carpenter

See also Carpenter

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman carpentier, from Old Northern French (compare Old French charpantier, whence modern French charpentier), from Late Latin carpentārius (“a carpenter”), Latin carpentārius (“a wagon-maker, carriage-maker”), from Latin carpentum (“a two-wheeled carriage, coach, or chariot, a cart”), probably of Celtic origin.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈkɑː(ɹ).pən.tə(ɹ)/, X-SAMPA: /"kA:(r\).p@n.t@(r\)/

Noun

carpenter (plural carpenters)

1. A person skilled at carpentry, the trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures.
2. (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.
3. A two-wheeled carriage

Synonyms

• joiner
• chippy

Related terms

• carpentry n
• The Carpenter (jocular: Jesus Christ)

Translations

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)

• Bulgarian: дърводелец (bg) (dărvodelec) m
• Catalan: fuster (ca) m, fustera (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 木匠 (cmn) (mùjiang)

• 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 (ga) m
• Italian: carpentiere (it) m, falegname (it) m
• Japanese: 大工 (ja) (だいく, daiku)
• Jèrriais: tchèrpentchi m
• Khmer: ជាងឈើ (km) (chieng cʰəə)
• Korean: 목수 (ko) (moksu)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: necarr (ku), merenqoz (ku), xirat (ku), dulger (ku), dartiraş (ku), dartaş (ku)

  Sorani: دارتاش (ku)

• Lao: ຊ່າງໄມ້ (lo)

• Lithuanian: dailidė (lt) m
• Low German: Timmermann (nds) m
• Luganda: mubazzi
• Malayalam: ആശാരി (ml) (aaSaar)
• Maltese: mastrudaxxa (mt) m
• Marathi: सुतार (mr) (sutār)
• 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
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тесар (sh) m, столар (sh) m

  Roman: tesar (sh) m, stolar (sh) 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
• Thai: ช่างไม้ (th)
• Turkish: dülger (tr), marangoz (tr)
• Ukrainian: тесля (uk) (teslja) m, столар (uk) (stolar) m
• Vietnamese: thợ mộc (vi)
• Volapük: (♂♀) kapenan (vo), (♂) hikapenan (vo), (♀) jikapenan (vo)
• Welsh: saer coed (cy) m

nautical: person responsible for all the woodwork onboard

• Finnish: timperi (fi)

External links

• carpenter in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• carpenter in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• carpenter at OneLook Dictionary Search

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Middle English

Noun

carpenter (plural carpenters)

1. carpenter

Descendants

• English: carpenter

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Old French

Noun

carpenter m (oblique plural carpenters, nominative singular carpenters, nominative plural carpenter)

1. 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.