plumber

English

Etymology

From Old French plummier (French plombier); from Latin plumbum (“lead or lead shot”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈplʌmə/
• Rhymes: -ʌmə(r)

Noun

Wikipedia plumber (plural plumbers)

1. One who works in or with lead.
2. One who furnishes, fits, and repairs pipes and other apparatus for the conveyance of water, gas, or drainage.
   1. One who installs piping for potable and waste water.
3. (UK) In the Royal Navy, nickname for an apprentice, a boy aged 16 to 18, who is trained in technical skills at the Dockyard Schools to become an artificer.

Derived terms

Terms derived from plumber

plumber block plumber's cleavage

plumber's crack plumber's helper

plumber's snake plumbery

Related terms

• plumbing

Translations

one who works in lead

• Dutch: loodgieter (nl) m
• French: (obsolete) plombeur (fr) m
• German: Bleiarbeiter (de), Bleiarbeiterin (de) f
• Japanese: (obs, lead pipes) 鉛管工 (ja) (enkan-kō)

• Latin: plumbārius (la) m
• Norwegian: rørlegger (no) m
• Spanish: plomero (es) m

one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage

• Afrikaans: loodgieter
• Arabic: سباك (ar) (sabbák) m
• Basque: iturgin (eu)
• Burmese: ရေပိုက်သမား (my)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 管子工 (cmn) (guǎnzigōng), 鉛管工 (cmn), 铅管工 (cmn) (qiānguǎngōng), 水暖工 (cmn) (shuǐnuǎngōng)

• Dutch: loodgieter (nl) m
• Estonian: torumees, turulukksepp
• Finnish: putkimies, putkiasentaja
• French: plombier (fr) m, plombière (fr) f, tuyauteur (fr) m, tuyauteuse (fr) f
• German: Klempner (de) m, Klempnerin (de) f
• Greek: υδραυλικός (el) (ydravlikós) m
• Hungarian: vízvezeték-szerelő (hu)
• Italian: idraulico (it) m

• Japanese: 配管工 (ja) (はいかんこう, haikankō)
• Latin: plumbārius (la) m
• Lithuanian: santechnikas (lt) m
• Macedonian: водоводџија (mk) (vodovóddžija) f, водоинсталатер (mk) (vodoinstaláter) m
• Maltese: plamer
• Norwegian: rørlegger (no) m
• Polish: hydraulik (pl) m
• Portuguese: bombeiro (pt) m, encanador (pt) m
• Russian: водопроводчик (ru) (vodoprovódčik) m, сантехник (ru) (santéxnik) m
• Spanish: fontanero m (Spain), gásfiter m (Chile), gasfitero m (Peru), plomero m (Latin America)
• Swedish: rörmokare (sv) c
• Vietnamese: thợ sữa ống nước (vi)
• Volapük: (♂♀) rüdan (vo), (♂) hirüdan (vo), (♀) jirüdan (vo)

UK: nickname for an apprentice in the Royal Navy

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• Korean: 배관공

References

• Corpun.com, a specialized website on Corporal Punishments [1]

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Latin

Verb

plumber

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of plumbō