carpentry

carpentry

English

Etymology

From Middle English carpentrie, from Anglo-Norman carpenterie, from Old Northern French (compare French charpenterie). See carpenter.

Noun

carpentry (countable and uncountable, plural carpentries)

1. (uncountable) The trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures; woodworking.
2. (countable) A carpenter's workshop.

Translations

trade of cutting and joining timber

Catalan: fusteria f Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Finnish: puusepäntyö French: charpenterie (fr) f Galician: carpintaría (gl) f German: Schreinerei (de) f, Tischlerei f, Zimmerei (de) f Greek: ξυλουργική (el) f (xylourgikí) Hebrew: נגרות‎ (he) f (nagarut) Icelandic: trésmíði m Irish: siúinéireacht f Italian: carpenteria (it) f

Kurdish: Sorani: دارتاشی‎ (ku) (dartaşî) Macedonian: дрводе́лство n (drvodélstvo) Persian: نجاری‎ (fa) (najjâri) Polish: stolarstwo (pl) n Portuguese: carpintaria (pt) f, marcenaria (pt) f Russian: столя́рничество (ru) n (stoljárničestvo), плотничье де́ло (plotničʹje délo), плотницкие работы (plotnickije raboty) Spanish: carpintería (es) f Telugu: వడ్రంగము (te) (vaḍraṅgamu) Urdu: نجاری‎ f (najjārī) Walloon: tcherpetreye (wa) f

carpenter's workshop

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Finnish: puusepänliike, puusepän paja

Greek: ξυλουργείο (el) n (xylourgeío) Icelandic: trésmiðja f Italian: falegnameria (it) f

See also

• cabinetmaking
• joinery

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