškievica), свяшчэ́ннік m (svjaščénnik), сьвяшчэ́ньнiк m (sʹvjaščénʹnik) (Taraškievica), свята́р m (svjatár), сьвята́р m (sʹvjatár) (Taraškievica)
• Bulgarian: свещенослужи́тел (bg) m (sveštenoslužítel), духо́вник (bg) m (duhóvnik), свеще́ник (bg) m (svešténik)
• Catalan: clergue (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 牧師 / 牧师 (zh) (mùshī)

• Czech: duchovní (cs) m
• Dutch: geestelijke (nl) m
• Esperanto: (♂♀) pastro, (♂) virpastro, (neologism, ♂) pastriĉo
• Finnish: pappi (fi)
• French: prêtre (fr) m, clerc (fr) m
• Galician: crego (gl) m
• German: Pfarrer (de) m, Pastor (de) m, Kleriker (de) m, Geistlicher (de) m, Seelsorger (de) m, Seelenhirt m, Seelenhirte (de) m
• Greek: κληρικός (el) m (klirikós)

  Ancient: κληρικός m (klērikós)

• Hungarian: pap (hu), lelkész (hu)
• Indonesian: klerus (id)
• Irish: eaglaiseach
• Italian: chierico (it) m, prete (it) m, sacerdote (it) m, ecclesiastico (it) m
• Japanese: 牧師 (ja) (ぼくし, bokushi), 聖職者 (ja) (せいしょくしゃ, seishokusha)
• Korean: 성직자(聖職者) (seongjikja)
• Latin: clericus m, sacerdos (la)
• Macedonian: духовник m (duhovnik), свештеник m (sveštenik)
• Navajo: ééʼ neishoodii
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: свѧщеникъ m (svęštenikŭ)

• Old East Slavic: свѧщеникъ m (svęščenikŭ), свѧщеньникъ m (svęščenĭnikŭ)
• Polish: duchowny (pl) m, kleryk (pl) m
• Portuguese: clérigo (pt)
• Romagnol: prid m, prit m
• Romanian: cleric (ro)
• Russian: священнослужи́тель (ru) m (svjaščennoslužítelʹ), свяще́нник (ru) m (svjaščénnik), кли́рик (ru) m (klírik)
• Scottish Gaelic: clèireach m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: духо̀внӣк m, свѐштенӣк m, свѐћенӣк m

  Roman: duhòvnīk (sh) m, svèštenīk (sh) m, svèćenīk m

• Slovak: duchovný m
• Slovene: duhovnik (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: faraŕ m

• Spanish: clérigo (es) m
• Ukrainian: священнослужи́тель m (svjaščennoslužýtelʹ), свяще́нник m (svjaščénnyk), духівни́к m (duxivnýk), клі́рик m (klíryk)
• Vietnamese: mục sư (vi)
• Volapük: (♂♀) kultan (vo) (general), (♂) hikultan, (♀) jikultan, (♂♀) pädan (vo) (Catholic), (♂) hipädan, (♀) jipädan, (♂♀) pastan (vo) (Evangelical, Protestant), (♂) hipastan, (♀) jipastan

Italian

Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism; transferred sense from English clergyman.

Noun

clergyman m (invariable)

1. a clergyman's suite of clothes