rower

English

Etymology

From Middle English rower, rowere, roware, equivalent to row +‎ -er. Cognate with Dutch roeier (“rower”), Danish roer (“rower”), Norwegian roer (“rower”). Compare also Old English rōwend (“rower”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹəʊ.ə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -əʊə(ɹ)

Noun

rower (plural rowers)

1. One who rows.
   • 1874, Marcus Clarke, chapter VI, in For the Term of His Natural Life:

     It had been a sort of race hitherto, and the rowers, with set teeth and compressed lips, had pulled stroke for stroke.

   • 1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC, page 89:

     Upon her deck were rowers with dream-made oars, and the rowers were the people of men’s fancies, and princes of old story and people who had died, and people who had never been.

2. A rowing machine.
   • 1988, Richard Allen Winett, Ageless athletes, page 65:

     Aerobic and weight training sessions should also complement each other. For example, on a day you work your upper body with weights, you can use a rower for aerobics.

Translations

person who rows a boat

• Azerbaijani: avarçı, avarçəkən, kürəkçi
• Bulgarian: гребец (bg) m (grebec)
• Catalan: remador m, remer (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 划手 (huáshǒu)

• Czech: veslař (cs) m
• Esperanto: remisto sg
• Finnish: soutaja (fi)
• French: rameur (fr)
• Galician: remador m, remeiro m
• Georgian: მენიჩბე (ka) (meničbe)
• German: Ruderer (de) m
• Greek: κωπηλάτης (el) m (kopilátis)

  Ancient: ἐρέτης m (erétēs)

• Hebrew: חוֹתֵר (he) m (khoter), מְשׁוֹטָאי m (meshotay)
• Hungarian: evezős (hu)
• Irish: iomróir m
• Italian: rematore (it) m, rematrice f
• Latin: rēmex m
• Macedonian: веслач m (veslač)
• Maori: kaihoe
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: roer m

• Old English: rōwend m
• Ottoman Turkish: كوركجی (kürekci)
• Polish: wioślarz (pl) m, wioślarka (pl) f, bębniarz (pl) m (of a rowing race crew)
• Portuguese: remador (pt) m, remeiro (pt) m
• Romanian: vâslaș (ro) m, vâslitor (ro) m, canotor (ro) m
• Russian: гребе́ц (ru) (grebéc)
• Spanish: remero (es) m, remador m, boga (es) m or f, bogador m
• Tagalog: manggagaod
• Turkish: kürekçi (tr)

See also

• back-rower
• front-rower

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch rover, from Middle Dutch rôvere. Equivalent to roof +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrʊə̯.vər/

Noun

rower (plural rowers, diminutive rowertjie)

1. robber, bandit

Polish

rower

Etymology

Genericized trademark of the British company Rover.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔ.vɛr/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔvɛr
• Syllabification: ro‧wer

Noun

rower m inan (diminutive rowerek, related adjective rowerowy)

1. bicycle, bike (vehicle that has two wheels, one behind the other, a steering handle, and a saddle seat or seats and is usually propelled by the action of a rider’s feet upon pedals)

   Synonym: (colloquial) dwa kółka

Declension

Declension of rower

	singular	plural
nominative	rower	rowery
genitive	roweru	rowerów
dative	rowerowi	rowerom
accusative	rower	rowery
instrumental	rowerem	rowerami
locative	rowerze	rowerach
vocative	rowerze	rowery

Derived terms

nouns

• rowerownia
• rowerzysta
• rowerzystka

verbs

• rowerować impf

Descendants

• → Belarusian: ро́вар (róvar)
• → Ukrainian: ро́вер (róver)
• → Yiddish: ראָווער (rover)

Further reading

• rower in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• rower in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• rower in PWN's encyclopedia