# protestant
## English
### Etymology

See Protestant. The legal sense either has the same source or is simply protest +‎ -ant.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (US):(file)

### Adjective

protestant (comparative more protestant, superlative most protestant)
* Alternative letter-case form of Protestant
    a protestant effort
    protestant work ethic
* Protesting.
** 1919, Henry B[lake] Fuller, “Cope Again in the Country”, in Bertram Cope’s Year: A Novel, Chicago, Ill.: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, The Alderbrink Press, →OCLC, page 274:He cut his Psychology once or twice, nor could he succeed, during office hours, in keeping his mind on office-routine. His superiors became impatient and then protestant.
** 1932, Graham Greene, Stamboul Train‎, Penguin, published 1963, Part 4, Chapter 4, p. 191:Her sense of desolation, the knowledge that for some reason, God alone knew why, she loved him, made her for a moment protestant. Why not ? Why shouldn’t I write to him?

### Noun

protestant (plural protestants)
* (chiefly law) One who protests; a protester.
** 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:These are too mean parts of the pageant: and you don't hear widows' cries or mothers' sobs in the midst of the shouts and jubilation in the great Chorus of Victory. And yet when was the time that such have not cried out: heart-broken, humble protestants, unheard in the uproar of the triumph!
** 1915 November 3, decision in the case of the State of New Mexico v. Garrett, published in 1916 among the Decisions of the Department of the Interior in Cases Relating to Public Lands, volume 44 (edited by George J Hesselman), page 490: In the case of Hyacinthe Villeneuve a homestead entry had been allowed upon a tract of land that had been patented to the Santa Fe Railroad Company, whose grantees had expressed a willingness to reconvey in order that effect might be given to the equities of the homesteader, whereas in the present case the State stands in the position of a protestant.
* Alternative letter-case form of Protestant

## Catalan
### Adjective

protestant m or f (masculine and feminine plural protestants)
* Protestant

### Noun

protestant m or f by sense (plural protestants)
* Protestant

#### Derived terms

* protestantisme

### Verb

protestant
* gerund of protestar

### Further reading

* “protestant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “protestant”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “protestant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “protestant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈprotɛstant]

### Noun

protestant m anim
* Protestant (person)

#### Related terms

* protestantství n

### Further reading

* “protestant”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “protestant”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

## Danish
### Etymology

protest +‎ -ant. From German Protestant, from French protestant, from Latin protestans.

### Noun

protestant c (singular definite protestanten, plural indefinite protestanter)
* a Protestant (follower of Protestantism; member of a Protestant church)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “protestant” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Dutch
### Etymology

From French protestant, from Latin prōtestārī 'to testify'.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: pro‧tes‧tant

### Noun

protestant m (plural protestanten, diminutive protestantje n)
* Protestant (a modern Christian denomination not belonging to the Catholic or Orthodox traditions)

#### Descendants

* → Papiamentu: protestant

## French
### Etymology

From protester +‎ -ant. Influenced by German Protestant.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pʁɔ.tɛs.tɑ̃/
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

protestant (feminine protestante, masculine plural protestants, feminine plural protestantes)
* Protestant
    Hyponym: calviniste

#### Related terms

* protestantisme

### Participle

protestant
* present participle of protester

### Noun

protestant m (plural protestants, feminine protestante)
* Protestant (person)
    Synonym: parpaillot
    Hyponym: calviniste

#### Descendants

* → Persian: پروتستان (porotestân)

### Further reading

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

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Noun

protestant m (definite singular protestanten, indefinite plural protestanter, definite plural protestantene)
* a Protestant (follower of Protestantism; member of a Protestant church)

#### Derived terms

* protestantisk

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

protestant m (definite singular protestanten, indefinite plural protestantar, definite plural protestantane)
* a Protestant (as above)

#### Derived terms

* protestantisk

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /prɔˈtɛs.tant/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛstant
* Syllabification: pro‧tes‧tant

### Noun

protestant m pers (female equivalent protestantka)
* Protestant
* (archaic) protest participant

#### Declension
### Further reading

* protestant in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* protestant in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French protestant.

### Noun

protestant m (plural protestanți)
* Protestant

#### Declension
## Serbo-Croatian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /protěstant/
* Hyphenation: pro‧te‧stant

### Noun

protèstant m (Cyrillic spelling протѐстант)
* (Christianity) Protestant

#### Declension
## Swedish
### Etymology

protest +‎ -ant

### Noun

protestant c
* a Protestant; one who follows the practice of the Christian form of Protestantism

#### Related terms

* protestantism
* protestantisk

### References

* protestant in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* protestant in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* protestant in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)