miner

See also: miner.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪnə(ɹ)/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -aɪnə(ɹ)
• Homophones: minor; myna (non-rhotic)

Etymology 1

From mine +‎ -er (agent noun suffix) or +‎ -er (occupational suffix).

Noun

miner (plural miners)

1. A person who works in a mine.

   Hyponyms: coalminer, goldminer

   Near-synonyms: mineworker; mineowner

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

   • 2005, David G. Atwill, “Shades of Islam: The Muslim Yunnanese”, in The Chinese Sultanate: Islam, Ethnicity, and the Panthay Rebellion in Southwest China, 1856-1873‎^[1], Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 44:

     Hui from Lin’an—especially those from the village of Huilong—were famously skilled miners and traveled long distances to work mines throughout the province.

   • 2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist‎^[2], volume 411, number 8884, archived from the original on 20 January 2021:

     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 several species of South American ovenbirds in the genus Geositta.
4. Any bird of one of several species of Australian honeyeaters in the genus Manorina.
5. (cryptocurrencies) Software or hardware that mines, or creates new units of cryptocurrency.

   Coordinate term: staker

   • 2022 January 6, “Kazakhstan internet shutdown deals blow to global bitcoin mining operation”, in The Guardian‎^[3]:

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

6. (cryptocurrencies) A person who mines cryptocurrency.
   • 2011 November 23, Benjamin Wallace, “The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin”, in Wired‎^[4], San Francisco, Calif.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2 January 2025:

     The first miner to solve each puzzle would be awarded 50 new bitcoins, and the associated block of transactions would be added to the chain. The difficulty of each puzzle would increase as the number of miners increased, which would keep production to one block of transactions roughly every 10 minutes.

Derived terms

• aspen leaf blotch miner moth
• campo miner
• coalminer
• coastal miner
• common miner
• creamy-rumped miner
• cryptominer
• dark-winged miner
• data miner
• freeminer
• gold miner, goldminer
• greyish miner
• junior miner
• leaf miner
• leaf-miner
• leaf-miner fly
• long-faced miner bee
• miner's lettuce
• ninja miner
• nonminer
• puna miner
• rufous-banded miner
• short-billed miner
• slender-billed miner
• thick-billed 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) (hankʻapʻor)
• 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 / 矿工 (zh) (kuànggōng), 礦夫 / 矿夫 (zh) (kuàngfū)

• Czech: havíř (cs) m, horník (cs) m
• Danish: minearbejder c, grubearbejder c
• Dutch: mijnwerker (nl) m, kompel (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), vájár (hu)
• Icelandic: námumaður m
• Irish: mianadóir m
• Italian: minatore (it) m
• Japanese: 鉱夫 (ja) (こうふ, kōfu), 坑夫 (ja) (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
• Mòcheno: knòpp m
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gruvearbeider m

  Nynorsk: gruvearbeidar m

• Occitan: minaire (oc) m
• Old English: delfere m
• Ottoman Turkish: معدنجی (maʿdenci), لغمجی (lağımcı)
• Persian: کارگر معدن (kârgar-e ma'dan), معدنچی (ma'danči)
• 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), минёр (ru) m (minjór)

bird of genus Geositta

• Catalan: menjamel m
• Finnish: kaivaja (fi)
• Welsh: mwynwr m

bird of genus Manorina

• Welsh: adar cloch m pl

software

• Finnish: louhintaohjelma (software); louhija (fi) (person)

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Translations to be checked

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

Etymology 2

From myna.

Noun

miner (plural miners)

1. Any bird of one of four species of Australian endemic honeyeaters in the genus Manorina.

Derived terms

• bell miner
• black-eared miner
• noisy miner
• yellow-throated miner

Translations

bird of genus Manorina

• Finnish: kellomesikko (fi)

Anagrams

• Ermin, ermin, in rem, inerm

Catalan

Etymology

From mina +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [miˈne]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [miˈneɾ]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Noun

miner m (plural miners, feminine minera, feminine plural mineres)

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 [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Danish

Noun

miner c

1. indefinite plural of mine

French

Etymology

From mine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.ne/

• Audio:

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

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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, on	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, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (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.

Latin

Verb

miner

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of minor

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

miner m or f

1. indefinite plural of mine

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

miner f

1. indefinite plural of mine

Verb

miner

1. present of mina

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	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	miner	minerul		mineri	minerii
genitive-dative	miner	minerului		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) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

Swedish

Noun

miner

1. indefinite plural of min