Etymology
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From Middle English carpentrie, from Anglo-Norman carpenterie, from Old Northern French (compare French charpenterie). See carpenter.
Pronunciation
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carpentry (countable and uncountable, plural carpentries)
- (uncountable) The trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures; woodworking.
- (countable) A carpenter's workshop.
- (uncountable) A collection of timber connected by being framed together, as the pieces of a roof, floor, etc.; work done by a carpenter.
Fine carpentry for sale.
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Translations
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trade of cutting and joining timber
- Arabic: نِجَارة f (nijāra)
- Moroccan Arabic: نجارة (njāra)
- Belarusian: цясля́рства n (cjasljárstva)
- Catalan: fusteria f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
- Czech: tesařství (cs) n
- Danish: tømring c, tømrerarbejde c, beklædning c, tømrerhåndværk c
- Finnish: puusepäntyö
- French: charpenterie (fr) f
- Galician: carpintaría (gl) f
- German: Schreinerei (de) f, Tischlerei (de) f, Zimmerei (de) f
- Greek: ξυλουργική (el) f (xylourgikí)
- Hebrew: נגרות (he) f (nagarut)
- Hungarian: ácsmesterség (hu), ácsszakma, asztalosmesterség (hu), asztalosszakma
- Icelandic: trésmíði m
- Irish: siúinéireacht f, cearpantóireacht f
- Italian: carpenteria (it) f
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: دارتاشی (dartaşî)
- Macedonian: дрво́делство n (drvódelstvo), столарство n (stolarstvo)
- Middle English: carpentrie
- Ottoman Turkish: دولگرلك (dülgerlik)
- Persian: نجاری (fa) (najjâri)
- Polish: stolarstwo (pl) n
- Portuguese: carpintaria (pt) f, marcenaria (pt) f
- Romanian: tâmplărie (ro) f
- Russian: столя́рничество (ru) n (stoljárničestvo), плотничье де́ло (plotničʹje délo), плотницкие работы (plotnickije raboty), пло́тничество (ru) n (plótničestvo)
- Spanish: carpintería (es) f
- Telugu: వడ్రంగము (te) (vaḍraṅgamu)
- Turkish: dülgerlik (tr)
- Ukrainian: тесля́рство n (tesljárstvo)
- Urdu: نجاری f (najjārī)
- Walloon: tcherpetreye (wa) f
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work and objects produced by a carpenter
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