diver

See also: díver and дівер

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Etymology

From dive +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪ̯və(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -aɪvə(ɹ)

Noun

diver (plural divers)

1. Someone who dives, especially as a sport.

   Synonym: (obsolete) urinator

   • 1979 August 25, “Body Found Near the Fenway”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 6, page 2:

     A passerby noticed the man's body protruding from the water at about 9 p.m. and Boston and Metropolitan police divers were called to the scene.

2. Someone who works underwater; a frogman.
3. (UK, Ireland) loon (Gavia)
4. The New Zealand sand diver.
5. The long-finned sand diver.
6. (London, dated) A passenger carrying vehicle using an underground route; specially, a diver tram, one using the former Kingsway tramway subway (1906-1952).
7. (slang, obsolete) pickpocket
8. (sports) A competitor in certain sports who is known to regularly imitate being fouled, with the purpose of getting his/her opponent penalised.

Derived terms

• autem diver
• black-diver
• black-throated diver
• Cartesian diver
• cave diver
• deep diver
• diverless
• dumpster diver
• dumpster-diver
• dun diver
• earth-diver
• free-diver
• graveldiver
• great northern diver
• hell-diver
• muff diver
• muff-diver
• Pacific diver
• paradiver
• pearl diver
• red-throated diver
• ruddy diver
• sand diver
• sat diver
• saturation diver
• scuba diver
• skin-diver
• smoke diver
• spider diver
• sportdiver
• stage diver
• synchronized diver
• web diver
• white-billed diver

Translations

underwater

Arabic: غَطَّاسٌ m (ḡaṭṭāsun), غَوَّاصٌ m (ḡawwāṣun) Armenian: ջրասուզակ (hy) (ǰrasuzak) Assamese: ডুবাৰু (dubaru) Azerbaijani: dalğıc (az) Bulgarian: гмуркач m (gmurkač) Catalan: bus (ca) m or f Chinese: Mandarin: 潛水員 / 潜水员 (zh) (qiánshuǐyuán) Czech: potápěč (cs) m, potápěčka f Danish: dykker (da) c Dutch: duiker (nl) m, duikster (nl) f Esperanto: plonĝanto, plonĝantino (female), plonĝisto, plonĝistino (female), subakvisto, subakvistino (female) Estonian: sukelduja Faroese: kavari m Finnish: sukeltaja (fi) French: plongeur (fr) m, plongeuse (fr) f Galician: mergullador (gl) m, mergulladora f German: Taucher (de) m, Taucherin (de) f (underwater) Greek: δύτης (el) m (dýtis) Hebrew: צוֹלֵל (he) m (tolel) Hindi: ग़ोताख़ोर m (ġotāxor), गोताखोर (hi) m (gotākhor) Hungarian: búvár (hu) Icelandic: kafari (is) m Italian: tuffatore (it) m, tuffatrice (it) f, tuffista m or f, palombaro (it) m, palombara (it) f, sommozzatore (it) m, sommozzatrice (it) f Japanese: 潜水夫 (ja) (せんすいふ, sensuifu), 潜り (ja) (もぐり, moguri), ダイバー (ja) (daibā) Kalmyk: булхач (bulxaç) Korean: 잠수부(潜水夫) (ko) (jamsubu) (underwater) Latin: ūrīnātor m, ūrīnātrīx f Luxembourgish: Daucher m Macedonian: нуркач m (nurkač) Norwegian: Bokmål: stuper m (in sport), dykker m (underwater) Nynorsk: stupar m (in sport), dukkar m, dykkar (nn) m (underwater) Ottoman Turkish: طالغج (dalgıc) Polish: nurek (pl) m Portuguese: mergulhador (pt) m, mergulhadora f Romanian: scufundător (ro) m, scafandru (ro) m, scafandrier (ro) m Russian: ныря́льщик (ru) m (nyrjálʹščik), ныря́льщица (ru) f (nyrjálʹščica), водола́з (ru) m (vodoláz), водола́зка (ru) f (vodolázka) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ро̀нилац m, гњу́рац m Latin: rònilac (sh) m, gnjúrac (sh) m Spanish: buzo (es) m or f, submarinista (es) m or f, buceador (es) m, búzano m, escafandrista m or f Swedish: dykare (sv) c Tagalog: maninisid Thai: นักกระโดดน้ำ (nák-grà-dòot-náam) Turkish: dalgıç (tr) Ukrainian: водола́з m (vodoláz), норе́ць m (norécʹ) Vietnamese: thợ lặn (vi)

jumping

Spanish: clavadista f, zambullidor (es) m, zabullidor (es) m

someone who works underwater

Armenian: ջրասուզակ (hy) (ǰrasuzak) Bulgarian: водолаз (bg) m (vodolaz) Catalan: bus (ca) m or f, bussejador m, bussejadora f Esperanto: subakvisto, subakvistino (female), plonĝisto, plonĝistino (female) Estonian: tuuker Finnish: sukeltaja (fi) Galician: mergullador (gl) m, mergulladora f Hebrew: אָמוֹדַאי (he) m (amodai), צוֹלֵל (he) m (tsolel) Hindi: ग़ोताख़ोर m (ġotāxor), गोताखोर (hi) m (gotākhor) Norwegian: Bokmål: dykker m Nynorsk: dukkar m, dykkar (nn) m Ottoman Turkish: طالغج (dalgıc) Russian: водола́з (ru) m (vodoláz), водола́зка (ru) f (vodolázka) Spanish: somorgujador m Vietnamese: thợ lặn (vi)

Gavia — see loon

sports: player who pretends fouls

Spanish: piscinero m, piscinera f

See also

• diving
• scuba

Anagrams

• Verdi, deriv., drive, rived, vired

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• dȅver (Ekavian)
• djȅver (Ijekavian)
• đȅver (Montenegro)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *děverь.

Noun

dȉver m anim (Cyrillic spelling ди̏вер)

1. (Chakavian, Ikavian) brother-in-law (one's husband's brother)