guardian angel

English

WOTD – 3 June 2012

A postcard depicting a guardian angel

Etymology

guardian + angel

Pronunciation

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Noun

guardian angel (plural guardian angels)

(religion) A tutelary angel watching over a particular person in monotheistic contexts.
(figuratively) A person who watches over another.

Hypernyms

(tutelary spirit): angel; see also Thesaurus:spirit
(protector): caretaker, tutelary

Translations

spirit

Arabic: مَلَاك حَارِس‎ m (malāk ḥāris)
Armenian: պահապան հրեշտակ (hy) (pahapan hreštak)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 守護天使, 守护天使 (shǒuhù tiānshǐ)
Crimean Tatar: qoruyıcı melek
Czech: anděl strážný, anděl strážce
Danish: skytsengel
Dutch: beschermengel (nl) m, engelbewaarder (nl) m
Esperanto: gardanĝelo
Estonian: kaitseingel (et)
Finnish: suojelusenkeli (fi)
French: ange gardien (fr) m
German: Schutzengel (de) m
Greek: φυλακάγγελος m (fylakángelos)
Gujarati: પાલક દેવદૂત (pālaka dēvadūta)
Hungarian: őrangyal (hu)
Irish: aingeal coimhdeachta m
Italian: angelo custode m
Japanese: 守護天使 (しゅごてんし, shugotenshi)
Korean: 수호천사 (ko) (suhocheonsa)
Latin: angelus custōs m

Maori: anahera kaitiaki
Navajo: diyin naalʼaʼí naa áhályánígíí
Norwegian:
Bokmål: skytsengel m

Nynorsk: skytsengel m
Persian: فرشتهٔ نگهبان‎ (ferešte-ye negahbân)
Polish: Anioł Stróż (pl) m
Portuguese: anjo da guarda m
Romanian: înger păzitor (ro)
Russian: а́нгел-храни́тель (ru) m (ángel-xranítelʹ)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: анђео чувар m

Roman: anđeo čuvar m
Spanish: ángel protector m, ángel de la guarda (es) m
Swedish: skyddsängel
Tagalog: anghel na bantay, hilagyo
Tamil: காவல் தேவதை (ta) (kāval tēvatai)
Turkish: koruyucu melek
Uyghur: قوغدىغۇچى پەرىشتە‎ (qoghdighuchi perishte)
Vietnamese: thiên thần hộ mệnh.

person

Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

Finnish: suojelija (fi)
Hungarian: őrangyal (hu)

See also

daimon, genius, genius hominis, tutelary deity (similar concepts in polytheistic contexts)

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