participation

English

Etymology

From Middle English participacioun, from Middle French [Term?], from Old French participacion, from Late Latin participatiō. By surface analysis, participate +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US):

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

Noun

participation (countable and uncountable, plural participations)

2. The act of participating, of taking part in something.
3. The state of being related to a larger whole.
4. 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

5. An ownership interest or profit-sharing right.

Derived terms

• neighbouring group participation
• non-participation
• participation points

 

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) (masnakcʻutʻyun)
• 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)
• Indonesian: keikutsertaan, partisipasi (id)
• Italian: partecipazione (it)
• Japanese: 参加 (ja) (さんか, sanka)
• Kazakh: қатысу (qatysu)
• Korean: 참가(參加) (ko) (chamga)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: بەشداری (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: പങ്കാളിത്തം (paṅkāḷittaṁ), പങ്കെടുക്കൽ (paṅkeṭukkal)
• Maltese: parteċipazzjoni f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: deltakelse m

• Occitan: participacion (oc) f
• Ottoman Turkish: اشتراك (iştirak)
• 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)
• Zulu: ingxenye

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin participātiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paʁ.ti.si.pa.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

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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.