wrestler

English

Etymology

From Middle English wrastlere, equivalent to wrestle +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

wrestler (plural wrestlers)

1. (wrestling) A person who wrestles.
   • 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 231c:

     it isn't easy to avoid all the wrestler's holds.

Derived terms

• arm-wrestler
• mud wrestler
• professional wrestler

 

Translations

person who wrestles

• Armenian: ըմբիշ (hy) (əmbiš), (dialectal) փահլևան (hy) (pʻahlewan)
• Assamese: মাল (mal)
• Azerbaijani: güləşçi (az), pəhləvan (az)
• Bengali: পালোয়ান (bn) (palōẇan), কুস্তিগির (bn) (kustigir)
• Bulgarian: борец (bg) m (borec)
• Catalan: lluitador (ca) m, lluitadora (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 摔跤選手 / 摔跤选手 (shuāijiāo xuǎnshǒu), 摔角手 (shuāijiǎoshǒu), 摔跤手 (zh) (shuāijiāoshǒu), 摔角者 (shuāijiǎozhě)

• Chuvash: кӗрешӳҫӗ (kĕreš̬üś̬ĕ)
• Czech: zápasník (cs) m
• Danish: bryder c
• Dutch: worstelaar (nl) m
• Estonian: maadleja
• Finnish: painija (fi)
• French: lutteur (fr)
• Friulian: lotadôr m
• Georgian: მოჭიდავე (moč̣idave)
• German: Ringer (de) m
• Greek: παλαιστής (el) (palaistís), παλαίστρια (el) (palaístria)

  Ancient: παλαιστής m (palaistḗs)

• Hindi: पहलवान (hi) m (pahalvān)
• Hungarian: birkózó (hu)
• Ingrian: bortsa
• Italian: lottatore (it) m
• Japanese: レスラー (ja) (resurā)
• Kazakh: күресуші (küresuşı)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: luctātor m
• Macedonian: борач m (borač), пеливан m (pelivan)
• Norman: litteux m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bryter (no) m

  Nynorsk: brytar m

• Ottoman Turkish: پهلوان (pehlevân, pehlivân)
• Persian: کشتی‌گیر (košti-gir)
• Polish: zapaśnik (pl) m, zapaśniczka f
• Portuguese: lutador (pt)
• Romanian: luptător (ro)
• Russian: боре́ц (ru) m (boréc)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: рвач m, кечер m (professional wrestler)

  Roman: rvač (sh) m, kečer (sh) m (professional wrestler)

• Sicilian: luttaturi m
• Spanish: luchador (es) m, libreluchador m, pugilista m or f
• Swedish: brottare (sv) c
• Tagalog: mambubuno
• Tatar: көрәшүче (köräşüçe)
• Telugu: మల్లుడు (te) (malluḍu)
• Thai: นักมวยปล้ำ (nák-muai-bplâm)
• Turkish: güreşçi (tr), pehlivan (tr)
• Ukrainian: боре́ць (uk) m (borécʹ), борчи́ня pf (borčýnja)
• Urdu: کشتی باز (kušti bāz)
• Uyghur: چېلىشچى (chëlishchi)
• Vietnamese: đô vật (vi)
• Zazaki: gulaswan

References

• Wrestler. Macmillan Dictionary. Access date: 29 October 2011. [1]