diver
English
Etymology
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-West Germanic *-ārī English diver From dive + -er.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdaɪ̯və(ɹ)/
- Rhymes: -aɪvə(ɹ)
Noun
diver (plural divers)
- Someone who dives, especially as a sport.
- Synonym: (obsolete) urinator
1979 August 25, “Body Found Near the Fenway”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 6, page 2:A passerby noticed the man's body protruding from the water at about 9 p.m. and Boston and Metropolitan police divers were called to the scene.
- Someone who works underwater; a frogman.
- (UK, Ireland) loon (Gavia)
- The New Zealand sand diver.
- The long-finned sand diver.
- (London, dated) A passenger carrying vehicle using an underground route; specially, a diver tram, one using the former Kingsway tramway subway (1906-1952).
- (slang, obsolete) A pickpocket.
- (sports) A competitor in certain sports who is known to regularly imitate being fouled, with the purpose of getting his/her opponent penalised.
Derived terms
Translations
underwater
- Arabic: غَطَّاسٌ m (ḡaṭṭāsun), غَوَّاصٌ m (ḡawwāṣun)
- Armenian: ջրասուզակ (hy) (ǰrasuzak)
- Assamese: ডুবাৰু (dubaru)
- Azerbaijani: dalğıc (az)
- Bulgarian: гмуркач m (gmurkač)
- Catalan: bus (ca) m or f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 潛水員 / 潜水员 (zh) (qiánshuǐyuán)
- Czech: potápěč (cs) m, potápěčka f
- Danish: dykker (da) c
- Dutch: duiker (nl) m, duikster (nl) f
- Esperanto: plonĝanto, plonĝantino (female), plonĝisto, plonĝistino (female), subakvisto, subakvistino (female)
- Estonian: sukelduja
- Faroese: kavari m
- Finnish: sukeltaja (fi)
- French: plongeur (fr) m, plongeuse (fr) f
- Galician: mergullador (gl) m, mergulladora f
- German: Taucher (de) m, Taucherin (de) f (underwater)
- Greek: δύτης (el) m (dýtis)
- Hebrew: צוֹלֵל (he) m (tolel)
- Hindi: ग़ोताख़ोर m (ġotāxor), गोताखोर (hi) m (gotākhor)
- Hungarian: búvár (hu)
- Icelandic: kafari (is) m
- Italian: tuffatore (it) m, tuffatrice (it) f, tuffista m or f, palombaro (it) m, palombara (it) f, sommozzatore (it) m, sommozzatrice (it) f
- Japanese: 潜水夫 (ja) (せんすいふ, sensuifu), 潜り (ja) (もぐり, moguri), ダイバー (ja) (daibā)
- Kalmyk: булхач (bulxaç)
- Korean: 잠수부(潜水夫) (ko) (jamsubu) (underwater), 다이버 (daibeo)
- Latin: ūrīnātor m, ūrīnātrīx f
- Luxembourgish: Daucher m
- Macedonian: нуркач m (nurkač)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: stuper m (in sport), dykker m (underwater)
- Nynorsk: stupar m (in sport), dukkar m, dykkar (nn) m (underwater)
- Polish: nurek (pl) m
- Portuguese: mergulhador (pt) m, mergulhadora f
- Romanian: scufundător (ro) m, scafandru (ro) m, scafandrier (ro) m
- Russian: ныря́льщик (ru) m (nyrjálʹščik), ныря́льщица (ru) f (nyrjálʹščica), водола́з (ru) m (vodoláz), водола́зка (ru) f (vodolázka)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ро̀нилац m, гњу́рац m
- Latin: rònilac (sh) m, gnjúrac (sh) m
- Spanish: buzo (es) m or f, submarinista (es) m or f, buceador (es) m, búzano m, escafandrista m or f
- Swedish: dykare (sv) c
- Tagalog: maninisid
- Thai: นักกระโดดน้ำ (nák-grà-dòot-náam)
- Turkish: dalgıç (tr)
- Ottoman Turkish: طالغج (dalgıc)
- Turkmen: guwwas
- Ukrainian: водола́з m (vodoláz), норе́ць m (norécʹ)
- Vietnamese: thợ lặn (vi)
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someone who works underwater
- Armenian: ջրասուզակ (hy) (ǰrasuzak)
- Bulgarian: водолаз (bg) m (vodolaz)
- Catalan: bus (ca) m or f, bussejador m, bussejadora f
- Esperanto: subakvisto, subakvistino (female), plonĝisto, plonĝistino (female)
- Estonian: tuuker
- Finnish: sukeltaja (fi)
- Galician: mergullador (gl) m, mergulladora f
- Hebrew: אָמוֹדַאי (he) m (amodai), צוֹלֵל (he) m (tsolel)
- Hindi: ग़ोताख़ोर m (ġotāxor), गोताखोर (hi) m (gotākhor)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: dykker m
- Nynorsk: dukkar m, dykkar (nn) m
- Russian: водола́з (ru) m (vodoláz), водола́зка (ru) f (vodolázka)
- Spanish: somorgujador m
- Turkish:
- Ottoman Turkish: طالغج (dalgıc)
- Vietnamese: thợ lặn (vi)
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sports: player who pretends fouls See also
References
- (pickpocket): John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary
Anagrams
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *děverь.
Noun
dȉver m anim (Cyrillic spelling ди̏вер)
- (Chakavian, Ikavian) brother-in-law (one's husband's brother)
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