gambler

English

Etymology

gamble +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æmblə(ɹ)

Noun

gambler (plural gamblers)

1. One who plays at a game of chance, who gambles.
2. One who takes significant risks.

Derived terms

• amber gambler
• gamblerlike
• gambler's cop
• gambler's fallacy
• gambler's rot

Translations

one who plays at a game of chance

• Arabic: مُقَامِر m (muqāmir)
• Armenian: խաղամոլ (hy) (xaġamol)
• Azerbaijani: qumarbaz
• Belarusian: гуле́ц m (huljéc)
• Bulgarian: комарджи́я m (komardžíja)
• Burmese: ကစားသမား (my) (ka.ca:sa.ma:)
• Catalan: jugador (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 賭徒／赌徒 (zh) (dǔtú)

• Esperanto: monludisto
• Estonian: mängur, hasartmängur
• Finnish: uhkapeluri (fi), peluri (fi)
• French: joueur (fr) m, parieur (fr) m
• Galician: xogador (gl) m
• Georgian: აზარტული მოთამაშე (azarṭuli motamaše), მოთამაშე (motamaše), მობანქოვე (mobankove)
• German: Glücksspieler (de) m, (female) Glücksspielerin (de) f
• Greek: χαρτοπαίκτης (el) m (chartopaíktis), τζογαδόρος (el) m (tzogadóros)
• Hindi: जुआरी (hi) m (juārī), जुआबाज़ m (juābāz), फड़बाज़ m (phaṛbāz)
• Hungarian: szerencsejátékos (hu)
• Japanese: 博徒 (ja) (ばくと, bakuto), ギャンブラー (gyanburā)
• Kashubian: hazardnik m, hazardzysta m
• Khmer: អ្នកលេង (nĕək leing), ជូតការក៍ (km) (cuutaʼkaa), ជើងល្បែង (cəəng lbaeng)
• Korean: 노름꾼 (noreumkkun), 갬블러 (gaembeulleo)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: qimarbaz (ku)

• Kyrgyz: оюнчу (ky) (oyuncu)
• Lao: ນັກຫລິ້ນ (nak lin), ນັກເລງ (nak lēng)
• Latin: āleō m, āleātor (la) m
• Macedonian: коцкар m (kockar)
• Maori: kaipurei moni, kaipetipeti
• Norman: gageux m, joueux m, joueux d'sous m
• Pashto: قمارباز (ps) m (qemārbãz)
• Persian: قمارباز (fa) (qomârbâz)
• Polish: hazardzista (pl) m, hazardzistka (pl) f
• Portuguese: apostador m
• Romanian: jucător (ro) m, cartofor (ro) m
• Russian: игро́к (ru) m (igrók), картёжник (ru) m (kartjóžnik) (card gambler), гэ́мблер m (gɛ́mbler)
• Sanskrit: कितव (sa) m (kitava)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ко̏цка̄р m

  Roman: kȍckār (sh) m

• Slovene: hazarder m, hazarderka f
• Spanish: jugador (es) m, tahúr (es) m
• Swedish: spelare (sv), hasardspelare (sv)
• Tagalog: sugarol
• Tajik: қиморбоз (qimorboz)
• Thai: นักพนัน (nák-pá-nan), ผู้เล่น (pûu-lên), เลง (leeng)
• Turkish: kumarbaz (tr), kumarcı (tr)
• Turkmen: humarbaz
• Ukrainian: граве́ць m (hravécʹ)
• Urdu: جواری m (juārī)
• Uyghur: قىمارۋاز (qimarwaz)
• Uzbek: qimorboz (uz)
• Walloon: trimleu (wa) m

one who takes significant risks

• Arabic: مُغَامِر m (muḡāmir)
• Bulgarian: авантюри́ст (bg) m (avantjuríst), авантюри́стка (bg) f (avantjurístka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 冒險家／冒险家 (zh) (màoxiǎnjiā)

• Finnish: uhkapeluri (fi)
• German: Hasardeur (de) m, (female) Hasardeurin (de) f
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 모험가 (ko) (moheomga)
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: игро́к (ru) m (igrók), авантюри́ст (ru) m (avantjuríst), авантюри́стка (ru) f (avantjurístka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: коцкар m

  Roman: kockar (sh) m

• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: risktagare (sv)

Anagrams

• Gambrel, gambrel

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English gamble.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Verb

gambler

1. (Louisiana) to gamble

Conjugation

Conjugation of gambler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	gambler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	gamblant /ɡɑ̃.blɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		gamblé /ɡɑ̃.ble/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	gamble /ɡɑ̃bl/	gambles /ɡɑ̃bl/	gamble /ɡɑ̃bl/	gamblons /ɡɑ̃.blɔ̃/	gamblez /ɡɑ̃.ble/	gamblent /ɡɑ̃bl/
	imperfect	gamblais /ɡɑ̃.blɛ/	gamblais /ɡɑ̃.blɛ/	gamblait /ɡɑ̃.blɛ/	gamblions /ɡɑ̃.bli.jɔ̃/	gambliez /ɡɑ̃.bli.je/	gamblaient /ɡɑ̃.blɛ/
	past historic2	gamblai /ɡɑ̃.ble/	gamblas /ɡɑ̃.bla/	gambla /ɡɑ̃.bla/	gamblâmes /ɡɑ̃.blam/	gamblâtes /ɡɑ̃.blat/	gamblèrent /ɡɑ̃.blɛʁ/
	future	gamblerai /ɡɑ̃.blə.ʁe/	gambleras /ɡɑ̃.blə.ʁa/	gamblera /ɡɑ̃.blə.ʁa/	gamblerons /ɡɑ̃.blə.ʁɔ̃/	gamblerez /ɡɑ̃.blə.ʁe/	gambleront /ɡɑ̃.blə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	gamblerais /ɡɑ̃.blə.ʁɛ/	gamblerais /ɡɑ̃.blə.ʁɛ/	gamblerait /ɡɑ̃.blə.ʁɛ/	gamblerions /ɡɑ̃.blə.ʁjɔ̃/	gambleriez /ɡɑ̃.blə.ʁje/	gambleraient /ɡɑ̃.blə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	gamble /ɡɑ̃bl/	gambles /ɡɑ̃bl/	gamble /ɡɑ̃bl/	gamblions /ɡɑ̃.bli.jɔ̃/	gambliez /ɡɑ̃.bli.je/	gamblent /ɡɑ̃bl/
	imperfect2	gamblasse /ɡɑ̃.blas/	gamblasses /ɡɑ̃.blas/	gamblât /ɡɑ̃.bla/	gamblassions /ɡɑ̃.bla.sjɔ̃/	gamblassiez /ɡɑ̃.bla.sje/	gamblassent /ɡɑ̃.blas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	gamble /ɡɑ̃bl/	—	gamblons /ɡɑ̃.blɔ̃/	gamblez /ɡɑ̃.ble/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).