diver

See also: díver

English

Etymology

dive +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪ̯vəɹ/

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• Rhymes: -aɪvə(ɹ)

Noun

diver (plural divers)

1. 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.

2. Someone who works underwater; a frogman.
3. (UK, Ireland) loon (bird)
4. The New Zealand sand diver.
5. The long-finned sand diver.
6. (UK, London, dated) A passenger carrying vehicle using an underground route; specially, a diver tram, one using the former Kingsway tramway subway (1906-1952).
7. (slang, obsolete) pickpocket
8. (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

• autem diver
• black-throated diver
• Cartesian diver
• cave diver
• deep diver
• dumpster-diver
• dumpster diver
• dun diver
• earth-diver
• free-diver
• great northern diver
• hell-diver
• muff-diver
• muff diver
• Pacific diver
• pearl diver
• red-throated diver
• ruddy diver
• sand diver
• sat diver
• saturation diver
• scuba diver
• skin-diver
• smoke diver
• spider diver
• stage diver
• synchronized diver
• web diver
• white-billed diver

 

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

See also

• diving
• scuba

Anagrams

• Verdi, deriv., drive, rived, vired

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• dȅver (Ekavian)
• djȅver (Ijekavian)
• đȅver (Montenegro)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *děverь.

Noun

dȉver m (Cyrillic spelling ди̏вер)

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