diff --git a/app-text/gtranslator/files/gtranslator-40.0-meson-0.61.patch b/app-text/gtranslator/files/gtranslator-40.0-meson-0.61.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..a43a32eb4a6b3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-text/gtranslator/files/gtranslator-40.0-meson-0.61.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtranslator/-/commit/7ac572cc8c8c37ca3826ecf0d395edd3c38e8e22.patch
+https://bugs.gentoo.org/831966
+
+From: Jan Beich <jbeich@FreeBSD.org>
+Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 11:57:43 +0000
+Subject: [PATCH] meson: drop unused argument for i18n.merge_file()
+
+Ignored in Meson < 0.60.0, deprecated since 0.60.1 and fatal since 0.61.0.
+
+data/meson.build:15:0: ERROR: Function does not take positional arguments.
+data/meson.build:37:0: ERROR: Function does not take positional arguments.
+--- a/data/meson.build
++++ b/data/meson.build
+@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ desktop_in = configure_file(
+ )
+ 
+ i18n.merge_file(
+-  desktop,
+   type: 'desktop',
+   input: desktop_in,
+   output: '@0@.desktop'.format(gtr_app_id),
+@@ -35,7 +34,6 @@ appdata_in = configure_file(
+ )
+ 
+ i18n.merge_file(
+-  appdata,
+   input: appdata_in,
+   output: appdata,
+   po_dir: po_dir,
+GitLab
diff --git a/app-text/gtranslator/gtranslator-40.0.ebuild b/app-text/gtranslator/gtranslator-40.0.ebuild
index 00fa6d54bb659..bb0973914e18d 100644
--- a/app-text/gtranslator/gtranslator-40.0.ebuild
+++ b/app-text/gtranslator/gtranslator-40.0.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=7
@@ -40,6 +40,10 @@ BDEPEND="
 	virtual/pkgconfig
 "
 
+PATCHES=(
+	"${FILESDIR}"/${P}-meson-0.61.patch
+)
+
 src_configure() {
 	local emesonargs=(
 		$(meson_use gtk-doc gtk_doc)