tirador

Catalan

Etymology

From tirar +‎ -dor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ti.ɾəˈðo]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ti.ɾaˈðoɾ]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Noun

tirador m (plural tiradors, feminine tiradora, feminine plural tiradores)

1. shooter
2. (sports) fencer

   Synonym: esgrimidor

3. (sports) striker, shooter

   Synonym: xutador

4. slingshot (US), catapult (UK)
5. handle, knob (of a door, drawer, etc.)

Derived terms

• franctirador

Further reading

• “tirador”, 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

Cebuano

Etymology

From tira +‎ -dor

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiɾaˈdoɾ/ [t̪ɪ.ɾ̪ɐˈd̪oɾ̪]
• Hyphenation: ti‧ra‧dor

Noun

tiradór

1. slingshot
2. (biblical) sling
3. shooter (someone who shoots something, especially with a gun)
4. hitman; contract killer
5. gunman

Verb

tiradór

1. to shoot something or someone with a slingshot or sling

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:tirador.

Central Bikol

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tirador.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiɾaˈdoɾ/ [ti.ɾaˈd̪oɾ]
• Hyphenation: ti‧ra‧dor

Noun

tiradór (Basahan spelling ᜆᜒᜍᜇᜓᜍ᜔)

1. slingshot
2. hitman, assassin

   Synonym: paragadan

Galician

Etymology

Attested since the 15th century. From tirar (“to shoot; to pull”) +‎ -dor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiɾaˈdoɾ/ [t̪i.ɾaˈð̞oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Hyphenation: ti‧ra‧dor

Noun

tirador m (plural tiradores)

1. shooter
   • c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 95:

     Sagitario que quer dizer tanto cõmo [aseetador] ou tirador de séétas

     Sagitario, which means "arrower" or arrow shooter

2. door handle
3. rafter

   Synonym: cango

4. (archaic, business) tenderer
5. slingshot

   Synonym: lanzapedras

Related terms

• tirar

References

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “tirador”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “tirador”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “tirador”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “tirador”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiɾaˈdoɾ/ [t̪i.ɾaˈð̞oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: ti‧ra‧dor

Noun

tirador m (plural tiradores, feminine tiradora, feminine plural tiradoras)

1. shooter, rifleman

Derived terms

• francotirador
• tirador en primera persona

Related terms

• tirar

Noun

tirador m (plural tiradores)

1. door handle

   Synonyms: manilla, manija, pomo, perilla

Further reading

• “tirador”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• tilador

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tirador. By surface analysis, tira +‎ -dor.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /tiɾaˈdoɾ/ [t̪ɪ.ɾɐˈd̪oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: ti‧ra‧dor

Noun

tiradór (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜒᜇᜇᜓᜇ᜔)

1. slingshot

   Synonyms: saltik, (Batangas, Marinduque) paltik, (western Marinduque) palapatik

2. hitman; contract killer
3. gunman; shooter

Derived terms

• manirador
• tiradurin
• tumirador

Anagrams

• traidor