participation

participation

English

Etymology

From Middle English participacioun, from Middle French [Term?], from Old French participacion, from Late Latin participatiō; synchronically analyzable as participate +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɑɹˌtɪsɪˈpeɪʃən/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɑːˌtɪsɪˈpeɪʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən
• Hyphenation: par‧ti‧ci‧pa‧tion

Noun

participation (countable and uncountable, plural participations)

1. The act of participating, of taking part in something.
2. The state of being related to a larger whole.
3. The process during which individuals, groups and organizations are consulted about or have the opportunity to become actively involved in a project or program of activity.

   a decision made based on the participation of the shareholders

4. An ownership interest or profit-sharing right.

Related terms

• participate
• participant

Translations

act of participating

Afrikaans: deelname Albanian: pjesëmarrje (sq) f Arabic: مُسَاهَمَة‎ f (musāhama), اِشْتِرَاك‎ m (ištirāk), مُشَارَكَة‎ f (mušāraka) Armenian: մասնակցություն (hy) (masnakcʿutʿyun) Azerbaijani: iştirak Belarusian: удзе́л m (udzjél) Bulgarian: уча́стие (bg) n (učástie) Catalan: participació (ca) f Chinese: Cantonese: 參加, 参加 (caam1 gaa1) Mandarin: 參加／参加 (zh) (cānjiā), 參與／参与 (zh) (cānyù) Czech: účast (cs) f Danish: deltagelse c Dutch: deelname (nl) f, deelneming (nl) f, meedoen (nl) n, participatie (nl) f Esperanto: partopreno (eo) Estonian: osalemine Finnish: osallistuminen (fi) French: participation (fr) f Galician: participación (gl) f Georgian: მონაწილეობა (monac̣ileoba) German: Partizipation (de) f, Beteiligung (de) f, Teilnahme (de) f Gothic: 𐌳𐌰𐌹𐌻𐌰 f (daila) Greek: συμμετοχή (el) f (symmetochí) Ancient: μετάληψις f (metálēpsis), μετοχή f (metokhḗ) Hebrew: השתתפות‎ f (hishtatfút) Hindi: सहभागिता f (sahbhāgitā), शराकत (hi) f (śarākat), भागी (hi) f (bhāgī), इश्तिराक (hi) m (iśtirāk) Hungarian: részvétel (hu) Icelandic: þátttaka (is) f Ido: parto-prenar (io) Italian: partecipazione (it) Japanese: 参加 (ja) (さんか, sanka) Kazakh: қатысу (qatysu) Korean: 참가(參加) (ko) (chamga) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: بەشداری‎ (ku) (beşdarî) Northern Kurdish: beşdarî (ku) Kyrgyz: катышуу (ky) (katışuu) Latin: participium (la) n Latvian: līdzdalība f Lithuanian: dalyvavimas m Luxembourgish: Bedeelegung f Macedonian: учество n (učestvo) Malayalam: പ്രോത്സാഹന സമ്മാനം (ml) (prōtsāhana sammānaṃ) Maltese: parteċipazzjoni f Norwegian: Bokmål: deltakelse m Occitan: participacion (oc) f Pashto: اشتراک‎ (ps) m (ešterãk), شرکت‎ (ps) m (šerkát), مشارکت‎ m (mošārakát) Persian: شرکت‎ (fa) (šerkat), اشتراک‎ (fa) (ešterâk), مشارکت‎ (fa) (mošârekat) Plautdietsch: Bedeeljunk f Polish: udział (pl) m, uczestnictwo (pl) n Portuguese: participação (pt) f Romanian: participare (ro) f Russian: уча́стие (ru) n (učástije) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: учешће Roman: učešće n Slovak: účasť f Slovene: sodelovanje n Spanish: participación (es) f, colaboración (es) f, constribución f Swedish: deltagande (sv) n Tajik: иштирок (tg) (ištirok), ширкат (tg) (širkat) Turkish: iştirak (tr), katılım (tr) Ukrainian: у́часть f (účastʹ) Urdu: اشتراک‎ (iśtirāk) Uyghur: قاتنىشىش‎ (qatnishish), ئىشتىراك قىلىش‎ (ishtirak qilish), ئىشتىراك‎ (ishtirak) Uzbek: ishtirok (uz), qatnashish, ishtirok etish Vietnamese: sự tham gia (vi) Welsh: cyfranogiaeth f, cyfranogiad m West Frisian: dielname c, dielnimming c, meidwaan n, partisipaasje c Yiddish: אָנטייל‎ m (onteyl), אָנטיילונג‎ f (onteylung)

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin participātiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paʁ.ti.si.pa.sjɔ̃/

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Noun

participation f (plural participations)

1. participation

Related terms

• participer

Further reading

• “participation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.