singer

See also: Singer

Contents

EnglishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

sing +‎ -er.

PronunciationEdit

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪŋə/
• (General American) enPR: sĭng′ər IPA^(key): /ˈsɪŋɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋə(ɹ)

NounEdit

singer (plural singers)

1. A person who sings, often professionally.
2. (square dance) dance figure with a fixed structure, sung by a caller, or a piece of music with that structure. See square dance singer.

Derived termsEdit

• carol singer
• opera singer
• singer-songwriter

Related termsEdit

• meistersinger
• mastersinger

TranslationsEdit

person who sings

• Afrikaans: sanger
• Albanian: këngëtar (sq) m, këngëtare (sq) f
• Arabic: مُطْرِب‏‎ m (muṭrib), (indefinite) مُغَنٍّ‏‎ m (muḡannin), (definite) اَلْمُغَنِّي‏‎ m (al-muḡannī)

  Egyptian Arabic: مغني‏‎ m (moġani), مغنية‏‎ f (moġaneya)

• Aramaic:

  Syriac: ܙܡܪܐ‏‎ (zammoro)

• Armenian: (male) երգիչ (hy) (ergičʿ), (female) երգչուհի (hy) (ergčʿuhi)
• Aromanian: cãntãtor m
• Asturian: cantante m, f, cantor m
• Azeri: müğənni (az)
• Bashkir: йырсы (yïrsï); (traditional) йырау (yïraw), йыраусы (yïrawsï)
• Basque: abeslari (eu)
• Belarusian: спява́к m (spjavák), спява́чка f (spjaváčka)
• Bengali: গায়ক (gaẏôk)
• Berber:

  Tashelhit: amarir m

• Breton: kaner (br)
• Bulgarian: певе́ц m (pevéc), певи́ца f (pevíca)
• Burmese: တေးသံရှင် (my) (te:samhrang), အဆိုတော် (my) (a.hcuitau)
• Catalan: cantant (ca) m, f, cantor (ca) m, cantaire (ca) m, f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 歌手 (go¹ sau²)

  Mandarin: 歌手 (zh) (gēshǒu)

• Czech: zpěvák (cs) m, zpěvačka (cs) f
• Danish: sanger (da) c, sangerinde (da) c (female)
• Dutch: zanger (nl) m, zangeres (nl) f
• Esperanto: kantanto (one who sings), kantisto (professional singer)
• Estonian: laulja m, laulik m, lauljanna f, lauljatar f
• Faroese: sangari m, sangarinna f
• Finnish: laulaja (fi)
• French: chanteur (fr) m, chanteuse (fr) f
• Friulian: cjantautôr m, cjantôr m, cjantant
• Galician: cantante (gl) m, f, cantor m
• Georgian: მომღერალი (momɣerali)
• German: Sänger (de) m; (female) Sängerin (de) f; (diminutive) Sängerlein n
• Greek: τραγουδιστής (el) m (tragoudistís)
• Greenlandic: erinarsortartoq
• Hindi: गायक (hi) m (gāyak), गायिका f (gāyikā)
• Hungarian: énekes (hu) m, énekesnő (hu) f
• Icelandic: söngvari (is) m, söngkona f (female)
• Indonesian: penyanyi (id)
• Irish: amhránaí m
• Italian: cantante (it) c
• Japanese: 歌手 (ja) (かしゅ, kashu)
• Kazakh: әнші (kk) (änşi)

• Khmer: អ្នកចំរៀង (neak chɑmriəng), អ្នកច្រៀង (neak chrieng)
• Korean: 가수 (ko) (gasu) (歌手 (ko))
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: گۆرانی بێژ‏‎

• Lao: ນັກຮ້ອງ (nak hǭng)
• Latin: cantor (la) m, cantrix f
• Latvian: dziedātājs m, dziedātāja f
• Lithuanian: dainininkas m, dainininkė f
• Lojban: sanga (jbo)
• Low German:

  German Low German: Singer m, Singerin f, Singersch f, Singersche f

• Macedonian: пејач m (pejač), пејачка f (pejačka)
• Malay: penyanyi, biduan m, biduanita f, vokalis, tukang nyanyi, pelagu
• Maori: kaiwaiata
• Norman: chanteux m, chant'rêsse f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sanger (no) m, sangerinne (no) m, f (female)

  Nynorsk: songar m, songarinne f (female)

• Occitan: cantaire (oc) m, cantaira f
• Old Provençal: chantador m
• Persian: خواننده‏‎ (fa) (xânande)
• Polish: piosenkarz (pl) m, piosenkarka (pl) f, śpiewak (pl) m, śpiewaczka (pl) f
• Portuguese: cantor (pt) m, cantora (pt) f
• Romanian: cântăreț (ro) m, cântăreață (ro) f
• Romansch: chantadur m, chantadura f
• Russian: певе́ц (ru) m (pevéc), певи́ца (ru) f (pevíca), вокали́ст (ru) m (vokalíst), вокали́стка (ru) f (vokalístka)
• Scottish Gaelic: seinneadair, òranaiche m, neach-seinn m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: певач m, певачица f

  Roman: pevač (sh) m, pevačica (sh) f

• Slovak: spevák m, speváčka f
• Slovene: pevec (sl) m, pevka f
• Spanish: cantante (es) m, f, cantor m, cantora f
• Swedish: sångare (sv) c (male), sångerska (sv) c (female)
• Taos: yò’óna
• Tatar: җырчы (tt) (cırçı)
• Telugu: పాటగాడు m (pāṭagāḍu), పాటగత్తె f (pāṭagatte)
• Thai: นักร้อง (th) (nák-rɔ́ɔng)
• Turkish: şarkıcı (tr), şantör (tr) m, şantöz (tr) f
• Ukrainian: співа́к m (spivák), співа́чка f (spiváčka)
• Urdu: گایک‏‎ m (gāyak), گایکا‏‎ f (gāyikā)
• Vietnamese: ca sĩ (vi)
• Walloon: tchanteu (wa) m, tchanteuse f
• Welsh: canwr m, cantores f
• Yiddish: זינגער‏‎ m (zinger), זינגערין‏‎ f (zingerin)

dance figure

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Ido: ^{(please verify)} kantisto
• Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} stranbêj

• Occitan: ^{(please verify)} cantaire
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} cântăreață f, ^{(please verify)} cântăreț m

Etymology 2Edit

From singe +‎ -er.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪnd͡ʒə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɪndʒə(ɹ)

NounEdit

singer (plural singers)

1. A person who, or device which, singes.
2. A machine for singeing cloth.

TranslationsEdit

person or device that singes

• Italian: gazatrice f

AnagramsEdit

• Negris, nigres, re-nigs, re-sign, reigns, resign, resing, signer

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FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

In at least the ape sense, from singe (“monkey”).

VerbEdit

singer

1. to ape
2. to sprinkle with flour

ConjugationEdit

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written singe- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a “soft” /ʒ/ and not a “hard” /ɡ/). This spelling-change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.

  Conjugation of singer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		singer			avoir singé
gerund		en singeant			en ayant singé
present participle		singeant /sɛ̃.ʒɑ̃/
past participle		singé /sɛ̃.ʒe/
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	singe /sɛ̃ʒ/	singes /sɛ̃ʒ/	singe /sɛ̃ʒ/	singeons /sɛ̃.ʒɔ̃/	singez /sɛ̃.ʒe/	singent /sɛ̃ʒ/
	imperfect	singeais /sɛ̃.ʒɛ/	singeais /sɛ̃.ʒɛ/	singeait /sɛ̃.ʒɛ/	singions /sɛ̃.ʒjɔ̃/	singiez /sɛ̃.ʒje/	singeaient /sɛ̃.ʒɛ/
	past historic1	singeai /sɛ̃.ʒe/	singeas /sɛ̃.ʒa/	singea /sɛ̃.ʒa/	singeâmes /sɛ̃.ʒam/	singeâtes /sɛ̃.ʒat/	singèrent /sɛ̃.ʒɛʁ/
	future	singerai /sɛ̃ʒ.ʁe/	singeras /sɛ̃ʒ.ʁa/	singera /sɛ̃ʒ.ʁa/	singerons /sɛ̃ʒ.ʁɔ̃/	singerez /sɛ̃ʒ.ʁe/	singeront /sɛ̃ʒ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	singerais /sɛ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/	singerais /sɛ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/	singerait /sɛ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/	singerions /sɛ̃.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/	singeriez /sɛ̃.ʒə.ʁje/	singeraient /sɛ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/
compound tenses	present perfect	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior1	Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	singe /sɛ̃ʒ/	singes /sɛ̃ʒ/	singe /sɛ̃ʒ/	singions /sɛ̃.ʒjɔ̃/	singiez /sɛ̃.ʒje/	singent /sɛ̃ʒ/
	imperfect1	singeasse /sɛ̃.ʒas/	singeasses /sɛ̃.ʒas/	singeât /sɛ̃.ʒa/	singeassions /sɛ̃.ʒa.sjɔ̃/	singeassiez /sɛ̃.ʒa.sje/	singeassent /sɛ̃.ʒas/
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect1	Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	singe /sɛ̃ʒ/	—	singeons /sɛ̃.ʒɔ̃/	singez /sɛ̃.ʒe/	—
1literary tenses

AnagramsEdit

• signer

Further readingEdit

• “singer” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).