priest

Etymology
From, , from , from , from , from. Reinforced in Middle English by, also from Latin. .

Noun

 * 1) A religious clergyman (clergywoman, clergyperson) who is trained to perform services or sacrifices at a church or temple.
 * 2)  A blunt tool, used for quickly stunning and killing fish.
 * 3)  The highest office in the Aaronic priesthood.
 * 1)  A blunt tool, used for quickly stunning and killing fish.
 * 2)  The highest office in the Aaronic priesthood.
 * 1)  A blunt tool, used for quickly stunning and killing fish.
 * 2)  The highest office in the Aaronic priesthood.
 * 1)  The highest office in the Aaronic priesthood.

Coordinate terms

 * (Islam);, , (Hinduism);  ,  (Judaism);  (Buddhism);  (Germanic paganism);  (Slavic paganism);  (Zoroastrianism)

Translations

 * Afrikaans: priester
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: ካህን
 * Arabic:, قِسّ, قَسّ, كَاهِن
 * Egyptian Arabic: قسيس
 * Gulf Arabic: راهب
 * Iraqi Arabic: قس, كاهن
 * Moroccan Arabic: قسيس
 * North Levantine Arabic: خوري
 * South Levantine Arabic: قسيس, خوري
 * Tunisian Arabic: باباص, پاپاص
 * Armenian:, , ,  ,
 * Aromanian: preftu
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani: keşiş,
 * Basque: ,
 * Belarusian: свята́р, сьвята́р, поп, ксёндз , жрэц , свяшчэ́ннiк, сьвяшчэ́ньнiк , свяшчэннаслужы́цель, сьвяшчэннаслужы́цель
 * Bengali:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:, ,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chamicuro: patile
 * Chavacano: padre
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 祭司
 * Mandarin:, , , ,
 * Coptic: ϩⲟⲛⲧ
 * Cornish: pronter
 * Corsican:
 * Czech:
 * Dalmatian: priast
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Egyptian:
 * Emilian: prît
 * Erzya: озатя
 * Esperanto: pastro, pastrino
 * Estonian: preester
 * Faroese: prestur
 * Finnish:
 * French:, , ,
 * Friulian: predi
 * Galician:, preste,
 * Georgian:, ქურუმი
 * German:, , , , , , , , ,
 * Gothic: 𐌲𐌿𐌳𐌾𐌰, 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌷𐌰, 𐍀𐌰𐍀𐌰
 * Greek:, , , , ,  ,
 * Ancient: ἱερεύς
 * Greenlandic: palasi
 * Guaraní: pa'i
 * Hebrew:, כוהן
 * Hindi:, , काहिन
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:, ,
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Ingrian: pappi
 * Interlingua: prestre, sacerdote
 * Irish:, athair naofa
 * Old Irish: sacart, cruimther
 * Primitive Irish: ᚊᚏᚔᚋᚔᚈᚔᚏ
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese:, , , , , ,
 * Javanese: ,
 * Kapampangan: pari
 * Kazakh: дін қызметшісі,
 * Khmer: អ្នកបួស, លោកសង្ឃ
 * Konkani: पाद्रि
 * Korean:, , 성직자(聖職者)
 * Kumyk: кешиш
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz: поп
 * Ladino: papaz
 * Lao: ຄຸນພໍ່, ຄູບາ
 * Latin:, flāmen, sacrārius
 * Latvian: priesteris, mācītājs
 * Lithuanian: kunigas
 * Luxembourgish: Paschtouer
 * Macedonian: свештеник, поп
 * Malay: ,
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: qassis
 * Manx: saggyrt
 * Maori: Tohunga
 * Middle English: prest
 * Middle French: prestre
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:, ,
 * Nahuatl:
 * Classical: teopixqui, tlamacazqui, tlenamacac
 * Navajo: ééʼ neishoodii
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: prest
 * Occitan: ,
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: свѧщеникъ, попъ
 * Old East Slavic: свѧщеникъ, свѧщеньникъ, попъ
 * Old English: prēost, sacerd
 * Old French: prestre, provoire
 * Old Galician-Portuguese: preste
 * Old Irish: sacart
 * Old Norse: goði, gyðja
 * Old Tupi: abaré
 * Ottoman Turkish: كشیش
 * Paiwan: palaingan
 * Pashto:, کاهن, کشیش
 * Persian:
 * Dari: ,
 * Iranian Persian: ,
 * Plautdietsch: Priesta
 * Polish:, ,  , ,
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romagnol: prid, prit
 * Romani: raśaj
 * Romanian: ,
 * Romansch: spiritual, prer
 * Russian:, , ,  свято́й оте́ц, ,  ,  ,
 * Sardinian: prede, predi, peideru, peidru
 * Scottish Gaelic: sagart
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: свѐштенӣк, свѐћенӣк, по̏п, духо̀внӣк, о̀тац, жре̑ц
 * Roman:, svèćenīk, , , ,
 * Sicilian:
 * Skolt Sami: papp
 * Slovak:, , duchovný, páter, páterko
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: mjeršnik, pop
 * Sotho: moprista
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Swahili: ,
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Tagalog:
 * Tajik: кашиш,, поп, коҳин
 * Taos:
 * Telugu: ,
 * Thai:, , พระสงฆ์, ,
 * Tibetan: བླ་མ
 * Tigrinya: ቀሺ
 * Tlingit: wáadishgaa
 * Turkish:, , ,
 * Turkmen:
 * Ugaritic: 𐎋𐎅𐎐
 * Ukrainian: свяще́ник, ксьондз, , піп, , жрець, священнослужи́тель
 * Urdu: پادْری, ⁧کاہِن
 * Uyghur: پوپ, كاھىن
 * Uzbek:, , ,
 * Venetian: prète, prèvede, pre
 * Vietnamese: (牧師),  (靈牧)
 * Volapük:, hikultan , jikultan , , hipädan , jipädan ,  , hipastan , jipastan
 * Welsh: offeiriad
 * Yiddish: גלח, פּאָפּ , כּהן , פּריסטער
 * Yup'ik: agayulirta


 * Finnish: kalanuija
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: prest
 * Turkish:
 * Welsh: pastwn, pren lladd

Verb

 * 1)  To ordain as a priest.
 * 2) * 1610,, Pope Joane, in , editor, The Harleian Miscellany: or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, as well in Manuscript as in Print, Found in the Late Earl of Oxford's Library: Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Notes: With a Table of the Contents, and an Alphabetical Index, volume IV, London: Printed for T[homas] Osborne, in Gray's-Inn, 1744, 5325177 ; republished as John Maltham, editor, The Harleian Miscellany; or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, as well in Manuscript as in Print, Found in the Late Earl of Oxford's Library, Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Notes, volume IV, London: Printed for R. Dutton, 1808–1811,  30776079 , page 95:
 * If there bee any lasie fellow, any that cannot away with worke, any that would wallow in pleasures, hee is hastie to be priested. And when hee is made one, and has gotten a benefice, he consorts with his neighbour priests, who are altogether given to pleasures; and then both hee, and they, live, not like Christians, but like epicures; drinking, eating, feasting, and revelling, till the cow come home, as the saying is.