dómari

See also: domari and Domari

Faroese

dómari m (genitive singular dómara, plural dómarar)

dómari m (genitive singular dómara, nominative plural dómarar)

(law) judge, justice
- Judges 2:19
  En er dómarinn andaðist, breyttu þeir að nýju verr en feður þeirra, með því að elta aðra guði til þess að þjóna þeim og falla fram fyrir þeim. Þeir létu eigi af gjörðum sínum né þrjóskubreytni sinni.
  But when the judge died, the people returned to ways even more corrupt than those of their ancestors, following other gods and serving and worshiping them. They refused to give up their evil practices and stubborn ways.
(sports) referee, umpire

From dómr (“judgement”) +‎ -ari. Compare Old English dōmere.

dómari m

Declension of dómari (weak an-stem)

Elfdalian: duomer
Icelandic: dómari
Faroese: dómari
Norwegian Nynorsk: domar
Old Swedish: dōmare
- Swedish: domare c
- → Finnish: tuomari
  - → Northern Sami: duopmár (or directly from Swedish)
Danish: dommer c
- Norwegian Bokmål: dommer
  - → Norwegian Nynorsk: dommar
→ Old English: domere (possibly)

dómari in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.