driver

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle English drivere, dryvere, dryvare, equivalent to drive +‎ -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Drieuwer (“driver”), Dutch drijver (“driver”), German Low German Driever (“driver”), German Treiber (“driver”).

PronunciationEdit

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɹaɪ.və(ɹ)/
(US) enPR: drīʹvər, IPA^(key): /ˈdɹaɪvɚ/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -aɪvə(ɹ)

NounEdit

driver (plural drivers)

One who drives something, in any sense of the verb to drive.
- 2016, John Swain, Digging Up The Pitmen (page 164)
  Luke North was working in the North East District when Harry Patterson the pony driver came by. It was 5.45 o'clock. Luke smelt danger in the air. He walked round the pony to speak with Harry […]
Something that drives something, in any sense of the verb to drive.
- 2014, Bridgette Wessels, Exploring Social Change: Process and Context (page 106)
  The character of work is a driver of social change, at the same time that any new forms of work are the result of broader social change.
- 2020 December 16, “Network News: "Robust case" for Fawley branch reopening”, in Rail, page 14:
  The aim is to secure up to £140 million for the combined road and rail improvements, including a new road bridge to replace a level crossing at Totton. A key driver has been the approval of a new housing and employment development called Fawley Waterside, with 1,500 homes planned on the site of a redundant power station on the edge of Southampton Water.
A person who drives a motorized vehicle such as a car or a bus.
The requirement that every moving vehicle or combination of vehicles shall have a driver is deemed to be satisfied while the vehicle is using an automated driving system which complies with domestic technical regulations, and any applicable international legal instrument, […] and domestic legislation governing operation.
A person who drives some other vehicle.
(aviation, slang) A pilot (person who flies aircraft).
(computing) A device driver; a program that acts as an interface between an application and hardware, written specifically for the device it controls.
(golf) A golf club used to drive the ball a great distance.
- 1902, Robert Marshall Grade, The Haunted Major
  The brassey much resembled the driver, but the iron opened out quite a new field of practice; […]
(nautical) a kind of sail, smaller than a fore and aft spanker on a square-rigged ship, a driver is tied to the same spars.
A mallet.
A tamping iron.
A cooper's hammer for driving on barrel hoops.
A screwdriver.
- 1996, Popular Mechanics (volume 173, number 12)
  Among the driver and screw types available, you'll find several cross-slot varieties including the Reed & Prince […]

Derived termsEdit

DescendantsEdit

→ Scottish Gaelic: draibhear

TranslationsEdit

one who drives something, e.g. cattle

Bulgarian: вода́ч (bg) m (vodáč)
Catalan: conductor (ca) m
Chinese: 车手 (zh),司机 (zh)
Danish: chauffør (da) c
Finnish: ajaja (fi)
French: conducteur (fr) m, conductrice (fr) f, traqueur (fr) m, traqueuse (fr) f
German: Fahrer (de) m, Fahrerin (de) f, Treiber (de) m, Treiberin (de) f
Greek: οδηγός (el) m or f (odigós)
Ancient Greek: ἐλατήρ m (elatḗr)
Hungarian: sofőr (hu)
Irish: tiománaí m
Italian: conducente (it)
Kamba: ndeleba
Kikuyu: derefa
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: ajovan (ku) n or c
Luhya: omudereva
Luo: dreva
Macedonian: возач m (vozač)

Manx: immanagh m
Maori: kaitaraiwa (a vehicle), kaiwhiu (stock or animals)
Meru: ndereva
Navajo: naʼałbąąsii
Portuguese: condutor (pt) m, condutora (pt) f
Punjabi: ډرېور‎ m (?)
Romanian: conducător (ro) m
Russian: пого́нщик (ru) m (pogónščik), пого́нщица (ru) f (pogónščica)
Serbo-Croatian:
Roman: vozač (sh) m
Spanish: conductor (es) m, conductora f
Swahili: dereva (sw), mwendeshaji
Swedish: förare (sv) c
Telugu: సారథి (te) (sārathi)
Thai: คนขับ (kon-kàp), ผู้ขับ (pûu-kàp)
Welsh: gyrrwr (cy) m

something that drives something

Catalan: conductor (ca) m
Finnish: ajuri (fi), ajojuhta (figuratively)
Greek: οδηγός (el) m or f (odigós)

Italian: aspirazione (it) f, desiderio (it) m
Portuguese: condutor (pt) m
Russian: дви́житель (ru) m (dvížitelʹ)
Swahili: dereva (sw)

person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus

Albanian: shofer (sq) m, makinist m
Arabic: سَائِق‎ m (sāʾiq), سَوَّاق‎ m (sawwāq)
Egyptian Arabic: سواق‎ m (sawwāʾ)

Hijazi Arabic: سَوَّاق‎ m (sawwāg)
Armenian: վարորդ (hy) (varord)
Azerbaijani: sürücü (az), şofer, ranəndə (South Azerbaijani)
Belarusian: кіро́ўца m (kiróŭca), вадзі́цель m (vadzícjelʹ), шафёр m (šafjór)
Bikol Central: drayber
Bulgarian: шофьо́р (bg) m (šofjór)
Burmese: ယာဉ်မောင်း (my) (yanymaung:)
Catalan: conductor (ca) m, xofer (ca) m
Cebuano: drayber (tl)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 司機, 司机 (si¹ gei¹), 駕駛員, 驾驶员 (ga³ sai² jyun⁴), 駕駛者, 柴可夫 (yue)

Mandarin: 司機 (zh), 司机 (zh) (sījī), 駕駛員 (zh), 驾驶员 (zh) (jiàshǐyuán), 駕駛者
Czech: řidič (cs) m, řidička (cs) f, šofér (cs) m
Danish: chauffør (da) c
Dutch: bestuurder (nl) m, chauffeur (nl) m
Esperanto: aŭtomobilisto, aŭtisto
Estonian: juht (et), autojuht
Faroese: bilførari m (car), bussførari m (bus), motorsúkklistur m (motorcycle), lastbilførari m (truck)
Finnish: kuljettaja (fi), ajaja (fi), kuski (fi) (colloquial)
French: conducteur (fr) m, conductrice (fr) f, chauffeur (fr) m, chauffeuse (fr) f
Georgian: მძღოლი (mʒɣoli)
German: Fahrer (de) m, Fahrerin (de) f
Greek: οδηγός (el) m or f (odigós)
Greenlandic: biilertoq
Hebrew: נַהָג‎ (he) m (nahág), נֶהָג‎ (he) m (nehág), נהגת‎ f (naheget)
Hindi: चालक (hi) m (cālak), ड्राइवर (hi) m (ḍrāivar)
Hungarian: sofőr (hu), vezető (hu)
Icelandic: ökumaður m, bílstjóri m
Indonesian: sopir (id)
Irish: tiománaí m
Italian: autista (it) m or f, guidatore (it) m, guidatrice f
Japanese: 運転手 (ja) (うんてんしゅ, untenshu), 運転者 (うんてんしゃ, untensha), ドライバ (ja) (doraiba)
Kazakh: жүргізуші (kk) (jürgızuşı), шопыр (şopyr)
Khmer: អ្នកបើកឡាន (nĕək baək laan), តៃកុង (tay kong)
Korean: 운전사(運轉士) (ko) (unjeonsa), 운전자(運轉者) (ko) (unjeonja), 기사(技士) (ko) (gisa), 운전기사(運轉技士) (ko) (unjeon'gisa)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: ajovan (ku) m or f, ajokar (ku) m or f, şofêr (ku) m or f, sayêq (ku) m or f

Kyrgyz: жүргүзүүчү (jürgüzüüçü), айдоочу (ky) (aydooçu), шофёр (ky) (şofyor)
Lao: ຄົນຂັບລົດ (khon khap lot)
Latin: auriga m
Latvian: vadītājs (lv) m, šoferis m
Lithuanian: vairuotojas m, šoferis m
Macedonian: во́зач m (vózač), шо́фер m (šófer)
Maltese: sewwieq m, sewwieqa f, xufier m, xufiera f
Maore Comorian: shofera 5 or 6
Maori: kaitaraiwa
Mongolian: жолооч (mn) (jolooch)
Norman: cacheux m (Jersey)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: fører m, sjåfør (no)

Nynorsk: førar m, sjåfør
Pashto: ډرايور‎ m (ḍrāywár), ډرېور‎ m (ḍrewár)
Persian: راننده‎ (fa) (rânande), شوفر‎ (fa) (šofer)
Polish: kierowca (pl) m, szofer (pl) m, automobilista (pl) m (archaic), automobilistka f (archaic)
Portuguese: motorista (pt) m or f, condutor (pt) m, condutora (pt) f
Romanian: șofer (ro) m, conducător auto m
Russian: води́тель (ru) m (vodítelʹ), води́тельница (ru) f (vodítelʹnica), шофёр (ru) m (šofjór)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: возач m, возачица f

Roman: vòzāč (sh) m, vozàčica (sh) f
Slovak: vodič m, šofér m
Slovene: voznik (sl) m, šofer m
Spanish: conductor (es) m, conductora f, chofer (es) m
Swahili: dereva (sw)
Swedish: förare (sv) c, chaufför (sv) c
Tagalog: drayber (tl)
Tajik: ронанда (tg) (ronanda), шофёр (tg) (šofyor)
Telugu: చోదకుడు (te) (cōdakuḍu)
Thai: คนขับรถ, คนขับ (kon-kàp)
Tibetan: ཁ་ལོ་བ (kha lo ba)
Turkish: sürücü (tr), şoför (tr), haydavcı, yöndemci, kıvcı
Turkmen: sürügi, şofýor
Ukrainian: воді́й m (vodíj), шофе́р m (šofér)
Urdu: ڈرائیور‎ m (ḍrāivar)
Uyghur: شوپۇر‎ (shopur)
Uzbek: haydovchi (uz), shofyor (uz)
Vietnamese: người lái, tài xế (vi)
Yiddish: שאָפֿער‎ m (shofer)

person who drives some other vehicle

Arabic: سَائِق‎ m (sāʾiq)
Hijazi Arabic: سَوَّاق‎ m (sawwāg)
Armenian: վարորդ (hy) (varord)
Catalan: conductor (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 司機, 司机 (si¹ gei¹), 駕駛員, 驾驶员 (ga³ sai² jyun⁴), 駕駛者, 柴可夫 (yue)

Mandarin: 司機 (zh), 司机 (zh) (sījī), 駕駛員 (zh), 驾驶员 (zh) (jiàshǐyuán), 駕駛者
Czech: řidič (cs) m
Dutch: bestuurder (nl) m
Finnish: ajuri (fi), kuski (fi) (colloquial)
French: conducteur (fr) m, conductrice (fr) f
German: Fahrer (de) m, Fahrerin (de) f
Greek: οδηγός (el) m or f (odigós), (railway) μηχανοδηγός (el) m or f (michanodigós)
Hebrew: נהג‎ (he) m (nahag), נהגת‎ f (naheget)
Hindi: चालक (hi) (cālak), ड्राइवर (hi) (ḍrāivar)
Hungarian: sofőr (hu), vezető (hu)

Irish: tiománaí m
Japanese: 運転手 (ja) (うんてんしゅ, untenshu), 運転者 (うんてんしゃ, untensha)
Korean: 운전사(運轉士) (ko) (unjeonsa), 운전자(運轉者) (ko) (unjeonja), 기사(技士) (ko) (gisa)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: ajovan (ku) m or f, ajokar (ku) m or f, şofêr (ku) m or f, sayêq (ku) m or f
Maori: taraiwa, kaitaraiwa
Portuguese: piloto (pt) m, pilota (pt) f
Romanian: pilot (ro) m
Russian: води́тель (ru) m (vodítelʹ), води́тельница (ru) f (vodítelʹnica)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: возач m, возачица f

Roman: vòzāč (sh) m, vozàčica (sh) f
Spanish: conductor (es) m, conductora f
Swahili: dereva (sw)
Telugu: డ్రైవర్ (te) (ḍraivar)
Ukrainian: водій m (vodij)
Urdu: ڈرائیور‎ (ḍrāivar)

program acting as interface between an application and hardware

Armenian: դրայվեր (drayver)
Bulgarian: дра́йвър m (drájvǎr)
Catalan: controlador de dispositiu m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 驅動程式 (keoi¹ dung⁶ cing⁴ sik¹), 驅動程序 (keoi¹ dung⁶ cing⁴ zeoi⁶)

Mandarin: 驅動程式 (qūdòng chéngshì), 驅動程序 (zh), 驱动程序 (zh) (qūdòng chéngxù), 驅動 (zh), 驱动 (zh) (qūdòng)
Czech: ovladač (cs) m
Dutch: stuurprogramma (nl) n
Esperanto: pelilo
Finnish: ajuri (fi)
French: pilote (fr) m
German: Treiber (de) m
Greek: οδηγός (el) m (odigós)
Hindi: ड्राइवर (hi) (ḍrāivar)
Hungarian: illesztőprogram (hu)
Icelandic: rekill (is) m
Irish: tiománaí m
Italian: driver (it) m
Japanese: ドライバー (ja) (doraibā), ドライバ (ja) (doraiba)
Korean: 드라이버 (ko) (deuraibeo)

Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: ajok (ku) f
Latvian: draiveris m, dzinis m
Lithuanian: tvarkyklė f, draiveris m
Macedonian: двигател m (dvigatel)
Malay: pemacu
Maltese: drajver
Maori: atekōkiri, pūtāhono
Norwegian:
Bokmål: driver (no) m, driverfil m or f
Polish: sterownik (pl) m, driver (pl) m, drawjer m
Portuguese: controlador (pt), driver (pt) m
Russian: дра́йвер (ru) m (drájver)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: драјвер m, управљачки програм m

Roman: dràjver (sh) m, upràvljāčkī prògram m
Slovak: ovládač m
Spanish: controlador (es) m
Swahili: dereva (sw)
Swedish: drivrutin (sv) c
Turkish: sürücü (tr)
Urdu: ڈرائیور‎ (ḍrāivar)

golf club

Finnish: draiveri (fi)
German: Driver (de) m
Irish: maide mór m, tiománaí m
Korean: 드라이버 (ko) (deuraibeo)

Maori: haupōro haukuru
Serbo-Croatian: golf palica za duge udarce

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

Maltese: ^{(please verify)} xufier, ^{(please verify)} sewwieq
Spanish: ^{(please verify)} conductor (es) m, ^{(please verify)} manejador m (Mexico)

Swahili: ^{(please verify)} dereva (sw)
Turkish: ^{(please verify)} şöför (tr) m

FrenchEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Borrowed from English driver.

Alternative formsEdit

driveur

PronunciationEdit

IPA^(key): /dʁaj.vœʁ/

NounEdit

driver m (plural drivers)

(golf) driver

Etymology 2Edit

From English drive +‎ -er.

PronunciationEdit

IPA^(key): /dʁaj.ve/

VerbEdit

driver

(golf outside Louisiana, Cajun) to drive

ConjugationEdit

Conjugation of driver (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	compound	avoir + past participle
infinitive	simple	driver
present participle or gerund¹	simple	drivant /dʁaj.vɑ̃/
present participle or gerund¹	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		drivé /dʁaj.ve/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	drive /dʁajv/	drives /dʁajv/	drive /dʁajv/	drivons /dʁaj.vɔ̃/	drivez /dʁaj.ve/	drivent /dʁajv/
	imperfect	drivais /dʁaj.vɛ/	drivais /dʁaj.vɛ/	drivait /dʁaj.vɛ/	drivions /dʁaj.vjɔ̃/	driviez /dʁaj.vje/	drivaient /dʁaj.vɛ/
	past historic²	drivai /dʁaj.ve/	drivas /dʁaj.va/	driva /dʁaj.va/	drivâmes /dʁaj.vam/	drivâtes /dʁaj.vat/	drivèrent /dʁaj.vɛʁ/
	future	driverai /dʁaj.və.ʁe/	driveras /dʁaj.və.ʁa/	drivera /dʁaj.və.ʁa/	driverons /dʁaj.və.ʁɔ̃/	driverez /dʁaj.və.ʁe/	driveront /dʁaj.və.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	driverais /dʁaj.və.ʁɛ/	driverais /dʁaj.və.ʁɛ/	driverait /dʁaj.və.ʁɛ/	driverions /dʁaj.və.ʁjɔ̃/	driveriez /dʁaj.və.ʁje/	driveraient /dʁaj.və.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior²	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	drive /dʁajv/	drives /dʁajv/	drive /dʁajv/	drivions /dʁaj.vjɔ̃/	driviez /dʁaj.vje/	drivent /dʁajv/
(simple tenses)	imperfect²	drivasse /dʁaj.vas/	drivasses /dʁaj.vas/	drivât /dʁaj.va/	drivassions /dʁaj.va.sjɔ̃/	drivassiez /dʁaj.va.sje/	drivassent /dʁaj.vas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	drive /dʁajv/	—	drivons /dʁaj.vɔ̃/	drivez /dʁaj.ve/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
¹ The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
² In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

AnagramsEdit

verdir

ItalianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English driver.

NounEdit

driver m or f (invariable)

driver (in a trotting race; tennis player good at driving)

NounEdit

driver m (invariable)

driver (golf club; computer module)

Norwegian BokmålEdit

VerbEdit

driver

present tense of drive

Derived termsEdit

(of the noun) pådriver

PortugueseEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English driver.

PronunciationEdit

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈdɾaj.veʁ/

NounEdit

driver m or f (plural drivers)

(computing) driver (program acting as interface between an application and hardware)
Synonym: controlador

QuotationsEdit

For quotations using this term, see Citations:driver.

SwedishEdit

VerbEdit

driver

present tense of driva.

AnagramsEdit

vrider

driver

Contents

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

Derived termsEdit

DescendantsEdit

TranslationsEdit

See alsoEdit

FrenchEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Alternative formsEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

Etymology 2Edit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

ConjugationEdit

Further readingEdit

AnagramsEdit

ItalianEdit

EtymologyEdit

NounEdit

NounEdit

Norwegian BokmålEdit

VerbEdit

Derived termsEdit

PortugueseEdit

EtymologyEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

QuotationsEdit

SwedishEdit

VerbEdit

AnagramsEdit