diver

See also: díver

English

Etymology

dive +‎ -er

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪ̯vəɹ/
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Rhymes: -aɪvə(ɹ)

Noun

diver (plural divers)

Someone who dives, especially as a sport.
Synonym: (obsolete) urinator
- 1979 August 25, “Body Found Near the Fenway”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 6, page 2:
  A passerby noticed the man's body protruding from the water at about 9 p.m. and Boston and Metropolitan police divers were called to the scene.
Someone who works underwater; a frogman.
(UK, Ireland) loon (bird)
The New Zealand sand diver.
The long-finned sand diver.
(UK, London, dated) A passenger carrying vehicle using an underground route; specially, a diver tram, one using the former Kingsway tramway subway (1906-1952).
(slang, obsolete) pickpocket
(sports) A competitor in certain sports who is known to regularly imitate being fouled, with the purpose of getting his/her opponent penalised.

Derived terms

Translations

someone who dives

Arabic: غَطَّاسٌ m (ḡaṭṭāsun), غَوَّاصٌ m (ḡawwāṣun)
Armenian: ջրասուզակ (hy) (ǰrasuzak)
Assamese: ডুবাৰু (dubaru)
Azerbaijani: dalğıc (az)
Bulgarian: гмуркач m (gmurkač)
Catalan: bus (ca) m or f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 潛水員／潜水员 (zh) (qiánshuǐyuán)
Czech: potápěč (cs) m, potápěčka f
Danish: dykker (da) c
Dutch: duiker (nl) m, duikster (nl) f
Esperanto: plonĝanto, plonĝantino (female), plonĝisto, plonĝistino (female), subakvisto, subakvistino (female)
Estonian: sukelduja
Faroese: kavari m
Finnish: sukeltaja (fi)
French: plongeur (fr) m, plongeuse (fr) f
Galician: mergullador (gl) m, mergulladora f
German: Taucher (de) m, Taucherin (de) f (underwater)
Greek: δύτης (el) m (dýtis)
Hebrew: צוֹלֵל (he) m (tolel)
Hindi: ग़ोताख़ोर m (ġotāxor), गोताखोर (hi) m (gotākhor)
Hungarian: búvár (hu)
Icelandic: kafari (is) m
Italian: tuffatore (it) m, tuffatrice (it) f, tuffista m or f, palombaro (it) m, palombara (it) f, sommozzatore (it) m, sommozzatrice (it) f
Japanese: 潜水夫 (ja) (せんすいふ, sensuifu), 潜り (ja) (もぐり, moguri), ダイバー (ja) (daibā)
Kalmyk: булхач (bulxaç)
Korean: 잠수부(潜水夫) (ko) (jamsubu) (underwater)
Latin: ūrīnātor m, ūrīnātrīx f
Luxembourgish: Daucher m
Macedonian: нуркач m (nurkač)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: stuper m (in sport), dykker m (underwater)

Nynorsk: stupar m (in sport), dukkar m, dykkar (nn) m (underwater)
Polish: nurek (pl) m
Portuguese: mergulhador (pt) m, mergulhadora f
Romanian: scufundător (ro) m, scafandru (ro) m, scafandrier (ro) m
Russian: ныря́льщик (ru) m (nyrjálʹščik), ныря́льщица (ru) f (nyrjálʹščica), водола́з (ru) m (vodoláz), водола́зка (ru) f (vodolázka)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ро̀нилац m, гњу́рац m

Latin: rònilac (sh) m, gnjúrac (sh) m
Spanish: saltador m, saltadora (es) f (jumping), buzo (es) m (underwater), submarinista (es) m or f
Swedish: dykare (sv) c
Tagalog: maninisid
Thai: นักกระโดดน้ำ (nák-grà-dòot-náam)
Turkish: dalgıç (tr)
Ukrainian: водола́з m (vodoláz), норе́ць m (norécʹ)

someone who works underwater

Armenian: ջրասուզակ (hy) (ǰrasuzak)
Bulgarian: водолаз (bg) m (vodolaz)
Catalan: bus (ca) m or f, bussejador m, bussejadora f
Esperanto: subakvisto, subakvistino (female), plonĝisto, plonĝistino (female)
Estonian: tuuker
Finnish: sukeltaja (fi)
Galician: mergullador (gl) m, mergulladora f
Hebrew: אָמוֹדַאי (he) m (amodai), צוֹלֵל (he) m (tsolel)
Hindi: ग़ोताख़ोर m (ġotāxor), गोताखोर (hi) m (gotākhor)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: dykker m

Nynorsk: dukkar m, dykkar (nn) m
Russian: водола́з (ru) m (vodoláz), водола́зка (ru) f (vodolázka)

loon (bird) — see loon

sports: player who pretends fouls

Spanish: piscinero m, piscinera f

Anagrams

Verdi, deriv., drive, rived, vired

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *děverь.

Noun

dȉver m (Cyrillic spelling ди̏вер)

(Chakavian, Ikavian) brother-in-law (one's husband's brother)

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