archer

See also: Archer

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɑː(ɹ).t͡ʃə(ɹ)/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɑɹt͡ʃɚ/
• Homophone: Archer
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t͡ʃə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

from Middle English archer, archere, from Old French archier, from Vulgar Latin *arcārius, alteration of arcuārius, from Latin arcus (“bow”). Displaced native Old English sċytta.

Noun

archer (plural archers)

1. One who shoots an arrow from a bow or a bolt from a crossbow.

   Synonyms: bowman, crossbowman, marksman, toxophilite, toxotes

2. (historical, obsolete) The bishop in chess.

Derived terms

• archeress
• archerfish
• archership
• archery
• horse archer

 

Translations

one who shoots an arrow from a bow or a bolt from a crossbow

• Afrikaans: boogskutter (af)
• Albanian: shigjetar (sq) m
• Arabic: (indefinite) رَامٍ‎ m (rāmin), (definite) الرَّامِي‎ m (ar-rāmī)
• Armenian: նետաձիգ (hy) (netajig)
• Asturian: arqueru m
• Belarusian: лу́чнік m (lúčnik), лу́чніца f (lúčnica)
• Catalan: arquer (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 射手 (zh) (shèshǒu), 弓箭手 (zh) (gōngjiànshǒu)

  Min Nan: 射手 (siā-chhiú)

• Coptic: ⲣⲉϥⲛⲉϫⲥⲁϯ m (refnečsati)
• Czech: lučištník (cs) m, lukostřelec m
• Danish: bueskytte c
• Dutch: boogschutter (nl) m
• Dzongkha: please add this translation if you can
• Egyptian: (pḏtj)
• Esperanto: arkpafisto, arbalestisto
• Estonian: vibukütt
• Ewe: aŋutrɔdala n
• Finnish: jousiampuja (fi), jousimies (fi)
• French: archer (fr) m, arbalétrier (fr) m
• Galician: arqueiro (gl) m, seteiro m
• Georgian: გშვილდოსამი (gšvildosami)
• German: Bogenschütze (de) m
• Greek: τοξότης (el) m (toxótis)

  Ancient: τοξότης m (toxótēs)

• Hebrew: קַשָּׁת‎ (he) m (kashshat)
• Hungarian: íjász (hu)
• Icelandic: bogmaður (is) m
• Indonesian: pemanah (id)
• Italian: arciere (it) m
• Japanese: 射手 (ja) (しゃしゅ, shashu), 射手 (ja) (いて, ite)
• Kazakh: садақшы (sadaqşy)
• Khmer: ធនុហត្ថ (thĕəʼnuʼ hat)
• Korean: 사수(射手) (ko) (sasu)
• Latin: arcarius m, sagittarius m
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: kilpininkas m
• Macedonian: стрелец m (strelec), стреличар m (streličar)
• Malay: pemanah (ms)
• Manx: bowder m, boweyder m, sideyr m
• Maori: kaikōpere
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: харваач (mn) (xarvaač)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bueskytter m

  Nynorsk: bogeskyttar m

• Occitan: arquièr (oc) m
• Ojibwe: mitigwaabinini
• Old English: sċytta m
• Old Portuguese: arqueiro
• Persian: کماندار‎ (fa) (kamândâr), کمانور‎ (kamânvar), تیرانداز‎ (fa) (tir-andâz)
• Polish: łucznik (pl) m, łuczniczka (pl) f
• Portuguese: arqueiro (pt) m
• Romagnol: arcér m
• Romanian: arcaș (ro) m, săgetător (ro) m
• Russian: лу́чник (ru) m (lúčnik), лу́чница (ru) f (lúčnica), стрело́к из лу́ка m (strelók iz lúka)
• Scottish Gaelic: boghadair m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: лукострелац, стре́лац m, стрѐлича̄р m

  Roman: lukostrelac, strélac (sh), strèličār (sh)

• Sicilian: arceri (scn) m
• Slovak: lukostrelec m
• Slovene: lokostrelec m
• Spanish: arquero (es) m
• Swedish: bågskytt (sv) c
• Tagalog: mamamana
• Telugu: విలుకాడు (te) (vilukāḍu)
• Thai: นักยิงธนู (nák-ying-tá-nuu)
• Tibetan: དཔག་ཆེན (dpag chen), མདའ་མཁན (mda' mkhan), མདའ་རྒྱབ་མཁན (mda' rgyab mkhan), མདའ་བསྣུན (mda' bsnun), མདའ་པ (mda' pa), མདའ་ཚན་ཆེན་པོ (mda' tshan chen po), འཕོང་སྐྱེན་པ ('phong skyen pa), འཕོང་མཁན ('phong mkhan)
• Turkish: okçu (tr), kemankeş (tr) sg
• Tuvan: адыгжы (adıgjı)
• Ugaritic: 𐎖𐎌𐎚 (qšt)
• Ukrainian: лу́чник m (lúčnyk), лу́чниця f (lúčnycja)
• Vietnamese: xạ thủ (vi) (射手)
• Walloon: airtchî (wa) m
• Welsh: saethydd m, saethyddion pl
• Yiddish: בויגן־שיסער‎ m (boygn-shiser), פֿײַלן־בויגער‎ m (fayln-boyger)
• Zazaki: timkar c

See also

• arrow
• bow
• quiver
• Sagittarius
• sagittary

Etymology 2

Adjective

archer

1. comparative form of arch: more arch

Anagrams

• charre

French

Etymology

From arche, a variant of arc (“bow”) + -er, or from Middle French archier, from Old French archier, from Vulgar Latin *arcārius, alteration of arcuārius, from Latin arcus (“bow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aʁ.ʃe/

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Noun

archer m (plural archers, feminine archère)

1. archer

   Hyponym: arbalétrier

Derived terms

• archer cracheur
• poisson archer

 

Related terms

• arc
• archerie

 

Further reading

• “archer” in Dictionnaire Français en ligne Larousse.
• “archer” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
• “archer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Scots

Noun

archer (plural archers)

1. Alternative form of aircher

References

• “archer, n.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.