percussionist

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English percussion

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)

Proto-Hellenic *-tās

Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)

Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.

Latin -istader.

Old French -istebor.

Middle English -ist

English -ist

English percussionist

From percussion + -ist.

Noun

percussionist (plural percussionists)

1. A trained musician who plays percussion instruments, as opposed to a drummer who lacks formal training.
   • 2025 August 15, Jon Pareles, “10 New Songs You Need to Hear: Khalid, Jay Som, Steve Lacy and More”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 August 2025:

     Since the 1960s, the keyboardist, vibraphonist and percussionist Mulatu Astatke has been a prime mover in Ethio-jazz: unmistakably Ethiopian music that also draws on American jazz, Afro-Caribbean music and more.

Translations

musician

• Armenian: թմբկահար (hy) (tʻmbkahar)
• Catalan: percussionista m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Danish: percussionist c
• Finnish: lyömäsoittaja (fi), perkussionisti (fi)
• French: percussionniste (fr) m or f
• Galician: percusionista (gl)
• German: Perkussionist m, Perkussionistin f, Schlagwerker m, Schlagwerkerin f, Schlagzeuger (de) m, Schlagzeugerin (de) f, Schlagzeugspieler m, Schlagzeugspielerin f
• Hungarian: ütőhangszerművész
• Irish: cnagcheoltóir m
• Japanese: パーカッショニスト (ja) (pākasshonisuto)
• Korean: 퍼커셔니스트 (peokeosyeoniseuteu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: perkusjonist m, slagverker m

  Nynorsk: perkusjonist m, slagverkar m

• Polish: perkusista (pl) m, bębniarz (pl) m (colloquial)
• Russian: уда́рник (ru) m (udárnik), уда́рница (ru) f (udárnica)
• Serbo-Croatian: udaraljkaš (sh) m
• Spanish: percusionista (es) m or f
• Swedish: perkussionist c, slagverkare (sv) c
• Ukrainian: уда́рник m (udárnyk), уда́рниця f (udárnycja)