English
Etymology
From tame + -er.
Pronunciation
Noun
tamer (plural tamers)
- One who tames or subdues.
1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:Only Enid could dare him at such a time, and even she felt occasionally that sinking of the heart which the bravest of tamers may experience as he unbars the gate of the cage.
2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Rogueport:You came back from that island alive! Mate, yeer a bloomin' freak of nature! Yer a master! Yer a true tamer of the high seas! Yer more man than I am!
Derived terms
Translations
one who tames or subdues
- Arabic: مُرَوِّض m (murawwiḍ)
- Bulgarian: дресьор m (dresjor), звероукротител m (zveroukrotitel)
- Catalan: domador m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 馴養人 / 驯养人 (xúnyǎngrén)
- Czech: krotitel m
- Dutch: temmer (nl) c
- Esperanto: dresisto
- Finnish: kesyttäjä (fi)
- French: dresseur (fr) m, dresseuse (fr) f, dompteur (fr)
- German: Dompteur (de) m, Dompteuse (de) f, Bändiger m, Bändigerin f
- Greek: δαμαστής (el) m (damastís), θηριοδαμαστής (el) m (thiriodamastís) (of wild animals)
- Hebrew: מְאַלֵּף (he) m (mealéf)
- Hungarian: szelídítő (hu)
- Indonesian: penjinak (id)
- Italian: domatore (it) m, domatrice f
- Japanese: 調教師 (ja) (ちょうきょうし, chōkyōshi), 猛獣使い (mōjūtsukai)
- Latin: domitor m, domitrix f, domātor m (Late Latin)
- Polish: poskramiacz m, poskramiaczka f, poskromiciel m, poskromicielka f, pogromca (pl) m, pogromczyni (pl) f
- Portuguese: domador (pt)
- Romanian: îmblânzitor (ro) m, îmblânzitoare (ro) f
- Russian: дрессиро́вщик (ru) m (dressiróvščik), дрессиро́вщица (ru) f (dressiróvščica), (esp. of dangerous animals) укроти́тель (ru) m (ukrotítelʹ), укроти́тельница (ru) f (ukrotítelʹnica)
- Spanish: domador m, domadora f, amaestrador (es) m
- Tagalog: magbabangad (animal trainer)
- Ukrainian: прибо́ркувач (uk) m (prybórkuvač), прибо́ркувачка (uk) f (prybórkuvačka), муштрува́льник m (muštruválʹnyk), муштрува́льниця f (muštruválʹnycja)
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Adjective
tamer
- comparative form of tame: more tame
Anagrams
Romansch
Etymology
From Latin timeō, timēre.
Verb
tamer
- (Sutsilvan) to fear, be afraid (of), be frightened (of)