English
Etymology
From god- + parent, modelled after godfather, godmother, godsib, etc.
Pronunciation
Noun
godparent (plural godparents)
- A person who, at a child's naming ceremony or baptism, agrees to help raise the child, originally and especially in regard to their religious development.
- Hyponyms: godfather, godmother
- A child's designated guardian in the case that the child's parents die.
Derived terms
Translations
person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
- Asturian: padrín (ast) m, madrina (ast) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: (male) 乾爹 / 干爹 (zh) (gāndiē), 教父 (zh) (jiàofù); (female) 乾娘 / 干娘 (zh) (gānniáng), 教母 (zh) (jiàomǔ)
- Danish: fadder
- Dutch: peetvader (nl) m, peetmoeder (nl) f
- Esperanto: baptogepatro
- Estonian: ristivanem, ristiisa m, ristiema f, vader (et)
- Finnish: kummi (fi), kummisetä (fi), kummitäti (fi)
- French: parrain (fr) m, marraine (fr) f
- Galician: padriño m
- Georgian: ნათლია n (natlia)
- German: Pate (de) m, Patin (de) f
- Greek: (godfather) νονός (el) m (nonós), (godmother) νονά (el) f (noná)
- Hawaiian: makua papakema
- Hungarian: keresztszülő (hu)
- Ido: baptogenitoro
- Ingrian: kooma
- Irish: cara as Críost m
- Japanese: 教父母 (きょうふぼ, kyōfubo), 名付け親 (なづけおや, nazukeoya), 代父母 (だいふぼ, daifubo)
- Luxembourgish: Pätter (lb)
- Macedonian: кум (mk) m (kum)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: fadder (no) m, dåpsvitne n
- Nynorsk: fadder m, dåpsvitne n
- Old English: godsibb m
- Polish: chrzestny (pl) m, chrzestna (pl) f
- Portuguese: padrinho (pt) m, madrinha (pt) f
- Romanian: naș (ro) m, nașă (ro) f
- Russian: крёстный оте́ц m (krjóstnyj otéc), крёстная мать f (krjóstnaja matʹ)
- Swedish: fadder (sv) c
- Ukrainian: хрещений батько m (xreščenyj batʹko), хрещена (мати) f (xreščena (maty))
- Volapük: spönan (vo) m or f, hispönan m, jispönan f; (collective) spönanef (vo) m or f
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