Etymology
Inherited from Middle English tiler, tilar, tilere, tylere, tighelar, tyghelere, tygelere, probably from Old English *tiglere, *tigelere (“one who lays tile, tiler”), equivalent to tile + -er.
Noun
tiler (plural tilers)
- A person who sets tiles.
- (Freemasonry) A doorkeeper or attendant at a lodge of Freemasons.
Translations
person who sets tiles
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 瓦工 (zh) (wǎgōng)
- Czech: dlaždič m, dlaždička m, obkladač m
- Danish: fliselægger c
- Dutch: tegelzetter (nl) m
- Finnish: laatoittaja
- French: carreleur (fr) m, carreleuse (fr) f
- German: Fliesenleger (de) m, Fliesenlegerin (de) f, Fliesenverleger m, Fliesenverlegerin f
- Greek: πλακάς (el) m (plakás) (colloquial)
- Icelandic: flísalagningamaður m
- Italian: piastrellista (it) m or f
- Macedonian: пло́чкар m (plóčkar)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: fliselegger (no) m, flislegger (no) m
- Nynorsk: fliseleggar m, fliseleggjar m, flisleggar m, flisleggjar m
- Ottoman Turkish: كرمیدجی (kiremidci)
- Polish: fliziarz (pl) m, glazurnik m, kafelkarz m, płytkarz (pl) m, terakociarz m
- Romanian: țiglar (ro) m
- Russian: пли́точник (ru) m (plítočnik)
- Spanish: embaldosador m embaldosadora f, solador (es) m, soladora f
- Swedish: taktäckare c, plattsättare (sv) c, tegeltäckare c
- Turkish: çatı ustası, döşemeci (tr), döşeme ustası, fayansçı (tr), kiremitçi (tr)
- Welsh: töwr m, teilsiwr m
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