turner

See also: Turner

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: tûrʹnər; IPA^(key): /ˈtɝ.nɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tûʹnə(r); IPA^(key): /ˈtɜː.nə(ɹ)/

• Audio (AU)

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From Middle English turner, torner, tornere, turnere, turnare, equivalent to turn +‎ -er. Also from Middle English turnour, tornour, tournour, turnoure, from Old French tornour, tourneour, tourneur, tornëor (“one who fashions something by turning”).

Noun

turner (plural turners)

1. One who or that which turns.
2. A person who turns and shapes wood etc. on a lathe.
3. A kitchen utensil used for turning food.

   Synonyms: fish slice, spatula

4. (zoology) A variety of pigeon; a tumbler.
5. (cricket) A very dry pitch on which the ball will turn with ease.

Derived terms

• head-turner
• leaf-turner
• neck-turner
• page-turner
• pancake turner
• trick turner
• U-turner

 

Translations

person working a lathe

• Arabic: خَرَّاط m (ḵarrāṭ)
• Armenian: խառատ (hy) (xaṙat)
• Azerbaijani: tokar, tornaçı
• Belarusian: то́кар m (tókar)
• Bulgarian: струга́р (bg) m (strugár)
• Burmese: ပန်းပွတ်သည် (my) (pan:pwatsany)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 車工／车工 (zh) (chēgōng)

• Crimean Tatar: tornacı
• Czech: soustružník (cs) m, soustružnice f
• Danish: drejer c
• Dutch: draaier (nl) m
• Estonian: treial
• Finnish: sorvari (fi), sorvaaja (fi)
• French: tourneur (fr) m, tourneuse (fr) f, décolleteur (fr) m, décolleteuse (fr) f
• Georgian: ხარატი (xaraṭi)
• German: Drechsler m, Drechslerin f, Dreher (de) m, Dreherin (de) m
• Greek: τορναδόρος (el) m (tornadóros)
• Hindi: ख़रादी m (xarādī)
• Hungarian: esztergályos (hu)
• Italian: tornitore (it) m
• Japanese: 旋盤工 (ja) (せんばんこう, senbankō)
• Kazakh: қырнаушы (qyrnauşy), токарь (tokar)
• Korean: 선반공(旋盤工) (seonban'gong)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: tornekar

• Kyrgyz: токарь (ky) (tokar)
• Macedonian: стру́гар m (strúgar)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: токарь (mn) (tokarʹ)

• Persian: خراط (fa) (xarrât)
• Polish: tokarz (pl) m
• Portuguese: torneiro (pt) m, torneador m
• Romanian: strungar (ro) m, strungăriță (ro) f
• Russian: то́карь (ru) m (tókarʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: стру̀га̄р m

  Roman: strùgār (sh) m

• Slovak: sústružník m
• Slovene: strugar m, strugarka f
• Spanish: tornero m, torneador m
• Swedish: svarvare (sv) c
• Tajik: харрот (xarrot)
• Turkish: tornacı (tr)
• Turkmen: tokar
• Ukrainian: то́кар m (tókar)
• Urdu: خراط m (xarrāt)
• Uzbek: tokar (uz), xarrot (uz)

kitchen utensil

• Catalan: giradora (ca) f
• Finnish: paistinlasta (fi), lasta (fi)
• Italian: paletta (it) f
• Polish: łopatka kuchenna f, szpatułka kuchenna f
• Swedish: stekspade (sv) c
• Tagalog: siyansi

Etymology 2

From German Turner (“gymnast”).

Noun

turner (plural turners)

1. (sports) An acrobat or gymnast, especially (historical) a member of the German Turnvereine, German-American gymnastic clubs that also served as nationalist political groups.

Etymology 3

Noun

turner (plural turners)

1. (historical) An old Scottish copper coin worth two pence, issued by King James VI.

Further reading

• “turner”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “turner”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “turner”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “turner”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.

Anagrams

• return

Dutch

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Noun

turner m (plural turners, diminutive turnertje n)

1. gymnast

Latin

Etymology

Latinised German Thurner (“trumpeter, bugler”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtur.ner/, [ˈt̪ʊrnɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtur.ner/, [ˈt̪urner]

Noun

turner m (genitive turnerī); second declension

1. bugler
2. trumpeter

Declension

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	turner	turnera	turnerum		turnerī	turnerae	turnera
Genitive	turnerī	turnerae	turnerī		turnerōrum	turnerārum	turnerōrum
Dative	turnerō		turnerō		turnerīs
Accusative	turnerum	turneram	turnerum		turnerōs	turnerās	turnera
Ablative	turnerō	turnerā	turnerō		turnerīs
Vocative	turner	turnera	turnerum		turnerī	turnerae	turnera

Synonyms

• (trumpeter): tubicinātor, tubocantius, tubicen

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

turner m (definite singular turneren, indefinite plural turnere, definite plural turnerne)

1. gymnast

Related terms

• turn

References

• “turner” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Old French

Verb

turner

1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of torner

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-rns, *-rnt are modified to rz, rt. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

    Conjugation of turner (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		turner			avoir turné
gerund		en turnant			gerund of avoir + past participle
present participle		turnant
past participle		turné
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		jo	tu	il	nos	vos	il
simple tenses	present	turn	turnes	turne	turnons	turnez	turnent
	imperfect	turnoie, turneie, turnoe, turneve	turnoies, turneies, turnoes, turneves	turnoit, turneit, turnot, turneve	turniiens, turniens	turniiez, turniez	turnoient, turneient, turnoent, turnevent
	preterite	turnai	turnas	turna	turnames	turnastes	turnerent
	future	turnerai	turneras	turnera	turnerons	turneroiz, turnereiz, turnerez	turneront
	conditional	turneroie, turnereie	turneroies, turnereies	turneroit, turnereit	turneriiens, turneriens	turneriiez, turneriez	turneroient, turnereient
compound tenses	present perfect	present tense of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect tense of avoir + past participle
	past anterior	preterite tense of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future tense of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional tense of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que jo	que tu	qu’il	que nos	que vos	qu’il
simple tenses	present	turn	turz	turt	turnons	turnez	turnent
	imperfect	turnasse	turnasses	turnast	turnissons, turnissiens	turnissoiz, turnissez, turnissiez	turnassent
compound tenses	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nos	vos	–
		—	turne	—	turnons	turnez	—

Romansch

Alternative forms

• turnar (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran)
• tuornar (Vallader)

Etymology

From Latin tornō, tornāre (“turn”), from tornus (“lathe”).

Verb

turner

1. (Puter) to return, go back, come back
2. (Puter) to return, come back (home)