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English [ edit ]
Etymology [ edit ]
milk + -man
Pronunciation [ edit ]
milkman (plural milkmen )
Milkman on motorcycle in Uganda (1)
A man who delivers milk to households and sometimes businesses early in the morning.
1959 March, R. C. Riley, “Home with the Milk”, in Trains Illustrated , page 154:Our milkman is a jovial character, but not one given to yodelling at the customers on his round. Only the resounding "clonk" of bottles advises us that a couple of pints have been left on the doorstep.
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Translations [ edit ]
man who delivers milk early in the morning
Arabic: بَائِع لَبَن m ( bāʾiʿ laban )
Aromanian: lãptar m
Asturian: llecheru m
Belarusian: мало́чнік m ( malóčnik )
Bengali: দুধওয়ালা ( dudhẇala ) , গোয়ালা ( goẏala )
Bulgarian: млека́р m ( mlekár )
Catalan: lleter m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 送奶人 ( sòngnǎirén )
Czech: mlékař (cs) m
Danish: mælkemand c
Dutch: melkboer (nl) m
Estonian: piimamees (et)
Finnish: maitomies (fi)
French: laitier (fr) m , crémier (fr) m
Friulian: latâr m
Galician: leiteiro m
German: Milchmann (de) m
Greek: γαλατάς (el) m ( galatás )
Hindi: दूधवाला (hi) m ( dūdhvālā )
Hungarian: tejesember (hu) , tejes (hu)
Irish: fear bainne m
Italian: lattaio (it) m
Japanese: 牛乳屋 (ja) ( ぎゅうにゅうや, gyūnyūya ) , 牛乳 配達 ( ぎゅにゅうはいたつ, gyūnyū haitatsu )
Korean: 우유 배달원 (牛乳配達員) ( uyu baedarwon )
Kyrgyz: сүтчү ( sütçü )
Luxembourgish: Mëllechmann m
Macedonian: млекар m ( mlekar )
Maltese: tal-ħalib m or f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: melkemann m
Occitan: lachièr m
Polish: mleczarz (pl) m
Portuguese: leiteiro (pt) m
Romanian: lăptar (ro) m
Russian: моло́чник (ru) m ( molóčnik ) , разно́счик молока́ m ( raznósčik moloká )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: млѐка̄р m , мљѐка̄р m
Roman: mlèkār (sh) m , mljèkār (sh) m
Sicilian: lattaru m
Slovak: mliekar m
Slovene: mlekar m
Spanish: lechero (es) m
Swedish: mjölkutkörare c , mjölkbud (sv) n
Tatar: cөтче ( cötçe ) , сөт сатучы ( söt satuçı )
Turkish: sütçü (tr)
Ukrainian: моло́чник m ( molóčnyk )
Urdu: دُودْھ والا m ( dūdh-vālā )
Venetian: latèr m
Vietnamese: người bán sữa
Welsh: dyn llaeth m , dyn llefrith m ( North )
Yiddish: מילכיקער ( milkhiker )
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