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”).
handcraft, artisanry · a feudal corporation of craftsmen from one (group of) artisanal profession(s) · legal district
çekim: çoğul ambachten
köken: From Middle Dutch ambacht, from Old Dutch ambaht, from Proto-Germanic *ambahtaz, from Gaulish ambaxtos, from Proto-Celtic *ambaxtos. The same source has led to the form ambt. Cognate with German Amt.
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.
underlay, base, under- (anything underlaid) · the space under(neath) something · vessel, craft, ship (vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space)
çekim: çoğul alukset · tamlayan aluksen
zıt: päällys, pääly-
köken: From Proto-Finnic *alus. Equivalent to ala- (“under”) + -us.
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.
köken: From Proto-Italic *artis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂r̥tís (“fitting”), from the root *h₂er- (“to join”). Cognates include Avestan 𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬙𐬀 (ər^əta, “truth, right”), which in turn descends from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hr̥tás, and Ancient Greek ἄρτι (árti, “just, exactly”). Related to arma.
aile: ars gratia artis, artista, artifex, iners, sollers
craft, art (skilled practice) · profession · occupation, exercise
çekim: çoğul заная́ти
köken: From an earlier занят (zanjat) (19 cent.), borrowed from Ottoman Turkish صنعت (sanat, zanat). Cognate with Turkish sanat. The modern form is reanalyzed as if from Old Church Slavonic за(н)ѩти (za(n)jęti, “to occupy, to take part in”) (cf. Bulgarian занятие (zanjatie, “occupation”), занимание (zanimanie, “exercise, occupation”)).
From Middle High German hantwerc, from Old High German hantwerc, hantwerch, from Proto-Germanic *handuwerką; equivalent to Hand + Werk. More at handiwork.