candidate

Etymology
From, from + , in reference to Roman candidates wearing bleached white togas as a symbol of purity at a public forum. Equivalent to.

Noun

 * 1)  A person who is running in an election.
 * 2)  A person who is applying for a job.
 * 3)  A participant in an examination.
 * 4)  Something or somebody that may be suitable.
 * 5)   A gene which may play a role in a given disease.
 * 1)  Something or somebody that may be suitable.
 * 2)   A gene which may play a role in a given disease.
 * 1)   A gene which may play a role in a given disease.
 * 1)   A gene which may play a role in a given disease.
 * 1)   A gene which may play a role in a given disease.

Translations

 * Albanian: ,
 * Arabic: مُرَشَّح, مُرَشَّحَة
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Basque: kandidatu
 * Belarusian: кандыда́т, кандыда́тка
 * Bengali:, খাস্তগীর
 * Bulgarian:, кандида́тка
 * Catalan: ,
 * Cherokee: ᎠᏙᎩᏯᏍᎩ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: kandidat
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: kandidato, kandidatino
 * Estonian: kandidaat
 * Faroese: valevni
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: კანდიდატი
 * German:, , Wahlbewerber, Wahlbewerberin
 * Greek:
 * Gujarati: ઉમેદવાર
 * Hebrew:, מועמדת
 * Hindi: उम्मीदवार
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Interlingua: candidato
 * Irish: iarrthóir
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: үміткер, үмітшіл
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:, , ,
 * Kyrgyz: ,
 * Lao: ຜູ້ສະໝັກ
 * Latin: candidatus
 * Latvian: kandidāts, kandidāte
 * Lithuanian: kandidatas, kandidatė
 * Macedonian: кандида́т, кандида́тка
 * Malay: calon
 * Malayalam: സ്ഥാനാർത്ഥി
 * Maori: kaiwhakauru
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠳᠡᠪᠰᠢᠭᠴᠢ
 * Norman: candidat, candidate
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: kandidat
 * Nynorsk: kandidat
 * Pashto:
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: tagraiche
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: кандѝда̄т, кандѝдаткиња
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: kandidát, kandidátka
 * Slovene: kandidat, kandidatinja
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: halangad
 * Tajik: номзад,
 * Thai: ผู้สมัคร
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: dalaşgär, kandidat
 * Ukrainian:, кандида́тка
 * Urdu: امیدوار
 * Uyghur: كاندىدات, نامزات
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese: (應舉員)
 * Volapük:


 * Bengali: চাকরিপ্রার্থী, খাস্তগীর
 * Dutch:, sollicitante, ,
 * German:, , Stellenbewerber, Stellenbewerberin, , , Stellenanwärter, Stellenanwärterin, , , Jobkandidat, Jobkandidatin
 * Malayalam: ഉദ്യോഗാർത്ഥി


 * Bengali:, খাস্তগীর
 * Catalan: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Macedonian: кандида́т, кандида́тка
 * Malayalam: പരീക്ഷാർത്ഥി
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Spanish:, ,

Verb

 * 1)  To stand as a candidate for an office, especially a religious one.
 * 2)  To make or name (something) a candidate (for use, for study as a next project, for investigation as a possible cause of something, etc).
 * 1)  To make or name (something) a candidate (for use, for study as a next project, for investigation as a possible cause of something, etc).
 * 1)  To make or name (something) a candidate (for use, for study as a next project, for investigation as a possible cause of something, etc).
 * 1)  To make or name (something) a candidate (for use, for study as a next project, for investigation as a possible cause of something, etc).
 * 1)  To make or name (something) a candidate (for use, for study as a next project, for investigation as a possible cause of something, etc).

Translations

 * French: