gambler

English

Etymology

gamble +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æmblə(r)

Noun

gambler (plural gamblers)

1. One who plays at a game of chance, who gambles.
2. One who takes significant risks.

Derived terms

• amber gambler

Translations

one who plays at a game of chance

• Arabic: مُقَامِر‎ m (muqāmir)
• Armenian: խաղամոլ (hy) (xałamol)
• Azerbaijani: qumarbaz
• Belarusian: гуле́ц m (huljéc)
• Bulgarian: комарджи́я m (komardžíja)
• Burmese: ကစားသမား (my) (ka.ca:sa.ma:)
• Catalan: jugador (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 賭徒 (zh), 赌徒 (zh) (dǔtú)

• Esperanto: monludisto
• Estonian: mängur
• Finnish: uhkapeluri (fi)
• French: joueur (fr) m, parieur (fr) m
• Galician: xogador m
• Georgian: აზარტული მოთამაშე (azarṭuli motamaše), მოთამაშე (motamaše), მობანქოვე (mobankove)
• German: Glücksspieler (de) m, (female) Glücksspielerin (de) f
• Greek: χαρτοπαίκτης (el) m (chartopaíktis), τζογαδόρος (el) m (tzogadóros)
• Hindi: जुआरी (hi) m (juārī), जुआबाज़ m (juābāz), फड़बाज़ m (phaṛbāz)
• Hungarian: szerencsejátékos (hu)
• Japanese: 博徒 (ばくと, bakuto), ギャンブラー (gyanburā)
• Kashubian: hazardnik m, hazardzysta m
• Khmer: អ្នកលេង (nĕək leeng), ជូតការក៍ (km) (cuutaʼkaa), ជើងល្បែង (cəəng lbaeng)
• Korean: 노름꾼 (noreumkkun), 갬블러 (gaembeulleo)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: qimarbaz (ku)

• Lao: ນັກຫລິ້ນ (nak lin), ນັກເລງ (nak lēng)

• Latin: āleō m, āleātor (la) m
• Macedonian: коцкар m (kockar)
• Maori: kaipurei moni, kaipetipeti
• Norman: gageux m, joueux m, joueux d'sous m
• Pashto: قمارباز‎ (ps) m (qemārbãz)
• Persian: قمارباز‎ (fa) (qomârbâz)
• Polish: hazardzista (pl) m, hazardzistka (pl) f
• Portuguese: apostador m
• Romanian: jucător (ro) m, cartofor (ro) m
• Russian: игро́к (ru) m (igrók), картёжник (ru) m (kartjóžnik) (card gambler), гэ́мблер m (gɛ́mbler)
• Sanskrit: कितव (sa) m (kitava)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ко̏цка̄р m

  Roman: kȍckār (sh) m

• Slovene: hazarder m, hazarderka f
• Spanish: jugador (es) m, tahúr (es) m
• Swedish: spelare (sv)
• Tagalog: sugarol
• Tajik: қиморбоз (qimorboz)
• Thai: นักพนัน (nák-pá-nan), ผู้เล่น (pûu-lên), เลง (leeng)
• Turkish: kumarbaz (tr), kumarcı (tr)
• Turkmen: humarbaz
• Ukrainian: граве́ць m (hravécʹ)
• Urdu: جواری‎ m (juārī)
• Uyghur: قىمارۋاز‎ (qimarwaz)
• Uzbek: qimorboz (uz)
• Walloon: trimleu (wa) m

one who takes significant risks

• Arabic: مُغَامِر‎ m (muḡāmir)
• Bulgarian: авантюри́ст (bg) m (avantjuríst), авантюри́стка (bg) f (avantjurístka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 冒險家 (zh), 冒险家 (zh) (màoxiǎnjiā)

• Finnish: uhkapeluri (fi)
• German: Hasardeur (de) m, (female) Hasardeurin (de) f
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 모험가 (ko) (moheomga)

• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: игро́к (ru) m (igrók), авантюри́ст (ru) m (avantjuríst), авантюри́стка (ru) f (avantjurístka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: коцкар m

  Roman: kockar (sh) m

• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: risktagare (sv)

Anagrams

• Gambrel, gambrel

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from English gamble.

Verb

gambler

1. (Louisiana) to gamble

Conjugation

Conjugation of gambler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	gambler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	gamblant /ɡɑ̃.blɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		gamblé /ɡɑ̃.ble/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	gamble /ɡɑ̃bl/	gambles /ɡɑ̃bl/	gamble /ɡɑ̃bl/	gamblons /ɡɑ̃.blɔ̃/	gamblez /ɡɑ̃.ble/	gamblent /ɡɑ̃bl/
	imperfect	gamblais /ɡɑ̃.blɛ/	gamblais /ɡɑ̃.blɛ/	gamblait /ɡɑ̃.blɛ/	gamblions /ɡɑ̃.bli.jɔ̃/	gambliez /ɡɑ̃.bli.je/	gamblaient /ɡɑ̃.blɛ/
	past historic2	gamblai /ɡɑ̃.ble/	gamblas /ɡɑ̃.bla/	gambla /ɡɑ̃.bla/	gamblâmes /ɡɑ̃.blam/	gamblâtes /ɡɑ̃.blat/	gamblèrent /ɡɑ̃.blɛʁ/
	future	gamblerai /ɡɑ̃.blə.ʁe/	gambleras /ɡɑ̃.blə.ʁa/	gamblera /ɡɑ̃.blə.ʁa/	gamblerons /ɡɑ̃.blə.ʁɔ̃/	gamblerez /ɡɑ̃.blə.ʁe/	gambleront /ɡɑ̃.blə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	gamblerais /ɡɑ̃.blə.ʁɛ/	gamblerais /ɡɑ̃.blə.ʁɛ/	gamblerait /ɡɑ̃.blə.ʁɛ/	gamblerions /ɡɑ̃.blə.ʁjɔ̃/	gambleriez /ɡɑ̃.blə.ʁje/	gambleraient /ɡɑ̃.blə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	gamble /ɡɑ̃bl/	gambles /ɡɑ̃bl/	gamble /ɡɑ̃bl/	gamblions /ɡɑ̃.bli.jɔ̃/	gambliez /ɡɑ̃.bli.je/	gamblent /ɡɑ̃bl/
	imperfect2	gamblasse /ɡɑ̃.blas/	gamblasses /ɡɑ̃.blas/	gamblât /ɡɑ̃.bla/	gamblassions /ɡɑ̃.bla.sjɔ̃/	gamblassiez /ɡɑ̃.bla.sje/	gamblassent /ɡɑ̃.blas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	gamble /ɡɑ̃bl/	—	gamblons /ɡɑ̃.blɔ̃/	gamblez /ɡɑ̃.ble/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is only usable with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).