DIY

English

Etymology

Initialism of do it yourself.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌdiaɪˈwaɪ/

Noun

DIY (uncountable)

1. Initialism of do it yourself.
   • 1990, David Cohen, Being a Man‎^[1]:

     According to market research, many men list DIY as one of their main hobbies.

Translations

do it yourself — see also do it yourself

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Esperanto: memfarado
• Finnish: TSI (rare; "tee se itse" is more common)
• French: bricolage (fr) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Heimwerken n, Selbermachen (de) n
• Hungarian: barkácsolás (hu), fúrás-faragás
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: hazlo tú mismo, ^{(please verify)} hágalo usted mismo , bricolaje

Verb

DIY (third-person singular simple present DIYs, present participle DIYing or DIY-ing, simple past and past participle DIYed)

1. To perform oneself a task usually relegated to an expert.
   • 2007 [publication date], Maggie Bullock, "Home Improvement", Elle, January 2008 ed., page 108,

     Huber was a physicist. Even top Estée Lauder chemists who took over for Huber in 1995 found that... any attempt to cheat on his original formula produced disappointing results, which demands the question: If they couldn't DIY, can you?

   2022 March 21, Bill Chappell, “SWIFT, hedgehog, MiG: Here's a guide to the terms of war in Ukraine”, in SPECIAL SERIES: Ukraine invasion — explained‎^[2], NPR, retrieved 2022-03-21:

   Ukrainian civilians have been DIY-ing hedgehogs, welding two bars or beams at an angle to make a cross and then adding a third to ensure it holds its shape even if it's knocked over.

Derived terms

• DIYer

Translations

Translations

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Esperanto: memfari, fari ĝin mem
• Finnish: tehdä (jotain) itse
• French: bricoler (fr)
• German: selber machen (coll.), selbst machen
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: barkácsol (hu), fúr-farag
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: majsterkować (pl) impf, pomajsterkować pf
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: hazlo tú mismo

Adjective

DIY (comparative more DIY, superlative most DIY)

1. Do-it-yourself.
   • 2016, Michael Croland, Oy Oy Oy Gevalt! Jews and Punk: Jews and Punk‎^[3]:

     That is more DIY, more punk, anyway.

Translations

of or pertaining to do it yourself

• Danish: gør-det-selv (also a noun)
• Dutch: doe-het-zelf (nl)
• Estonian: tee-ise
• Finnish: tee-se-itse-
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: barkács- (hu)
• Italian: fai da te
• Russian: сделай сам (sdelaj sam)
• Swedish: gör-det-själv-

Anagrams

• Yid, yid

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Indonesian

Proper noun

DIY

1. Initialism of Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta.