Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: voorloper
- Amharic: precursor
- Arabic: مقدمة
- Azerbaijani: sələfi
- Bashkir: элгәре
- Belarusian: папярэднікам
- Bulgarian: предшественик
- Bengali: অগ্রদূত
- Bosnian: prethodnik
- Catalan: precursor
- Cebuano: nag-una
- Czech: předchůdce
- Welsh: rhagflaenydd
- Danish: forløber
- German: Vorläufer
- Greek: πρόδρομος
- Esperanto: antaŭulo
- Spanish: precursor
- Estonian: eelkäija
- Basque: aitzindaria
- Persian: پیشرو
- Finnish: esiaste
- French: précurseur
- Irish: réamhtheachtaí
- Scottish Gaelic: precursor
- Galician: precursor
- Gujarati: પુરોગામી
- Hebrew: הקדמה
- Hindi: अग्रदूत
- Croatian: prethodnik
- Haitian: précurseur
- Hungarian: prekurzor
- Armenian: նախորդը
- Indonesian: prekursor
- Icelandic: undanfari
- Italian: precursore
- Japanese: 前駆体
- Javanese: ngisaratke
- Georgian: precursor
- Kazakh: ізбасары
- Khmer: គេ
- Kannada: ಪೂರ್ವಸೂಚಕ
- Korean: 전구체
- Kyrgyz: предшественником
- Latin: praecursor
- Luxembourgish: Virleefer
- Lao: ຄາຣະ
- Lithuanian: pirmtakas
- Latvian: prekursoru
- Malagasy: mpialoha làlana
- Mari: калыкчот
- Maori: kawainga
- Macedonian: претходник
- Malayalam: വിടുന്നതിനുള്ള
- Mongolian: удиртгал
- Marathi: नांदी
- Hill Mari: предшественник
- Malay: pelopor
- Maltese: prekursur
- Burmese: ရှေ့ပြေးနိမိတ်
- Nepali: precursor
- Dutch: voorloper
- Norwegian: forløperen
- Punjabi: ਅਗਰਦੂਤ
- Papiamento: recurso
- Polish: poprzednikiem
- Portuguese: precursor
- Romanian: precursor
- Russian: предшественником
- Sinhalese: පූර්වජ
- Slovak: predchodca
- Slovenian: predhodnik
- Albanian: pararendësi
- Serbian: претеча
- Sundanese: prékursor
- Swedish: föregångare
- Swahili: mtangulizi
- Tamil: முன்னோடி
- Telugu: పూర్వగామి
- Tajik: як муқаддима
- Thai: พวกรุ่นพี่ข
- Tagalog: pasimula
- Turkish: öncü
- Tatar: предшественником
- Udmurt: азьвылчиоссылэсь
- Ukrainian: попередником
- Urdu: اگردوت
- Uzbek: alomat
- Vietnamese: thân
- Xhosa: precursor
- Yiddish: פּריקערסער
- Chinese: 前体
Synonyms, close and similar words for precursor
- predecessor
- progenitor
- antecedent
- harbinger
- forerunner
- herald
- prototype
- archetype