farrier

See also: Farrier

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French ferrier, from Old French ferrier, from Latin ferrārius, from ferrum (“iron”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfæɹi.ə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfɛɹi.ɚ/
• (rhotic, without the Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA^(key): /ˈfæɹi.ɚ/
• Rhymes: -æɹiə(ɹ)

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

farrier (plural farriers)

1. A person who maintains the health and balance of horses' feet through the trimming of the hoofs and fitting of horseshoes.

Synonyms

• blacksmith (informal)
• horseshoer

Derived terms

• prick farrier

Derived terms

• farriery

Translations

person who trims and shoes horses' hoofs

• Albanian: mbathtar (sq) m
• Arabic: بَيْطَار m (bayṭār)
• Armenian: պայտար (hy) (paytar), նալբանդ (hy) (nalband)
• Azerbaijani: nalbənd
• Bulgarian: налбантин m (nalbantin)
• Catalan: ferrador m, ferrer (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蹄鐵匠／蹄铁匠 (títiějiàng)

• Czech: podkovář m
• Danish: beslagsmed c
• Dutch: hoefsmid (nl) m
• Esperanto: hufumisto
• Estonian: hobuserautaja (et)
• Finnish: kengitysseppä (fi), hevosenkengittäjä (fi), kengittäjä (fi)
• French: maréchal-ferrant (fr) m, maréchale-ferrante (fr) f
• Galician: ferrador (gl) m, ferradora f
• German: Hufschmied (de) m, Hufschmiedin (de) f, Hufner (de) m, Hufnerin f, Hufbeschlagschmied m, Hufbeschlagschmiedin f, Beschlagschmied m, Beschlagschmiedin f
• Greek: πεταλωτής (el) m (petalotís)
• Gujarati: નાલબંદ (nālband)
• Hebrew: מפרזל סוסים
• Hungarian: patkolókovács (hu)
• Icelandic: járningamaður m
• Irish: crúdóir m, fairéir m
• Italian: maniscalco (it) m, maniscalca f, fabbro ferraio m, magnano (it) m
• Japanese: 装蹄師 (ja) (そうていし, sōteishi)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: nalbend (ku) m or f, beytar (ku) m or f

• Macedonian: потко́вувач m (potkóvuvač), на́лбат m (nálbat)
• Maltese: nagħgħâl
• Maori: kaihaeana hōiho
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hovslager m, beslagsmed m

  Nynorsk: hovslagar m, hóvslagar m

• Ottoman Turkish: نعلبند (naʼlband), بیطار (baytar), نعلبر (naʼlbur)
• Persian: نعلبند (fa) (na'lband)
• Polish: podkuwacz (pl) m
• Portuguese: ferrador (pt) m, ferradora f
• Romanian: potcovar (ro) m
• Russian: кузне́ц (ru) m (kuznéc), конова́л (ru) m (konovál)
• Spanish: herrador m, herradora f
• Swedish: hovslagare (sv) c, hovslagerska c
• Turkish: nalbant (tr)
• Volapük: safaferan (vo), hisafaferan (male), jisafaferan (female)
• Welsh: ffariar m

Verb

farrier (third-person singular simple present farriers, present participle farriering, simple past and past participle farriered)

1. (intransitive) To practise as a farrier; to carry on the trade of a farrier.
   • 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], 2nd edition, London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], published 1708, →OCLC:

     though there are many Pretenders to the Art of Farriering and Cow-leeching , yet many of them are very ignorant , especially in the Countrie

See also

• ferrier
• furrier

Anagrams

• Ferrari