bartender

English

Alternative forms

• bar-tender

Etymology

Etymology tree

Vulgar Latin *barra

Old French barrebor.

Middle English barre

English bar

English tend

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English tender

English bartender

From bar + tender.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑːˌtɛndə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑɹˌtɛndɚ/
• Hyphenation: bar‧tend‧er

Noun

bartender (plural bartenders)

1. One who tends a bar or pub; a person preparing and serving drinks at a bar. [from 19th c.]

   Synonyms: barkeep, barkeeper, mixologist

   Coordinate terms: barback, barista

   Hyponyms: barmaid, barman

   • 2008, Rachel Kushner, Telex from Cuba:

     He observed as the sad bartender ritually played canasta with two bored and customerless dancers...

   • 2010, Erich R. Sysak, Water Heart:

     They weren't all just sexpats and drifters and former disgraced officers or old bartenders, none of which he should have mentioned.

Derived terms

• beertender
• budtender
• cheftender
• flair bartender
• potender

See also

• alewife
• knight of the spigot
• publican
• tapper
• tapster
• taverner
• victualler

Descendants

• → Cebuano: bartender
• → Danish: bartender
• → Norwegian Bokmål: bartender
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: bartender
• → Spanish: bartender
• → Swedish: bartender
• → Tagalog: bartender

Translations

person who works in a bar

• Albanian: banakier (sq) m, pijeshitës (sq) m
• Armenian: բարմեն (hy) (barmen)
• Bulgarian: барман m (barman)
• Catalan: bàrman (ca) m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 酒吧服務人員 / 酒吧服务人员 (jiǔbā fúwù rényuán), (dated) 酒保 (zh) (jiǔbǎo), (mixologist) 調酒師 / 调酒师 (zh) (tiáojiǔshī)

• Czech: barman (cs) m, barmanka (cs) f
• Danish: bartender (da) c, barmand c (male), barpige c (younger female)
• Dutch: kastelein (nl) c
• Esperanto: trinkejisto
• Finnish: baarimikko (fi), baarimestari (fi)
• French: barman (fr) m
• Georgian: ბარმენი (barmeni), ბართენდერი (bartenderi) (colloquial)
• German: Barkeeper (de) m, Barmann (de) m, Barmixer m
• Greek: μπάρμαν (el) n (bárman)
• Hebrew: בַּרְמֶן (he) m (bármen), מוֹזֵג m (mozég)
• Hungarian: csapos, pultos (hu), bárpincér, bármixer (hu), mixer (hu)
• Icelandic: barþjónn m
• Ido: drinkeriisto
• Indonesian: pramutama bar, bartender
• Irish: buachaill tábhairne m
• Japanese: バーテンダー (ja) (bātendā), バーテン (ja) (bāten)
• Kazakh: бармен (barmen), бар даяшысы (bar dayašısı)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 바텐더 (ko) (batendeo)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: meygêrr (ku) m or f, badegêrr (ku) m or f, saqî (ku) m or f, meyxanevan (ku) m or f

• Latin: vīnārius
• Macedonian: шанкер m (šanker), шанкерка f (šankerka), бармен m (barmen)
• Māori: tuari, whakarato inu
• Marathi: बार्टेंडर m (bārṭeṇḍar)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bartender m

  Nynorsk: bartender m

• Old English: tæppere m
• Polish: barman (pl) m, barmanka (pl) f
• Portuguese: barman (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਬਾਰਟੈਂਡਰ m (bārṭaiṇḍar)
• Romanian: barman (ro) m, barmaniță (ro) f
• Russian: ба́рмен (ru) m (bármɛn), барме́н (ru) m (barmɛ́n), буфе́тчик (ru) m (bufétčik), буфе́тчица (ru) f (bufétčica)
• Serbo-Croatian: barmen (sh) m
• Spanish: bartender m or f, barténder m or f, barman (es) m or f, barista (es) m or f, cantinero m, copero (es) m, coctelero m
• Swedish: bartender (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: barmen (tr)
• Ukrainian: барме́н m (barmén)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from English bartender.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: bar‧ten‧der
• IPA^(key): /ˌbaɾtenˈdeɾ/ [ˌbaɾ̪.t̪en̪ˈd̪iɾ̪]

Noun

bártendér

1. bartender

Related terms

• bar

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From American English bartender.

Noun

bartender m (definite singular bartenderen, indefinite plural bartendere, definite plural bartenderne)

1. a bartender, barman, barmaid (female)

   Den hyggelige kvinnelige bartenderen smiler til oss og ønsker oss velkommen.

   The pleasant barmaid smiles at us and bids us welcome.

Related terms

• bar

References

• “bartender” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From American English bartender.

Noun

bartender m (definite singular bartenderen, indefinite plural bartenderar, definite plural bartenderane)

1. a bartender, barman, barmaid (female)

Usage notes

Also spelt bartendar, perhaps unofficially.

Related terms

• bar

References

• “bartender” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Vulgar Latin *barra

Old French barrebor.

Middle English barre

English bar

English tend

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English tender

English bartenderbor.

Spanish bartender

Borrowed from English bartender.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaɾtendeɾ/ [ˈbaɾ.t̪ẽn̪.d̪eɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾtendeɾ
• Syllabification: bar‧ten‧der

Noun

bartender m or f by sense (plural bartenders)

1. (Latin America) bartender

   Alternative form: barténder

   Synonym: barman

Usage notes

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.

Further reading

• “bartender”, 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
• “bartender”, in Diccionario panhispánico de dudas [Panhispanic Dictionary of Uncertainties] (in Spanish), 2nd edition, Royal Spanish Academy; Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, 2023, →ISBN

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English bartender.

Noun

bartender c

1. a bartender

Declension

Declension of bartender

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	bartender	bartenders
	definite	bartendern	bartenderns
plural	indefinite	bartendrar	bartendrars
	definite	bartendrarna	bartendrarnas

See also

• bar
• bardisk (“bar counter, bar”)
• cocktail
• drink

References

• “bartender”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “bartender”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

Tagalog

Etymology

Etymology tree

Vulgar Latin *barra

Old French barrebor.

Middle English barre

English bar

English tend

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English tender

English bartenderbor.

Tagalog bartender

Borrowed from English bartender.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɾtendeɾ/ [ˌbaɾ.t̪ɛn̪ˈd̪ɛɾ], /ˌbaɾˈtendeɾ/ [ˌbaɾˈt̪ɛn̪.d̪ɛɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾtendeɾ, -endeɾ
• Syllabification: bar‧ten‧der

Noun

bártendér or bárténder (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜇ᜔ᜆᜒᜈ᜔ᜇᜒᜇ᜔)

1. bartender

Related terms

• bar

Further reading

• “bartender”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2025
• “bartender”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018