blacksmith

English

Etymology

black (color of iron) +‎ smith (related to smite)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈblæk.smɪθ/

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Noun

blacksmith (plural blacksmiths)

1. A person who forges iron.
   • James Howell (c.1594–1666)

     The blacksmith may forge what he pleases.

   • 1879, Richard Jefferies, The Amateur Poacher, chapterII:

     Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. […]. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.

2. (informal) A person who shoes horses; a farrier.
3. A blackish fish of the Pacific coast (Chromis punctipinnis).

Usage notes

Historically, blacksmiths in small communities have played a number of other roles, including farrier, wainwright and wheelwright. However, blacksmithing properly refers to the forging of iron, and blacksmiths and farriers themselves make the distinction.

Synonyms

• ironsmith

Hypernyms

• smith, metalsmith
• smithy

Coordinate terms

• goldsmith, whitesmith, silversmith, platinumsmith, farrier, forge

Translations

iron forger — See also translations at smith

• Albanian: farkëtar (sq)
• Arabic: حَدَّاد‎ m (ḥaddād)
• Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: դարբին (hy) (darbin)
• Aromanian: hirar m, favru m, favur m
• Asturian: ferreru m
• Azeri: dəmirçi (az)
• Belarusian: кава́ль m (kaválʹ)
• Bengali: কামার (kamar)
• Breton: gov (br) m
• Bulgarian: ковач (bg) m (kovač)
• Burmese: ပန်းပဲသမား (pan:pai:sa.ma:)
• Catalan: ferrer m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鐵匠 (zh), 铁匠 (zh) (tiējiàng)

• Czech: kovář (cs) m
• Dalmatian: favro m
• Danish: smed c
• Dutch: smid (nl) m
• Erzya: сипе (sipe)
• Esperanto: forĝisto
• Estonian: sepp
• Faroese: jarnsmiður m, smiður m
• Finnish: seppä (fi)
• French: forgeron (fr) m, forgeronne (fr) f, sidérurgiste (fr) m, f
• Friulian: fari m
• Galician: ferreiro (gl) m
• Georgian: მჭედელი (mč̣edeli)
• German: Eisenschmied m, Grobschmied m, Grobschmiedin f
• Greek: σιδεράς (el) m (siderás)
• Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hindi: लोहार (hi) (lohār)
• Hungarian: kovács (hu)
• Icelandic: járnsmiður
• Ido: forjisto (io)
• Indonesian: pandai besi (id), tukang besi (id)
• Irish: gabha m, gabha dubh m
• Italian: fabbro ferraio m
• Japanese: 鍛冶屋 (ja) (かじや, kajiya)
• Kannada: please add this translation if you can
• Kazakh: ұста (kk) (usta)
• Khmer: ជាងដែក (km) (cieng daek)
• Korean: 대장장이 (ko) (daejangjangi)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: ئاسنگه‌ر‎ (asinger)

• Kyrgyz: темирчи (ky) (temirçi)
• Lao: ຊ່າງເຫຼັກ (sāng lek)
• Latgalian: kaļvs m
• Latin: ferrarius m, faber ferrarius m
• Latvian: kalvis m, kalējs (lv) m

• Lithuanian: kalvis m
• Luxembourgish: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: ковач m (kovač)
• Malay: tukang besi
• Malayalam: കൊല്ലന്‍ (kollan‍)
• Maltese: ħaddied
• Maori: parakimete
• Marathi: लोहार (lohāra)
• Nepali: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: forgeux m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: smed m, grovsmed m

  Nynorsk: smed m, grovsmed m

• Occitan: fabre (oc), faure (oc)
• Old East Slavic: коваль (kovalĭ)
• Oriya: କମାର (or) (kamāra)
• Pashto: please add this translation if you can
• Pennsylvania German: Blaeckschmitt
• Persian: آهنگر‎ (fa) (âhangar)
• Polish: kowal (pl) m
• Portuguese: ferreiro (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਲੁਹਾਰ m (luhār), ਲੁਹਾਰੀ f (luhārī)
• Romanian: fierar (ro) m, faur (ro) m (dated), făurar (ro) m (dated)
• Romansch: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: кузне́ц (ru) m (kuznéc), кова́ль (ru) m (koválʹ) (regional)
• Sardinian: ferréli, ferreli, ferreri
• Scottish Gaelic: gobha m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ковач m, кова̀чица f

  Roman: kovač (sh) m, kovàčica (sh) f

• Sicilian: firraru m
• Slovak: kováč m, kováčka f
• Slovene: kovač (sl) m
• Spanish: herrero (es) m, herrera (es) f
• Supyire: tunntun
• Swahili: mhunzi (sw)
• Swedish: smed (sv) c
• Tajik: оҳангар (tg) (ohangar)
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Telugu: కమ్మరి (te) (kammari)
• Thai: ช่างตีเหล็ก (châang dtee lèk)
• Turkish: demirci (tr)
• Turkmen: demirçi
• Ukrainian: кова́ль (uk) m (koválʹ)
• Urdu: لوہار‎ m (lohār)
• Uzbek: temirchi (uz)
• Venetian: favaro m, fravo, feràr
• Vietnamese: thợ rèn (vi)
• Volapük: (♂♀) grobasmitan, (♂) grobahismitan, (♀) grobajismitan
• Welsh: gof (cy)
• Yiddish: שמיד‎ m (shmid), קאָוועל‎ m (kovel), קאָוואַל‎ m (koval)

farrier (colloquial)

• Armenian: պայտար (hy) (paytar)
• Breton: gov (br) m, marichal m
• Bulgarian: налбантин m (nalbantin)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 蹄鐵匠, ^{(please verify)} 蹄铁匠 (títiējiàng)

• Czech: podkovář m
• Dutch: hoefsmid (nl) m
• Finnish: seppä (fi), hevosenkengittäjä
• French: maréchal-ferrant (fr) m
• German: Hufschmied (de) m, Hufschmiedin f
• Greek: πεταλωτής (el) m (petalotís)
• Italian: maniscalco (it)

• Japanese: 鍛冶屋 (ja) (かじや, kajiya), 蹄鉄工 (ja) (ていてつこう, teitesukō)
• Luxembourgish: Houfschmadd m
• Polish: kowal (pl) m
• Portuguese: ferrador (pt) m
• Romanian: potcovar (ro) m
• Russian: кузне́ц (ru) m (kuznéc)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: поткивач m

  Roman: potkivač (sh) m

• Spanish: herrador m
• Swedish: hovslagare c

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 대장장이 (ko) (daejangjangi)

• Latin: ^{(please verify)} faber ferricus