# archer
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɑː(ɹ).t͡ʃə(ɹ)/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /ˈɑɹt͡ʃɚ/
* Homophone: Archer
* Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t͡ʃə(ɹ)

### Etymology 1

from Middle English archer, archere, from Old French archier, from Vulgar Latin *arcārius, alteration of arcuārius, from Latin arcus (“bow”). Displaced native Old English sċytta.

#### Noun

archer (plural archers)
* One who shoots an arrow from a bow or a bolt from a crossbow.
    Synonyms: bowman, crossbowman, marksman, toxophilite, toxotes
* (historical, obsolete) The bishop in chess.

##### Derived terms

* archeress
* archerfish
* archership
* archery
* horse archer

##### Translations

Afrikaans: boogskutter (af)
Albanian: shigjetar (sq) m
Arabic: (indefinite) رَامٍ m (rāmin), (definite) الرَّامِي m (ar-rāmī)
Armenian: նետաձիգ (hy) (netajig)
Asturian: arqueru m
Belarusian: лу́чнік m (lúčnik), лу́чніца f (lúčnica)
Catalan: arquer (ca) m
Chinese:
Hokkien: 射手 (siā-chhiú)
Mandarin: 射手 (zh) (shèshǒu), 弓箭手 (zh) (gōngjiànshǒu)
Coptic: ⲣⲉϥⲛⲉϫⲥⲁϯ m (refnečsati)
Czech: lučištník (cs) m, lukostřelec m
Danish: bueskytte c
Dutch: boogschutter (nl) m
Dzongkha: please add this translation if you can
Egyptian: (pḏtj)
Esperanto: arkpafisto, arbalestisto
Estonian: vibukütt
Ewe: aŋutrɔdala n
Finnish: jousiampuja (fi), jousimies (fi)
French: archer (fr) m, arbalétrier (fr) m
Galician: arqueiro (gl) m, seteiro m
Georgian: მშვილდოსანი (mšvildosani)
German: Bogenschütze (de) m
Greek: τοξότης (el) m (toxótis)
Ancient: τοξότης m (toxótēs)
Hebrew: קַשָּׁת (he) m (kashshat)
Hungarian: íjász (hu)
Icelandic: bogmaður (is) m
Indonesian: pemanah (id)
Italian: arciere (it) m
Japanese: 射手 (ja) (しゃしゅ, shashu), 射手 (ja) (いて, ite)
Kazakh: садақшы (sadaqşy)
Khmer: ធនុហត្ថ (thĕəʼnuʼ hat)
Korean: 사수(射手) (ko) (sasu)
Latin: arcarius m, sagittarius m
Latvian: please add this translation if you can
Lithuanian: kìlpininkas m
Macedonian: стрелец m (strelec), стреличар m (streličar)
Malay: pemanah (ms)
Manx: bowder m, boweyder m, sideyr m
Maori: kaikōpere
Marathi: धनुर्धर m (dhanurdhar), धनुर्धारी m (dhanurdhārī), तिरंदाज m (tirandāj)
Mari:
Eastern Mari: пикш дене лӱйышӧ (pikš deńe lüjyšö)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: харваач (mn) (xarvaač)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: bueskytter m
Nynorsk: bogeskyttar m
Occitan: arquièr (oc) m
Ojibwe: mitigwaabinini
Old English: sċytta m
Old Portuguese: arqueiro
Palmyrene Aramaic: 𐡳𐡵𐡨𐡠 m (qšṭʾ)
Persian: کماندار (fa) (kamândâr), کمانور (kamânvar), تیرانداز (fa) (tir-andâz)
Polish: łucznik (pl) m, łuczniczka (pl) f
Portuguese: arqueiro (pt) m
Romagnol: arcér m
Romanian: arcaș (ro) m, săgetător (ro) m
Russian: лу́чник (ru) m (lúčnik), лу́чница (ru) f (lúčnica), стрело́к из лу́ка m (strelók iz lúka)
Scottish Gaelic: boghadair m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: лукострелац, стре́лац m, стрѐлича̄р m
Roman: lukostrelac, strélac (sh), strèličār (sh)
Sicilian: arceri (scn) m
Slovak: lukostrelec m
Slovene: lokostrelec m
Spanish: arquero (es) m
Swedish: bågskytt (sv) c
Tagalog: mamamana
Telugu: విలుకాడు (te) (vilukāḍu)
Thai: นักยิงธนู (nák-ying-tá-nuu)
Tibetan: དཔག་ཆེན (dpag chen), མདའ་མཁན (mda' mkhan), མདའ་རྒྱབ་མཁན (mda' rgyab mkhan), མདའ་བསྣུན (mda' bsnun), མདའ་པ (mda' pa), མདའ་ཚན་ཆེན་པོ (mda' tshan chen po), འཕོང་སྐྱེན་པ ('phong skyen pa), འཕོང་མཁན ('phong mkhan)
Turkish: okçu (tr), kemankeş (tr) sg
Tuvan: адыгжы (adıgjı)
Ugaritic: 𐎖𐎌𐎚 (qšt)
Ukrainian: лу́чник m (lúčnyk), лу́чниця f (lúčnycja)
Vietnamese: xạ thủ (vi) (射手)
Walloon: airtchî (wa) m
Welsh: saethydd m, saethyddion pl
Yiddish: בויגן־שיסער m (boygn-shiser), פֿײַלן־בויגער m (fayln-boyger)
Zazaki: timkar c :

#### See also

* arrow
* bow
* quiver
* Sagittarius
* sagittary

### Etymology 2
#### Adjective

archer
* comparative form of arch: more arch

### Anagrams

* charre

## French
### Etymology

From Middle French and Old French archier, from Vulgar Latin *arcārius, from Classical Latin arcuārius, derived from Latin arcus (“bow”). Equivalent to arc +‎ -er.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aʁ.ʃe/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

archer m (plural archers, feminine archère)
* archer
    Hyponym: arbalétrier

#### Derived terms

* archer cracheur
* poisson archer

#### Related terms

* arc
* arche
* archerie

### Further reading

* “archer” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
* “archer” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
* “archer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Scots
### Noun

archer (plural archers)
* Alternative form of aircher

### References

* “archer, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.