shoemaker

English

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Etymology

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

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 (koškakar)
• Asturian: zapateru m
• Basque: zapatari (eu), zapatagin (eu)
• Bulgarian: обущар m (obuštár)
• Burmese: ဘိနပ်ချုပ်သမား
• Catalan: sabater m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鞋匠 (zh) (xiéjiàng)

• Czech: švec (cs) m
• Danish: skomager c
• Dutch: schoenmaker (nl) m, schoenmaakster f
• Esperanto: (♂♀) ŝufaristo, (♀) ŝufaristino, (♂♀) ŝuisto, (♀) ŝuistino
• Estonian: kingsepp
• Finnish: suutari (fi)
• French: cordonnier (fr) m, cordonnière (fr) f
• Galician: zapateiro (gl) m
• 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)
• Japanese: 靴屋 (くつや, kutsuya)
• Khmer: ជាងកាត់ស្បែកជើង (chieng kat sbaek chəəng)
• Lao: ຊ່າງເຮັດເກີບ
• Latin: sutor

• Macedonian: чевлар m (čévlar), кондураџија m (kondurádžija)
• Neapolitan: scarparo
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skomaker m

  Nynorsk: skomakar m

• Persian: کفشگر (kafšgar)
• Polish: szewc (pl) m
• Portuguese: sapateiro (pt) m, sapateira (pt) f
• Romanian: pantofar (ro) m
• Russian: сапожник (ru) m (sapóžnik), сапожница f (sapóžnica)
• Scottish Gaelic: greusaiche m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: обућар m (Bosnian, Serbian), постолар m (Croatian)

  Roman: obućar m (Bosnian, Serbian), postolar m (Croatian)

• 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
• Yiddish: שוסטער m (shuster)