bricklayer

English

Etymology

From Middle English brekelayeer, brekelayer, equivalent to brick +‎ layer.

Pronunciation

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Noun

bricklayer (plural bricklayers)

1. A craftsman who builds walls and suchlike out of bricks.

   Synonyms: mason, (informal) brickie

   • 2026 June 3, John Birmingham, “Neoliberalism ate the world. Enter: Pauline Hanson”, in Crikey‎^[1]:

     What’s interesting, when you look past all the hysterical bullshit about brown people and trans kids and the imaginary woke mind virus, is that Hanson’s new converts in Farrer and South Australia are angry about the same shit as everyone else, whether that’s a Lebanese-Australian bricklayer in Claymore, an Indian dental nurse in Ipswich, or some lentil-muffin-eating, lumpy-jumper-wearing goat yoga enthusiast in Teal Town.

Translations

craftsman

• Afrikaans: messelaar
• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Amharic: ጡብ ገንቢ (ṭub gänbi)
• Arabic: بَنَّاء بِالْقِرْمِيد m (bannāʔ bi-l-qirmīd), بَنَّاء (ar) m (bannāʔ)
• Armenian: որմնադիր (hy) (ormnadir), պատշար (hy) (patšar)
• Azerbaijani: bənna (az)
• Basque: igeltsero (eu)
• Belarusian: му́ляр (múljar)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: paleta (ca) m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 磚匠 / 砖匠 (zh) (zhuānjiàng), 砌磚工 / 砌砖工 (zh) (qìzhuāngōng), 瓦工 (zh) (wǎgōng)

• Czech: zedník (cs) m
• Danish: murer (da) c
• Dutch: metselaar (nl) m
• Esperanto: masonisto
• Estonian: müürsepp
• Finnish: muurari (fi), rappari (fi)
• French: maçon (fr) m
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: mitselder c

• Georgian: კალატოზი (ka) (ḳalaṭozi)
• German: Maurer (de) m, Maurerin (de) f
• Greek: χτίστης (el) m (chtístis)
• Gujarati: કડિયો (kaḍiyo)
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: kőműves (hu)
• Icelandic: múrari (is) m
• Ingrian: kamenšikka
• Irish: bríceadóir m, brícléir m
• Italian: muratore (it) m
• Japanese: 煉瓦職人 (れんがしょくにん, renga shokunin)
• Khmer: កម្មករធ្វើឥដ្ឋ (kammaʼkɑɑ thvəə ʼət)
• Korean: 석공(石工) (ko) (seokgong)
• Latin: caementarius m
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: mūrininkas m, mūrininkė f
• Macedonian: ѕи́дар (mk) m (dzídar)
• Mingrelian: ორსატი (orsaṭi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: murer (no) m

• Pannonian Rusyn: муляр m (muljar)
• Persian: والادگر (fa) (vâlâdgar), بنا (fa) (bannâ)
• Polish: murarz (pl) m pers, murarka f
• Portuguese: pedreiro (pt) m
• Romanian: zidar (ro) m, pietrar (ro) m
• Russian: ка́менщик (ru) m (kámenščik)
• Spanish: albañil (es) m
• Svan: ჴელუ̂ა̈ნ (qelûän), გალტუ̂ეზ (galṭûez)
• Swedish: murare (sv) c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: duvarcı (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: دیوارجی (duvarcı)

• Ukrainian: каменя́р (uk) m (kamenjár), му́ляр (uk) m (múljar)
• Vietnamese: thợ hồ (vi), thợ nề (vi)
• Welsh: briciwr m, gosodwr brics m
• Yucatec Maya: pakʼbal, j-pakʼbal m, x-pakʼbal f

See also

• hod carrier