parish

Etymology 1
From, from (compare the obsolete variant , from 🇨🇬, ), from , from.

Noun

 * 1) In the Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran and Roman Catholic Church, an administrative part of a diocese that has its own church.
 * 2) The community attending that church; the members of the parish.
 * 3)  An ecclesiastical society, usually not bounded by territorial limits, but composed of those persons who choose to unite under the charge of a particular priest, clergyman, or minister; also, loosely, the territory in which the members of a congregation live.
 * 4) A civil subdivision of a British county, often corresponding to an earlier ecclesiastical parish.
 * 5) In some countries, an administrative subdivision of an area.
 * 6) An administrative subdivision in the U.S. state of Louisiana that is equivalent to a county in other U.S. states.
 * 1) An administrative subdivision in the U.S. state of Louisiana that is equivalent to a county in other U.S. states.

Translations

 * Arabic: أبرشية
 * Armenian:, եկեղեցական ծուխ
 * Basque: parrokia
 * Belarusian: прыход, парафія
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Central Franconian: Jemeinde
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: paroĥo
 * Estonian: kihelkond
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: ,
 * Georgian: მრევლი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hindi: पैरिश
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: kirkkokunta
 * Irish: paróiste
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 小教区
 * Korean: 사목구, 전도구 ,
 * Latvian: draudze
 * Lithuanian: parapija
 * Macedonian: паро́хија, ено́рија, жу́па
 * Malagasy:
 * Malay: paroki
 * Malayalam:
 * Maori: pāriha
 * Middle English: parisshe
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: sogn, sokn
 * Nynorsk: sokn
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: paraiste
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: парохија, жупа
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: farnosť
 * Slovene: župnija
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili: parishi, parokia
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: parokya
 * Ukrainian: пара́фія, паро́хія
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:


 * Belarusian: паства, парафіяне
 * Bulgarian: енориаш
 * Central Franconian: Jemeinde
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: paroĥano
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: მრევლი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, , ,
 * Italian: parrocchiani
 * Macedonian: парохи́јани, жу́пници
 * Middle English: parisshe
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:, paroquianos
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: прихожа́не,
 * Scots: pairish
 * Scottish Gaelic: paraiste
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: parokya
 * Vietnamese:, họ đạo


 * Finnish:


 * Bulgarian: община
 * Central Franconian: Jemeinde
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 堂區
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: о́круг, око́лија
 * Middle English: parisshe
 * Norman: pâraîsse
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scots: pairish
 * Scottish Gaelic: paraiste
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Vietnamese:

Verb

 * 1)  To place (an area, or rarely a person) into one or more parishes.
 * 2) * 1917, Annual Report of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Board of Home Missions and Church Extension, page 70:
 * [m]akes possible, through the aid of the rural ministers, the development of the various phases of the District program, such as (a) Parishing of the District; (b) Interdenominational adjustment in the interest of rural religious advance
 * 1)  To visit residents of a parish.
 * 1)  To visit residents of a parish.
 * 1)  To visit residents of a parish.
 * 1)  To visit residents of a parish.
 * 1)  To visit residents of a parish.