farmer
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See also: Farmer
English
Etymology
From Middle English fermour (“a steward, bailliff, collector of taxes”), from Old French fermier (“a farmer, a lessee, husbandman, bailliff”), from Medieval Latin firmarius (“one to whom land is rented, a collector of taxes, deputy”), from firma; equivalent to farm + -er. Compare Old English feormere (“a purveyor of a guild, a supplier of food, a grocer, farmer”). More at farm.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfɑɹ.mɚ/
Audio (US) (file)
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfɑː.mə(ɹ)/
Audio (UK) (file)
- Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)mə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: farm‧er
Noun
farmer (plural farmers)
- (agent noun) Someone or something that farms, as:
- A person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock; anyone engaged in agriculture on a farm.
- Hyponym: (dated) peasant
- 2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, in The Economist, volume 405, number 8813, page 3 (Technology Quarterly):
- A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.
- (strictly, especially British) More specifically, a farm owner, as distinguished from a farmworker or farmhand as a hired employee thereof.
- Coordinate terms: farmworker, farmhand
- A person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock; anyone engaged in agriculture on a farm.
- (historical) One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect for a certain rate per cent.
- a farmer of the revenues
- (historical, mining) The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown.
- (Singapore, slang) A regular person; someone who did not receive a prestigious scholarship.
- (dated) A baby farmer (operator of a rural orphanage).
Usage notes
Farmer is probably the last occupational descriptor to have been used as a prefix to a surname in everyday usage: e.g. Farmer Brown. This usage was common until the mid 20th century.
Derived terms
- afternoon farmer
- baby-farmer
- book-farmer
- chicken farmer
- Chinese farmer
- click farmer
- cockatoo farmer
- dairy farmer
- dirt farmer
- farmer cheese
- Farmer City
- farmer-general
- farmer in the dell
- farmer sausage
- fish farmer
- gentleman farmer
- gold farmer
- gong farmer
- marginal farmer
- pig farmer
- Pitt Street farmer
- sheep farmer
- suitcase farmer
- tenant farmer
- truck farmer
- wind farmer
Related terms
Descendants
- → Yiddish: פֿאַרמער (farmer)
Translations
person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock
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Anagrams
Hungarian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From the German Farmer, from the French fermier (“farmer”), from the Old French ferme (“farm, rental”), from the Medieval Latin ferma, firma (“rent, tribute, food, feast”), from Old English feorm (“rent, provisions, supplies, feast”). More at farm.
Noun
farmer (plural farmerek)
- farmer
- Synonyms: (host/landowner) gazda, (agriculturalist) mezőgazdász, (smallholder) gazdálkodó, (tiller/earthworker) földműves, (land cultivator) földművelő, (grower) termelő, (peasant) paraszt, (animal-raiser) állattenyésztő, (plant-grower) növénytermesztő
Declension
| Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | farmer | farmerek |
| accusative | farmert | farmereket |
| dative | farmernek | farmereknek |
| instrumental | farmerrel | farmerekkel |
| causal-final | farmerért | farmerekért |
| translative | farmerré | farmerekké |
| terminative | farmerig | farmerekig |
| essive-formal | farmerként | farmerekként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | farmerben | farmerekben |
| superessive | farmeren | farmereken |
| adessive | farmernél | farmereknél |
| illative | farmerbe | farmerekbe |
| sublative | farmerre | farmerekre |
| allative | farmerhez | farmerekhez |
| elative | farmerből | farmerekből |
| delative | farmerről | farmerekről |
| ablative | farmertől | farmerektől |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
farmeré | farmereké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
farmeréi | farmerekéi |
| Possessive forms of farmer | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | farmerem | farmereim |
| 2nd person sing. | farmered | farmereid |
| 3rd person sing. | farmere | farmerei |
| 1st person plural | farmerünk | farmereink |
| 2nd person plural | farmeretek | farmereitek |
| 3rd person plural | farmerük | farmereik |
Etymology 2
Ellipsis of farmeröltözet (“denim clothes”) or farmernadrág (“denim jeans”).
Adjective
farmer (not comparable)
- (made of) denim
Declension
| Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | farmer | farmerek |
| accusative | farmert | farmereket |
| dative | farmernek | farmereknek |
| instrumental | farmerrel | farmerekkel |
| causal-final | farmerért | farmerekért |
| translative | farmerré | farmerekké |
| terminative | farmerig | farmerekig |
| essive-formal | farmerként | farmerekként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | farmerben | farmerekben |
| superessive | farmeren | farmereken |
| adessive | farmernél | farmereknél |
| illative | farmerbe | farmerekbe |
| sublative | farmerre | farmerekre |
| allative | farmerhez | farmerekhez |
| elative | farmerből | farmerekből |
| delative | farmerről | farmerekről |
| ablative | farmertől | farmerektől |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
farmeré | farmereké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
farmeréi | farmerekéi |
Noun
farmer (plural farmerek)
- (a pair of) blue jeans
Declension
| Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | farmer | farmerek |
| accusative | farmert | farmereket |
| dative | farmernek | farmereknek |
| instrumental | farmerrel | farmerekkel |
| causal-final | farmerért | farmerekért |
| translative | farmerré | farmerekké |
| terminative | farmerig | farmerekig |
| essive-formal | farmerként | farmerekként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | farmerben | farmerekben |
| superessive | farmeren | farmereken |
| adessive | farmernél | farmereknél |
| illative | farmerbe | farmerekbe |
| sublative | farmerre | farmerekre |
| allative | farmerhez | farmerekhez |
| elative | farmerből | farmerekből |
| delative | farmerről | farmerekről |
| ablative | farmertől | farmerektől |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
farmeré | farmereké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
farmeréi | farmerekéi |
| Possessive forms of farmer | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | farmerem | farmereim |
| 2nd person sing. | farmered | farmereid |
| 3rd person sing. | farmere | farmerei |
| 1st person plural | farmerünk | farmereink |
| 2nd person plural | farmeretek | farmereitek |
| 3rd person plural | farmerük | farmereik |
Derived terms
Compound words
Further reading
- (landowner, farmer): farmer in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
- (landowner; jeans; denim): farmer in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from English farmer, from Middle English fermor, fermer, fermour, partly from Old French fermier, from Medieval Latin firmārius, from Latin firma; and partly from Old English feormere, from feormian.
Pronunciation
Noun
farmer m pers (female equivalent farmerka)
- (agriculture) farmer (person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock)
- Synonym: rolnik
Declension
Declension of farmer
Derived terms
adjective
noun
Further reading
- farmer in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- farmer in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
Noun
fȁrmer m (Cyrillic spelling фа̏рмер)