deacon meaning in Tamil
டீக்கன்
/ˈdiːkən/
deacon in Tamil: டீக்கன். In English, deacon means a designated minister of charity in the early Church (see Acts 6:1-6).
Tamil words for deacon
- டீக்கன்
English meaning of deacon
- noun A designated minister of charity in the early Church (see Acts 6:1-6).
- noun A clergyman ranked directly below a priest, with duties of helping the priests and carrying out parish work.
- noun An ordained clergyperson usually serving a year prior to being ordained presbyter, though in some cases they remain a permanent deacon.
- noun A lay leader of a congregation who assists the pastor.
deacon in other languages
- deacon in Hindi
- deacon in Marathi
- deacon in Urdu
- deacon in Bengali
- deacon in Telugu
- deacon in Malayalam
- deacon in Kannada
- deacon in Punjabi
- deacon in Gujarati
- deacon in Odia
- deacon in Nepali
- deacon in Tagalog
- deacon in Arabic
- deacon in Indonesian
- deacon in Persian
- deacon in Thai
- deacon in Vietnamese
Questions about deacon in Tamil
- What is the meaning of deacon in Tamil?
- Deacon in Tamil is டீக்கன்.
- deacon என்பதன் தமிழ் அர்த்தம் என்ன?
- Deacon: டீக்கன்.
- What does deacon mean in English?
- Deacon means a designated minister of charity in the early Church (see Acts 6:1-6).
Source and license
Tamil words: machine translation by IndicTrans2 (AI4Bharat, MIT license), kept only when it translates back to “deacon”. English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: deacon (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Tamil words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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