miner

See also: miner.

English

Wikispecies

Wikispecies

Etymology

mine +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪnə/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -aɪnə(ɹ)
• Homophones: minor, myna (in non-rhotic accents)

Noun

miner (plural miners)

1. A person who works in a mine.

   The group of miners were stuck underground after a shaft caved in.

   • 2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884:

     Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.

2. An operator of ordnance mines and similar explosives.
3. Any bird of one of four species of Australian endemic honeyeaters in the genus Manorina.
4. Any bird of one of several species of South American ovenbirds in the genus Geositta.
5. (cryptocurrencies) Software or hardware that mines, or creates new units of cryptocurrency; someone engaged in mining.
   • 2022 January 6, “Kazakhstan internet shutdown deals blow to global bitcoin mining operation”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     The move would have probably prevented Kazakhstan-based miners from accessing the bitcoin network.

Derived terms

• bell miner
• black-eared miner
• campo miner
• coastal miner
• common miner
• creamy-rumped miner
• dark-winged miner
• gold miner, goldminer
• greyish miner
• leaf miner
• miner's lettuce
• noisy miner
• puna miner
• rufous-banded miner
• short-billed miner
• slender-billed miner
• thick-billed miner
• yellow-throated miner

 

Related terms

• mine
• mining

Translations

person who works in a mine

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Aragonese: menero m
• Armenian: հանքափոր (hy) (hankʿapʿor)
• Basque: meatzari (eu)
• Belarusian: шахцёр m (šaxcjór), гарня́к m (harnják)
• Bulgarian: миньо́р m (minjór), руднича́р m (rudničár)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: minaire (ca) m or f, miner (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 礦工 (zh), 矿工 (zh) (kuànggōng), 礦夫 (zh), 矿夫 (zh) (kuàngfū)

• Czech: havíř (cs) m, horník (cs) m
• Danish: minearbejder c, grubearbejder c
• Dutch: mijnwerker (nl) m
• Esperanto: ministo
• Estonian: kaevur
• Finnish: kaivosmies (fi), kaivostyöläinen (fi), mainari (fi)
• French: mineur (fr) m
• Galician: mineiro (gl) m
• Georgian: მეშახტე (mešaxṭe)
• German: Bergmann (de) m, Bergarbeiter (de) m
• Greek: μεταλλωρύχος (el) (metallorýchos)

  Ancient: μεταλλευτής m (metalleutḗs)

• Hebrew: כורה‎ m
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: bányász (hu)
• Icelandic: námumaður m
• Irish: mianadóir m
• Italian: minatore (it) m
• Japanese: 鉱夫 (こうふ, kōfu), 坑夫 (こうふ, kōfu), 鉱山労働者 (kouzanroudousha)
• Korean: 광부(鑛夫) (ko) (gwangbu)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: metallārius m

• Latvian: kalnracis m, ogļracis m
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Luxembourgish: Mineur m
• Macedonian: рудар m (rudar)
• Maori: kaihuke
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Mòcheno: knòpp m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gruvearbeider m

  Nynorsk: gruvearbeidar m

• Occitan: minaire (oc) m
• Old English: delfere m
• Persian: کارگر معدن‎ (kârgar-e madan), معدنچی‎ (madanchi)
• Polish: górnik (pl) m
• Portuguese: mineiro (pt) m
• Romanian: miner (ro) m, mineră f (rare), mineriță (ro) f
• Russian: шахтёр (ru) m (šaxtjór), горня́к (ru) m (gornják)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ру̀да̄р m

  Roman: rùdār (sh) m

• Silesian: grubjorz m, bergmůn m
• Slovak: baník m
• Slovene: rudar (sl) m
• Spanish: minero (es) m
• Swedish: gruvarbetare (sv) c
• Tagalog: mandudulang
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: madenci (tr)
• Ukrainian: шахта́р m (šaxtár), гірни́к m (hirnýk)
• Urdu: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: thợ mỏ
• Volapük: (♂♀) meinan (vo), (♂) himeinan, (♀) jimeinan
• Welsh: mwynwr m, cloddiwr m

operator of mines and other explosives

• Bulgarian: сапьо́р m (sapjór)
• Czech: minér m
• Dutch: mineur (nl) m, mijnenlegger m, ontmijner m
• Estonian: minöör, sapöör
• Finnish: miinamies

• Hungarian: aknász (hu)
• Irish: mianadóir m
• Latvian: mīnētājs m
• Macedonian: ми́нер m (míner)
• Russian: сапёр (ru) m (sapjór)

bird of genus Manorina

• Finnish: kellomesikko (fi)

bird of genus Geositta

• Catalan: miner (ca)

• Finnish: kaivaja (fi)

software

• Finnish: louhintaohjelma

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} כורה‎ m

• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 광부(鑛夫) (ko) (gwangbu)

Anagrams

• Ermin, ermin, in rem, inerm

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Catalan

Etymology

mina +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /miˈne/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /miˈneɾ/

Noun

miner m (plural miners, feminine minera)

1. miner (a person who works in a mine)

   Synonym: minaire

Noun

miner m (plural miners)

1. miner (bird of the genus Geositta)

Further reading

• “miner” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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Danish

Noun

miner c

1. indefinite plural of mine

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French

Etymology

From mine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.ne/

• Audio

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Verb

miner

1. to mine, exploit natural riches
2. (transitive) to undermine; to erode

Conjugation

Conjugation of miner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	miner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	minant /mi.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		miné /mi.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	mine /min/	mines /min/	mine /min/	minons /mi.nɔ̃/	minez /mi.ne/	minent /min/
	imperfect	minais /mi.nɛ/	minais /mi.nɛ/	minait /mi.nɛ/	minions /mi.njɔ̃/	miniez /mi.nje/	minaient /mi.nɛ/
	past historic2	minai /mi.ne/	minas /mi.na/	mina /mi.na/	minâmes /mi.nam/	minâtes /mi.nat/	minèrent /mi.nɛʁ/
	future	minerai /min.ʁe/	mineras /min.ʁa/	minera /min.ʁa/	minerons /min.ʁɔ̃/	minerez /min.ʁe/	mineront /min.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	minerais /min.ʁɛ/	minerais /min.ʁɛ/	minerait /min.ʁɛ/	minerions /mi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	mineriez /mi.nə.ʁje/	mineraient /min.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	mine /min/	mines /min/	mine /min/	minions /mi.njɔ̃/	miniez /mi.nje/	minent /min/
	imperfect2	minasse /mi.nas/	minasses /mi.nas/	minât /mi.na/	minassions /mi.na.sjɔ̃/	minassiez /mi.na.sje/	minassent /mi.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	mine /min/	—	minons /mi.nɔ̃/	minez /mi.ne/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only 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).

Derived terms

• mineur
• terrain miné

Further reading

• “miner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Latin

Verb

miner

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of minor

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

miner m or f

1. indefinite plural of mine

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

miner f

1. indefinite plural of mine

Verb

miner

1. present of mina

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French mineur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miˈner/

Noun

miner m (plural mineri, feminine equivalent mineră)

1. miner (person who works in a mine)

Declension

Declension of miner

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) miner	minerul	(niște) mineri	minerii
genitive/dative	(unui) miner	minerului	(unor) mineri	minerilor
vocative	minerule		minerilor

Derived terms

• mineri
• minerire
• minerit
• mineriță

 

Related terms

• mina
• minare
• mină

 

References

• miner in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

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Swedish

Noun

miner

1. indefinite plural of min.