labour, especially of a manual type · trade (skilled practice) · something made by hand, handcraft
çekim: çoğul Handwerke · tamlayan Handwerkes
eş: Tätigkeit
köken: From Middle High German hantwerc, from Old High German hantwerc, hantwerch, from Proto-Germanic *handuwerką; equivalent to Hand + Werk. More at handiwork.
köken: Inherited from Old French mestier, inherited from Vulgar Latin *misterium, a syncopated form of ministerium (whence French ministère). Compare Portuguese mister, also mester, Italian mestiere, Spanish and Catalan menester.
aile: arts et métiers, avoir du métier, c'est le métier qui rentre, corps de métier, ficelles du métier, il n'y a pas de sot métier, métier à tisser, métier de bouche, plus vieux métier du monde
eş: arte, attività, lavoro, occupazione, professione, abilità
köken: From an older *mistiere, *ministerie, from Latin ministerium (“service”), from minister (“servant”), whence also ministro. Compare French métier.
a particular kind of skilled work, a practical occupation; trade, craft · profession, occupation, specialty
çekim: çoğul һөнәрҙәр · tamlayan һөнәрҙең
köken: From Persian هنر (honar, “skill; art”). Cognate with Kazakh өнер (öner), Kyrgyz өнөр (önör), Uzbek hunar, Uyghur ھۇنەر (huner), Azerbaijani hünər, Turkish hüner (“skill; art”).
a guild, feudal professional corporation with a legal status and privileges · name of certain modern societies
çekim: çoğul gilden
köken: From Middle Dutch gilde, ghilde, gulde, from Old Dutch *gilda, from Proto-West Germanic *geldan (“to pay”), from Proto-Germanic *geldaną (“to pay”).
handicraft, craft · craft (that deals less with physical artifacts, for example writing) · craftsmanship (when more idiomatic as a translation, in either sense above)
çekim: çoğul hantverks · tamlayan hantverks
köken: From Middle Low German hantwerk from Proto-Germanic *handuwerką; equivalent to hand (“hand”) + verk (“work”). Cognate with Dutch handwerk, German Handwerk, English handwork.
trade (skilled practice of an occupation) · synonym of przęsło
çekim: çoğul fachy · tamlayan fachu
köken: Borrowed from German Fach, whence also Kashubian fach and Silesian fach. Ultimately (via Proto-Germanic *faką) from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-. Sense 2 is a semantic loan from German Fachwerk.
köken: Borrowed from Middle Low German ambacht or its source Old Saxon ambaht, from Proto-Germanic *ambahtaz (compare Old High German ambahti, ambaht (“service”), Old Saxon ambaht (“service”)), from Gaulish ambaxtos, from Proto-Celtic *ambaxtos.
köken: Appears around 19th century, from the verb meseri (“to be poor, live in poverty, want”), from meser (from Latin miser), both obsolete. Current meaning acquired perhaps through the aspect of need or want being fulfilled.