religious

Engleski

===Etymology

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From Middle English religiouse, religious, religius, religeous, from Anglo-Norman religieus, religius, from Old French religious, religieux, and their source, Latinski religiōsus (“religious, superstitious, conscientious”), from religiō.

===Pronunciation

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• (UK) MFA^(ključ): /ɹɪ.ˈlɪ.d͡ʒəs/

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• Rime: -ɪdʒəs

===Adjective

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religious (comparative more religious, superlative most religious)

1. Concerning religion.
   • 2014 mart 3, Zoe Alderton, “‘Snapewives’ and ‘Snapeism’: A Fiction-Based Religion within the Harry Potter Fandom”, in Religions‎^[1], volume 5, number 1, MDPI, DOI:10.3390/rel5010219, archived from the original on 20 Dec 2014, strane 219-257:

   It is the job of this court to rule on legal matters. We do not consider religious issues.

2. Committed to the practice or adherence of religion.

   I was much more religious as a teenager than I am now.

3. Highly dedicated, as one would be to a religion.

   I'm a religious fan of college basketball.

====Antonyms

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• (concerning religion): irreligious, profane, secular, atheistic
• (committed to religion): areligious, irreligious
• (highly dedicated): casual

====Derived terms

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• religious education
• religious leader
• religiously
• religiousness
• religious order
• religious studies

 

====Related terms

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• irreligiosity
• irreligious
• irreligiously
• irreligiousness
• religion
• religiosity

 

====Translations

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concerning religion

• Arabic: دِينِيّ‎ (dīniyy)
• Armenian: կրոնական (hy) (kronakan)
• Asturian: relixosu
• Catalan: religiós (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 宗教 (zh) (zōngjiào)

• Czech: náboženský (cs) m
• Danish: religiøs (da)
• Dutch: religieus (nl)
• Esperanto: religia (eo)
• Finnish: uskonnollinen (fi)
• French: religieux (fr)
• Galician: relixioso (gl)
• German: religiös (de), gläubig (de)
• Hindi: धार्मिक (hi) (dhārmik)
• Hungarian: vallási (hu)
• Indonesian: keagamaan (id)
• Japanese: 宗教的 (ja) (しゅうきょうてき, shūkyōteki)
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• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• Latvian: reliģisks
• Luxembourgish: reliéis
• Malay: keagamaan
• Maltese: reliġjuż
• Norman: r'ligieux
• Persian: دینی‎ (fa) (dini)
• Polish: religijny (pl)
• Portuguese: religioso (pt)
• Russian: religióznый (ru) (religióznyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: rèlīgījskī (sh), vjèrskī (sh)
• Spanish: religioso (es)
• Swedish: religiös (sv)
• Turkish: dinî (tr), dini (tr), dinsel (tr)
• Uyghur: دىنىي‎ (diniy)
• Uzbek: diniy (uz)
• Vietnamese: tôn giáo (vi) (宗教 (vi))
• Welsh: crefyddol (cy)

committed to the practice of religion

• Arabic: مُتَدَيِّنٌ‎ (mutadayyinun), دَيِّنٌ‎ (ar) (dayyinun)
• Armenian: հավատացյալ (hy) (havatacʿyal)
• Asturian: relixosu
• Bengali: ধার্মিক (dharmik)
• Catalan: religiós (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 篤信宗教的／笃信宗教的, 笃信宗教的 (dǔxìn zōngjiào de), 信仰的 (zh) (xìnyǎng de)

• Czech: religiózní (cs)
• Danish: religiøs (da)
• Dutch: godsdienstig (nl), religieus (nl)
• Finnish: uskonnollinen (fi)
• French: religieux (fr)
• Galician: relixioso (gl), relixiosa f
• German: religiös (de), gläubig (de)
• Gujarati: ધાર્મિક (dhārmik)
• Hebrew: דָּתִי‎ (he) m (datí), דָּתִית‎ f (datít)
• Hindi: धार्मिक (hi) (dhārmik)
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• Hungarian: vallásos (hu)
• Indonesian: agamis (id)
• Japanese: 信仰的 (しんこうてき, shinkōteki)
• Latvian: reliģiozs
• Maltese: reliġjuż
• Maori: whakapono
• Norman: r'ligieux
• Norwegian: religiøs (no)
• Persian: دیندار‎ (fa) (dindâr), مذهبی‎ (fa) (mazhabi)
• Portuguese: religioso (pt)
• Russian: religióznый (ru) (religióznyj), véruющiй (ru) (vérujuščij)
• Scottish Gaelic: cràbhach
• Serbo-Croatian: rèlīgījskī (sh), vjèrskī (sh)
• Spanish: religioso (es)
• Swedish: religiös (sv)
• Turkish: dindar (tr), inançlı (tr)
• Ukrainian: relіgійniй (uk) (relihijnyj)
• Vietnamese: sùng đạo (vi), mộ đạo

highly dedicated

• Danish: religiøs (da)
• Finnish: uskollinen (fi), fanaattinen (fi)
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• Galician: relixioso (gl)
• Hungarian: megrögzött (hu)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} religieus (nl), ^{(please verify)} gelovig (nl)
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} religiös (sv)
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• Šablon:ttbc: ^{(molim proverite)} మతపరమైన (mataparamaina), ^{(molim proverite)} ఆధ్యాత్మికము (ādhyātmikamu), ^{(molim proverite)} ధార్మికము (dhārmikamu)

===Noun

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religious (plural religious or religiouses)

1. A member of a religious order, i.e. a monk or nun.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 354:

     Towards the end of the seventh century the monks of Fleury [...] clandestinely excavated the body of Benedict himself, plus the corpse of his even more shadowy sister and fellow religious, Scholastica.

====Hyponyms

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• Baha'i
• Buddhist
• Confucianist
• Druid
• Eckist
• Hindu
• Jain
• Jew
• LaVeyan Satanist
• Muslim
• New Ager
• Rastafarian
• Raëlian
• Scientologist
• Sikh
• Taoist
• Taoist
• Thelemite
• Unitarian Universalist
• Wiccan
• Zoroastrian
• humanist
• pagan
• reconstructionist
• spiritist

====Translations

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member of religious order

• Danish: religiøs person c
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• Finnish: uskova (fi)

===Further reading

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• religious in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• religious in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911