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Jehovah's Witness
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English
Alternative forms
en Jehovah witness Jehovah Witness Jehovah’s Witness Jehovah’s witness Jehovah's witness
Pronunciation
en /d͡ʒəˈhoʊ.vəz witnəs/ GA
en /d͡ʒəˈhəʊ.vəz witnəs/ RP
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Jehovah's Witness.wav Southern England
Noun
Jehovah's Witness
A member of a monotheistic and nontrinitarian Restoration Christian denomination founded by Charles Taze Russell in 1879 as a small Bible study group.
en JW one of Jehovah's Witnesses Witness Jehovah informal Jehovian derogatory Jehovist derogatory Jehovie slang, derogatory Bible Students International Bible Students former name former name Jovie Australia, informal
Translations
member of the Jehovah's Witnesses
Afrikaans: af Jehova se Getuie s
Akan: ak Yehowa Danseni
Amharic: am የይሖዋ ምስክሮች p
Arabic: ar شاهد يهوه m šāhid yahwa
Armenian: hy Եհովայի վկա
Catalan: ca testimoni de Jehovà m
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 耶和華見證人 je4 wo4 waa4 gin3 zing3 jan4
Mandarin: cmn 耶和華見證人 Yēhéhuá jiànzhèngrén
Czech: cs svědek Jehovův m
Danish: da Jehovas vidne n
Dutch: nl Jehova's Getuige, nl Getuige amongst themselves
Esperanto: eo atestanto de Jehovo
Estonian: et Jehoova tunnistaja
Finnish: fi Jehovan todistaja
French: fr témoin de Jéhovah m
German: de Zeuge Jehovas m, de Zeugin Jehovas f
Greek: el Μάρτυρας του Ιεχωβά m f, el ιεχωβάς m, el ιεχωβίτισσα f
Hindi: hi यहोवा के साक्षी m f
Icelandic: is vottur Jehóva m
Indonesian: id Saksi Yehuwa
Irish: ga Finné Iáivé m
Italian: it Testimone di Geova m f
Japanese: ja エホバの証人 Ehoba no shōnin
Kazakh: kk Ехоба куәгерлері
Korean: ko ^여호와의 증인
Latin: la Testis Jehovah c
Latvian: lv Jehovas liecinieks
Macedonian: mk Јеховин сведок m
Maltese: mt xhud ta' Ġeħova m
Norwegian: no Jehovas vitne n
Papiamentu: pap Testigu di Yehova
Polish: pl jehowy m colloquial, sometimes derogatory, pl świadek Jehowy m
Portuguese: pt testemunha de Jeová f
Romanian: ro martor al lui Iehova
Russian: ru свиде́тель Иего́вы m, ru иегови́ст m
Sami:
Northern Sami: se Jehova duođašteaddji, se Jehova vihtan
Serbo-Croatian: sh Jehovin svjedok m
Slovene: sl Jehovova priča f, sl Jehovec m colloquial, sl Jehovka f colloquial
Spanish: es testigo de Jehová m f
Swedish: sv Jehovas vittne n, sv Jehovas c colloquial
Tagalog: tl Saksi
Vietnamese: vi Nhân chứng Giê-hô-va, vi Nhân Chứng Giê-hô-va
Yucatec Maya: yua j-jaajkunaj Jéeoba
See also
en anti-Witness non-Witness pro-Witness
en eponyms
en Christianity