English[edit]
Wikipedia
Etymology[edit]
black (“color of iron”) + smith (“related to smite”)
Pronunciation[edit]
blacksmith (plural blacksmiths)
- A person who forges iron.
- Howell
- The blacksmith may forge what he pleases.
- (informal) A person who shoes horses; a farrier.
- A blackish fish of the Pacific coast (Chromis or Heliastes punctipinnis).
Usage notes[edit]
Historically, blacksmiths in small communities have played a number of other roles, including farrier, wainwright and wheelwright. However, blacksmithing properly refers to the forging of iron, and blacksmiths and farriers themselves make the distinction.
Synonyms[edit]
Hypernyms[edit]
Coordinate terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
iron forger
- Albanian: farkëtar (sq)
- Arabic: حدّاد (ar) (ḥaddār) m
- Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
- Armenian: դարբին (hy) (darbin)
- Aromanian: hirar (rup) m, favru (rup) m, favur (rup) m
- Asturian: ferreru (ast) m
- Azeri: dəmirçi (az)
- Belarusian: каваль (be) (kaválʹ) m
- Bengali: কামার (bn) (kamar)
- Breton: gov (br) m
- Bulgarian: ковач (bg) (kovač) m
- Burmese: ပန်းပဲသမား (my) (băbè:dhăma:)
- Catalan: ferrer (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 鐵匠 (cmn), 铁匠 (cmn) (tiējiàng)
- Czech: kovář (cs) m
- Dalmatian: favro m
- Danish: smed (da) c
- Dutch: smid (nl) m
- Esperanto: forĝisto (eo)
- Estonian: sepp (et)
- Faroese: jarnsmiður (fo) m, smiður (fo) m
- Finnish: seppä (fi)
- French: forgeron (fr) m, forgeronne (fr) f, sidérurgiste (fr) m and f
- Friulian: fari m
- Galician: ferreiro (gl) m
- Georgian: მჭედელი (ka) (mčedeli)
- German: Schmied (de) m, Schmiedin (de) f, Grobschmied (de) m, Grobschmiedin (de) f
- Greek: σιδεράς (el) (siðerás) m, σιδηρουργός (el) (siðirurγós) m
- Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
- Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
- Hindi: लोहार (hi) (lohār)
- Hungarian: kovács (hu)
- Icelandic: járnsmiður (is)
- Indonesian: pandai besi (id), tukang besi (id)
- Irish: gabha (ga) m, gabha dubh (ga) m
- Italian: fabbro ferraio (it) m
- Japanese: 鍛冶屋 (ja) (かじや, kajiya)
- Jèrriais: forgeux m
- Kannada: please add this translation if you can
- Kazakh: ұста (kk) (usta)
- Khmer: ជាងដែក (km) (cieng daek)
- Korean: 대장장이 (ko) (daejangjangi)
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: ئاسنگهر (ku) (asinger)
- Kyrgyz: темирчи (ky) (temirçi)
|
|
- Lao: ຊ່າງເຫຼັກ (lo) (sāːŋ lék)
- Latgalian: kaļvs m
- Latin: ferrarius (la)
- Latvian: kalvis (lv) m, kalējs (lv) m
- Lithuanian: kalvis (lt) m
- Luxembourgish: please add this translation if you can
- Macedonian: ковач (mk) (kóvač) m
- Malay: tukang besi (ms)
- Malayalam: കൊല്ലന് (ml) (kollan)
- Maltese: ħaddied (mt)
- Marathi: लोहार (mr) (lohāra)
- Nepali: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian: smed (no) c
- Occitan: fabre (oc), faure (oc)
- Oriya: କମାର (or) (kamāra)
- Pashto: please add this translation if you can
- Persian: آهنگر (fa) (âhangar)
- Polish: kowal (pl) m
- Portuguese: ferreiro (pt) m
- Punjabi: ਲੁਹਾਰ (pa) m, ਲੁਹਾਰੀ (pa) f
- Romanian: fierar (ro) m
- Romansch: please add this translation if you can
- Russian: кузнец (ru) (kuznéc) m, коваль (ru) (koválʹ) m (regional)
- Sardinian: ferréli
- Scottish Gaelic: gobha (gd) m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ковач (sh) m, кова̀чица (sh) f
- Roman: kovač (sh) m, kovàčica (sh) f
- Slovak: kováč (sk) m, kováčka (sk) f
- Slovene: kovač (sl) m
- Spanish: herrero (es) m, herrera (es) f
- Swedish: smed (sv) c
- Tajik: оҳангар (tg) (ohangar)
- Tamil: please add this translation if you can
- Telugu: please add this translation if you can
- Thai: ช่างตีเหล็ก (th) (châang dtee lèk)
- Turkish: demirci (tr)
- Turkmen: demirçi (tk)
- Ukrainian: коваль (uk) (koválʹ) m
- Urdu: لوہار (ur) (lohār) m
- Uzbek: temirchi (uz)
- Vietnamese: thợ rèn (vi)
- Volapük: (♂♀) grobasmitan (vo), (♂) grobahismitan (vo), (♀) grobajismitan (vo)
- Welsh: gof (cy)
- Yiddish: שמיד (yi) (shmid) m
|
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.
Translations to be checked