Jehovah's Witness

English

Alternative forms

• Jehovah witness, Jehovah Witness (wrong forms sometimes used by non-Witnesses and Witnesses alike)
• Jehovah’s Witness
• Jehovah’s witness, Jehovah's witness (former spellings, now obsolete)

Noun

Jehovah's Witness (plural Jehovah's Witnesses)

1. A member of a monotheistic and nontrinitarian Restoration Christian denomination founded by Charles Taze Russell in 1879 as a small Bible study group. Originally known as International Bible Students or Bible Students.

   Synonyms: JW, one of Jehovah's Witnesses, (informal) Witness, (derogatory) Jehovah, (derogatory) Jehovian, (slang, derogatory) Jehovist, Jehovie

Translations

member of the Jehovah's Witnesses

• Afrikaans: Jehova se Getuie sg
• Amharic: የይሖዋ ምስክሮች pl (yäyḥowa məskəroč)
• Arabic: شاهد يهوه m (šāhid yahwa)
• Armenian: Եհովայի վկա (Ehovayi vka)
• Catalan: testimoni de Jehovà m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 耶和華見證人 / 耶和华见证人 (je⁴ wo⁴ waa⁴ gin³ zing³ jan⁴)

  Mandarin: 耶和華見證人 / 耶和华见证人 (zh) (Yēhéhuá jiànzhèngrén)

• Czech: svědek Jehovův m
• Danish: Jehovas vidne n
• Dutch: Jehova's Getuige, Getuige (amongst themselves)
• Esperanto: atestanto de Jehovo
• Estonian: Jehoova tunnistaja
• Finnish: Jehovan todistaja (fi)
• French: témoin de Jéhovah (fr) m
• German: Zeuge Jehovas m, Zeugin Jehovas f
• Greek: Μάρτυρας του Ιεχωβά (el) m or f (Mártyras tou Iechová)
• Icelandic: vottur Jehóva m
• Indonesian: Saksi Yehuwa
• Irish: Finné Iáivé m
• Italian: Testimone di Geova m or f
• Japanese: エホバの証人 (Ehoba no shōnin)
• Kazakh: Ехоба куәгерлері (Exoba kuägerlerı)
• Korean: 여호와의 증인 (Yeohowaui jeung'in)
• Latin: Testis Jehovah c
• Latvian: Jehovas liecinieks
• Macedonian: Јеховин сведок m (Jehovin svedok)
• Maltese: xhud ta’ Ġeħova m
• Northern Sami: Jehova duođašteaddji, Jehova vihtan
• Norwegian: Jehovas vitne n
• Papiamentu: Testigu di Yehova
• Polish: jehowy m (colloquial, sometimes derogatory), świadek Jehowy (pl) m
• Portuguese: testemunha de Jeová (pt) f
• Romanian: martor al lui Iehova
• Russian: свиде́тель Иего́вы m (svidételʹ Ijegóvy), иегови́ст (ru) m (ijegovíst)
• Slovene: Jehovova priča f, Jehovec m (colloquial), Jehovka f (colloquial)
• Spanish: testigo de Jehová m or f
• Swedish: Jehovas vittne (sv) n, Jehovas c (colloquial)
• Tagalog: Saksi
• Vietnamese: Nhân chứng Giê-hô-va, Nhân Chứng Giê-hô-va
• Yucatec Maya: j-jaajkunaj Jéeoba

See also

• anti-Witness
• non-Witness
• pro-Witness