farmer

See also Farmer

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Middle English *fermer, fermour (“a steward, bailliff, collector of taxes”), partly from Old French fermier (“a farmer, a lessee, husbandman, bailliff”), from Medieval Latin firmarius (“one to whom land is rented, a collector of taxes, deputy”), from firma, see farm; and partly from Old English feormere (“a purveyor of a guild, a supplier of food, a grocer, farmer”), from feormian (“to purvey, supply, feed”), equivalent to farm +‎ -er. More at farm.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /fɑː(ɹ)mə(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(r)mə(r)

Noun

farmer (plural farmers)

1. A person who works the land or who keeps livestock, especially on a farm.
   • 2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, The Economist, volume 405, number 8813, page 3 (Technology Quarterly): 

     A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.

2. Agent noun of farm; someone or something that farms.

Translations

person who works the land or who keeps livestock

• Afrikaans: boer (af)
• Albanian: arar (sq), bujk (sq)
• Arabic: فلاح (ar) (fallaaH) m, مزارع (ar) (muzaari3) m
• Armenian: ֆերմեր (hy) (fermer)
• Basque: nekazari, baserritar (eu)
• Belarusian: фермер (be) (férmer) m, селянін (be) (seljánin) m
• Breton: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: фермер (bg) (férmer) m, земеделец (bg) (zemedélec) m
• Burmese: လယ်သမား (my) (lèthăma:)
• Catalan: granger (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 農夫 (cmn), 农夫 (cmn) (nóngfū), 農民 (cmn), 农民 (cmn) (nóngmín)

  Min Nan: 農民 (nan) (lông-bîn), 作穡人 (nan) (chò-sit-lâng), 作田人 (nan) (chó-chhân-lâng)

• Cornish: tyak (kw) m
• Czech: rolník m, sedlák m, zemědělec m, farmář m
• Danish: landmand (da) c, bonde (da) c
• Dutch: boer m, boerin f, landbouwer m (crops), veehouder m (livestock)
• Esperanto: farmisto (eo)
• Ewe: agbledela (crops) n, lãnyila (livestock) n
• Faroese: bóndi (fo) m
• Finnish: maanviljelijä (fi), viljelijä (fi), talonpoika (fi), farmari (fi)
• French: agriculteur (fr) m, fermier (fr) m (dated)
• Georgian: ფერმერი (ka) (p'ermeri)
• German: Landwirt (de) m, Landwirtin (de) f; (crops) Bauer (de) m, Bäuerin (de) f; Farmer (de) m, Farmerin (de) f; (livestock, plants) Züchter (de) m, Züchterin (de) f, Landmann (de) m, Landfrau (de) f
• Greek: αγρότης (el) (agrótis) m, αγρότισσα (el) (agrótissa) f, κτηνοτρόφος (el) (ktinotrófos) m
• Hebrew: אִכָּר (he) (ikár) m, אִכָּרָה (he) (ikará) f
• Hindi: किसान (hi) (kisān) m
• Hungarian: földműves (hu)
• Icelandic: bóndi (is) m
• Interlingua: fermero (ia)
• Irish: feirmeoir (ga) m
• Italian: agricoltore (it) m, fattore (it) m
• Japanese: 農夫 (ja) (のうふ, nōfu), 農家 (ja) (のうか, nōka)
• Jèrriais: fèrmyi m
• Khmer: អ្នកស្រែ (km) (neak srae), អ្នកចំការ (km) (neak chɑmkaa), កសិករ (km) (kasekɑɑ)
• Korean: 농부 (ko) (nongbu) (農夫 (ko))

• Kurdish:

  Sorani: جوتیار (ku) (jutyar)

• Lao: ຊາວນາ (saawnaa)
• Latin: agricola (la) m
• Latvian: saimnieks (lv) m, lauksaimnieks (lv) m
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: земјоделец (mk) (zemjódelec) m, полјоделец (mk) (poljódelec) m, фармер (mk) (fármer) m, чифлигар (mk) (čífligar) m
• Malay: petani (ms)
• Malayalam: കൃഷിക്കാരന്‍ (krushikkaaran), കര്‍ഷകന്‍ (karshakan)
• Maltese: biedwi m, biedwija f
• Marathi: शेतकरी (mr) (śetakarī) m
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Navajo: kʼééʼdidléhé
• Norwegian: bonde (no) m, gårdbruker (no) m
• Novial: farmere
• Old English: ġebūr (ang) m
• Persian: کشاورز (fa) (kešâvarz)
• Polish: rolnik (pl) m
• Portuguese: fazendeiro (pt) m, agricultor (pt)
• Romanian: ţăran (ro) m
• Russian: крестьянин (ru) (krest'jánin) m, фермер (ru) (férmer) m, земледелец (ru) (zemledélec) m
• Scottish Gaelic: tuathanach m
• Serbian: zemljodelac m, zemljoradnik m
• Sinhalese: ගමරාළ (si) (gamarāla)
• Slovak: roľník, sedliak, poľnohospodár, farmár m
• Slovene: kmet m, kmetica f
• Sotho: molemi (st)
• Spanish: granjero (es) m, granjera (es) f
• Swahili: mkulima (sw) (nc 1/2)
• Swedish: bonde (sv) c
• Tagalog: magsasaka (tl)
• Telugu: కర్షకుడు (te)
• Thai: กสิกร (th) (gàsìgon), ชาวนาชาวไร่ (th) (chaao naa chaao râi)
• Turkish: ziraatçı, çiftçi, zari', zurra'
• Ukrainian: фермер (uk) (férmer) m, селянин (uk) (seljányn) m, землероб (uk) (zemlerób) m
• Urdu: کسان (ur) (kisān) m
• Vietnamese: nông phu (vi) (農夫 (vi)), người nông dân (vi), nhà nông (vi)
• Volapük: (♂♀) farman (vo), (♂) hifarman (vo), (♀) jifarman (vo)
• Welsh: amaethwr (cy) m, ffermwr (cy) m, hwsmon (cy) m

Related terms

• farm

Anagrams

• framer

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈfɒrmɛr/
• Hyphenation: far‧mer

Etymology 1

From the German Farmer, from the French fermier (“farmer”), from the Old French ferme (“farm, rental”), from the Medieval Latin ferma, firma (“rent, tribute, food, feast”), from Old English feorm (“rent, provisions, supplies, feast”). More at farm.

Noun

farmer (plural farmerek)

1. farmer

See also

• földművelő
• gazda

Etymology 2

Shortening of farmeröltözet or farmernadrág.

Adjective

farmer

1. denim

Noun

farmer (plural farmerek)

1. blue jeans

Derived terms

• farmernadrág

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /fârmer/
• Hyphenation: far‧mer

Noun

fȁrmer m (Cyrillic spelling фа̏рмер)

1. farmer

Declension

    declension of farmer

	singular	plural
nominative	farmer	farmeri
genitive	farmera	farmera
dative	farmeru	farmerima
accusative	farmera	farmere
vocative	farmeru	farmeri
locative	farmeru	farmerima
instrumental	farmerom	farmerima