archer

See also: Archer

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɑː(ɹ).t͡ʃə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɑɹt͡ʃɚ/
• Homophone: Archer
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t͡ʃə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

from Middle English archer, archere, from Old French archier, from Vulgar Latin *arcārius, alteration of arcuārius, from Latin arcus (“bow”). Displaced native Old English sċytta.

Noun

archer (plural archers)

1. One who shoots an arrow from a bow or a bolt from a crossbow.

   Synonyms: bowman, crossbowman, marksman, toxophilite, toxotes

2. (historical, obsolete) The bishop in chess.

Derived terms

• archeress
• archerfish
• archership
• archery
• horse archer

 

Translations

one who shoots an arrow from a bow or a bolt from a crossbow

Afrikaans: boogskutter (af) Albanian: shigjetar (sq) m Arabic: (indefinite) رَامٍ m (rāmin), (definite) الرَّامِي m (ar-rāmī) Armenian: նետաձիգ (hy) (netajig) Asturian: arqueru m Belarusian: лу́чнік m (lúčnik), лу́чніца f (lúčnica) Catalan: arquer (ca) m Chinese: Hokkien: 射手 (siā-chhiú) Mandarin: 射手 (zh) (shèshǒu), 弓箭手 (zh) (gōngjiànshǒu) Coptic: ⲣⲉϥⲛⲉϫⲥⲁϯ m (refnečsati) Czech: lučištník (cs) m, lukostřelec m Danish: bueskytte c Dutch: boogschutter (nl) m Dzongkha: please add this translation if you can Egyptian: (pḏtj) Esperanto: arkpafisto, arbalestisto Estonian: vibukütt Ewe: aŋutrɔdala n Finnish: jousiampuja (fi), jousimies (fi) French: archer (fr) m, arbalétrier (fr) m Galician: arqueiro (gl) m, seteiro m Georgian: გშვილდოსამი (gšvildosami) German: Bogenschütze (de) m Greek: τοξότης (el) m (toxótis) Ancient: τοξότης m (toxótēs) Hebrew: קַשָּׁת (he) m (kashshat) Hungarian: íjász (hu) Icelandic: bogmaður (is) m Indonesian: pemanah (id) Italian: arciere (it) m Japanese: 射手 (ja) (しゃしゅ, shashu), 射手 (ja) (いて, ite) Kazakh: садақшы (sadaqşy) Khmer: ធនុហត្ថ (thĕəʼnuʼ hat) Korean: 사수(射手) (ko) (sasu) Latin: arcarius m, sagittarius m Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: kìlpininkas m Macedonian: стрелец m (strelec), стреличар m (streličar) Malay: pemanah (ms) Manx: bowder m, boweyder m, sideyr m Maori: kaikōpere Marathi: धनुर्धर m (dhanurdhar), धनुर्धारी m (dhanurdhārī), तिरंदाज m (tirandāj) Mari: Eastern Mari: пикш дене лӱйышӧ (pikš deńe lüjyšö) Mongolian: Cyrillic: харваач (mn) (xarvaač) Norwegian: Bokmål: bueskytter m Nynorsk: bogeskyttar m Occitan: arquièr (oc) m Ojibwe: mitigwaabinini Old English: sċytta m Old Portuguese: arqueiro Persian: کماندار (fa) (kamândâr), کمانور (kamânvar), تیرانداز (fa) (tir-andâz) Polish: łucznik (pl) m, łuczniczka (pl) f Portuguese: arqueiro (pt) m Romagnol: arcér m Romanian: arcaș (ro) m, săgetător (ro) m Russian: лу́чник (ru) m (lúčnik), лу́чница (ru) f (lúčnica), стрело́к из лу́ка m (strelók iz lúka) Scottish Gaelic: boghadair m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: лукострелац, стре́лац m, стрѐлича̄р m Roman: lukostrelac, strélac (sh), strèličār (sh) Sicilian: arceri (scn) m Slovak: lukostrelec m Slovene: lokostrelec m Spanish: arquero (es) m Swedish: bågskytt (sv) c Tagalog: mamamana Telugu: విలుకాడు (te) (vilukāḍu) Thai: นักยิงธนู (nák-ying-tá-nuu) Tibetan: དཔག་ཆེན (dpag chen), མདའ་མཁན (mda' mkhan), མདའ་རྒྱབ་མཁན (mda' rgyab mkhan), མདའ་བསྣུན (mda' bsnun), མདའ་པ (mda' pa), མདའ་ཚན་ཆེན་པོ (mda' tshan chen po), འཕོང་སྐྱེན་པ ('phong skyen pa), འཕོང་མཁན ('phong mkhan) Turkish: okçu (tr), kemankeş (tr) sg Tuvan: адыгжы (adıgjı) Ugaritic: 𐎖𐎌𐎚 (qšt) Ukrainian: лу́чник m (lúčnyk), лу́чниця f (lúčnycja) Vietnamese: xạ thủ (vi) (射手) Walloon: airtchî (wa) m Welsh: saethydd m, saethyddion pl Yiddish: בויגן־שיסער m (boygn-shiser), פֿײַלן־בויגער m (fayln-boyger) Zazaki: timkar c

See also

• arrow
• bow
• quiver
• Sagittarius
• sagittary

Etymology 2

Adjective

archer

1. comparative form of arch: more arch

Anagrams

• charre

French

Etymology

From arche, a variant of arc (“bow”) + -er, or from Middle French archier, from Old French archier, from Vulgar Latin *arcārius, alteration of arcuārius, from Latin arcus (“bow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aʁ.ʃe/

• Audio:

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Noun

archer m (plural archers, feminine archère)

1. archer

   Hyponym: arbalétrier

Derived terms

• archer cracheur
• poisson archer

 

Related terms

• arc
• archerie

 

Further reading

• “archer” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
• “archer” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
• “archer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Scots

Noun

archer (plural archers)

1. Alternative form of aircher

References

• “archer, n.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.