chairperson

Etymology
, after and.

Noun

 * 1) A chairman or chairwoman, someone who presides over a meeting, board, etc.

Usage notes
In modern usage, terms like, , , ,  , , , and so forth, are often more common. However, chairperson is usually found in African and Asian English varieties, like in India, the Philippines, and South Africa.

Synonyms

 * officer, presider
 * officer, presider

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian: ,
 * Arabic: رَئِيس, رَئِيسَة,
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: sədr
 * Belarusian: старшыня́,
 * Bengali:, সভানেত্রী
 * Bulgarian:, председа́телка
 * Burmese: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 主席, 議長
 * Dungan: җўщи
 * Eastern Min: 主席
 * Gan: 主席
 * Hakka: 主席
 * Hokkien: 主席, 議長
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Wu: 主席
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: formand
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: prezidanto, prezidantino
 * Estonian: eesistuja,
 * Finnish:
 * French:, , ,
 * Georgian: თავმჯდომარე
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: יוֹשֵׁב רֹאשׁ
 * Hindi:, अध्यक्षा, , सभाध्यक्ष,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: formaður
 * Ido:, prezidantulo , prezidantino
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: presidente, chairman
 * Irish: cathaoirleach
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: басқарма, төраға, басқарушы
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:, ,
 * Kyrgyz:, төр ага, председатель
 * Lao: ປະທານ
 * Latvian: priekšsēdētājs, priekšsēdētāja
 * Lithuanian: pirmininkas, pirmininkė
 * Macedonian: претседател, претседателка, претседавач, претседавачка
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: ċermen
 * Maori: heamana
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠳᠠᠷᠤᠭ᠎ᠠ
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: styreformann, møteleder, ,
 * Nynorsk: styreformann, møteleiar, leiar, formann
 * Pashto: ریيس,
 * Persian:
 * Dari: ,
 * Iranian Persian: ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: (da assembleia)
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: cathraiche
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: председавајући, пре́дседнӣк, пре́дсједнӣк, пре́дседница, пре́дсједница
 * Roman: predsedavajući, prédsednīk,, prédsednica,
 * Sindhi:
 * Slovak: predseda, predsedníčka
 * Slovene: predsedujoči, predsedujoča,, predsednica
 * Sotho: modulasetulo
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tajik: раис, садр
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: صَدْر, رَئِیس
 * Uyghur: رەئىس
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese:
 * White Hmong: tswv rooj
 * Zhuang: cujsiz