predikant

English

Etymology

From South African Dutch predikant (Afrikaans predikant).

Pronunciation

• (General South African) IPA^(key): /pɹɪədɪˈkʌnt/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /pɹɛdɪˈkant/

Noun

predikant (plural predikants or predikante)

1. (chiefly South Africa) A minister in the Dutch Reformed Church, or allied denomination.
   • 1916, John Buchan, Greenmantle, London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     ‘When I was a boy the predikant used to preach about Turkey.’

   • 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 536:

     One Sunday it would be an Anglican priest, the next a Dutch Reformed predikant, the next a Methodist minister.

Dutch

Etymology

From prediken (“to preach”) +‎ -ant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpreː.diˈkɑnt/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: pre‧di‧kant

Noun

predikant m (plural predikanten, diminutive predikantje n)

1. preacher, minister (used in the Dutch Protestant church)

   Synonym: prediker

Derived terms

• haatpredikant

Descendants

• → Papiamentu: predikant (dated)

Swedish

Noun

predikant c

1. a preacher (one who preaches)

Declension

Declension of predikant

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	predikant	predikants
	definite	predikanten	predikantens
plural	indefinite	predikanter	predikanters
	definite	predikanterna	predikanternas

Related terms

• predika
• predikan

Further reading

• “predikant”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)