laborer

English

Alternative forms

• labourer

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /ˈleɪ.bɚ.ɚ/

Noun

laborer (plural laborers)

1. One who uses body strength instead of intellectual power to earn a wage, usually hourly.

Related terms

• laborist

Translations

One who uses body strength instead of intellectual power to earn a wage, usually hourly

• Albanian: argat (sq)
• Armenian: բանվոր (hy) (banvor)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 勞動者 (cmn), 劳动者 (cmn) (láodòngzhě), 工人 (cmn) (gōngrén)

• Czech: dělník (cs) m
• Danish: arbejder (da) c, arbejdsmand (da) c, landarbejder (da) c
• Dutch: arbeider (nl)
• Estonian: tööline
• Finnish: työntekijä (fi), työläinen (fi)
• German: Arbeiter m (1)
• Gujarati: મજુરિ (gu) (majuri) f

• Hungarian: munkás (hu)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: کرێکار

• Manx: obbree (gv) m
• Polish: robotnik (pl) m
• Russian: чернорабочий (ru) (černorabóčij) m, рабочий (ru) (rabóčij) m
• Scottish Gaelic: obraiche (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian: rȃdnīk (sh) m, rȃdnica (sh) f
• Swedish: arbetare (sv) c, kroppsarbetare (sv) c
• Volapük: (male or female) voban (vo), (male) hivoban (vo), (female) jivoban (vo)

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Old French

Etymology

Latin laboro

Verb

laborer

1. to work; to labor

Related terms

• labour

Descendants

• English: labor, labour
• French: labourer
• Jèrriais: labouother