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English
Etymology
From herd + -s- + -man.
Noun
herdsman (plural herdsmen) feminine: herdswoman
- A person who tends livestock, especially cows and sheep; especially, the foreman among a group of such farmworkers, usually with more knowledge and experience.
- Synonyms: herder, herd
- Hyponyms: cowman, cowherd, goatherd, shepherd, swineherd
Translations
a person who tends livestock, especially cows and sheep
- Arabic: رَاعٍ m (rāʕin)
- Egyptian Arabic: راعي m (rāʕī)
- Bashkir: көтөүсе (kötöwse)
- Belarusian: пасту́х m (pastúx)
- Bulgarian: пасти́р (bg) m (pastír)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 牧民 (zh) (mùmín), 牧人 (zh) (mùrén), 牧夫 (zh) (mùfū)
- Czech: pastýř m, pastevec (cs) m, pasák (cs) m
- Dutch: herder (nl) m
- Finnish: paimen (fi)
- French: éleveur de bétail m, gardien (fr) m
- Galician: pastor (gl), pegureiro (gl)
- German: Schäfer (de) m, Hirt (de) m
- Gothic: 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌳𐌴𐌹𐍃 m (hairdeis)
- Greek:
- Ancient: νομεύς m (nomeús)
- Hungarian: gulyás (hu)
- Icelandic: hjarðmaður m, hirðir (is) m
- Ingrian: paimen
- Irish: feighlí bó m, maor m, aoire m
- Italian: bovaro (it) m
- Japanese: 牧人 (ja) (ぼくじん, bokujin), 牧夫 (ぼくふ, bokufu)
- Kazakh: бақташы (baqtaşy), малшы (malşy), сиыршы (siyrşy), табыншы (tabynşy)
- Korean: 목자(牧者) (ko) (mokja)
- Latin: armentārius m, bubulcus m
- Lithuanian: piemuo m
- Macedonian: о́вчар m (óvčar), го́ведар m (góvedar)
- Malay: gembala
- Manchu: ᠠᡩᡠᠴᡳ (aduci)
- Maori: hēpara
- Middle English: herde, herdeman
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: малчин (mn) (malčin)
- Mongolian: ᠮᠠᠯᠴᠢᠨ (malčin)
- Navajo: naʼniłkaadí
- Ottoman Turkish: چوبان (çoban)
- Plautdietsch: Hoad m
- Polabian: nǫtăr m
- Polish: pastuch (pl) m
- Portuguese: pastor (pt) m
- Romanian: cioban (ro) m, păstor (ro) m
- Russian: пасту́х (ru) m (pastúx)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: па̀стӣр m, чо̀бан m, о̀вча̄р m
- Roman: pàstīr (sh) m, čòban (sh) m, òvčār (sh) m
- Slovak: pastier m, pasák m
- Slovene: pastir (sl) m
- Spanish: pastor (es) m, (if mounted and tending cows or bulls) vaquero (es) m
- Swahili: mchungaji (sw) class 1/2
- Swedish: herde (sv), fåraherde (sv)
- Tuvan: малчын (malçın), кадарчы (kadarçı)
- Ukrainian: пасту́х m (pastúx)
- Yakut: маныыһыт (manııhıt), бостуук (bostuuk)
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