wrestler

English

Etymology

From Middle English wrastlere, equivalent to wrestle +‎ -er.

Noun

wrestler (plural wrestlers)

1. (wrestling) A person who wrestles.
   • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 231c.

     it isn't easy to avoid all the wrestler´s holds.

Translations

person who wrestles

• Armenian: ըմբիշ (hy) (əmbiš), (dialectal) փահլևան (pʿahlewan)
• Azerbaijani: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: lluitador (ca) m, lluitadora (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 摔跤選手, 摔跤选手 (shuāijiāo xuǎnshǒu), 摔角手 (shuāijiǎoshǒu), 摔跤手 (zh), 摔跤手 (zh) (shuāijiāoshǒu), 摔角者 (shuāijiǎozhě)

• Chuvash: кĕрешӳçĕ (kĕrešüçĕ)
• Czech: zápasník (cs) m
• Dutch: worstelaar (nl) m
• Estonian: maadleja
• Finnish: painija (fi)
• French: lutteur (fr)
• Friulian: lotadôr m
• Georgian: მოჭიდავე (moč̣idave)
• German: Ringer (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: παλαιστής m (palaistḗs)

• Hungarian: birkózó (hu)
• Italian: lottatore (it) m
• Japanese: レスラー (ja) (resurā)
• Kazakh: күресуші (küreswşi)

• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: luctātor m
• Norman: litteux m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bryter (no) m

  Nynorsk: brytar m

• Persian: کشتی‌گیر‎ (košti-gir)
• Polish: zapaśnik (pl) m, zapaśniczka f
• Portuguese: lutador (pt)
• Romanian: luptător (ro)
• Russian: боре́ц (ru) m (boréc)
• Serbo-Croatian: rvač (sh) m
• Sicilian: luttaturi m
• Spanish: luchador (es)
• Tagalog: mambubuno
• Tatar: көрәшүче (köräşüçe)
• Telugu: మల్లుడు (te) (malluḍu)
• Thai: นักมวยปล้ำ (nák-muai-bplâm)
• Turkish: güreşçi (tr), pehlivan (tr)
• Uyghur: چېلىشچى‎ (chëlishchi)
• Vietnamese: đô vật (vi)

References

• Wrestler. Macmillan Dictionary. Access date: 29 October 2011. [1]