godfather

Etymology
From, from , equivalent to en. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  A man present at the christening of a baby who promises to help raise the child in a Christian manner; a male godparent who sponsors the baptism of a child.
 * 2)  Someone who plays a key role in fostering the development of something.
 * 3)  A mafia leader.
 * 4) A small post which is used in repairing a fence. For instance attached to and supporting an existing broken fence post.
 * 1) A small post which is used in repairing a fence. For instance attached to and supporting an existing broken fence post.

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic: شِبِين
 * Armenian: ,
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani: kirvə, xaç atası
 * Basque:
 * Bulgarian: кръстник
 * Catalan:
 * Chavacano: padrino
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 代父
 * Czech:
 * Danish: fadder, gudfar, gudfader
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: baptopatro
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: padriño,
 * Georgian: ნათლიმამა, ნათლია
 * German:, , , , , , Taufzeuge,  , Göd , Taufgöd , Firmgöd
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: bapak baptis
 * Ingrian: meeskooma
 * Irish: athair baistí, oide baistí
 * Italian: godfather of one's child,  one's own godfather
 * Japanese: 代父,, ゴッドファーザー, 名付け親
 * Javanese: kaki among
 * Korean:
 * Latin: patrinus, susceptorus
 * Latvian: krusttēvs
 * Macedonian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: gudfar,, dåpsvitne
 * Nynorsk: gudfar, fadder, dåpsvitne
 * Occitan:
 * Odia: ଧର୍ମ ବାପା
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Romansch: padrin, padregn
 * Russian: крёстный оте́ц
 * Scots: godfaither
 * Scottish Gaelic: athair-baistidh, goistidh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Sicilian: cumpari godfather of one's child, padrinu one's own godfather
 * Slovak: krstný otec ;
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: kmótš
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Tagalog: inaama,, padrino
 * Taos: kumpàyliʼína
 * Thai:, พ่ออุปถัมภ์
 * Turkish: vaftiz baba,
 * Ukrainian: хрещений батько, хрещений
 * Vietnamese: cha
 * Volapük: hispönan
 * Welsh: tad bedydd
 * Yup'ik: kelussnaq


 * Azerbaijani: mafiya babası, vorzakon
 * Bulgarian: кръстник
 * Czech:
 * Esperanto: baptopatro
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: крёстный оте́ц
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:

Verb

 * 1)  To act as godfather or guardian to.