Apostle

See also: apostle

English

Apostles

Noun

Apostle (plural Apostles)

1. (Christianity) Any of the group of twelve disciples chosen by Jesus to preach and spread the Gospel.
2. A top-ranking ecclesiastical official in the twelve-seat Mormon administrative council.

Derived terms

• Apostles' Creed

Translations

any of the group of twelve disciples

• Armenian: առաքյալ (hy) (aṙakʻyal)
• Azerbaijani: həvari (az)
• Catalan: apòstol (ca) m
• Czech: apoštol (cs) m
• Danish: apostel c
• Finnish: opetuslapsi, apostoli (fi)
• French: apôtre (fr) m
• Galician: apóstolo (gl) m
• German: Apostel (de) m
• Greek: απόστολος (el) m (apóstolos)

  Ancient: ἀπόστολος m (apóstolos)

• Hungarian: apostol (hu)
• Irish: aspal m
• Latin: apostolus m
• Maore Comorian: Muv̄ingizi Risala class 1/6
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• Ngazidja Comorian: Swahaba class 5/6
• Persian: حواریون (fa) pl (havâriyyun) (plural only)
• Plautdietsch: Apostel m
• Polish: apostoł (pl) m
• Portuguese: apóstolo (pt) m
• Russian: апо́стол (ru) m (apóstol)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: pósoł m

• Spanish: apóstol (es) m
• Swahili: mtume (sw) class 3/4
• Turkish: havari (tr)
• Urdu: رسول (ur) m (rasūl), رسل (ur) m pl (rusul)
• Volapük: paostolan (vo)
• Walloon: Apoisse (wa)

top-ranking Mormon

• Arabic: رَسُول (rasūl)
• Finnish: apostoli (fi)
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• Spanish: apóstol (es)

Proper noun

Apostle

1. A transliteration of the Greek male given name Απόστολος (Apóstolos). A rare transcription; usually transliterated as Apostolos.

Anagrams

• ale post, alepots, eoplast, posetal