coppersmith

See also: Coppersmith

English

Etymology

copper +‎ smith

Pronunciation

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Noun

coppersmith (plural coppersmiths)

1. A person who forges things out of copper.
   • 1961 March, C.P. Boocock, “The organisation of Eastleigh Locomotive Works”, in Trains Illustrated, page 162:

     Eastleigh Locomotive Works: Layout and functions of shops [...] Coppersmiths: Preparation of boiler tubes and copper pipework.

2. A South Asian barbet, Psilopogon haemacephala, with crimson forehead and throat, best known for its metronomic call that has been likened to a coppersmith striking metal with a hammer.
   • 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin 2005, p. 104:

     More noises came from a dusty tree, where brown birds creaked and floundered about looking for insects; another bird, the invisible coppersmith, had started his ‘ponk ponk’.

Synonyms

• (person): redsmith

Hypernyms

• smith, metalsmith

Derived terms

• coppersmithing

Translations

person

• Albanian: bakërpunues (sq)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: медникар m (mednikar)
• Catalan: caldaerer (Algherese), courer m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 銅匠／铜匠 (zh) (tóngjiàng, tóngjiang)

• Czech: mědikovec
• Danish: kobbersmed c
• Dutch: kopersmid (nl) m
• Finnish: kupariseppä
• French: dinandier (fr) m, chaudronnier (fr) m
• Galician: caldeireiro (gl)
• Gallurese: raminàiu
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Kupferschmied (de) m
• Gothic: 𐌰𐌹𐌶𐌰𐍃𐌼𐌹𐌸𐌰 m (aizasmiþa)
• Greek: χαλκωματάς (el) m (chalkomatás), χαλκουργός (el) (chalkourgós), χαλκοπλάστης (el) m (chalkoplástis)

  Ancient: χαλκεύς m (khalkeús), χαλκουργός m (khalkourgós)

• Hungarian: rézműves (hu)
• Icelandic: koparsmiður m
• Italian: fabbro di rame
• Japanese: 銅細工人 (douitakumijin)
• Kazakh: мыскер (mysker)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: مِسگەر‎ (misger)

• Latin: aerarius m
• Macedonian: бакарџија m (bakardžija)
• Occitan: pairolièr (oc) m
• Persian: مسگر‎ (fa) (mesgar)
• Polish: miedziownik
• Portuguese: funileiro (pt) m
• Romanian: arămar (ro) m
• Russian: ме́дник (ru) m (médnik)
• Sardinian:

  Campidanese: cardareri

  Logudorese: accontzalabiólu, accontzimu

• Sassarese: raminàiu
• Spanish: calderero (es)
• Swedish: kopparsmed (sv) c

bird

• Finnish: kilkkuseppä (fi)