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): /ˈɡɑɹdn̩ɚ/, /ˈɡɑɹdnɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑːdn̩ə/, /ˈɡɑːdnə/

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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. B. Maxwell, chapter 19, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     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

• 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
• 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)
• Kumyk: бавчу (bavçu)
• 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
• Low German:

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

• 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
• 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
• Spanish: jardinero m, jardinera f
• Swedish: trädgårdsmästare (sv) c
• Tagalog: hardinero, hardinera
• Telugu: తోటమాలి (te) (tōṭamāli)
• Thai: ชาวสวน (chaao sŭan)
• Tocharian B: werpiśkatstse
• Turkish: bahçıvan (tr)
• 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 (diq) 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.