Prophet

Noun

 * 1) Someone who speaks by divine inspiration.
 * 2) Someone who predicts the future; a soothsayer.

Derived terms

 * prophecy
 * prophesise, prophesize nonstandard
 * prophesy
 * prophetess

Adjectives for Prophet
maddening; dumb; twice-tongued; fiery; courageous; master; disbelieved.

Thesaurus
Cassandra, Don Quixote, Druid, Quixote, astrologer, augur, calamity howler, clairvoyant, crystal gazer, daydreamer, divinator, diviner, divineress, dreamer, dreamer of dreams, enthusiast, escapist, forecaster, foreknower, foreseer, foreshower, foreteller, fortune-teller, fortuneteller, geomancer, haruspex, idealist, lotus-eater, oracle, palmist, predictor, prefigurer, presager, prognosticator, prophesier, prophet of doom, prophetess, psychic, pythoness, religious prophets, rhapsodist, romancer, romantic, romanticist, seer, seeress, sibyl, soothsayer, utopian, utopianist, utopianizer, vates, visionary, warlock, weather prophet, wishful thinker, witch

Etymology
propheta, from propheta (later reinforced in English by Anglo-Norman prophete), from  προφήτης: (prophētēs) "one who speaks for a god" < πρό: (pro) "before" + φημί: (phēmi) "I tell"

Translations

 * Arabic: (nábiy),  (rasūl)
 * Armenian:
 * Azeri:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 先知 (xiānzhī), 預言家, 预言家 (yùyánjiā)
 * Croatian:, proročica
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Ewe: nyagblɔɖila
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: წინასწარმეტყველი
 * German:, Prophetin
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:, איש האלוהים
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:


 * Irish: fáidh
 * Japanese: (, yogensha)
 * Korean: 선지자,예언자
 * Kurdish:, , ,
 * Macedonian:
 * Norwegian: profet
 * Persian: پیغامبر
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romansch: profet
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Swahili: nabii
 * Swedish: profet
 * Turkish:, nebi, resul, serdar-ı ekrem, Allah'ın elçisi,
 * Uyghur: پەيغەمبەر
 * Volapük: profetan,  hiprofetan,  jiprofetan
 * Welsh: proffwyd
 * Yiddish: נבֿיא


 * Arabic: (man yatanábba’u)
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 先知 (xiānzhī), 預言家, 预言家 (yùyánjiā)
 * Croatian:, proročica
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:, spåmand , spåkvinde
 * Dutch:, , waarzegster
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, ,
 * German:, Prophetin
 * Greek: (profítis)


 * Hebrew:, מגד עתידות
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish: fáidh
 * Japanese: (, yogensha)
 * Macedonian:, претскажувач
 * Russian:, прорицатель, предсказатель, провидец
 * Serbian:, vidovnjak
 * Swedish: profet
 * Volapük: profetan,  hiprofetan,  jiprofetan


 * : profeto
 * : 예언자 (ye-eonja)
 * : peyamber, qasid
 * : peyamber, qasid


 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman: prorok
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman: prorok