Instead of going myself, I sent a messenger.
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Messenger
//ˈmɛs.n̩.d͡ʒɚ//
Synonyms for "messenger" (72 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (15)
Strong matches (21)
Related words (36)
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2 entriesdbpedia genre
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3 entriesrelated to
22 entriesShowing 16 of 22 words.
Translations
228 translations across 98 languages.
Aghwan
1 entries- 𐔼𐕅𐕒𐕡𐕇𐕆𐔴𐕖𐔰𐔾 noun (one who brings messages)
Albanian
1 entries- lajmëtar noun (one who brings messages)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἄγγελος noun (one who brings messages)
Arabic
2 entries- رَسُول noun (one who brings messages)
- قَاصِد noun (one who brings messages)
Armenian
1 entries- բանբեր noun (one who brings messages)
Asturian
1 entries- mensaxeru noun (one who brings messages)
Azerbaijani
3 entries- elçi noun (one who brings messages)
- qasid noun (one who brings messages)
- rəsul noun (one who brings messages)
Bangi
1 entries- ntoma noun (one who brings messages)
Bashkir
1 entries- хәбәрсе noun (one who brings messages)
Belarusian
4 entries- ве́снік noun (one who brings messages)
- гане́ц noun (one who brings messages)
- звясту́н noun (one who brings messages)
- кур'е́р noun (one who brings messages)
Bulgarian
4 entries- ве́стник noun (one who brings messages)
- курие́р noun (one who brings messages)
- пра́теник noun (one who brings messages)
- пра́теница noun (one who brings messages)
Burmese
2 entries- ဆက်သား noun (one who brings messages)
- တမန် noun (one who brings messages)
Catalan
2 entries- missatger noun (one who brings messages)
- missatgera noun (one who brings messages)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 伻 noun (one who brings messages)
- 使者 noun (one who brings messages)
- 信使 noun (one who brings messages)
Church Slavic
1 entries- проповѣдьникъ noun (one who brings messages)
Czech
2 entries- kurýr noun (one who brings messages)
- posel noun (one who brings messages)
Danish
1 entries- bud noun (one who brings messages)
Dutch
2 entries- bode noun (one who brings messages)
- boodschapper noun (one who brings messages)
Egyptian
1 entries- wp:p-w-t:y-D54-A1 noun (one who brings messages)
Esperanto
2 entries- anoncanto noun (one who brings messages)
- mesaĝisto noun (one who brings messages)
Estonian
2 entries- saadik noun (one who brings messages)
- sõnumitooja noun (one who brings messages)
Faroese
4 entries- boðberi noun (one who brings messages)
- boðsveinur noun (one who brings messages)
- sendiboð noun (one who brings messages)
- ørindasveinur noun (one who brings messages)
Finnish
4 entries- kuriiri noun (one who brings messages)
- lähetti noun (one who brings messages)
- sanansaattaja noun (one who brings messages)
- viestintuoja noun (one who brings messages)
French
2 entries- coursier noun (one who brings messages)
- messager noun (one who brings messages)
Galician
2 entries- mandadeiro noun (one who brings messages)
- mensaxeiro noun (one who brings messages)
Georgian
4 entries- მაუწყებელი noun (one who brings messages)
- მაცნე noun (one who brings messages)
- მოამბე noun (one who brings messages)
- მომასწავებელი noun (one who brings messages)
German
3 entries- Bote noun (one who brings messages)
- Botschafter noun (one who brings messages)
- Kurier noun (one who brings messages)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌿𐍃 noun (one who brings messages)
Greek
1 entries- αγγελιοφόρος noun (one who brings messages)
Gujarati
1 entries- દૂત noun (one who brings messages)
Hausa
2 entries- manzo noun (one who brings messages)
- masinja noun (one who brings messages)
Hebrew
1 entries- מַלְאָךְ m שָׁלִיחַ noun (one who brings messages)
Hindi
4 entries- दूत noun (one who brings messages)
- रसूल noun (one who brings messages)
- संदेशवाहक noun (one who brings messages)
- हरकारा noun (one who brings messages)
Hungarian
2 entries- hírnök noun (one who brings messages)
- hírvivő noun (one who brings messages)
Icelandic
2 entries- boðberi noun (one who brings messages)
- sendiboði noun (one who brings messages)
Iranian Persian
4 entries- رَسول noun (one who brings messages)
- قاصِد noun (one who brings messages)
- پِیْغام رِسان noun (one who brings messages)
- پِیْک noun (one who brings messages)
Irish
3 entries- eachlach noun (one who brings messages)
- scéalaí noun (one who brings messages)
- teachtaire noun (one who brings messages)
Italian
2 entries- corriere noun (one who brings messages)
- messaggero noun (one who brings messages)
Japanese
4 entries- メッセンジャー noun (one who brings messages)
- 伝令 noun (one who brings messages)
- 伻 noun (one who brings messages)
- 使者 noun (one who brings messages)
Kaingang
1 entries- jẽnẽ jamã noun (one who brings messages)
Kazakh
2 entries- елші noun (one who brings messages)
- хабаршы noun (one who brings messages)
Khmer
1 entries- អ្នកនាំសារ noun (one who brings messages)
Korean
3 entries- 메신저 noun (one who brings messages)
- 사자 noun (one who brings messages)
- 전령 noun (one who brings messages)
Kyrgyz
2 entries- кабарчы noun (one who brings messages)
- элчи noun (one who brings messages)
Lao
1 entries- ຜູ້ສົ່ງຂ່າວ noun (one who brings messages)
Latin
4 entries- cursor noun (one who brings messages)
- nūntia noun (one who brings messages)
- nūntius noun (one who brings messages)
- viator noun (one who brings messages)
Latvian
3 entries- kurjers noun (one who brings messages)
- vēstnesis noun (one who brings messages)
- ziņnesis noun (one who brings messages)
Lingala
1 entries- ntóma noun (one who brings messages)
Lithuanian
2 entries- kurjeris noun (one who brings messages)
- pasiuntinys noun (one who brings messages)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- pósoł noun (one who brings messages)
Macedonian
2 entries- гласник noun (one who brings messages)
- курир noun (one who brings messages)
Malay
2 entries- pengutus noun (one who brings messages)
- utusan noun (one who brings messages)
Manchu
1 entries- ᡝᠯᠴᡳᠨ noun (one who brings messages)
Mongolian
1 entries- элч noun (one who brings messages)
Mycenaean Greek
1 entries- 𐀀𐀐𐀫 noun (one who brings messages)
Māori
3 entries- kaiwaewae noun (one who brings messages)
- karere noun (one who brings messages)
- pūrahorua noun (one who brings messages)
Ngazidja Comorian
2 entries- mtrume noun (one who brings messages)
- ndrume noun (one who brings messages)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- pêyamber noun (one who brings messages)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- bud noun (one who brings messages)
- budbringer noun (one who brings messages)
- budbærer noun (one who brings messages)
- sendebud noun (one who brings messages)
Occitan
1 entries- messatgièr noun (one who brings messages)
Old English
1 entries- boda noun (one who brings messages)
Old Norse
2 entries- árr noun (one who brings messages)
- ǫ́rr noun (one who brings messages)
Old Occitan
1 entries- messatger noun (one who brings messages)
Ottoman Turkish
3 entries- اولاق noun (one who brings messages)
- رسول noun (one who brings messages)
- چاپار noun (one who brings messages)
Pashto
4 entries- ايلچي noun (one who brings messages)
- اېلچي noun (one who brings messages)
- راستولی noun (one who brings messages)
- رسول noun (one who brings messages)
Polabian
2 entries- bezaikă noun (one who brings messages)
- bode noun (one who brings messages)
Polish
4 entries- goniec noun (one who brings messages)
- kurier noun (one who brings messages)
- poseł noun (one who brings messages)
- posłaniec noun (one who brings messages)
Portuguese
1 entries- mensageiro noun (one who brings messages)
Quechua
2 entries- chaski noun (one who brings messages)
- kacha noun (one who brings messages)
Romanian
1 entries- mesager noun (one who brings messages)
Russian
4 entries- ве́стник noun (one who brings messages)
- гоне́ц noun (one who brings messages)
- курье́р noun (one who brings messages)
- ме́ссенджер noun (one who brings messages)
Sanskrit
1 entries- दूत noun (one who brings messages)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- glȃsnīk noun (one who brings messages)
- vjȇsnīk noun (one who brings messages)
- vȇsnīk noun (one who brings messages)
- ве̑снӣк noun (one who brings messages)
Slovak
2 entries- kuriér noun (one who brings messages)
- posol noun (one who brings messages)
Slovene
1 entries- sèl noun (one who brings messages)
Spanish
1 entries- mensajero noun (one who brings messages)
Swahili
2 entries- mesenja noun (one who brings messages)
- tarishi noun (one who brings messages)
Swedish
2 entries- bud noun (one who brings messages)
- budbärare noun (one who brings messages)
Tagalog
2 entries- mensahero noun (one who brings messages)
- sugo noun (one who brings messages)
Tajik
2 entries- расул noun (one who brings messages)
- қосид noun (one who brings messages)
Tashelhiyt
1 entries- amazan noun (one who brings messages)
Tatar
1 entries- хәбәрче noun (one who brings messages)
Thai
2 entries- ผู้ส่งสาร noun (one who brings messages)
- ผู้แจ้งข่าว noun (one who brings messages)
Tibetan
2 entries- ཕོ་ཉ noun (one who brings messages)
- བང་ཆེན noun (one who brings messages)
Turkish
3 entries- elçi noun (one who brings messages)
- haberci noun (one who brings messages)
- resul noun (one who brings messages)
Turkmen
2 entries- habarçy noun (one who brings messages)
- resul noun (one who brings messages)
Ugaritic
1 entries- 𐎎𐎍𐎀𐎋 noun (one who brings messages)
Ukrainian
4 entries- ви́сланець noun (one who brings messages)
- ві́сник noun (one who brings messages)
- вісту́н noun (one who brings messages)
- гоне́ць noun (one who brings messages)
Urdu
4 entries- رَسُول noun (one who brings messages)
- قاصِد noun (one who brings messages)
- پَیام نِگار noun (one who brings messages)
- ہَرْکارَہ noun (one who brings messages)
Uyghur
3 entries- ئەلچى noun (one who brings messages)
- خەۋەرچى noun (one who brings messages)
- روسۇل noun (one who brings messages)
Uzbek
3 entries- elchi noun (one who brings messages)
- rasul noun (one who brings messages)
- xabarchi noun (one who brings messages)
Venetan
2 entries- mesa noun (one who brings messages)
- meso noun (one who brings messages)
Vietnamese
4 entries- người báo tin noun (one who brings messages)
- người chuyển giao noun (one who brings messages)
- người đem tin noun (one who brings messages)
- người đưa tin noun (one who brings messages)
Walloon
1 entries- messaedjî noun (one who brings messages)
Welsh
2 entries- cennad noun (one who brings messages)
- negesydd noun (one who brings messages)
Woiwurrung
1 entries- wiri-giri noun (one who brings messages)
Wolof
1 entries- ndaw noun (one who brings messages)
Yiddish
2 entries- משולח noun (one who brings messages)
- שליח noun (one who brings messages)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
The messenger left for London in secret.
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She is the messenger.
Source: tatoeba (310006)
There is no god but God, and Muhammad is the messenger of God.
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