carpenter · master carpenter · carpenter associated with the 木工寮 (Mokkō-ryō, “Bureau of Woodworking”) who worked on governmental construction and maintenance projects
carpenter (person skilled at carpentry, the trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other large structures) · man with the ax (nickname for the king of diamonds)
köken: Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish دولگر (dülger), from Persian درگر (dorgar), from درودگر (dorodgar), from درود (dorod, “timber, plank”) + agentive suffix گر (gar).
köken: First attested in 1222 as a place name in Regestrum Varadinense. Borrowed from an Oghur Turkic language, ultimately from Proto-Turkic *ïgač (“tree; wood”). Compare Turkish ağaç (“tree”), Turkmen agaççy (“carpenter”), Uyghur ياغاچچى (yaghachchi, “carpenter”), Salar [Term?] (“carpenter”).
From Middle High German zimberman, zimmerman, zimerman, from Old High German zimbarman. Equivalent to Zimmer (“timber”) (obsolete sense) + Mann (“man”). The surname is an occupational one, derived from the noun. Piecewise cognate of Dutch timmerman, Swedish timmerman, Norwegian Bokmål tømmermann, English timberman.