goldsmith

See also: Goldsmith

English

Etymology

From Middle English goldsmith, from Old English goldsmiþ (“goldsmith”), from Proto-Germanic *gulþasmiþaz (“goldsmith”), equivalent to gold +‎ smith. Cognate with Scots goldsmyth, gouldsmeth (“goldsmith”), Saterland Frisian Gouldsmid (“goldsmith”), West Frisian goudsmid (“goldsmith”), Dutch goudsmid (“goldsmith”), German Goldschmied (“goldsmith”), Danish guldsmed (“goldsmith”), Swedish guldsmed (“goldsmith”), Icelandic gullsmiður (“goldsmith”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English orbatour, orbatur (“goldsmith”) and orfever, orfevre (“goldsmith”), both borrowed from Old French.

Noun

goldsmith (plural goldsmiths)

1. A person who makes, repairs or sells things out of gold, especially jewelry.
2. (obsolete) A banker (because the goldsmiths of London used to receive money on deposit, being equipped to keep it safely).

Hypernyms

• smith, metalsmith

Related terms

• goldsmithing

Translations

person who makes things out of gold

• Albanian: arpunues (sq), argjendar (sq)
• Arabic: صائغ m
• Armenian: ոսկերիչ (hy) (oskeričʻ)
• Assamese: সোনাৰি (xünari)
• Bulgarian: златар m (zlatar)
• Catalan: orfebre (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 冶金匠 (yejin jiang)

• Czech: zlatník m
• Danish: guldsmed c
• Dutch: goudsmid (nl)
• Esperanto: oraĵisto
• Estonian: kullassepp
• Faroese: gullsmiður m
• Finnish: kultaseppä (fi)
• French: orfèvre (fr) m or f
• Georgian: ოქრომჭედელი (okromč̣edeli)
• German: Goldschmied (de) m, Goldschmiedin f, Gold- und Silberschmied m, Gold- und Silberschmiedin f
• Greek: χρυσοχόος (el) m or f (chrysochóos)

  Ancient: χρυσοχόος m (khrusokhóos)

• Hungarian: aranyműves (hu)
• Icelandic: gullsmiður m
• Italian: orafo (it) m, orafa f, orefice (it) m
• Japanese: 金細工人 (kinsaikoujin), 金銀細工職人 (kinginsaikushokunin), 金細工師 (kinsaikushi)
• Khmer: ជាងមាស (cieng mieh)
• Korean: 금 세공인 (geum segong'in)
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• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: zêrringer (ku) m

  Sorani:

• Latin: aurifex m, aurārius m
• Latvian: zeltkalis m
• Macedonian: златар m (zlatar)
• Malay: tukang emas
• Malayalam: തട്ടാന് (taṭṭāṉ)
• Maltese: ħaddiem id-deheb
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: زرگر (fa) (zargar)
• Polish: złotnik (pl) m
• Portuguese: ourives (pt) m or f, aurífice (pt) m or f
• Romanian: aurar (ro) m
• Russian: золоты́х дел ма́стер (zolotýx del máster), ювели́р (ru) (juvelír)
• Scottish Gaelic: ceàrd-òir m
• Serbo-Croatian: zlatar (sh) m, zlatarka f
• Slovak: zlatník m, zlatníčka f
• Spanish: forjador del oro, orfebre m or f, orive
• Swedish: guldsmed (sv) c
• Tagalog: panday-ginto
• Telugu: కంసలి (te) (kaṁsali)
• Thai: ช่างทอง (châang-tɔɔng)
• Tibetan: གསེར་བཟོ་བ (gser bzo ba)
• Vietnamese: thợ bạc (vi)
• Volapük: goldismitan (vo) m or f, goldihismitan m, goldijismitan f
• Welsh: eurof m
• Yiddish: גאָלדשמיד m (goldshmid)

See also

• jeweller