drummer

See also: Drummer

English

Etymology

drum (“instrument”) +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɹʌmə(ɹ)/
• IPA^(key): /ˈdɹʌmɚ/
• Rhymes: -ʌmə(ɹ)

Noun

drummer (plural drummers)

1. (music) One who plays the drums.
2. (obsolete) travelling salesman

   • You know what life on the road is like — these poor salesmen when they don't sell some big account they been counting on why they go into one terrible slump they set there in the hotel room brooding over it and after a while they go out and meet some other drummer down in the lobby and start chewing the rag about all their troubles and then they get feeling so sorry they go across the street and commence drinking beer and about three hours later they come back to the room and write the house one of these here letters how rotten the product is.

3. A drumstick (the lower part of a chicken or turkey leg).
4. Any of various fish of the family Kyphosidae which make a drumming sound.
   • 1983, The Fisherman Who Laughed, page 67:

     Bullock's liver will catch drummer.

Synonyms

• (musician who plays drums): percussionist, drummist
• (salesman): hawker, peddler

Derived terms

Derived terms

• bass drummer
• bucket drummer
• frame drummer
• kettledrummer

• snare drummer
• steel drummer
• tenor drummer

Translations

one who plays the drums

• Arabic:

  Egyptian Arabic: طبال m (ṭabbāl)

• Armenian: թմբկահար (hy) (tʻmbkahar)
• Bashkir: барабансы (barabansı)
• Bulgarian: барабанчик m (barabančik), барабанист m (barabanist)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鼓手 (zh) (gǔshǒu)

• Czech: bubeník (cs) m
• Dutch: drummer (nl) m, drumspeler m
• Esperanto: tamburisto
• Estonian: trummar
• Ewe: ʋuƒola m
• Finnish: rumpali (fi), rummunsoittaja
• French: batteur (fr) m
• German: Schlagzeuger (de) m, Trommler (de) m, Schlagzeugerin (de) f, Trommlerin f
• Greek:

  Ancient: τυμπανιστής m (tumpanistḗs)

• Hausa: makaɗi
• Hungarian: dobos (hu)
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• Icelandic: trommuleikari m, trommari m
• Irish: drumadóir m
• Italian: batterista (it)
• Japanese: 鼓手 (こしゅ, koshu), ドラマー (ja) (doramā)
• Karok: imthanuvnúvaan
• Kutenai: kt̓amuxu
• Macedonian: тапана́р m (tapanár)
• Norwegian: batterist m, trommeslager (no) m, trommis (no) m
• Polish: perkusista (pl) m
• Portuguese: baterista (pt) m or f
• Romanian: baterist (ro) m, bateristă f, drummer (ro) m
• Russian: бараба́нщик (ru) m (barabánščik), бараба́нщица (ru) f (barabánščica)
• Spanish: (Spain) batería (es) m, (Latin America) baterista m
• Swedish: trummis (sv), trumslagare (sv), batterist (sv)
• Tamil: பறையன் (ta) (paṟaiyaṉ)
• Turkmen: deprekçi, depçi
• Volapük: truman (vo) m or f, hitruman m, truman (vo) f
• Westrobothnian:

traveling salesman

• Bulgarian: пътуващ търговец (pǎtuvašt tǎrgovec)
• Dutch: kramer (nl) m
• Finnish: kauppamatkustaja
• Irish: taistealaí tráchtála m
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• Romanian: vânzător ambulant m
• Russian: коробе́йник (ru) m (korobéjnik)
• Spanish: vendedor itinerante m

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Translations to be checked

• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} طَبَّالٌ pl (ṭabbālun)
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Dutch

Etymology

From English drummer.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: drum‧mer
• Rhymes: -ʏmər

Noun

drummer m (plural drummers, diminutive drummertje n)

1. (music) One who plays the drums.

Synonyms

• percussionist m
• slagwerker m
• trommelaar m

Related terms

• drumstel n

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French

Alternative forms

• drummeur

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʁœ.mœʁ/

• Audio:

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Noun

drummer m or f (plural drummers, feminine drummeuse)

1. drummer

Synonyms

• batteur

Further reading

• “drummer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.