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==English==
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===Etymology===
From {{bor|en|fr|suppliant}}, present participle of {{m|fr|supplier}}. {{doublet|en|supplicant}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/ˈsʌpliənt/}}
* {{audio|en|en-us-suppliant.ogg|a=US}}

===Adjective===
{{en-adj}}

# [[entreat|Entreating]] with [[humility]]; supplicant.
#* {{RQ:Milton Paradise Lost|book=1|passage=to bow and sue for grace with '''suppliant''' knee|year=1873}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1907|author=Ronald M. Burrows|title=The Discoveries In Crete|page=20|text=Some plaques formed part of a mosaic that covered human life with its varied scenes of peace and war. Here we have warriors, the Cretan erect, and his darker-skinned enemy prostrate and '''suppliant'''.}}
# Supplying; auxiliary.
#* {{RQ:Shakespeare Cymbeline|3|7|passage=your levy Must be '''suppliant'''}}

====Translations====
{{trans-top|entreating with humility}}
* Bulgarian: {{t|bg|умолителен}}
* French: {{t+|fr|suppliant|m}}
* Irish: {{t|ga|aisceánach}}, {{t|ga|impíoch}}
* Latin: {{t|la|supplex}}
* Polish: {{t|pl|błagający}}, {{t+|pl|błagalny}}, {{t+|pl|proszalny}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|suplicante}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|проси́тельный}}, {{t+|ru|умоля́ющий}} {{qualifier|begging}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|suplicante}}
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===Noun===
{{en-noun}}

# One who [[plead]]s or [[request]]s [[earnestly]].
#: {{syn|en|beseecher|petitioner|supplicant}}
#* {{RQ:Thucydides Hobbes Peloponnesian Warre|page=52|passage=In reuerence therefore of the hopes vvhich the ''Grecians'' haue repoſed in you, and of the preſence of ''[[w:Jupiter (god)|Iupiter Olympius]]'', in vvhoſe Temple here, vve are in a manner '''ſuppliants''' to you, receiue the ''Mitylenians'' into league, and ayde vs.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1963|tlr=Philip Vellacott|by=Euripides|title=Medea|publisher=Penguin Classics|page=39|passage=I touch your beard as a '''suppliant''', embrace your knees, imploring you to have pity on my wretchedness.}}

====Translations====
{{trans-top|one who pleads or requests earnestly}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|проси́тел|m}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|anova}}
* French: {{t+|fr|suppliant}}
* Greek:
*: Ancient: {{t|grc|ἱκέτης|m}}
* Irish: {{t|ga|iarrthóir|m}}, {{t|ga|idirghuítheoir|m}}, {{t|ga|impíoch|m}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|supplice}}
* Polish: {{t|pl|suplikant|m}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|проси́тель|m}}, {{t+|ru|проси́тельница|f}}
* Welsh: {{t|cy|gweddïwr|m}}
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===Related terms===
{{rel4|en|suppliance|suppliantly|supplicant|supplicate|supplicatingly|supplication|supplicator|supplicatory}}

==French==

===Participle===
{{head|fr|present participle}}

# {{present participle of|fr|supplier}}

===Adjective===
{{fr-adj}}

# {{l|en|suppliant}}, [[begging]], [[pleading]], [[imploring]]

===Noun===
{{fr-noun|m|f=+}}

# [[supplicant]]

===Further reading===
* {{R:fr:TLFi}}