gardener

See also: Gardener

English

Etymology

From Middle English gardener, from Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French gardinier. See garden.

Displaced native Old English wyrtweard.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑɹd.n̩.ɚ/, /ˈɡɑɹd.nɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑːd.n̩.ə/, /ˈɡɑːd.nə/

• Audio (US)

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• Hyphenation: gar‧den‧er

Noun

gardener (plural gardeners)

1. One who gardens; one who grows plants or cultivates a garden.

   "Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and to plant virtue." — St. Catherine of Siena

   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIX, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 4293071:

     At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.

Translations

one who gardens

• Afrikaans: tuinier, howenier
• Albanian: kopshtar (sq) m, kopshtare (sq) f
• Arabic: بُسْتَانِيّ‎ m (bustāniyy); جَنَائِنِيّ‎ m (janāʾiniyy), جَنَائِنِيَّة‎ f (janāʾiniyya)
• Armenian: այգեպան (hy) (aygepan), պարտիզպան (hy) (partizpan)
• Asturian: xardineru m, xardinera f
• Azerbaijani: bağban (az)
• Bashkir: баҡсасы (baqsasï)
• Basque: lorezain
• Belarusian: садо́ўнік m (sadóŭnik), садо́ўніца f (sadóŭnica)
• Bulgarian: градина́р m (gradinár), градина́рка f (gradinárka)
• Catalan: jardiner (ca) m, jardinera (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 園丁 (zh), 园丁 (zh) (yuándīng), 花匠 (zh) (huājiàng)

• Czech: zahradník (cs) m, zahradnice f
• Danish: gartner (da)
• Dutch: hovenier (nl) m, tuinier (nl) m, tuinman (nl) m, tuinvrouw f, tuinlieden (nl) m pl
• Egyptian: (kꜣmw), (kꜣry)
• Esperanto: (♂♀) ĝardenisto, (♀) ĝardenistino
• Estonian: aednik (et)
• Finnish: puutarhuri (fi)
• French: jardinier (fr) m, jardinière (fr) f
• Galician: xardineiro (gl) m, xardineira f
• Georgian: მებაღე (mebaɣe), მემტილე (memṭile), მებაღჩე (mebaɣče)
• German: Gärtner (de) m, Gärtnerin (de) f
• Greek: κηπουρός (el) m or f (kipourós)

  Ancient: κηπουρός m (kēpourós), κηπεύς m (kēpeús)

• Hebrew: גַּנָּן‎ (he) m (ganán)
• Hindi: माली (hi) m (mālī)
• Hungarian: kertész (hu)
• Ido: (♂♀) gardenisto (io), (♂) gardenistulo (io), (♀) gardenistino
• Indonesian: tukang kebun
• Italian: giardiniere (it) m, giardiniera (it) f
• Japanese: 園丁 (ja) (えんてい, entei), 庭師 (ja) (にわし, niwashi)
• Korean: 원예사(園藝師) (ko) (wonyesa), 정원사(庭園師) (jeong'wonsa)
• Kumyk: бавчу (bawçu)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: باخەوان‎ (ku) (baxewan)

  Northern Kurdish: baẍvan m

• Ladino:

  Roman: bahcheván m

• Lao: ຄົນເຮັດສວນ (khon het sūan)
• Latin: hortulānus m
• Latvian: dārznieks m, dārzniece f
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Low German:

  German Low German: Goorner m, Goornerin f, Goornersch f, Goornersche f

• Macedonian: градинар m (gradinar), градинарка f (gradinarka)
• Manchu: ᠶᠠᡶᠠᠰᡳ (yafasi)
• Manx: gareyder m
• Maori: kaimahi māra, paruauru, kaingaki māra
• Nahuatl: tepancalcatl
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gartner m

  Nynorsk: gartnar m

• Occitan: jardinièr m
• Old English: wyrtweard m
• Persian: باغبان‎ (fa) (bâqbân)
• Plautdietsch: Goadna m
• Polish: ogrodnik (pl) m, ogrodniczka (pl) f, badylarz (pl) m (colloquial, derogatory), badylarka f (colloquial, derogatory)
• Portuguese: jardineiro (pt) m
• Romanian: grădinar (ro) m, grădinăreasă (ro) f
• Russian: садо́вник (ru) m (sadóvnik), садово́д (ru) m (sadovód), садо́вница (ru) f (sadóvnica)
• Scottish Gaelic: gàirnealair m, gàrradair m
• Serbo-Croatian: vrtlar (sh), sadnik
• Slovak: záhradník m, záhradníčka f
• Slovene: vrtnar (sl) m, vrtnarka f
• Spanish: jardinero (es) m, jardinera f
• Swedish: trädgårdsmästare (sv) c
• Tagalog: hardinero, hardinera
• Telugu: తోటమాలి (te) (tōṭamāli)
• Thai: ชาวสวน (chaao sŭan)
• Tocharian B: werpiśkatstse
• Turkish: bahçıvan (tr)
• Ukrainian: садівни́к m (sadivnýk), садівни́ця f (sadivnýcja)
• Urdu: مالی‎ m (mālī)
• Uzbek: bogʻbon (uz)
• Vietnamese: người làm vườn
• Volapük: (♂♀) gadan (vo), (♂) higadan, (♀) jigadan (vo)
• Welsh: garddwr (cy) m
• Yiddish: גערטנער‎ m (gertner)
• Zazaki: bağçewan c

Anagrams

• deranger, garnered, rangered

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• gardenere, gardyner, gardynere, gardiner, garthener, garthynere

Etymology

From Old Northern French gardinier; equivalent to gardyn +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡarˈdinər(ə)/, /ˈɡardənər(ə)/

Noun

gardener (plural gardineris)

1. gardener (one who tends a garden)
2. (figuratively) A tender of one's heart.

Descendants

• English: gardener
• Scots: gairdener, gairdner, gairner

References

• “gardiner, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-16.