musician

English

Alternative forms

• musitian (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English musician, musicien, from Old French musicien (“musician”). Equivalent to music +‎ -ian.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: mu‧si‧cian
• IPA^(key): /mjuˈzɪʃən/

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• Rhymes: -ɪʃən

Noun

A musician playing a guitar

musician (plural musicians)

1. A composer, conductor, or a performer of music; more specifically, it's a person who sings and/or plays a musical instrument as a hobby, an occupation, or a profession.

   Jenny is a talented musician, playing the cello, saxophone, piano and guitar.

Synonyms

• musicianer (slang)

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:musician
• instrumentalist
• conductor
• musicianess
• recording artist
• singer
• singer-songwriter
• songwriter
• composer
• arranger
• vocalist

Derived terms

Derived terms

• musicianer
• musicianess
• musicianship
• muso
• outsider musician
• pop musician
• session musician
• street musician

Translations

person who performs or writes music

• Afrikaans: musikant (af), musikus, musici (af) pl
• Albanian: muzikant (sq) m
• Arabic: مُوسِيقِيّ‎ (ar) m (mūsīqiyy)
• Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: երաժիշտ (hy) (eražišt)
• Asturian: músicu m
• Azerbaijani: musiqiçi
• Basque: musikari
• Belarusian: музы́ка m (muzýka), музыка́нт m (muzykánt)
• Bengali: বাদক (bn) (badok)
• Breton: soner (br) m, sonour m, muzisian m, muziker m
• Bulgarian: музика́нт m (muzikánt)
• Burmese: ဂီတသမား (my) (gita.sa.ma:)
• Catalan: músic (ca) m
• Chechen: музыкант (muzykant)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 音樂家／音乐家 (zh) (yīnyuèjiā)

• Chukchi: эʼйӈэнэӈэткульын (ėʼjṇėnėṇėtkulʹyn)
• Cornish: ilewydh m, ilewydhes f
• Corsican: musicante m or f
• Czech: hudebník (cs) m, muzikant (cs) m
• Danish: musiker (da) c
• Dutch: muzikant (nl) m, muzikante (nl) f, musicus (nl) m or f
• Emilian: please add this translation if you can
• Esperanto: muzikisto (eo)
• Estonian: muusik (et)
• Extremaduran: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: muusikko (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: please add this translation if you can
• French: musicien (fr) m, musicienne (fr) f
• Friulian: please add this translation if you can
• Galician: músico (gl) m, música (gl) f
• Gallo: please add this translation if you can
• Georgian: მუსიკოსი (musiḳosi)
• German: Musiker (de) m, (amateur also) Musikant (de) m, (rare) Tonkünstler (de) m, (humorous) Musikus (de) m
• Greek: μουσικός (el) m or f (mousikós)

  Ancient: μουσικός m (mousikós)

• Greenlandic: nipilersortartoq
• Hebrew: מוּזִיקַאי‎ (he) (muzikai)
• Hindi: संगीतकार (hi) m (saṅgītkār)
• Hungarian: zenész (hu), muzsikus (hu)
• Icelandic: tónlistarmaður (is) m
• Indonesian: musikus (id), pemusik (id)
• Irish: ceoltóir m
• Istriot: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: musicista (it) m or f, musico (it) m
• Japanese: 音楽家 (ja) (おんがくか, ongakuka)
• Javanese: niyógo
• Kalmyk: көгҗмч (kögjmç)
• Kazakh: музыкант (kk) (muzykant)
• Khmer: អ្នកភ្លេង (nĕək phleing), វាទកៈ (km) (viətĕəʼkaʼ) (female)
• Korean: 음악가(音樂家) (ko) (eumakga)
• Kyrgyz: музыкант (ky) (muzıkant)
• Ladin: please add this translation if you can
• Lao: ນັກດົນຕີ (lo) (nak don tī)
• Latin: mūsicus m, mūsica f
• Latvian: mūziķis m
• Ligurian: mûxicante m
• Lithuanian: muzikantas m, muzikas m
• Lombard: musicista (lmo) m
• Luxembourgish: Museker m, Musekerin f
• Macedonian: му́зичар m (múzičar)
• Malay: pemuzik
• Maori: kaiwhakatangi, kai (mi), kaipuoro, kiripuoro
• Middle English: musicien, musiker, synger
• Mon: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: хөгжимчин (mn) (xögžimčin)
• Neapolitan: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: musicien m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: musiker m

  Nynorsk: musikar m

• Old English: dreāmere m
• Pali: vādaka m
• Persian: موزیسین‎ (fa) (muzisian), موزیکان‎ (muzikân) (obsolete), موسیقیدان‎ (fa) (musiqidân)
• Piedmontese: musicista m
• Polish: muzyk (pl) m pers, muzyczka (pl) f
• Portuguese: músico (pt) m
• Romagnol: mușicânt m
• Romanian: muzician (ro) m, muziciană (ro) f
• Russian: музыка́нт (ru) m (muzykánt), музыка́нтка f (muzykántka)
• Sanskrit: वादक (sa) m (vādaka)
• Scots: muisicker, muisician
• Scottish Gaelic: ceòladair m, neach-ciùil m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: музичар m

  Roman: muzičar (sh) m, glazbenik (sh) m (Croatia)

• Slovak: hudobník m, muzikant m
• Slovene: glasbenik (sl) m, glasbenica f
• Sotho: sebini
• Spanish: músico (es) m
• Swahili: mwimbaji (sw), mwanamuziki (sw)
• Swedish: musikant (sv) c, musiker (sv) c
• Tagalog: musiko
• Tajik: мусиқачӣ (musiqačī)
• Tarifit: amedyaz m
• Tetelcingo Nahuatl: mursi̱co
• Thai: นักดนตรี (nák-don-dtrii)
• Turkish: müzisyen (tr)
• Turkmen: sazandar, sazanda
• Ukrainian: музика́нт (uk) m (muzykánt)
• Urdu: موسیقار‎ m (musiqār)
• Uzbek: musiqachi (uz), muzikant (uz)
• Vietnamese: nhạc sĩ (vi)
• Volapük: musigan (vo)
• Welsh: cerddwr (cy) m
• West Frisian: muzikus m or f, muzikant m, muzikante f, muzykman m
• Yiddish: מוזיקער‎ m (muziker)

Middle English

Noun

musician

1. Alternative form of musicien