Glossary Term
Risk: Low- Approved rendering
- пророк
- Transliteration
- prorok
- Rejected alternatives
- предсказатель, экстрасенс
Prophet
пророк is standard and well understood via both the Orthodox Old Testament canon and general literary culture (Pushkin’s ‘Пророк’). экстрасенс/предсказатель (psychic/fortune-teller) must not be used, given the same live post-Soviet folk-psychic culture noted under spiritual gifts.