evangelical

Etymology
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Adjective

 * 1) Pertaining to the doctrines or teachings of the Christian gospel or Christianity in general.
 * 2) Pertaining to the gospel(s) of the Christian New Testament.
 * 3) Protestant; specifically Lutheran and Calvinist churches in continental Europe as well as their offshoots in North America.
 * 4) Pertaining to a movement in Protestant Christianity that stresses personal conversion and the authority of the Bible (evangelicalism).
 * 5) Pertaining to Islamic groups that are dedicated to dawah and preaching the Quran and sunnah.
 * 6) Zealously enthusiastic.
 * 1) Zealously enthusiastic.

Usage notes
While evangelical may have all the above meanings, it is often used now for meaning 4.

Evangelic has only the meanings 1-3 and is now used often to differentiate these meanings from evangelicalism.

Translations

 * Amharic: ወንጌላዊ
 * Catalan:
 * Danish: evangelisk
 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Irish: soiscéalach
 * Latvian: evaņģelisks
 * Maltese: evanġeliku
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: evangelisk
 * Nynorsk: evangelisk
 * Polish: ,
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman:
 * Yiddish: עוואַנגעליסטיש


 * Polish:


 * Polish:

Noun

 * 1) A member of an evangelical church
 * 2) An advocate of evangelicalism

Translations

 * Polish:, ewangeliczka