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[edit] Etymology
From Middle English, from Old French, from Medieval Latin carpentarius (“a carpenter”), Latin carpentarius (“a wagon-maker, carriage-maker”), from Latin carpentum (“a two-wheeled carriage, coach, or chariot, a cart”), probably of Celtic origin.
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- (UK) IPA: /ˈkɑː(ɹ).pən.tə(ɹ)/, SAMPA: /"kA:(r\).p@n.t@(r\)/
carpenter (plural carpenters)
- A person skilled at carpentry, the trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures.
- (nautical) A senior rating in ships responsible for all the woodwork onboard; in the days of sail, a warrant officer responsible for the hull, masts, spars and boats of a ship, and whose responsibility was to sound the well to see if the ship was making water.
- A two-wheeled carriage
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carpentry person
- Arabic: نجار (ar) (najjár) m.
- Aramaic:
- Syriac: ܢܓܪܐ (nagārā, nagoro) m.
- Hebrew: נגרא (nagārā, nagoro) m.
- Armenian: հյուսն (hy) (hyusn), ատաղձագործ (hy) (ataġjagorç), դուրգար (hy) (durgar)
- Old Armenian: հիւսն (hiwsn)
- Bosnian: tesar (bs) m., stolar (bs) m.
- Bulgarian: дърводелец (bg) m.
- Catalan: fuster (ca) m., fustera (ca) f.
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 木匠 (cmn) (mùjiang)
- Croatian: tesar (hr) m., stolar (hr) m.
- Czech: tesař (cs) m., truhlář (cs) m.
- Danish: tømrer (da) c., tømmermand (da) c.
- Dutch: timmerman (nl) m.
- Esperanto: ĉarpentisto (eo)
- Finnish: puuseppä (fi), timperi (fi), kirvesmies (fi)
- French: menuisier (fr) m.; charpentier (fr) m.
- German: Zimmermann (de) m.; Schreiner (de) m., Tischler (de) m., Bauschreiner (de) m. (Swiss German)
- Greek: ξυλουργός (el) (xylourgós) m., μαραγκός (el) (marangkós) m.
- Hebrew: נגר (he) (nagar) m.
- Hindi: काष्ठकार (hi) (kāsht'akār)
- Hungarian: ács (hu), asztalos (hu)
- Irish: cearpantóir (ga) m., saor adhmaid m.
- Italian: carpentiere (it) m., falegname (it) m.
- Japanese: 大工 (ja) (だいく, daiku)
- Korean: 목수 (ko) (moksu)
- Kurdish:
- Kurmanji: necarr (ku), merenqoz (ku), xirat (ku), dulger (ku), dartiraş (ku), dartaş (ku)
- Sorani: دارتاش (ku)
- Lithuanian: dailidė (lt) m.
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- Low German: Timmermann (nds) m.
- Luganda: mubazzi
- Malayalam: ആശാരി (ml) (aaSaar)
- Maltese: mastrudaxxa (mt) m.
- Marathi: सुतार (mr)
- Northern Sotho: mmêtli
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: tømrer (no) m., tømmermann (no) m.
- Nynorsk: tømrer (nn) m., tømmermann (nn) m.
- Pali: vaḍḍhakī (pi)
- Persian: درودگر (fa) (dorudgar), درگر (fa) (durgar)
- Polish: cieśla (pl) m., stolarz (pl) m.
- Portuguese: marceneiro (pt) m.; carpinteiro (pt) m.
- Romani: duramažís, duramaǰís
- Romanian: dulgher (ro) m., tâmplar (ro) m.
- Romansch: lainari (rm) m., scrinari (rm) m., marangun (rm) m.
- Russian: плотник (ru) (plótnik) m., столяр (ru) (stoljár) m.
- Scottish Gaelic: saor (gd) m.
- Serbian:
- Cyrillic: тесар (sr) m., столар (sr) m.
- Roman: tesar (sr) m., stolar (sr) m.
- Shona: muvezi (sn)
- Slovak: tesár (sk) m., truhlár (sk) m.
- Spanish: carpintero (es) m., ebanista (es) m.
- Swahili: seremala (sw)
- Swati: um-bati (ss), wemápulángo (ss)
- Swedish: timmerman (sv) c., snickare (sv) c.
- Turkish: dülger (tr), marangoz (tr)
- Ukrainian: тесля (uk) (teslja) m., столар (uk) (stolar) m.
- Volapük: (♂♀) kapenan (vo), (♂) hikapenan (vo), (♀) jikapenan (vo)
- Welsh: saer coed m.
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nautical: person responsible for all the woodwork onboard
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[edit] Anglo-Norman
carpenter m. (oblique plural carpenters, nominative singular carpenters, nominative plural carpenter)
- Alternative form of carpentier.
- circa 1155, Wace, Le Roman de Brut:
- Maçons fist querre et carpenters
Si fist refaire les mousters
- He searched for masons and carpenters
in order to rebuild the minsters.
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carpenter (plural carpenters)
- carpenter
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