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Orthodox
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orthodox
English
Pronunciation
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Orthodox.wav US
Adjective
en Christianity Of or pertaining to the Orthodox Churches collectively.
en Christianity loosely Of or pertaining to a particular Orthodox Church, usually the Eastern Orthodox Church, sometimes the Oriental Orthodox Church or the Church of the East.
en Judaism Of or pertaining to Orthodox Judaism.
en Quakerism Of or pertaining to the Orthodox Quakers, a group of Quakers (subdivided into the Wilburite, Gurneyite and Beaconite branches) who split with the Hicksite Quakers due to favoring adopting mainstream Protestant orthodoxy.
en 2006 Martha Paxson Grundy The Evolution of a Quaker Community: Middletown Meeting, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 1750-1850 [...which] Doherty hypothesized as the controlling variable for predicting who would become Orthodox or who would be Hicksite.
Derived terms
en Conservadox ultra-Orthodox Russian Orthodox Indian Orthodox Church Orthodox Jewish orthodoxize Orthodoxy
Translations
of the Orthodox Churches
Albanian: sq ortodoks
Amharic: am ኦርቶዶክስ
Arabic: ar أُرْثُوذُكْسِيّ
Hijazi Arabic: acw أرثوذكسي ʔurṯūḏuksi, ʔurṯōḏuksi
Armenian: hy ուղղափառ, hy հունադավան Eastern Orthodox
Azerbaijani:
Arabic: az اورتودوقس ortodoqs, az اورتادوس ortados
Latin: az pravoslav, az ortodoks
Belarusian: be правасла́ўны, (generic be прававе́рны)
Bengali: bn অর্থোডক্স orthōḍoks
Bulgarian: bg правосла́вен, (generic bg правове́рен)
Catalan: ca ortodox
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 東正教 dōngzhèngjiào Eastern Orthodox, cmn 正教 zhèngjiào
Crimean Tatar: crh ortodoks
Czech: cs pravoslavný, (generic cs pravověrný)
Danish: da ortodoks
Dutch: nl orthodox, Eastern Orthodox nl Oosters-orthodox
Esperanto: eo ortodoksa
Estonian: et õigeusu
Faroese: fo ortodoksur
Finnish: fi ortodoksinen
French: fr orthodoxe
Galician: gl ortodoxo m
Georgian: ka მართლმადიდებელი
German: de orthodox
Greek: el ορθόδοξος
Hebrew: he אוֹרְתּוֹדוֹקְּסִי ortodóksi
Hindi: hi रूढ़िवादी
Hungarian: hu ortodox, hu pravoszláv
Ido: io ortodoxa
Indonesian: id ortodoks
Italian: it ortodosso
Japanese: ja オーソドックス ōsodokkusu, ja 正教 せいきょう, seikyō
Karaim: kdr yavan
Kazakh: kk православиелік
Korean: ko 정교(正敎)
Kyrgyz: ky православие
Lao: lo ອອກໂຕດົກ
Lithuanian: lt stačiatikis
Macedonian: mk православен
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb ortodoks
Nynorsk: nn ortodoks
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: cu православьнъ
Persian: fa ارتدکس ortodoks, fa یگان yagân obsolete
Polish: pl prawosławny, pl prawowierny
Portuguese: pt ortodoxo
Romanian: ro ortodox
Russian: ru правосла́вный, (generic ru правове́рный)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh пра̏восла̄ван
Latin: sh prȁvoslāvan
Slovak: sk pravoslávny
Slovene: sl pravoslaven
Spanish: es ortodoxo
Swedish: sv ortodox
Tajik: tg православӣ
Tatar: tt православие
Thai: th ออร์ทอดอกซ์
Turkish: tr Ortodoks
Turkmen: tk prawoslaw
Ukrainian: uk правосла́вний, (generic uk правові́рний or relating to the Ukrainian orthodox Greek Catholic church)
Uzbek: uz pravoslaviye
Vietnamese: vi chánh giáo
of Orthodox Judaism
Arabic: ar أُرْثُوذُكْسِيّ
Finnish: fi ortodoksinen, fi ortodoksijuutalainen
Greek: el ορθόδοξος
Hebrew: he אורתודוקסי ortodóksi
Hungarian: hu ortodox
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb ortodoks
Nynorsk: nn ortodoks
Persian: fa ارتدکس ortodoks
Polish: pl ortodoksyjny
Portuguese: pt ortodoxo
Russian: ru ортодокса́льный (иудаи́зм)
Swedish: sv ortodox
Noun
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en uncommon An Orthodox Christian.
en 1891 John Scott Keltie The Statesman's Year-Book MacMillan and Co. 854 The Greek Orthodox population of the 62 bishoprics in 1886 numbered 65,549,096. to which the Orthodoxes of the army and navy must be added.
1984, David Gillard (ed.), British documents on foreign affairs: Reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print, Part I: From the mid-nineteenth century to the First World War, Series B: The Near and Middle East, 1856-1914, page 31.
en The Greek Catholic priesthood, who proselytize among the Orthodoxes, are specially favoured, and donations are given for Masses in the churches of the Capuchin and the Franciscan Friars.
en rare An Orthodox Jew.
Usage notes
Use of Orthodox as a noun is considerably less common than the use of Orthodox Jew and Orthodox Christian.
See also
en Orthodox Church
en Eastern Orthodox Church
en Oriental Orthodox Church
en Quakerism