From Middle English goldsmith, from Old English goldsmiþ (“goldsmith”), from Proto-Germanic *gulþasmiþaz (“goldsmith”), equivalent to gold + smith. Cognate with Scots goldsmyth, gouldsmeth (“goldsmith”), Saterland Frisian Gouldsmid (“goldsmith”), West Frisian goudsmid (“goldsmith”), Dutch goudsmid (“goldsmith”), German Goldschmied (“goldsmith”), Danish guldsmed (“goldsmith”), Swedish guldsmed (“goldsmith”), Icelandic gullsmiður (“goldsmith”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English orbatour, orbatur (“goldsmith”) and orfever, orfevre (“goldsmith”), both borrowed from Old French.
goldsmith (plural goldsmiths)
- A person who makes, repairs or sells things out of gold, especially jewelry.
- (obsolete) A banker (because the goldsmiths of London used to receive money on deposit, being equipped to keep it safely).
person who makes things out of gold
- Albanian: arpunues (sq) m, argjendar (sq) m
- Arabic: صَائِغ m (ṣāʔiḡ)
- Armenian: ոսկերիչ (hy) (oskeričʻ)
- Assamese: সোনাৰি (xünari)
- Azerbaijani: zərgər (az)
- Bulgarian: златар m (zlatar)
- Burmese: please add this translation if you can
- Catalan: orfebre (ca) m or f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 金匠 (zh) (jīnjiàng)
- Czech: zlatník (cs) m, zlatnice (cs) f
- Danish: guldsmed c
- Dutch: goudsmid (nl) m
- Esperanto: oraĵisto, oraĵistino (female)
- Estonian: kullassepp
- Faroese: gullsmiður m
- Finnish: kultaseppä (fi)
- French: orfèvre (fr) m or f, orfèvresse (fr) f
- Galician: ourive (gl) m or f
- Georgian: ოქრომჭედელი (ka) (okromč̣edeli)
- German: Goldschmied (de) m, Goldschmiedin (de) f, Gold- und Silberschmied m, Gold- und Silberschmiedin f
- Greek: χρυσοχόος (el) m or f (chrysochóos)
- Ancient: χρυσοχόος m (khrusokhóos)
- Hindi: सुनार (hi) m (sunār), सुनारी (hi) f (sunārī) (female goldsmith), जरगर (hi) m (jargar), साइग (hi) m (sāig), स्वर्णकार (hi) m (svarṇakār)
- Hungarian: aranyműves (hu), ötvös (hu)
- Icelandic: gullsmiður m
- Italian: orafo (it) m, orafa f, orefice (it) m or f
- Japanese: 金細工人 (kinsaikoujin), 金銀細工職人 (kinginsaikushokunin), 金細工師 (kinsaikushi)
- Khmer: ជាងមាស (cieng mieh)
- Korean: 금 세공인 (geum segong'in)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: زێڕنگەر (zêrringer)
- Northern Kurdish: zêrringer (ku) m
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Latin: aurifex m, aurārius m, aurāria f
- Latvian: zeltkalis m
- Lü: ᦋᦱᧂᧈᦆᧄ (tsaang¹xam)
- Macedonian: златар m (zlatar), кујунџија m (kujundžija) (archaic)
- Malay: tukang emas
- Malayalam: തട്ടാന് (taṭṭāṉ)
- Maltese: ħaddiem id-deheb m
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: gullsmed m
- Nynorsk: gullsmed m
- Ottoman Turkish: آلتونجی (altıncı)
- Persian: زرگر (fa) (zargar)
- Polish: złotnik (pl) m
- Portuguese: ourives (pt) m or f, aurífice (pt) m or f
- Punjabi:
- Shahmukhi: سُنیارا m (suneyārā), سُنَیرا m (sunairā) (dialectal)
- Romanian: aurar (ro) m
- Russian: золоты́х дел ма́стер m anim (zolotýx del máster), ювели́р (ru) m anim (juvelír)
- Sanskrit: see Thesaurus:स्वर्णकार
- Scottish Gaelic: ceàrd-òir m
- Seraiki: سُنارا (skr) (sunārā)
- Serbo-Croatian: zlatar (sh) m, zlatarka f
- Slovak: zlatník m, zlatníčka f
- Spanish: orfebre m or f, orífice (es) m or f, orebce (es) m, oribe m, orive m
- Sranan Tongo: gowtusmeti
- Swedish: guldsmed (sv) c
- Tagalog: panday-ginto
- Telugu: కంసలి (te) (kaṁsali)
- Thai: ช่างทอง (châang-tɔɔng)
- Tibetan: གསེར་བཟོ་བ (gser bzo ba)
- Turkish: kuyumcu (tr)
- Ukrainian: золота́р m (zolotár)
- Urdu: سُنار m (sunār), سُناری f (sunārī)
- Vietnamese: thợ bạc (vi), thợ vàng
- Volapük: goldismitan (vo), goldihismitan (male), goldijismitan (female)
- Welsh: eurof m
- Yiddish: גאָלדשמיד m (goldshmid)
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