shoemaker

See also: Shoemaker

English

Etymology

From Middle English scho makere, equivalent to shoe +‎ maker. Compare Dutch schoenmaker, German Schuhmacher, Danish skomager.

Noun

shoemaker (plural shoemakers)

1. A person who makes shoes
2. The threadfish.
3. A fish, Elagatis pinnulatis, the runner.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for shoemaker in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Usage notes

• A person who repairs shoes is a cobbler.

Derived terms

• the shoemaker's children go barefoot

Translations

a person who makes shoes

• Armenian: կոշկակար (hy) (koškakar)
• Asturian: zapateru m
• Basque: zapatari (eu), zapatagin (eu)
• Bulgarian: обуща́р m (obuštár)
• Burmese: ဘိနပ်ချုပ်သမား (bhi.naphkyupsa.ma:)
• Catalan: sabater m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鞋匠 (zh) (xiéjiàng)

• Czech: švec (cs) m
• Danish: skomager (da) c
• Dutch: schoenmaker (nl) m, schoenmaakster f
• Erzya: кемстыця (kemstycja)
• Esperanto: (♂♀) ŝufaristo, (♀) ŝufaristino, (♂♀) ŝuisto, (♀) ŝuistino
• Estonian: kingsepp (et)
• Finnish: suutari (fi)
• French: cordonnier (fr) m, cordonnière (fr) f
• Galician: zapateiro (gl) m
• Georgian: მეწაღე (mec̣aɣe), ფეხსაცმლის მკერავი (pexsacmlis mḳeravi), მეჩექმე (mečekme), ხარაზი (xarazi)
• German: Schuhmacher (de) m, Schuhmacherin f, Schuster (de) m, Schusterin f
• Greek: παπουτσής (el) m (papoutsís), υποδηματοποιός (el) m (ypodimatopoiós), τσαγκάρης (el) m (tsagkáris)
• Hungarian: cipész (hu), suszter (hu)
• Icelandic: skósmiður m
• Irish: gréasaí m
• Japanese: 靴屋 (くつや, kutsuya)
• Khmer: ជាងកាត់ស្បែកជើង (chieng kat sbaek chəəng)

• Lao: ຊ່າງເຮັດເກີບ (sāng het kœ̄p)
• Latin: sutor
• Macedonian: че́влар m (čévlar), кондура́џија m (kondurádžija)
• Neapolitan: scarparo
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skomaker m

  Nynorsk: skomakar m

• Persian: کفشگر‏‎ (kafšgar)
• Polish: szewc (pl) m, szewczyni (pl) f
• Portuguese: sapateiro (pt) m, sapateira (pt) f
• Romanian: pantofar (ro) m, cizmar (ro) m, cizmăriță f (rare)
• Russian: сапо́жник (ru) m (sapóžnik), сапо́жница (ru) f (sapóžnica)
• Scottish Gaelic: greusaiche m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: о̀бућа̄р m (Bosnian, Serbian), посто̀ла̄р m (Croatian)

  Roman: òbućār (sh) m (Bosnian, Serbian), postòlār (sh) m (Croatian)

• Slovene: čevljar m
• Spanish: zapatero (es) m, zapatera (es) f
• Swedish: skomakare (sv) c, skomakerska c
• Telugu: చర్మకారుడు (te) (carmakāruḍu)
• Thai: ช่างทำรองเท้า
• Turkish: ayakkabıcı (tr), başmakçı (tr), pabuççu (tr)
• Vietnamese: thợ đóng giày
• Volapük: (♂♀) jukel (vo), (♂) hijukel, (♀) jijukel
• Westrobothnian: læskar m, skómmar m
• Yiddish: שוסטער‏‎ m (shuster)