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From Middle English delare, from Old English dǣlere, from Proto-West Germanic [Term?]. By surface analysis, deal +‎ -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Deeler, West Frisian dieler, Dutch deler, German Teiler, Swedish delare.

• (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdiːlə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -iːlə(ɹ)

dealer (plural dealers)

1. One who deals in goods, especially automobiles; a middleman.
   Synonyms: salesman, peddler
   That used car dealer gave me a great deal on my 1962 rusted-out Volkswagen bug!
2. A drug dealer, one who peddles illicit drugs.
   Synonym: peddler
   • 1967, Leonard Cohen, “The Stranger Song”, in Songs of Leonard Cohen:
     It's true that all the men you knew were dealers
     Who said they were through with dealing
3. A particular type of stock broker or trader.
4. The person who deals the cards in a card game.
5. One who deals or metes out anything.
   • 2018, Kate Stanley, Practices of Surprise in American Literature after Emerson, page 90:
     Dealt a decisive blow, Newman himself becomes a vengeful dealer of blows, perpetuating the repetitive cycle of repression and eruption […]

• AADAOPA
• arms dealer
• art dealer
• bookdealer
• broker-dealer
• dealer board
• dealerdom
• dealer's choice
• dealership
• double-dealer
• drug dealer
• drug-dealer
• horsedealer
• interdealer
• macaroni dealer
• meat dealer
• megadealer
• misdealer
• newsdealer
• nondealer
• plain dealer
• scrap dealer
• slavedealer
• subdealer
• wheeler-dealer

one who deals in things, e.g. automobiles

• Arabic: تَاجِر m (tājir), تَاجِرَة f (tājira)
• Azerbaijani: alverçi, ticarətçi, tacir, mal satan
• Bengali: কারবারী (bn) (karbari)
• Bulgarian: търговец (bg) m (tǎrgovec)
• Catalan: concessionari m
• Czech: prodejce (cs) m, obchodník (cs) m, zprostředkovatel m
• Danish: forhandler (da) c
• Dutch: dealer (nl) m
• Estonian: diiler
• Finnish: jälleenmyyjä (fi)
• French: concessionnaire (fr) m
• German: Händler (de) m
• Italian: distributore (it) m, rivenditore (it), rappresentante (it)
• Japanese: 親 (ja) (oya)
• Korean: 딜러 (dilleo), 영맨 (yeongmaen), 상인 (ko) (sang'in)
• Latin: mangō (la) m
• Macedonian: тр́говец m (tŕgovec)
• Māori: kaihokohoko
• Norwegian:
  Bokmål: forhandler m
• Persian: دلال (fa) (dallâl), معامله‌گر (mo'âmele-gar)
• Polish: diler (pl) m, dilerka (pl) f, dealer (pl) m, dealerka f
• Portuguese: negociante (pt) m or f
• Romanian: dealer (ro) m, vânzător (ro) m
• Russian: ди́лер (ru) m (díler), торго́вец (ru) m (torgóvec)
• Scottish Gaelic: dèiligear m
• Spanish: concesionario (es) m, díler m (Latin America), dealer m
• Thai: ผู้ค้า (pûu-káa)

the person who deals the cards in a card game — see also giver,‎ croupier

• Bulgarian: раздавач m (razdavač)

• Catalan: croupier m

• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 荷官 (héguān), 莊家 / 庄家 (zh) (zhuāngjiā), 莊 / 庄 (zh) (zhuāng)

• Czech: rozdávající m, krupiér m, bankéř (cs) m

• Danish: kortgiver c

• Dutch: gever (nl) m

• Estonian: diiler, jagaja

• Finnish: jakaja (fi)

• French: croupier (fr) m, donneur (fr) m

• German: Geber (de) m

• Japanese: ディーラー (ja) (dīrā)

• Korean: 딜러 (dilleo)

• Macedonian: ра́здавач m (rázdavač), ди́лер m (díler)

• Māori: kaiwhiuwhiu

• Polish: rozdający m, rozdająca f

• Portuguese: distribuidor (pt) m

• Romanian: dealer (ro) m

• Russian: сдаю́щий (ru) m (sdajúščij), раздаю́щий (ru) m (razdajúščij)

• Spanish: repartidor de naipes m

• Thai: เจ้ามือ (th) (jâo-mʉʉ)

• Leader, leader, leared, red ale, redeal, relade, relead

From English dealer. By surface analysis, dealen (“to deal drugs”) +‎ -er. Doublet of deler.

• IPA(key): /ˈdiː.lər/

dealer m (plural dealers, diminutive dealertje n)

1. dealer (seller of automobiles)
   Synonym: autodealer
2. (informal) drug dealer
   Synonyms: drugsdealer, nachtapotheker

• autodealer
• drugsdealer

< English dealer

• IPA(key): /ˈdiːler/, [ˈdiːle̞r]
• Rhymes: -iːler

dealer

1. alternative form of diileri

Borrowed from English deal, suffixed with -er.

• IPA(key): /di.le/

dealer

1. (slang) to deal (drugs)

• dealeur

Borrowed from English dealer.

• dealeur
• IPA(key): /di.lœʁ/

dealer m (plural dealers, feminine dealeuse)

1. (slang) drug dealer

• leader

Unadapted borrowing from English dealer, from Middle English delare, from Old English dǣlere. Doublet of diler.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈdilər/ [ˈdi.lər]
• Rhymes: -ilər

dealêr (plural **dealer-dealer)

1. dealer
   1. distributor
      Synonyms: agen, bandar, distributor, pemasok, penyalur, penyuplai, tauke, pengedar
   2. drug dealer
      Synonym: pengedar narkoba

• “dealer”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Unadapted borrowing from English dealer.

• IPA(key): /ˈdi.lɛr/
• Rhymes: -ilɛr
• Syllabification: dea‧ler

dealer m pers (female equivalent dealerka, related adjective dealerski)

1. alternative spelling of diler

• dealerstwo

• “dealer”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN

• “dealer”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[2] (in Polish)

• dealer in PWN's encyclopedia

Unadapted borrowing from English dealer.

dealer m (plural dealeri)

1. dealer

• díler (Latin America, Spain)

Unadapted borrowing from English dealer.

• IPA(key): /ˈdileɾ/ [ˈd̪i.leɾ]
• Rhymes: -ileɾ
• Syllabification: dea‧ler

dealer m (plural dealers)

1. dealer

• According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
• Seco, Manuel; Andrés, Olimpia; Ramos, Gabino (2023), “dealer”, in Diccionario del español actual (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA
• “dealer”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010