expert

See also: expèrt

English

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin expertus.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɛkspɚt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɛkspəːt/

• Audio (US)

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Adjective

expert (comparative more expert, superlative most expert)

1. Extraordinarily capable or knowledgeable.

   I am expert at making a simple situation complex.

   My cousin is an expert pianist.

2. Characteristic of an expert.

   This problem requires expert knowledge.

3. (obsolete) Proven, experienced, veteran.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:skillful

Antonyms

• inexpert
• nonexpert

Related terms

• expert system

Translations

extraordinarily capable or knowledgeable

• Assamese: পাকৈত (pakoit)
• Bulgarian: вещ (bg) (vešt)
• Catalan: expert (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: zkušený (cs) m
• Finnish: taitava (fi)
• Galician: experto (gl) m
• German: fachmännisch (de)
• Greek: έμπειρος (el) m (émpeiros), επιτήδειος (el) m (epitídeios)
• Hindi: निपुण (hi) m (nipuṇ)
• Italian: esperto (it), abile (it), provato (it)
• Japanese: 専門的 (ja) (せんもんてき, senmonteki)
• Khmer: ជំនាញ (km) (cumniəñ)
• Korean: 전문적 (ko) (jeonmunjeok)
• Latin: callidus

• Malayalam: വിദഗ്ധന്‍ m (vidagdhan‍)
• Manx: aghtal
• Maori: mākohakoha
• Old English: andwīs
• Portuguese: especialista (pt), perito (pt) m, expert (pt) m or f
• Romanian: expert (ro), de expert
• Russian: экспе́ртный (ru) (ekspértnyj)
• Sanskrit: ऋभु (sa) (ṛbhu)
• Scottish Gaelic: ealanta, teòma
• Spanish: experto (es)
• Swedish: expert (sv) c
• Tagalog: dalubhasa
• Telugu: నిపుణుడు (te) (nipuṇuḍu), నిపుణురాలు (nipuṇurālu)
• Turkish: usta (tr), işinin eri

characteristic of an expert

• Bulgarian: експертен (eksperten)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: odborný (cs) m
• Finnish: asiantunteva
• Greek: ειδικός (el) m (eidikós)

• Hungarian: szakavatott
• Italian: specialistico (it)
• Japanese: 専門的 (ja) (せんもんてき, senmonteki)
• Korean: 전문적 (ko) (jeonmunjeok)
• Scottish Gaelic: ealanta, teòma
• Spanish: pericial
• Swedish: expert- (sv) c
• Turkish: ustaca (tr), usta (tr)

Noun

expert (plural experts)

1. A person with extensive knowledge or ability in a given subject.
   • If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert. - David Ben-Gurion
   • 2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:

     Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.

   We called in several experts on the subject, but they couldn't reach an agreement.

2. (chess) A player ranking just below master.

Synonyms

• maven
• specialist

Hyponyms

• connoisseur

Translations

person with extensive knowledge or ability

• Albanian: ekspert (sq) m
• Amharic: ዓዋቂ (ʿawaḳi)
• Arabic: مُتَخَصِّص‎ m (mutaḵaṣṣiṣ), مُتَخَصِّصَة‎ f (mutaḵaṣṣiṣa), خَبِير‎ m (ḵabīr), خَبِيرَة‎ f (ḵabīra)

  Egyptian Arabic: خبير‎ m (ḵabīr)

• Armenian: փորձագետ (hy) (pʿorjaget)
• Azerbaijani: ekspert, mütəxəssis
• Bashkir: белгес (belges)
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: экспе́рт m (ekspjért), экспэ́рт m (ekspért)
• Bengali: বিশেষজ্ঞ (bn) (biśeśôgg)
• Bulgarian: експе́рт (bg) m (ekspért)
• Burmese: ကျွမ်းကျင်သူ (kywam:kyangsu)
• Catalan: expert (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 專家, 专家 (zyun¹ gaa¹)

  Mandarin: 專家 (zh), 专家 (zh) (zhuānjiā), 專門家 (zh), 专门家 (zh) (zhuānménjiā), 高手 (zh) (gāoshǒu)

• Czech: odborník (cs) m, expert (cs) m, znalec (cs) m
• Danish: ekspert (da) c
• Dutch: deskundige (nl), expert (nl)
• Esperanto: kompetentulo
• Estonian: asjatundja, ekspert (et)
• Finnish: asiantuntija (fi), ekspertti (fi)
• French: expert (fr) m
• Galician: experto (gl) m
• Georgian: ექსპერტი (eksṗerṭi), სპეციალისტი (sṗecialisṭi), მცოდნე (mcodne)
• German: Experte (de) m, Fachmann (de) m, Fachfrau (de) f
• Greek: εμπειρογνώμων (el) (empeirognómon), εμπειροτέχνης (el) m (empeirotéchnis), δεξιοτέχνης (el) m or f (dexiotéchnis)

  Ancient: ἐπιστήμων m (epistḗmōn)

• Hebrew: מומחה \ מֻמְחֶה‎ (he) m (mumkhé)
• Hindi: विशेषज्ञ (hi) m (viśeṣagya), माहिर (hi) m (māhir), कबीर (hi) m (kabīr), सिद्धहस्त (hi) m (siddhahast)
• Hungarian: szakértő (hu), szakember (hu)
• Icelandic: sérfræðingur m
• Indonesian: ahli (id), pakar (id), eksper (id), spesialis (id)
• Irish: saineolaí m
• Italian: esperto (it) m
• Japanese: 専門家 (ja) (せんもんか, senmonka), 熟練者 (じゅくれんしゃ, jukurensha), 名人 (ja) (めいじん, meijin)
• Javanese: juru (jv)
• Kazakh: сарапшы (kk) (sarapşı), маман (maman)
• Khmer: ជំនាញ (km) (cumniəñ), អ្នកឯកទេស (nĕək ʼaekteih)
• Korean: 숙련자(熟鍊者) (sungnyeonja), 전문가(專門家) (ko) (jeonmun'ga), 명인(名人) (ko) (myeong'in)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: pispor (ku)

• Kyrgyz: эксперт (ky) (ekspert)

• Lao: ຜູ້ຊ່ຽວຊານ (phū siāu sān)
• Latin: consultus m
• Latvian: eksperts m
• Lithuanian: ekspertas m
• Macedonian: експерт m (ekspert)
• Malay: pakar (ms)
• Maori: tautōhito, pūkenga, mātanga
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: мэргэжилтэн (mn) (mergejilten), шинжээч (mn) (shinjeech), эксперт (ekspert)

• Navajo: yééhósinígíí
• Ngazidja Comorian: mtââlamu 1 or 2
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ekspert m

• Occitan: expèrt m
• Ottoman Turkish: متخصص‎‎ (mütehassıs)
• Pashto: ماهر‎ m (māher), متخصص‎ m (motaxases)
• Persian: خبره‎ (fa) (xebre), متخصص‎ (fa) (motexasses)
• Polish: ekspert (pl) m
• Portuguese: expert (pt) m or f, especialista (pt) m or f, perito (pt) m
• Romanian: expert (ro) m
• Russian: экспе́рт (ru) m (ekspért), специали́ст (ru) m (specialíst), специали́стка (ru) f (specialístka), знато́к (ru) m (znatók)
• Scottish Gaelic: ealantach m, eòlaiche m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ѐксперт m, стру̏чња̄к m, зна́лац m

  Roman: èkspert (sh) m, strȕčnjāk (sh) m, ználac (sh) m

• Slovak: odborník (sk) m, znalec m, expert (sk) m
• Slovene: strokovnjak m, izvedenec m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: eksperta m

• Spanish: perito (es) m, experto (es) m, conocedor (es)
• Swahili: mtaalam (sw), mtaalamu (sw)
• Swedish: expert (sv) c, sakkunnig (sv) c
• Tagalog: dalubhasa, eksperto
• Tajik: мутахассис (tg) (mutaxassis), эксперт (tg) (ekspert)
• Tatar: белгеч (tt) (belgeç)
• Thai: ผู้เชี่ยวชาญ (th) (pûu-chîao-chaan)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: uzman (tr), usta (tr), üstat (tr), mütehassıs (tr)
• Turkmen: ekspert, ussat
• Ukrainian: експе́рт (uk) m (ekspért), фахіве́ць (uk) m (faxivécʹ)
• Urdu: ماہر‎ (māhir)
• Uyghur: مۇتەخەسسىس‎ (mutexessis)
• Uzbek: ekspert (uz), mutaxassis (uz)
• Vietnamese: chuyên gia (vi)
• Welsh: arbenigwr (cy) m
• Yiddish: עקספּערט‎ m (ekspert)
• Zazaki: pıspor m, pıspore f

chess ranking

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: ekspertti (fi)
• Galician: experto (gl) m

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

• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} సిద్ధహస్తుడు (siddhahastuḍu)

• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} bilirkişi (tr)

Further reading

• "expert" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 129.

Anagrams

• pretex, xerept

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Catalan

Adjective

expert (feminine experta, masculine plural experts, feminine plural expertes)

1. expert

Noun

expert m (plural experts, feminine experta)

1. expert

   Synonym: perit

Further reading

• “expert” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛkspɛrt]

• Audio

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Noun

expert m

1. expert (person with extensive knowledge or ability in a given subject)

   Synonyms: odborník, znalec

Related terms

• expertní

Further reading

• expert in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• expert in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch expert, from Middle French expert, from Old French expert, from Latin expertus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (chiefly Netherlands) /ɛkˈspɛːr/, (chiefly Belgium) /ɛkˈspɛrt/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: ex‧pert
• Rhymes: -ɛːr, -ɛrt

Noun

expert m (plural experts or experten, diminutive expertje n)

1. expert

Usage notes

The word can be pronounced in a way that corresponds with the spelling (common in Belgian-Dutch) or a way that corresponds to the French pronunciation (common in Netherland-Dutch). In the literal pronunciation, the plural is experten; in the French pronunciation, it is experts.

Synonyms

• deskundige

Related terms

• expertise

Descendants

• Afrikaans: ekspert
• → Indonesian: eksper
• → West Frisian: ekspert

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French

Etymology

From Latin expertus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.spɛʁ/

• Audio

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Adjective

expert (feminine singular experte, masculine plural experts, feminine plural expertes)

1. expert

   Il est expert en matière de finances ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   Il est expert dans les sciences humaines et sociales. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Derived terms

• expertement
• expertise

Related terms

• inexpert

Noun

expert m (plural experts, feminine experte)

1. expert

Descendants

• → Turkish: eksper

Further reading

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

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German

Etymology

Borrowed from French expert.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɛksˈpɛʁt]
• Hyphenation: ex‧pert

• Audio

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Adjective

expert (strong nominative masculine singular experter, not comparable)

1. expert

Declension

Positive forms of expert (uncomparable)

number & gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter	all genders
predicative		er ist expert	sie ist expert	es ist expert	sie sind expert
strong declension (without article)	nominative	experter	experte	expertes	experte
	genitive	experten	experter	experten	experter
	dative	expertem	experter	expertem	experten
	accusative	experten	experte	expertes	experte
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der experte	die experte	das experte	die experten
	genitive	des experten	der experten	des experten	der experten
	dative	dem experten	der experten	dem experten	den experten
	accusative	den experten	die experte	das experte	die experten
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein experter	eine experte	ein expertes	(keine) experten
	genitive	eines experten	einer experten	eines experten	(keiner) experten
	dative	einem experten	einer experten	einem experten	(keinen) experten
	accusative	einen experten	eine experte	ein expertes	(keine) experten

Further reading

• “expert” in Duden online
• “expert” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

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Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English expert. Doublet of esperto and experto.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Center-West, Brazil)

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• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɛks.pɛʁt͡ʃ/

Noun

expert m, f (plural experts)

1. expert (person with extensive knowledge or ability in a given field)

   Synonyms: especialista, perito, experto

Related terms

• expertise

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French expert, from Latin expertus.

Noun

expert m (plural experți, feminine equivalent expertă)

1. expert (person with extensive knowledge or ability in a given field)
2. (computing) wizard (program or script used to simplify complex operations)

Declension

Declension of expert

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) expert	expertul	(niște) experți	experții
genitive/dative	(unui) expert	expertului	(unor) experți	experților
vocative	expertule		experților

Synonyms

• (expert): specialist
• (wizard): asistent

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Swedish

Pronunciation

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Noun

expert c

1. expert

Declension

Declension of expert
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	expert	experten	experter	experterna
Genitive	experts	expertens	experters	experternas

See also

• kännare
• sakkunnig

Related terms

• expertis

Derived terms

• dataexpert
• expertbedömning
• expertgranskning
• expertgrupp
• experthjälp
• expertjury
• expertkommentar
• expertkommentator
• expertkommitté
• expertkunskap
• expertpanel
• expertråd
• experttips
• expertutlåtande
• expertutredning
• expertuttalande
• expertvälde

 

References

• expert in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)