# gamer
## English
### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ˈɡeɪmɚ/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɡeɪmə/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪmə(ɹ)

### Etymology 1

From Middle English gamer, attested since before 1450 as a common noun and possibly since 1248 in the name of one Johannes le Gamer. Equivalent to game (noun) +‎ -er (occupational suffix).

#### Noun

gamer (plural gamers)
* A person who plays any kind of game.
    Synonym: gameplayer
** 1422, Code of Laws of Walsall:
    […] any dice-player, carder, tennis player, or other unlawful gamer.
** 2002, Gary Alan Fine, Shared Fantasy: Role Playing Games as Social Worlds, page 93:These dice are the gamers' weapons […]
** A person whose hobby is video games.
    Synonym: videogamer
    Hypernym: gameplayer
*** 2019, The Scottish Parliament, Motion S5M-15504
    That the Parliament congratulates the online gamer, Harry Brewis, who is known by the handle HBomberGuy, […]
* A person who games the system.
    Hypernyms: cheat, cheater, self-server
    Near-synonym: gamesman
** 2016, Eric Lovald, Hugely Confused:[…] the real "takers" in this country are commercial gamers of the system who are only in it to swipe a fast buck from the common trust.
* (obsolete) A gambler.
    Synonym: punter
    Hyponym: piker
** 1845 The Head Quarters, Volume III, Number 122 (November 19, 1845)
    The gamer is farther from restoration even than the drunkard, because what he does he does in the light of sobriety and reason.

##### Derived terms

* back-seat gamer
* backseat gamer
* board gamer
* Gamergate
* GamerGate
* gamer gunk
* gamer neck
* gamer pants
* gamerscore
* gamertag
* gamer word
* gamery
* gaymer
* heated gamer moment
* netgamer
* non-gamer
* nongamer
* power gamer
* pro-gamer
* retrogamer
* video gamer
* wargamer

##### Related terms

* gaming

##### Descendants

* → Bulgarian: геймър (gejmǎr)
* → Danish: gamer
* → Dutch: gamer
* → French: gamer
* → Georgian: გეიმერი (geimeri)
* → German: Gamer
* → Gulf Arabic: قيمر (gēmar), گيمر (gēmar)
* → Japanese: ゲーマー (gēmā)
* → Korean: 게이머 (geimeo)
* → Macedonian: ге́јмер (géjmer)
* → Persian: گیمر (geymer)
* → Portuguese: gamer, guêimer
* → Russian: ге́ймер (géjmer)
* → Spanish: gamer
* → Swedish: gamer
* → Ukrainian: ге́ймер (héjmer), ґе́ймер (géjmer)

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From game (adjective) +‎ -er (comparative suffix).

#### Adjective

gamer
* comparative form of game: more game

### References

* Gamer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* “gamer”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
* “gamer”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

### References

* ↑ a. 1450, Code of Laws governing Walsall, in Willmore Hist. (167): "Also it is ordeyned, that who soevyr suffer eny dise-player, carder, tenys player, or other unliefull gamer, to use unlifull games in their house, to lese for ev[er]y suche defaute vi s. viii d."
* ↑ https://archive.org/details/closerollssupple0000grea/page/68/mode/1up?q=%22Johannes+le+Gamer%22

### Anagrams

* Mager, Marge, e-gram, grame, magre, marge, regma

## Danish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English gamer.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɡ̊ɛjmʌ]

### Noun

gamer c (singular definite gameren, plural indefinite gamere)
* gamer

#### Inflection
### References

* “gamer” in Den Danske Ordbog

### Anagrams

* magre

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from English gamer. Equivalent to gamen +‎ -er.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡeː.mər/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: ga‧mer

### Noun

gamer m (plural gamers)
* a gamer, someone who plays video games

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English gamer.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡɛ.mœʁ/ ~ /ɡe.mœʁ/
* (Canada, Missouri, New England, Louisiana) IPA: /ɡeɪmɚ/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophone: gamers

### Noun

gamer m (plural gamers)
* a person whose hobby is video games
* a high-end laptop designed to play video games

## Indonesian
### Noun

gamer (plural gamer-gamer)
* (Kalimantan) Calophyllum soulattri, a species of bintangor

#### Synonyms

* bintangur
* kapur naga
* sulatri

## Malay

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### Etymology

From Proto-Malayic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian, from Proto-Austronesian.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡamer/
* Rhymes: -mer, -er

### Noun

gamer (Jawi spelling ݢامر, informal 1st possessive gamerku, 2nd possessive gamermu, 3rd possessive gamernya)
* feeling hesitant or anxious to make something, usually because of shame.

#### See also

* janggal (“awkward”)
* malu (“shame”)
* teragak-agak (“hesitate”)

#### Further reading

* “gamer” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

## Middle English
### Etymology

From game +‎ -ere.

### Noun

gamer (plural gamers)
* gamer; gamester (person who plays games)

#### Descendants

* English: gamer

### References

* “gāmer, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

## Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* guêimer (Brazil, rare)

### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English gamer.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈɡej.meʁ/ [ˈɡeɪ̯.meh]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈɡej.meʁ/ [ˈɡeɪ̯.meh]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /ˈɡej.meɾ/ [ˈɡeɪ̯.meɾ]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈɡej.meʁ/ [ˈɡeɪ̯.meχ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈɡej.meɻ/ [ˈɡeɪ̯.meɻ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈɡɐj.mɐɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈɡɐj.mɐɾ/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ˈɡej.mɐɾ/
** (Central Portugal) IPA: /ˈɡej.mɐɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ˈɡe.mɐɾ/

### Noun

gamer m or f by sense (plural gamers)
* gamer (a person who plays video games)
    Synonym: videojogador

### Adjective

gamer (invariable)
* (relational) gaming

#### Derived terms

* cadeira gamer
* mouse gamer
* notebook gamer
* PC gamer

## Spanish
### Etymology

English gamer

### Noun

gamer m or f by sense (plural gamers)
* gamer