bricklayer

English

Etymology

brick +‎ layer

Noun

bricklayer (plural bricklayers)

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

   A good bricklayer should be able to calculate the number of bricks needed to build a wall.

Synonyms

• mason

Derived terms

• brickie

Translations

craftsman

• Afrikaans: messelaar
• Arabic: بَنَّاء بِالْقَرْمِيد m (bannāʾ bi-l-qarmīn), بَنَّاء m (bannāʔ)
• Azerbaijani: bənna (az)
• Basque: igeltsero (eu)
• Catalan: paleta (ca) m or f
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: zedník (cs) m
• Danish: murer (da) c
• Dutch: metselaar (nl) m
• Estonian: müürsepp
• Finnish: muurari (fi)
• French: maçon (fr) m
• German: Maurer (de) m, Maurerin (de) f
• Greek: χτίστης (el) m (chtístis)
• Gujarati: કડિયો (kaḍiyo)
• Hungarian: kőműves (hu)
• Irish: bríceadóir m, brícléir m
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• Italian: muratore (it) m
• Japanese: 煉瓦職人 (れんがしょくにん, renga shokunin)
• Korean: 석공 (ko) (seokgong) (石工 (ko))
• Latin: caementarius m
• Macedonian: ѕи́дар m (dzídar)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: murer (no) m

• Persian: والادگر (fa) (vâlâdgar), بنا (fa) (bannâ)
• Polish: murarz (pl) m
• Portuguese: pedreiro (pt) m
• Romanian: zidar (ro) m, pietrar (ro) m
• Russian: ка́менщик (ru) m (kámenščik)
• Spanish: albañil (es) m
• Swedish: murare (sv) c
• Vietnamese: thợ hồ (vi), thợ nề (vi)
• Welsh: briciwr m, gosodwr brics m
• West Frisian: mitselder c

See also

• hod carrier