profession

Etymology
From, from , , from , from the participle stem of.

Noun

 * 1) Declaration of faith.
 * 2)  A promise or vow made on entering a religious order.
 * 3) The declaration of belief in the principles of a religion; hence, one's faith or religion.
 * 4) * 1780,, letter, 12 June:
 * I congratulate you upon the wisdom that withheld you from entering yourself a member of the Protestant Association it is likely to bring an odium upon the profession they make, that will not soon be forgotten.
 * 1) Any declaration of belief, faith or one's opinion, whether genuine or (as now often implied) pretended.
 * 2) Professional occupation.
 * 3) An occupation, trade, craft, or activity in which one has a professed expertise in a particular area; a job, especially one requiring a high level of skill or training.
 * 4)  The practitioners of such an occupation collectively.
 * 1) Professional occupation.
 * 2) An occupation, trade, craft, or activity in which one has a professed expertise in a particular area; a job, especially one requiring a high level of skill or training.
 * 3)  The practitioners of such an occupation collectively.
 * 1)  The practitioners of such an occupation collectively.
 * 1)  The practitioners of such an occupation collectively.
 * 1)  The practitioners of such an occupation collectively.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Telugu: విశ్వాసం


 * Albanian:, xajë
 * Arabic: مِهْنَة,
 * Egyptian Arabic: مهنة
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: পেছা
 * Azerbaijani:, ixtisas, məslək
 * Bashkir: профессия, һөнәр
 * Belarusian: прафе́сія, фах,, заня́цце
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese: ,
 * Carpathian Rusyn: профе́сія
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chechen: корматалла
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 職業, 行業
 * Eastern Min: 職業
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Wu: 職業
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:, fag, , livsstilling
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:, სპეციალობა, ხელობა, საქმიანობა
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient Greek: ἐπάγγελμα
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, , ,
 * Hungarian:, , ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: ammatti
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh:, кәсіп
 * Khmer: វិជ្ជាជីវៈ,
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:, , , , ,
 * Kyrgyz: ,
 * Lao: ອາຊີບ, ວິຊາຊີບ
 * Latvian:, profesija
 * Lithuanian: profesija
 * Macedonian: ,
 * Malay: profesion
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: professjoni
 * Maori: umanga
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠮᠡᠷᠭᠡᠵᠢᠯ
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, profesjon
 * Nynorsk: yrke, profesjon
 * Odia:
 * Oromo: ogummaa
 * Pashto:, پېشه, کسب, ,
 * Persian:
 * Dari:, , ,
 * Iranian Persian:, , ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, , ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Sami:
 * Kildin Sami: профессья
 * Scottish Gaelic: dreuchd
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: профѐсија, зани́ма̄ње
 * Roman: ,
 * Sinhalese:
 * Slovak: povolanie, profesia
 * Slovene: poklic
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Tagalog: panungkulan, propesyon
 * Tajik: касб, пеша, ҳунар, ихтисос
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: ལས་རིགས
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: kesp, hünär, kär
 * Ukrainian:, , заня́ття
 * Urdu: پیشَہ, شُغْل
 * Uyghur: كەسىپ
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Volapük:
 * Yiddish: פּראָפֿעסיע


 * Finnish: ammattikunta, professio
 * French: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Slovak: profesia
 * Spanish:
 * Telugu:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:, διακύρηξη
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:, profesión de fe
 * Telugu:

Etymology
(accusative singular ).

Noun

 * , public declaration
 * Toute profession d'incrédulité (...) sera poursuivie comme outrage à la religion et scandale pour les mœurs. (Proudhon, Révol. soc., 1852)
 * , public declaration of faith
 * D'une voix altérée, il prononça la profession de foi musulmane, comme pour se prémunir contre une tentation qu'il redoutait sans pouvoir la préciser. (Du Camp, Nil, 1854)
 * , occupation, trade, craft, activity
 * une profession lucrative.
 * , practitioners of a profession collectively

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) ; declaration (usually of faith)