lawyer

See also: Lawyer

English

Alternative forms

lawer (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English lawier, lawyer, lawer, equivalent to law +‎ -yer.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈlɔːjə(ɹ)/, /ˈlɔɪ.ə(ɹ)/[1]
(US, Northern and Western) IPA^(key): /ˈlɔɪ.ɚ/
(US, Southern) IPA^(key): /ˈlɔ.jɚ/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -ɔɪ.ə, -ɔɪ.ə(ɹ)
Hyphenation: law‧yer

Noun

lawyer (plural lawyers)

A professional person qualified (as by a law degree and/or bar exam) and authorized to practice law, i.e. conduct lawsuits and/or give legal advice.
- 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter II, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:
  
  His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill; […].
By extension, a legal layman who argues points of law.
(colloquial, Britain) The burbot

Synonyms

Derived terms

Terms derived from lawyer

corporate lawyer
jailhouse lawyer
lawyering

Translations

professional person authorized to practice law

Afrikaans: regsgeleerde, prokureur, advokaat
Albanian: avokat (sq) m
Amharic: please add this translation if you can
Arabic: (indefinite) مُحَامٍ‎ m (muḥāmin)
Egyptian Arabic: محامي‎ m (muḥāmī)
Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
Armenian: փաստաբան (hy) (pʿastaban), իրավաբան (hy) (iravaban)
Assamese: উকিল (ukil)
Asturian: abogáu m
Azerbaijani: vəkil (az), hüquqşünas (az)
Belarusian: юры́ст m (jurýst), юры́стка f (jurýstka), адвака́т m (advakát)
Bengali: আইনজীবি (ainjībi)
Breton: please add this translation if you can
Bulgarian: адвока́т (bg) m (advokát)
Burmese: ရှေ့နေ (my) (hre.ne)
Catalan: advocat (ca) m, advocada (ca) f
Chechen: юрист (jurist)
Cherokee: ᏗᏘᏲᎯᎯ (ditiyohihi)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 律師 (zh), 律师 (zh) (lǜshī)

Min Nan: 律師 (zh-min-nan), 律师 (lu̍t-su), 辯護士, 辩护士 (piān-hō͘-sū)
Crimean Tatar: advokat
Czech: právník (cs) m, advokát (cs) m, právnička (cs) f, advokátka (cs) f
Danish: advokat (da) c, sagfører c
Dutch: jurist (nl) m, raadsman (nl) m, informally also advocaat (nl) m, advocate (nl) f
Esperanto: advokato (eo)
Estonian: jurist (et), advokaat (et)
Faroese: sakførari m
Finnish: asianajaja (fi), juristi (fi), lakimies (fi)
French: juriste (fr) m or f, homme de loi (fr) m, informally also avocat (fr) m, avocate (fr) f
Galician: avogado (gl) m, letrado m
Georgian: ადვოკატი (advoḳaṭi)
German: Rechtsanwalt (de) m, Anwalt (de) m, Rechtsanwältin (de) f (female), Anwältin (de) (female)
Gothic: 𐍅𐌹𐍄𐍉𐌳𐌰𐍆𐌰𐍃𐍄𐌴𐌹𐍃 m (witōdafasteis)
Greek: δικηγόρος (el) m or f (dikigóros)
Ancient: δικήγορος m (dikḗgoros), πρόδικος m (pródikos)
Gujarati: વકીલ (gu) (vakīl)
Hebrew: עוֹרֵךְ דִּין‎ (he) m (orékh-dín), עוֹרֶכֶת דִּין‎ f (orékhet-dín), פְּרַקְלִיט‎ (he) m (praklít)
Hindi: वकील (hi) m (vakīl)
Hungarian: jogász (hu), ügyvéd (hu)
Icelandic: lögfræðingur m
Ido: advokato (io)
Indonesian: pengacara (id)
Interlingua: advocato
Interlingue: jurist
Italian: avvocato (it) m, legale (it)
Japanese: 弁護士 (ja) (べんごし, bengoshi), 法曹 (ほうそう, hōsō)
Kabuverdianu: adivogádu
Kannada: ವಕೀಲ (kn) (vakīla)
Kazakh: адвокат (advokat), қорғаушы (qorğawşı)
Khmer: មេធាវី (km) (meethiəvii), អាវ៉ូកាត៍ (km) (ʾaavoukaa)
Korean: 변호사 (ko) (byeonhosa)
Kurdish:
Sorani: پارێزەر‎ (parêzer)
Kyrgyz: юрист (ky) (yurist), адвокат (ky) (advokat)
Ladin: aucat m

Lao: ນັກກົດໝາຍ (lo) (nak kot māi)
Latin: causidicus m, cognitor m, legisperitus
Latvian: jurists m, advokāts m
Lithuanian: advokatas (lt) m
Macedonian: пра́вник m (právnik), адвока́т m (advokát)
Malay: peguam, loyar, muhami
Malayalam: അഭിഭാഷകന് (abhibhāṣakanŭ), വക്കീല് (vakkīlŭ)
Maltese: avukat (mt) m
Maori: rōia
Marathi: वकिल m or f (vakil)
Mirandese: abogado m, abogada f
Mongolian: өмгөөлөгч (mn) (ömgöölögč), хуульч (mn) (huulʹč)
Navajo: aghaʼdiitʼaahii
Norwegian:
Bokmål: advokat (no) m, jurist (no) m, (archaic) sakfører (no) m

Nynorsk: advokat m, jurist m
Novial: please add this translation if you can
Occitan: please add this translation if you can
Ojibwe: giigidoowinini, dibaakonigewinini
Pashto: قانوندان‎ m (qānundãn), قانونپوه‎ m (qānúnрoh)
Persian: وکیل‎ (fa) (vakil)
Polish: adwokat (pl) m, prawnik (pl) m (prawniczka f), radca (pl) m
Portuguese: advogado (pt) m, advogada (pt) f
Punjabi: ਵਕੀਲ (vakīl)
Quechua: amachaq
Romanian: avocat (ro) m, avocată (ro) f
Russian: юри́ст (ru) m (juríst), юри́стка (ru) f (jurístka), адвока́т (ru) m (advokát)
Scottish Gaelic: neach-lagha m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: правник m, адвокат m

Roman: pravnik (sh) m, advokat (sh) m
Sinhalese: නීතිඥයා (nītignayā)
Skolt Sami: juri´stt
Slovak: právnik m, advokát m
Slovene: odvetnik m, odvetnica f, advokat m, advokatka f
Spanish: abogado (es) m, abogada (es) f, notario (es) m
Swahili: wakili (sw)
Swedish: advokat (sv) c, jurist (sv) c
Tagalog: mananaggol, abogado (tl)
Tajik: ҳуқуқшинос (huquqšinos), адвокат (advokat)
Tamil: வழக்கறிஞர் (ta) (vaḻakkaṟiñar)
Telugu: న్యాయవాది (te) (nyāyavādi)
Thai: ทนายความ (tá-naai-kwaam), ทนาย (th) (tá-naai)
Tibetan: ཁྲིམས་རྩོད་པ (khrims rtsod pa)
Tok Pisin: loman
Turkish: avukat (tr), aklavcı, hukukşinas (tr), vekil (tr)
Turkmen: ýurist, hukukçy
Ukrainian: юри́ст (uk) m (jurýst), юри́стка (uk) f (jurýstka), адвока́т (uk) m (advokát)
Urdu: وکیل‎ m (vakīl)
Uyghur: ئادۋۇكات‎ (adwukat)
Uzbek: advokat (uz), huquqshunos (uz)
Vietnamese: luật sư (vi)
Volapük: (♂♀) lavogan (vo), (♂) hilavogan, (♀) jilavogan, (crown ♂♀) kronalavogan, (♂) kronahilavogan, (♀) kronajilavogan
Welsh: cyfreithiwr (cy) m
Westrobothnian: sakförar m
Yiddish: אַדוואָקאַט‎ m (advokat), לויער‎ m (loyer) (US)

a layman who argues points of law

Dutch: ^{(please verify)} pleiter (nl) m, (juridisch) raadsman m, ^{(please verify)} informally also advocaat (nl) m

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Translations to be checked

Italian: ^{(please verify)} avvocato (it) m

Latin: ^{(please verify)} legisperitus m

Verb

lawyer (third-person singular simple present lawyers, present participle lawyering, simple past and past participle lawyered)

(informal, intransitive) To practice law.
(intransitive) To perform, or attempt to perform, the work of a lawyer.
(intransitive) To make legalistic arguments.
(informal, transitive) To barrage (a person) with questions in order to get them to admit something.
You've been lawyered!

Related terms

lawyer up

References

Oxford English Dictionary. "Lawyer, n."

Anagrams

Rawley, warely

Middle English

Noun

lawyer

Alternative form of lawier

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[1] Oxford English Dictionary. "Lawyer, n."