timmerman

From Middle Dutch timmerman. Equivalent to timmeren +‎ man.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɪ.mərˌmɑn/

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• Hyphenation: tim‧mer‧man

timmerman m (plural timmermannen or timmerlieden or timmerlui, diminutive timmermannetje n)

1. male carpenter

• timmermanspotlood

• Afrikaans: timmerman
• Negerhollands: timmerman
• Sranan Tongo: temreman
  • Aukan: tembee man
  • → Caribbean Hindustani: temremán
  • → Caribbean Javanese: témbréman

Inherited from Old Swedish timberman, equivalent to timmer (“timber”) +‎ man (“man”).

timmerman c

1. carpenter
   • 2006 December 24, Johannes Ekman, “Kulturkrönikan 24 december”, in Sveriges Radio‎^[1], archived from the original on 17 February 2025:

     Gösta Ågren, finlandssvensk poet, kom 1996 med den märkligt självlysande diktsamlingen ”Timmermannen”, byggd på Jesu liv enligt Markusevangeliet.

     Gösta Ågren, a Finnish-Swedish poet, came out in 1996 with the strangely luminescent collection of poems "The Carpenter", based on the life of Jesus according to the Gospel of Mark.

   • 2015 July 24, Olli Hörkkö, Anna Starckman, “Södermalms finska timmermän”, in Sveriges Television‎^[2], archived from the original on 18 June 2016:

     Södermalms finska timmermän

     Södermalm's Finnish carpenters

• timmerman in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker