English[edit]
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Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Anglo-Norman tailour, from Old French tailleor, from taillier, from Late Latin talio, from Latin talea (“a cutting”).
Pronunciation[edit]
tailor (plural tailors)
- A person who makes, repairs, or alters clothes professionally, especially suits and men's clothing.
- The fish Pomatomus saltatrix.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
- Arabic: خيّاط (ar) (khayyaaT) m
- Egyptian Arabic: خياط (xayaṭ) m, ترزي (tarzi) m
- Asturian: xastre (ast) m, sastre (ast) m
- Azeri: dərzi (az)
- Basque: jostun (eu)
- Bulgarian: абаджия (bg) (abadžíja) m, абаджийка (bg) (abadžíjka) f
- Catalan: sastre (ca) m, sastressa (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 裁縫 (cmn), 裁缝 (cmn) (cáiféng, cáifeng)
- Czech: krejčí (cs) m
- Danish: skrædder (da) c, skrædderske (da) c
- Dutch: kleermaker (nl) m, kleermaakster (nl) f
- Esperanto: (♂♀, generic) tajloro (eo), (♂) virtajloro (eo), (♀) tajlorino (eo)
- Faroese: skraddari (fo) m
- Finnish: räätäli (fi), vaatturi (fi)
- French: tailleur (fr) m, tailleuse (fr)
- Galician: xastre (gl) m, alfaiate (gl) m
- German: Schneider (de) m, Schneiderin (de) f
- Greek: ράπτης (el) (ráptis) m, ράφτης (el) (ráftis) m, μόδιστρος (el) (módistros) m μοδίστρα (el) (modísta) f
- Hindi: दर्ज़ी (hi) (darzī) m
- Hungarian: szabó (hu)
- Icelandic: klæðskeri (is) m, skraddari (is) m
- Irish: táilliúir (ga) m
- Middle Irish: táilliúr m
- Italian: sarto (it)
- Japanese: 仕立て屋 (ja) (したてや, shitateya), テーラー (ja) (tērā)
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- Jèrriais: couôtuthyi m
- Jèrriais: couôtuthiéthe f
- Lao: ຊ່າງຕັດເຄື່ອງຜູ້ຊາຍ (lo)
- Macedonian: кројач (mk) (krójač) m
- Maltese: ħajjat (mt) m, ħajjata (mt) f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: skredder (no) m, skredderske (no) f
- Nynorsk: skreddar (nn) m
- Persian: درزی (fa) (darzi)
- Polish: krawiec (pl) m, krawcowa (pl) f
- Portuguese: alfaiate (pt) m, alfaiata (pt) f, xastre (pt) m
- Romanian: croitor (ro) m, croitoreasă (ro) f
- Russian: портной (ru) (portnój) m, портниха (ru) (portníxa) f
- Scottish Gaelic: tàillear (gd) m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: кројач (sh) m, кројачица (sh) f
- Roman: krojač (sh) m, krojačica (sh) f
- Slovak: krajčír (sk) m
- Slovene: krojač (sl) m
- Spanish: sastre (es) m and f, modisto (es) m, modista (es) m and f
- Swedish: skräddare (sv) c, skrädderska (sv) c
- Telugu: దర్జీ (te) (darjee)
- Turkish: terzi (tr)
- Urdu: درزی (ur) (darzī) m
- Volapük: (♂♀) skrädan (vo), (♂) hiskrädan (vo), (♀) jiskrädan (vo)
- Welsh: teiliwr (cy) m
- Yiddish: שנײַדער (yi) (shnayder) m, שנײַדערקע (yi) (shnayderke) f
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Related terms[edit]
tailor (third-person singular simple present tailors, present participle tailoring, simple past and past participle tailored)
- (transitive) To make, repair, or alter clothes.
- (transitive) To make or adapt (something) for a specific need.
- (transitive) To restrict (something) in order to meet a particular need
- a narrowly tailored law.
Translations[edit]
make, repair, or alter clothing
restrict something to particular need
References[edit]
- Australian Fish and How to Catch Them, Richard Allan, Landsdowne Publishing, 1990, ISBN 1-86302-674-6.