protégé

See also: protege, protegé, protége, protège, and Protegé

English

Borrowed from French protégé, past participle of protéger (“to protect”).

protégé (plural protégés)

A person who is guided and supported by an older and more experienced person (a protector or mentor).
His status as a protégé of the great artist had many benefits, but was ultimately a burden.
Synonyms: apprentice, (more informal) mentee, pupil
- 2006, August 28, Sylvia Nasar and David Gruber, Manifold Destiny, The New Yorker:
  While Yau was in China, he visited Xi-Ping Zhu, a protégé of his who was now chairman of the mathematics department at Sun Yat-sen University.

person who is guided and supported

Arabic: ربيب‎ (rabīb), مَحْمِيّ‎ (maḥmiyy)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 門徒／门徒 (zh) (méntú)
Dutch: protegé (nl) m
Finnish: suojatti (fi)
French: protégé (fr) m, protégée (fr) f
German: Günstling (de) m, Protegé (de) m (both with a negative connotation), Mündel (de) n, Schützling (de) m
Greek: προστατευόμενος (el) m (prostatevómenos), προστατευομένη f (prostatevoméni)
Hungarian: védenc (hu), pártfogolt (hu)
Japanese: 子飼い (こがい, kogai), プロテジェ (puroteje), 門徒 (ja) (ものと, monto), メンティー (mentī)
Macedonian: штитеник m (štitenik)
Maori: paruhi
Polish: protegowany m, protegowana f
Portuguese: pupilo (pt) m
Russian: протеже́ (ru) m or f (protɛžé)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: штићеник m
Roman: štićenik m
Swedish: protegé (sv) c, skyddsling (sv) c
Tagalog: tagapagtanod
Turkish: çırak (tr)
Ukrainian: протеже́ m or f (protežé)

protégé (feminine protégée, masculine plural protégés, feminine plural protégées)

From French protéger (“to protect”), compare Haitian Creole pwoteje.

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