English
Etymology
From Middle English bilevar, bileever, belever, equivalent to believe + -er.
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Noun
believer (plural believers)
- A person who believes; especially regarding religion.
She's a believer in life after death.
1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:But the other two were, comparatively speaking, clean shaved, which of course gave the enemy a larger extent of open country to operate on, though in Mahomed's case the mosquitoes, recognising the taste of a true believer, would not touch him at any price.
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person who believes
- Albanian: besimtar (sq) m
- Arabic: مُؤْمِن m (muʔmin), مُؤْمِنَة f (muʔmina)
- Asturian: creyente m or f
- Azerbaijani: mömin (az), dindar
- Bashkir: (Islam) мөьмин (mömin)
- Belarusian: ве́руючы m (vjérujučy), ве́руючая f (vjérujučaja)
- Bengali: আস্তিক (bn) (astik), মুমিন (bn) (mumin) (Islam)
- Bulgarian: вя́рващ (bg) m (vjárvašt)
- Catalan: creient (ca) m or f
- Chinese:
- Dungan: мәмин (məmin)
- Mandarin: 信徒 (zh) (xìntú), 教徒 (zh) (jiàotú)
- Czech: věřící (cs) m
- Danish: troende
- Dutch: gelovige (nl)
- Finnish: uskova (fi), uskovainen (fi)
- French: croyant (fr) m, croyante (fr) f
- Galician: crente m or f, fiel (gl) m or f
- Georgian: მორწმუნე (morc̣mune)
- German: Gläubiger (de) m, Gläubige (de) f
- Greek: πιστός (el) m (pistós)
- Hebrew: מַאֲמִין m (ma'amín)
- Hindi: आस्तिक (hi) m (āstik), मूमिन m (mūmin) (Islam)
- Irish: creidmheach m
- Italian: credente (it) m or f
- Japanese: 信徒 (ja) (しんと, shinto), 信者 (ja) (しんじゃ, shinja), 教徒 (ja) (きょうと, kyōto)
- Kazakh: діншіл адам (dınşıl adam)
- Khmer: សាសនិក (km) (saasaʼnɨk), សាសនិកា (saasaʼnikaa) (female)
- Korean: 신도(信徒) (ko) (sindo), 신자(信者) (ko) (sinja), 교인(敎人) (ko) (gyoin), 교도(敎徒) (ko) (gyodo)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: bawermend (ku), mûmin (ku) m
- Kyrgyz: динчил адам (dincil adam)
- Lao: ຜູ້ເຊື່ອຖື (phū sư̄a thư̄), ອຸບາສົກ (ʼu bā sok), ອຸບາສິກາ (ʼu bā si kā) (female)
- Macedonian: верник m (vernik), верничка f (vernička)
- Malay: mumin (Islam), mukmin (Islam)
- Malayalam: വിശ്വാസി (ml) (viśvāsi)
- Navajo: oodláanii
- Ngazidja Comorian: mndru yaamini class 1/2
- Norman: croyant m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: troende
- Nynorsk: truande
- Oromo: amanaa
- Pashto: مومن m (momén)
- Persian: مؤمن (fa) (mo'men)
- Polish: wierzący (pl) m, wierny (pl) m, wyznawca (pl) m, wyznawczyni (pl) f
- Portuguese: crente (pt) m or f, acreditador m, acreditadora f
- Romanian: credincios (ro) m, credincioasă f
- Russian: ве́рующий (ru) m (vérujuščij), ве́рующая (ru) f (vérujuščaja)
- Scottish Gaelic: creidmheach m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ве̑рнӣк m, вје̑рнӣк m
- Roman: vȇrnīk (sh) m, vjȇrnīk (sh) m
- Slovak: veriaci (sk) m
- Slovene: vernik m, vernica f
- Spanish: creyente (es) m
- Swahili: muumini (sw)
- Swedish: troende (sv)
- Tajik: муъмин (mu'min), мӯъмин (tg) (mü'min)
- Tatar: мөъмин (mö'min)
- Thai: ผู้เชื่อ, ผู้ศรัทธา, ศาสนิกชน (sǎa-sà-ník-gà-chon)
- Turkish: mümin (tr), inanan (tr)
- Turkmen: mömin
- Ukrainian: ві́руючий m (vírujučyj), ві́руюча f (vírujuča)
- Urdu: ماننے والا m (mānne vālā), مومن m (momin)
- Uyghur: مۆمىن (mömin)
- Uzbek: moʻmin (uz), dindor (uz)
- Vietnamese: tín đồ (vi), giáo đồ (vi), giáo dân (vi)
- Yiddish: מאמין m (maymen)
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