tailor

See also: Tailor

English

Alternative forms

• tailour, taylor (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English taillour, from Anglo-Norman taillour, from Old French tailleor, from taillier, from Late Latin tāliō, from Latin tālea (“a cutting”). Doublet of tailleur.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈteɪlɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈteɪlə/

• Audio (US):

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• Homophone: tailer
• Rhymes: -eɪlə(ɹ)

Noun

tailor (plural tailors)

1. A person who makes, repairs, or alters clothes professionally, especially suits and men's clothing.

   He works as a tailor on Swanston Street.

2. (Australia) The bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix).
   • 1880, New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council, Journal (volume 30, part 3, page 460)

     The tailor — is that a sea fish — a line fish? It is a sea fish, but not a line fish. They will bite at a line, but they are not a fish you can depend on with the line.

Synonyms

• (fish): bluefish

Derived terms

• merchant tailor
• tailorbird
• tailoress
• tailor-fashion
• tailor-made
• tailor make
• tailor-make
• tailor's chalk
• tailor's dummy
• tailor's goose
• tailor's ham
• tailor's muscle
• tailor-style
• Tooley Street tailor

 

Related terms

• dressmaker
• seamster

Descendants

• → Esperanto: tajloro
• → Hausa: tēlà
• → Telugu: టైలరు (ṭailaru), టైలర్ (ṭailar)
• → Yoruba: télọ̀

Translations

person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession

• Albanian: rrobaqepës (sq) m, rrobaqepëse (sq) f, arnues (sq) m, arnuese (sq) f
• Arabic: خَيَّاط m (ḵayyāṭ), خَيَّاطَة f (ḵayyāṭa), تَرْزِي m (tarzī), تَرْزِيَّة f (tarziyya)

  Egyptian Arabic: خياط m (ḵayyāṭ), ترزي m (tarzī)

  Hijazi Arabic: خَيَّاط m (ḵayyāṭ)

• Armenian: դերձակ (hy) (derjak)
• Assamese: দৰ্জী (dorzi)
• Asturian: xastre (ast) m, sastre m
• Azerbaijani: dərzi (az)
• Bashkir: тегенсе (tegense)
• Basque: jostun (eu)
• Belarusian: краве́ц m (kravjéc), краўчы́ха f (kraŭčýxa)
• Bengali: দর্জি (bn) (dorji), দরজী (dorji), দরজি (bn) (dorji)
• Breton: kemener (br)
• Bulgarian: шива́ч (bg) m (šiváč), шива́чка f (šiváčka)
• Burmese: အပ်ချုပ်သမား (aphkyupsa.ma:)
• Carpathian Rusyn: крайчир m (krajčyr)
• Catalan: sastre (ca) m, sastressa (ca) f
• Chechen: тегархо (tegarxo)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 裁縫 / 裁缝 (coi⁴ fung^4-2)

  Mandarin: 裁縫 / 裁缝 (zh) (cáifeng), 裁縫師傅 / 裁缝师傅 (cáifeng shīfu)

• Cornish: tregher m
• Czech: krejčí (cs) m, krejčíř m
• Danish: skrædder (da) c, skrædderske c (female)
• Dutch: kleermaker (nl) m, kleermaakster (nl) f
• Esperanto: tajloro (eo), virtajloro (male), tajlorino (female)
• Estonian: rätsep
• Faroese: skraddari m
• Finnish: räätäli (fi), vaatturi (fi)
• French: tailleur (fr) m, tailleuse (fr) f
• Galician: xastre (gl) m, alfaiate (gl) m (archaic)
• Georgian: მკერავი (mḳeravi), თერძი (terʒi)
• German: Schneider (de) m, Schneiderin (de) f
• Greek: ράπτης (el) m (ráptis), ράφτης (el) m (ráftis), μόδιστρος (el) m (módistros) μοδίστρα (el) f (modístra)

  Ancient Greek: ῥαφιδεύς m (rhaphideús)

• Gujarati: દરજી (gu) (darjī)
• Hebrew: חַיָּט (he) m (khayát)
• Hindi: दर्ज़ी m or f (darzī)
• Hungarian: szabó (hu)
• Icelandic: klæðskeri (is) m, skraddari m
• Indonesian: penjahit (id)
• Ingrian: ompelija
• Irish: táilliúir m

  Middle Irish: táilliúr m

• Italian: sarto (it) m, sarta (it) f
• Japanese: 仕立て屋 (ja) (したてや, shitateya), テーラー (ja) (tērā)
• Kazakh: тігінші (tıgınşı)
• Khmer: ជាងកាត់ខោអាវ (ciəng kat khao ʼaaw)
• Korean: 재단사(裁斷師) (ko) (jaedansa)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: xeyat (ku), terzî (ku)

• Kyrgyz: тикмечи (ky) (tikmeci), машинечи (maşineci)
• Lao: ຊ່າງຕັດເຄື່ອງຜູ້ຊາຍ (sāng tat khư̄ang phū sāi)
• Latin: sartor m, sartrīx f, scissor m, vestitor m
• Latvian: drēbnieks m, šuvējs m
• Lithuanian: siuvėjas m, siuvėja f
• Livonian: skrūodõr
• Low German:

  German Low German: Snieder m, Sniederin f, Sniedersch f, Sniedersche f

• Macedonian: кро́јач m (krójač), кро́јачка f (krójačka), шнајдер m (šnajder) (slang), терзија m (terzija) (archaic)
• Malagasy: mpanjaitra (mg)
• Malay: tukang jahit
• Maltese: ħajjat m, ħajjata f
• Manchu: ᡮᠠᡳᡶᡠᠩ (ts'aifung)
• Manx: thalhear m
• Maori: kaitui
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: үйлчин (mn) (üjlčin)

• Norman: couôtuthyi m (Jersey), couôtuthiéthe f (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skredder m, skredderske f

  Nynorsk: skreddar m

• Occitan: sartre (oc) m, sastre m
• Old East Slavic: шьвьць m (šĭvĭcĭ)
• Old English: sēamere m, sēamestre f
• Old Norse: skraddari m
• Ottoman Turkish: ترزی (terzi), دیكیشجی (dikişci)
• Pashto: خياط (ps) m (xayāt)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: دَرْزی (darzi), خَیَّاط (xayyât)

• Piedmontese: sartor m
• Plautdietsch: Schnieda m
• Polish: krawiec (pl) m, krawcowa (pl) f, krawczyni (pl) f (regional), szwoczka (pl) f (Cieszyn Silesia)
• Portuguese: alfaiate (pt) m, xastre (pt) m (Portugal: Beira, Trás-os-Montes)
• Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi: ਦਰਜ਼ੀ m (darzī), ਦਰਜ਼ਣ f (darzaṇ)

• Romanian: croitor (ro) m, croitoreasă (ro) f
• Russian: портно́й (ru) m (portnój), портни́ха (ru) f (portníxa), швец (ru) m (švec), швея́ (ru) f (švejá)
• Scottish Gaelic: tàillear m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кро̀ја̄ч m, кроја̀чица f

  Roman: kròjāč (sh) m, krojàčica (sh) f

• Slovak: krajčír m, krajčírka f
• Slovene: krojáč (sl) m, krojáčica f
• Spanish: sastre (es) m or f, modisto (es) m, modista m or f
• Swahili: mshonaji
• Swedish: skräddare (sv) c, skrädderska (sv) c (female)
• Tagalog: mananahi, sastre
• Tajik: либосдӯз (libosdüz), дарзӣ (darzi), дӯзанда (düzanda), хайёт (xayyot), мошиначӣ (mošinači)
• Tamil: தையற்கலைஞர் (taiyaṟkalaiñar)
• Tatar: тегүче (tt) (tegüçe)
• Telugu: దర్జీ (te) (darjī)
• Thai: ช่างตัดเสื้อ (châang-dtàt-sʉ̂ʉa)
• Turkish: terzi (tr), dikici (tr), dikişçi (tr)
• Turkmen: tikinçi
• Ukrainian: краве́ць (uk) m (kravécʹ), кравчи́ня f (kravčýnja)
• Urdu: دَرْزی m or f (darzī), خَیَّاط m (xayyāt)
• Uyghur: تىكىمچى (tikimchi)
• Uzbek: mashinachi (uz), tikuvchi (uz)
• Vietnamese: thợ may (vi)
• Volapük: skrädan (vo), hiskrädan (male), jiskrädan (female)
• Welsh: teiliwr m
• Yiddish: שנײַדער m (shnayder), שנײַדערקע f (shnayderke)
• Yoruba: aránṣọ, télọ̀

female tailor

• Hungarian: szabónő (hu)
• Polish: krawcowa (pl) f (also used for a tailor's wife), krawczka f (dialectal)

Pomatomus saltatrix — see bluefish

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} kudristo (eo)
• Latvian: ^{(please verify)} drēbnieks

Verb

tailor (third-person singular simple present tailors, present participle tailoring, simple past and past participle tailored)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To make, repair, or alter clothes.

   We can tailor that jacket for you if you like.

3. (transitive) To make or adapt (something) for a specific need.

   The website was tailored to the client's needs.

   • 2024 December 16, Amanda M. Y. Chu, Damen H. Y. Woo, Agnes Tiwari, Helina Yuk, Mike K. P. So, “Which types of family caregivers are more prone to developing depression? Leveraging non-financial social support to mitigate depression”, in Current Psychology, →DOI:

     [C]aregivers from diverse backgrounds may experience variations in the emergence of depressive symptoms, necessitating distinct strategies for support tailored to their individual needs.

4. (transitive) To restrict (something) in order to meet a particular need.

   a narrowly tailored law

Translations

make, repair, or alter clothing

• Bulgarian: шия (bg) (šija)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 度身訂造 / 度身订造

  Mandarin: 量身定做

• Dutch: kleermaken (nl), op maat maken
• Finnish: räätälöidä (fi); korjailla (fi) (to repair or alter)
• Georgian: გაკერავს (gaḳeravs)
• German: schneidern (de)
• Macedonian: крои (kroi)
• Malay: jahit (ms)
• Portuguese: alfaiatar
• Romanian: croi (ro)
• Russian: шить (ru) (šitʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кројити

  Roman: krojiti (sh)

• Slovene: krojiti
• Spanish: confeccionar (es)

adapt for a specific need

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: afstemmen (nl)
• Finnish: räätälöidä (fi)
• Italian: calibrare (it)
• Norwegian: skredde
• Romanian: adapta (ro)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

restrict something to particular need

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: aanpassen (nl), afstemmen (nl)
• Finnish: räätälöidä (fi)
• French: adapter (fr)
• German: zuschneiden (de), anpassen (de)
• Macedonian: скројува (skrojuva)
• Portuguese: adaptar (pt), ajustar (pt)
• Romanian: adapta (ro)
• Russian: приспоса́бливать (ru) (prisposáblivatʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: укројити, кројити

  Roman: ukrojiti, krojiti (sh)

• Slovene: ukrojiti
• Spanish: adaptar (es), entallar (es)
• Swedish: skrädarsy, anpassa (sv)

See also

• Taylor

References

• Australian Fish and How to Catch Them, Richard Allan, Landsdowne Publishing, 1990, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• Liator, Rialto, Triola