saint

Etymology 1
From, , , , , , partly from and confluence with ,  (Modern French ); both from , past participle of , akin to. . Displaced native from  (> Modern 🇨🇬).

Noun



 * 1)  A deceased person whom a church or another religious group has officially recognised as especially holy or godly; one eminent for piety and virtue.
 * 2)  One of the blessed in heaven.
 * 3)  A Christian; a faithful believer in the present world.
 * 4)  A person with similarly overwhelming positive qualities; one who does good.
 * 5)  A holy object.
 * 1)  A person with similarly overwhelming positive qualities; one who does good.
 * 2)  A holy object.
 * 1)  A person with similarly overwhelming positive qualities; one who does good.
 * 2)  A holy object.
 * 1)  A holy object.
 * 1)  A holy object.

Derived terms

 * See also the lists of derived terms at and 

Translations

 * Aghwan: 𐕌𐕒𐕡𐕟𐕒𐕡𐕙
 * Albanian:, shën, mrrim
 * Arabic: وَلِيّ,  قِدِّيس
 * Hijazi Arabic: قِدِّيس
 * Moroccan Arabic: ولي, ولي صالح
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: sãntu, sãmtu, ayiu
 * Asturian: santu, santa
 * Bashkir: әүлиә
 * Belarusian: святы́, свята́я
 * Bengali: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 聖人, 聖徒
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Dalmatian: suant
 * Danish: helgen
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: sanktulo,  virsanktulo,  sanktuliĉo,  sanktulino
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Middle French: sainct
 * Old French: saint, seint
 * Friulian: sant
 * Galician:, santa
 * Georgian: წმინდანი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient Greek: ἅγιος
 * Modern Greek: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, , , ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Irish: naomh
 * Italian: ,
 * Jakaltek: tioẍ
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Lao: ນັກບຸນ
 * Latgalian: svāts, svāta, svātlelyskys
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:, svēta
 * Lithuanian: šventasis, šventoji
 * Lombard:
 * Luxembourgish: Hellegen
 * Macedonian: светец, светица
 * Malay:, santo
 * Maltese: qaddis, santu
 * Maori: hato
 * Norman: saint
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, sankt
 * Nynorsk:
 * Occitan:
 * Old English: hālga, sanct
 * Old Occitan: saint
 * Persian:, , , سنتا
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Quechua: ch'uya, santu
 * Romanian:, , , sântă
 * Romansch: sontg, sogn, son, sench, sonch
 * Russian: ,
 * Sardinian: santu
 * Scottish Gaelic: naomh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: светац
 * Roman:, , , sveto, sveta
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovak: svätý, svätá
 * Slovene:, svetnica
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Tajik:
 * Thai:, วิสุทธิชน
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: святи́й, свята́
 * Urdu:, , بزرگ, ولی, ولیہ
 * Venetian: santo
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:,  ,
 * Walloon: ,


 * Armenian:
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: helgen
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: naomh
 * Italian: ,
 * Macedonian: светец, светица
 * Maltese: san, santu, santa
 * Maori: ahurangi
 * Norman: saint
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: helgen
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: naomh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: светац
 * Roman:, , , sveto, sveta
 * Slovene:, svetnica
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:, วิสุทธิชน
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:,  ,
 * Walloon: ,


 * Georgian:
 * Maltese:, ,
 * Old English:, before a proper name, ,
 * Slovak: (1,2),  (1,2),  (3)
 * Slovene: ,

Etymology 2
From, , , partly from and partly from the noun ,  (see above).

Verb

 * : to honor, formally name, or revere as a saint.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: канонизирам
 * Danish: kanonisere
 * Dutch: heiligverklaren
 * Italian: ,
 * Norwegian: kanonisere
 * Scottish Gaelic: naomhaich
 * Vietnamese: tuyên thánh, phong thánh

Etymology 3
From the pattern of naming various parishes and other places for Christian saints.

Usage notes
May be used for either male or female names. May be combined with the other word using a hyphen, particularly following French examples.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) a male ;

Adjective

 * 1) saintly all meanings

Derived terms
- in Belgian toponyms:

- in Canadian toponyms:

- In French toponyms:

- In toponyms of French Guiana:

- In Guadeloupean toponyms:

- In Italian toponyms:

- In toponyms of Martinique:

- In toponyms of Réunion:

- In Swiss toponyms:

Etymology
From, of ga origin; cognate with 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬. Possibly borrowed from (the source of 🇨🇬), from, provided the borrowing happened before *s became *h in Brythonic but after *ant became *ēdd in Goidelic, as the inherited Old Irish descendant of  is  (whence ). Against this hypothesis is the fact that and  are masculine, while  and its descendants are feminine.

Noun

 * 1) greed, avarice, covetousness
 * 2) great eagerness, desire

Etymology
From, from.

Adjective

 * 1)  holy

Adjective

 * 1) holy
 * 2) pious; devout
 * 1) pious; devout