technician

English

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English technic

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Italic *-nos

Latin -nus

Latin -ānus

Latin -iānusbor.

English -ian

English technician

From technic + -ian.

Pronunciation

enPR: tĕk-nĭsh'ən, IPA^(key): /tɛkˈnɪʃən/
Audio (Southern England): (file)

Noun

technician (plural technicians)

A person who studies or practises technology; an expert in a particular technology.
Synonyms: tech (clipping), techie, technologist (often synonymous)

Antonym: Luddite

Coordinate terms: engineer, mechanic

The lift technician found the reason the lift wasn't working.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

→ Amharic: ቴክኒሺያን (teknišiyan)

Translations

occupation

Albanian: teknik (sq) m
Amharic: ቴክኒሺያን m or f (teknišiyan)
Arabic: تِقْنِيّ m (tiqniyy), فَنِّيّ m (fanniyy)
Armenian: տեխնիկ (hy) (texnik)
Azerbaijani: texnik
Basque: teknikari (eu)
Belarusian: тэ́хнік m (téxnik)
Bengali: যন্ত্রবিৎ (bn) (jontrobit)
Bulgarian: техни́к (bg) m (tehník), техни́чка f (tehníčka)
Catalan: tècnic m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 技術員 / 技术员 (zh) (jìshùyuán)
Czech: technik (cs) m, technička f
Danish: tekniker c
Dutch: technicus (nl) m, (regional) technieker (nl) m
Esperanto: teĥnikisto, teknikisto
Estonian: tehnik
Finnish: teknikko (fi)
French: technicien (fr) m, technicienne (fr) f
Georgian: ტექნიკოსი (ṭekniḳosi)
German: Techniker (de) m, Technikerin (de) f
Greek: τεχνικός (el) c (technikós)
Hebrew: טֶכְנַאי (he) m (tekhnaí)
Hindi: तकनीशियन m (taknīśiyan), यंत्रविद् m (yantravid)
Hungarian: műszerész (hu), technikus (hu), laboráns (hu), (mechanic in general): szerelő (hu)
Indonesian: teknisi (id)
Irish: teicneoir m
Italian: tecnico (it) m
Japanese: 技術者 (ja) (ぎじゅつしゃ, gijutsu-sha), テクニシャン (tekunishan)
Kazakh: техник (texnik)
Khmer: អ្នកបច្ចេកទេស (nĕək pacceekaʼteih)
Korean: 기술자 (ko) (gisulja), 엔진이어 (enjinieo)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: teknîker m
Kyrgyz: техник (ky) (tehnik)
Lao: ນາຍຊ່າງ (nāi sāng)
Latvian: tehniķis m, tehniķe f
Lithuanian: technikas m, technikė f
Macedonian: техничар m (tehničar), техничарка f (tehničarka)
Malay: juruteknik (ms)
Maltese: teknixin m
Māori: kaihangarau, ringapū
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: техникч (mn) (texnikč)

Mongolian script: ᠲ᠋ᠧᠻᠨᠢᠭᠴᠢ (tēkniɣči)
Norman: technicien m, technicienne f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: tekniker m
Pashto: ټکنيشن m (ṭaknešán)
Persian: تکنیسین (fa) (teknisyan)
Polish: technik (pl) m, techniczka f
Portuguese: técnico (pt) m
Romanian: tehnician (ro) m, tehniciană (ro) f
Russian: те́хник (ru) m (téxnik)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: тѐхнича̄р m

Latin: tèhničār (sh) m
Slovak: technik m, technička f
Slovene: tehnik (sl) m, tehnica f
Spanish: técnico (es) m
Swedish: tekniker (sv) c
Tajik: техник (texnik)
Thai: ช่างเทคนิค (châang-ték-nìk)
Turkish: teknisyen (tr)
Turkmen: tehnik
Ukrainian: те́хнік m (téxnik)
Urdu: ٹیکنیشن (ur) m (taknīśiyan)
Uyghur: تېخنىك (tëxnik)
Uzbek: texnik (uz)
Vietnamese: nhà kỹ thuật, kĩ thuật viên (vi)
Welsh: technegwr m, technegydd m
Yiddish: טעכניקער m (tekhniker)