fanatic

Etymology
First attested in 1525. From, from. Influenced by 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) Fanatical.
 * 2)  Showing evidence of possession by a god or demon; frenzied, overzealous.
 * 1)  Showing evidence of possession by a god or demon; frenzied, overzealous.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic: مُتَعَصِّب
 * South Levantine Arabic: متعصب
 * Belarusian: фанаты́чны
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Danish: fanatisk
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: fanatika
 * Estonian: fanaatiline
 * Finnish: kiihkomielinen, ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Latvian: fanātisks
 * Lithuanian: fanatiškas
 * Macedonian: фанатичен
 * Maori: manawawera, ngākau whiwhita
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: fanatisch
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: фана̀тичан
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: fanatický
 * Slovene: fanatičen
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: фанати́чний


 * Polish: nawiedzony,
 * Russian:

Noun

 * 1) A person who is zealously enthusiastic for some cause, especially in religion.

Translations

 * Arabic: مُتَعَصِّب, غَيُور
 * Azerbaijani: təəssübkeş
 * Belarusian: фана́тык, фанаты́чка
 * Bulgarian:, фанати́чка
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 狂熱分子,
 * Czech: fanatik, fanatička
 * Danish: fanatiker
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: fanatikulo
 * Estonian: fanaatik
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:, fanática
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:, , , , , ,
 * Japanese: 狂信者, 熱狂者
 * Kazakh: тақуа
 * Korean:, 열광자(熱狂者)
 * Latvian: fanātiķis
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: фанатик
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: fanatiker
 * Nynorsk: fanatikar
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:, fanática
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: фана̀тик
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: ,
 * Slovene: fanatik, fanatičarka
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: фана́тик, фанати́чка,

Quotations

 * A zealot can't change his mind. A fanatic can't change his mind and won't change the subject. —Winston Churchill (attributed)
 * A fanatic is one who redoubles his effort when he has forgotten his aim. —George Santayana

Etymology
, possibly via.

Adjective

 * 1) fanatical

Etymology
, from.