carpentry

English

Etymology

From Middle English carpentrie, from Anglo-Norman carpenterie, from Old Northern French (compare French charpenterie). See carpenter.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑː.pɪn.tri/
• Hyphenation: carp‧entry

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

carpentry (countable and uncountable, plural carpentries)

2. (uncountable) The trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures; woodworking.
4. (countable) A carpenter's workshop.
6. (uncountable) A collection of timber connected by being framed together, as the pieces of a roof, floor, etc.; work done by a carpenter.

   fine carpentry for sale

Synonyms

• carpenting

Derived terms

• carpentry square
• petrified carpentry

 

Related terms

• see carpenter

Translations

trade of cutting and joining timber

• Arabic: نِجَارة f (nijāra)

  Moroccan Arabic: نجارة (njāra)

• Belarusian: цясля́рства n (cjasljárstva)
• Catalan: fusteria f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: tesařství (cs) n
• Danish: tømring c, tømrerarbejde c, beklædning c, tømrerhåndværk c
• Finnish: puusepäntyö
• French: charpenterie (fr) f
• Galician: carpintaría (gl) f
• German: Schreinerei (de) f, Tischlerei (de) f, Zimmerei (de) f
• Greek: ξυλουργική (el) f (xylourgikí)
• Hebrew: נגרות (he) f (nagarut)
• Hungarian: ácsmesterség (hu), ácsszakma, asztalosmesterség (hu), asztalosszakma
• Icelandic: trésmíði m
• Irish: siúinéireacht f, cearpantóireacht f
• Italian: carpenteria (it) f
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: دارتاشی (dartaşî)

• Macedonian: дрво́делство n (drvódelstvo), столарство n (stolarstvo)
• Middle English: carpentrie
• Ottoman Turkish: دولگرلك (dülgerlik)
• Persian: نجاری (fa) (najjâri)
• Polish: stolarstwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: carpintaria (pt) f, marcenaria (pt) f
• Romanian: tâmplărie (ro) f
• Russian: столя́рничество (ru) n (stoljárničestvo), плотничье де́ло (plotničʹje délo), плотницкие работы (plotnickije raboty), пло́тничество (ru) n (plótničestvo)
• Spanish: carpintería (es) f
• Telugu: వడ్రంగము (te) (vaḍraṅgamu)
• Turkish: dülgerlik (tr)
• Ukrainian: тесля́рство n (tesljárstvo)
• Urdu: نجاری f (najjārī)
• Walloon: tcherpetreye (wa) f

carpenter's workshop

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Danish: tømrerværksted n
• Finnish: puusepänliike, puusepän paja
• Galician: carpintaría (gl) f
• German: Tischlerei (de) f
• Greek: ξυλουργείο (el) n (xylourgeío)
• Hebrew: נַגָּרִיָּה (he) f (naggariyá)
• Hungarian: ácsműhely (hu), asztalosműhely (hu)
• Icelandic: trésmiðja f
• Italian: falegnameria (it) f
• Macedonian: столарница f (stolarnica)
• Portuguese: carpintaria (pt) f
• Romanian: tâmplărie (ro) f

work and objects produced by a carpenter

• Hungarian: ácsmunka (hu), ácsolat (hu), ácsolás (hu)
• Macedonian: столарија f (stolarija)

See also

• cabinetmaking
• joinery

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