tailor

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• General-American: /ˈteɪlɚ/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈteɪlə/
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• homophone: tailer
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• rhymes with -eɪlə(ɹ)
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• CMU ARPABET: T EY1 L ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From tailor. Doublet of Taylor.

Etymology tree Latin tālea Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh2yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h2tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Late Latin tāliō Old French taillierder. Old French tailleorder. Anglo-Norman taillourbor. Middle English taillour English tailor Inherited from Middle English taillour, from Anglo-Norman taillour, from Old French tailleor, from taillier, from Late Latin tāliō, from Latin tālea (“a cutting”). Doublet of tailleur. Compare typologically German Schneider (akin to English snithe); Macedonian кројач (krojač), Polish krawiec (akin to Proto-Slavic *krojiti).

253 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: rrobaqepës — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Albanian: rrobaqepëse — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Albanian: arnues — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Albanian: arnuese — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Arabic: خَيَّاط (ḵayyāṭ) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Arabic: خَيَّاطَة (ḵayyāṭa) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Arabic: تَرْزِي (tarzī) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Arabic: تَرْزِيَّة (tarziyya) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Arabic: خياط (ḵayyāṭ) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Arabic: ترزي (tarzī) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Arabic: خَيَّاط (ḵayyāṭ) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Juba Arabic: terezi — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Armenian: դերձակ (derjak) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Assamese: দৰ্জী (dorzi) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Asturian: xastre — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Asturian: sastre — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Asturian: alfayate — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Azerbaijani: dərzi — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Azerbaijani: biçər — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Azerbaijani: tikişçi — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Bashkir: тегенсе (tegense) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Basque: jostun — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Belarusian: краве́ц (kravjéc) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Belarusian: краўчы́ха (krawčýxa) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Bengali: দর্জি (dorji) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Bengali: দরজী (dorji) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Bengali: দরজি (dorji) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Breton: kemener — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Bulgarian: шива́ч (šiváč) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Bulgarian: шива́чка (šiváčka) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Burmese: အပ်ချုပ်သမား (aphkyupsa.ma:) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Carpathian Rusyn: крайчир (krajčyr) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Catalan: sastre — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Catalan: sastressa — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Chechen: тегархо (tegarxo) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Chinese Cantonese: 裁縫 /裁缝 — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Chinese Mandarin: 裁縫 /裁缝 (cáifeng) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Chinese Mandarin: 裁縫師傅 /裁缝师傅 (cáifeng shīfu) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Cornish: tregher — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Czech: krejčí — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Czech: krejčíř — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Danish: skrædder — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Danish: skrædderske — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Dutch: kleermaker — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Dutch: kleermaakster — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Esperanto: tajloro — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Esperanto: virtajloro — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Esperanto: tajlorino — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Estonian: rätsep — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Faroese: skraddari — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Finnish: räätäli — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Finnish: vaatturi — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• French: tailleur — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• French: tailleuse — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Galician: xastre — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Galician: alfaiate — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Georgian: მკერავი (mḳeravi) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Georgian: თერძი (terʒi) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• German: Schneider — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• German: Schneiderin — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Greek: ράπτης (ráptis) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Greek: ράφτης (ráftis) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Greek: μόδιστρος m μοδίστρα (módistros) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Ancient Greek: ῥαφιδεύς (rhaphideús) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Gujarati: દરજી (darjī) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Hebrew: חַיָּט (khayát) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Hindi: दर्ज़ी (darzī) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Hungarian: szabó — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Icelandic: klæðskeri — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Icelandic: skraddari — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Indonesian: penjahit — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Ingrian: ompelija — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Irish: táilliúir — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Middle Irish: táilliúr — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Italian: sarto — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Italian: sarta — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Japanese: 仕立て屋 (shitateya) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Japanese: テーラー (tērā) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Kazakh: тігінші (tıgınşı) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Khmer: ជាងកាត់ខោអាវ (ciəng kat khao ʼaaw) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Korean: 재단사 (jaedansa) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Northern Kurdish: xeyat — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Northern Kurdish: terzî — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Kyrgyz: тикмечи (tikmeci) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Kyrgyz: машинечи (maşineci) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Ladino: שאסטרי — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Ladino: shastre — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Lao: ຊ່າງຕັດເຄື່ອງຜູ້ຊາຍ (sāng tat khư̄ang phū sāi) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Latin: sartor — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Latin: sartrīx — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Latin: scissor — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Latin: vestitor — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Latin: vestificus — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Latvian: drēbnieks — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Latvian: šuvējs — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Lithuanian: siuvėjas — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Lithuanian: siuvėja — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Livonian: skrūodõr — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Low German: Snieder — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Low German: Sniederin — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Low German: Sniedersch — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Low German: Sniedersche — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Macedonian: кро́јач (krójač) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Macedonian: кро́јачка (krójačka) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Macedonian: шнајдер (šnajder) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Macedonian: терзија (terzija) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Malagasy: mpanjaitra — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Malay: tukang jahit — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Maltese: ħajjat — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Maltese: ħajjata — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Manchu: ᡮᠠᡳᡶᡠᠩ (ts'aifung) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Manx: thalhear — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Māori: kaitui — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Mongolian: үйлчин (üjlčin) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Norman: couôtuthyi — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Norman: couôtuthiéthe — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Norwegian Bokmål: skredder — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Norwegian Bokmål: skredderske — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Norwegian Nynorsk: skreddar — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Occitan: sartre — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Occitan: sastre — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Old East Slavic: шьвьць (šĭvĭcĭ) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Old English: sēamere — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Old English: sēamestre — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Old Leonese: alfayat — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Old Norse: skraddari — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Pannonian Rusyn: скравец (skravec) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Pannonian Rusyn: шнайдер (šnajder) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Pannonian Rusyn: сабол (sabol) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Pashto: خياط (xayāt) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Iranian Persian: دَرْزی (darzi) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Iranian Persian: خَیَّاط (xayyât) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Iranian Persian: دوزَنْدِه (dozande) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Piedmontese: sartor — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Plautdietsch: Schnieda — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Polish: krawiec — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Polish: krawcowa — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Polish: krawczyni — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Portuguese: alfaiate — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Punjabi: ਦਰਜ਼ੀ (darzī) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Punjabi: ਦਰਜ਼ਣ (darzaṇ) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Romanian: croitor — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Romanian: croitoreasă — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Russian: портно́й (portnój) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Russian: портни́ха (portníxa) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Russian: швец (švec) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Russian: швея́ (švejá) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Scottish Gaelic: tàillear — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Serbo-Croatian: кро̀ја̄ч — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Serbo-Croatian: кроја̀чица — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Serbo-Croatian: kròjāč — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Serbo-Croatian: krojàčica — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Slovak: krajčír — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Slovak: krajčírka — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Slovene: krojáč — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Slovene: krojáčica — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Southern Altai: кийим кӧктӧӧр ус (kiyim köktöör us) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Spanish: sastre — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Spanish: modisto — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Spanish: modista — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Spanish: costurero — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Spanish: alfayate — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Swahili: mshonaji — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Swedish: skräddare — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Swedish: skrädderska — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Tagalog: mananahi — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Tagalog: sastre — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Tajik: либосдӯз (libosdüz) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Tajik: дарзӣ (darzi) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Tajik: дӯзанда (düzanda) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Tajik: хайёт (xayyot) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Tajik: мошиначӣ (mošinači) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Tamil: தையற்கலைஞர் (taiyaṟkalaiñar) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Tatar: тегүче (tegüçe) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Telugu: దర్జీ (darjī) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Thai: ช่างตัดเสื้อ (châang-dtàt-sʉ̂ʉa) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Tok Pisin: man bilong samapim klos — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Turkish: terzi — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Turkish: dikici — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Turkish: dikişçi — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Ottoman Turkish: ترزی (terzi) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Ottoman Turkish: دیكیشجی (dikişci) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Turkmen: tikinçi — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Ukrainian: краве́ць (kravécʹ) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Ukrainian: кравчи́ня (kravčýnja) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Urdu: دَرْزی (darzī) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Urdu: خَیَّاط (xayyāt) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Uyghur: تىكىمچى (tikimchi) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Uzbek: mashinachi — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Uzbek: tikuvchi — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Vietnamese: thợ may — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Volapük: skrädan — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Volapük: hiskrädan — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Volapük: jiskrädan — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Welsh: teiliwr — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Yiddish: שנײַדער (shnayder) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Yiddish: שנײַדערקע (shnayderke) — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Yoruba: aránṣọ — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Yoruba: télọ̀ — person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
• Hungarian: szabónő — female tailor
• Polish: krawcowa — female tailor
• Polish: krawczyni — female tailor
• Tok Pisin: meri bilong samapim klos — female tailor
• Bulgarian: шия (šija) — make, repair, or alter clothing
• Chinese Cantonese: 度身訂造 /度身订造 — make, repair, or alter clothing
• Chinese Mandarin: 量身定做 — make, repair, or alter clothing
• Dutch: kleermaken — make, repair, or alter clothing
• Dutch: op maat maken — make, repair, or alter clothing
• Finnish: räätälöidä — make, repair, or alter clothing
• Finnish: korjailla — make, repair, or alter clothing
• Georgian: გაკერავს (gaḳeravs) — make, repair, or alter clothing
• German: schneidern — make, repair, or alter clothing
• Macedonian: крои (kroi) — make, repair, or alter clothing
• Malay: jahit — make, repair, or alter clothing
• Polish: szyć — make, repair, or alter clothing
• Portuguese: alfaiatar — make, repair, or alter clothing
• Romanian: croi — make, repair, or alter clothing
• Russian: шить (šitʹ) — make, repair, or alter clothing
• Serbo-Croatian: кројити — make, repair, or alter clothing
• Serbo-Croatian: krojiti — make, repair, or alter clothing
• Slovene: krojiti — make, repair, or alter clothing
• Spanish: confeccionar — make, repair, or alter clothing
• Dutch: afstemmen — adapt for a specific need
• Finnish: räätälöidä — adapt for a specific need
• Italian: calibrare — adapt for a specific need
• Norwegian: skredde — adapt for a specific need
• Polish: dopasowywać — adapt for a specific need
• Polish: dopasować — adapt for a specific need
• Romanian: adapta — adapt for a specific need
• Spanish: entallar — adapt for a specific need
• Spanish: cohonestar — adapt for a specific need
• Spanish: aportar — adapt for a specific need
• Dutch: aanpassen — restrict something to particular need
• Dutch: afstemmen — restrict something to particular need
• Finnish: räätälöidä — restrict something to particular need
• French: adapter — restrict something to particular need
• German: zuschneiden — restrict something to particular need
• German: anpassen — restrict something to particular need
• Macedonian: скројува (skrojuva) — restrict something to particular need
• Polish: dopasowywać — restrict something to particular need
• Polish: dopasować — restrict something to particular need
• Portuguese: adaptar — restrict something to particular need
• Portuguese: ajustar — restrict something to particular need
• Romanian: adapta — restrict something to particular need
• Russian: приспоса́бливать (prisposáblivatʹ) — restrict something to particular need
• Serbo-Croatian: укројити — restrict something to particular need
• Serbo-Croatian: кројити — restrict something to particular need
• Serbo-Croatian: ukrojiti — restrict something to particular need
• Serbo-Croatian: krojiti — restrict something to particular need
• Slovene: ukrojiti — restrict something to particular need
• Spanish: entallar — restrict something to particular need
• Swedish: skräddarsy — restrict something to particular need
• Swedish: anpassa — restrict something to particular need