English
Etymology
From Middle English boksellere, bok-sillere, equivalent to book + seller.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈbʊksɛlɚ/
Noun
bookseller (plural booksellers)
- A person engaged in the business of selling books.
- A business that sells books.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
person
- Arabic: كتابى sg or m, كتبي sg or m or c
- Armenian: գրավաճառ (hy) (gravačaṙ), բուկինիստ (hy) (bukinist) (of second-hand or ancient books)
- Asturian: llibreru m
- Belarusian: букіні́ст m (bukiníst) (a seller of second hand books)
- Catalan: llibreter (ca) m, llibretera (ca) f, llibrer m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 賣書者 / 卖书者 (màishūzhě)
- Czech: knihkupec m
- Danish: boghandler c
- Estonian: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: kirjakauppias (fi) (one who runs his own business); kirjamyyjä (one who works for someone)
- French: libraire (fr) m or f, bouquiniste (fr) m or f
- Friulian: librâr m
- Galician: libreiro (gl) m
- German: Buchhändler (de) m, Buchhändlerin (de) f, Buchverkäufer (de) m, Buchverkäuferin (de) f
- Greek:
- Ancient: βιβλιοπώλης m (bibliopṓlēs)
- Hungarian: könyvárus (hu)
- Ido: libristo (io), librovendisto (io)
- Italian: libraio (it) m, libraia (it) f
- Latin: librārius m, bibliopola c
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: knygų pardavėjas m, knygininkas m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: bokhandler (no) m
- Nynorsk: bokhandlar m
- Occitan: librari m
- Ottoman Turkish: كتابجی (kitabcı)
- Polish: księgarz (pl) m, bukinista (pl) m
- Portuguese: livreiro (pt) m
- Romanian: librar (ro) m
- Russian: книготорго́вец (ru) m (knigotorgóvec), продаве́ц книг m (prodavéc knig), букини́ст (ru) (bukiníst) (usually of second-hand or ancient books)
- Serbo-Croatian: knjižar (sh) m
- Sicilian: libbraru m
- Slovak: kníhkupec m
- Spanish: librero (es) m, librera (es) f
- Swedish: bokhandlare (sv) c
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: kitapçı (tr)
- Ukrainian: книгопродаве́ць m (knyhoprodavécʹ), букіні́ст (uk) m (bukiníst)
- Venetan: łibrer m, librer m, librar m
- Volapük: (♂♀) bukiselan (vo), (♂) bukihiselan, (♀) bukijiselan
- Yoruba: atàwé, tàwé-tàwé
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