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From bread winner to win to earn West Frisian breawinning ( “ livelihood ” , literally “ bread-winning ” ) , Dutch broodwinning ( “ livelihood ” ) .
breadwinner (plural breadwinners
The primary income -earner in a household .
1865 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell , Wives and Daughters Chapter I :At one side lay the little town of Hollingford, into a street of which Mr. Gibson's front door opened; and delicate columns, and little puffs of smoke were already beginning to rise from many a cottage chimney where some housewife was already up, and preparing breakfast for the bread-winner of the family.
primary income-earner in a household
Afrikaans: broodwinner
Arabic: مُعِيل m ( muʕīl )
Egyptian Arabic: عائل m ( ʕaʔel )
Azerbaijani: çörəkağacı sg çörək tapan sg
Chinese:
Mandarin: 養家活口的人 / 养家活口的人 (zh) ( yǎngjiā huókǒu de rén ) , 養家的人 / 养家的人 (zh) ( yǎngjiā de rén )
Danish: familieforsørger c forsørger c
Dutch: kostwinner (nl) m broodwinner (nl) m
Esperanto: panakiranto
Finnish: perheen elättäjä
French: gagne-pain (fr) m pain (fr) m soutien de famille (fr) m
Georgian: მარჩენალი ( marčenali ) , დამპურებელი ( damṗurebeli ) , მკვებავი ( mḳvebavi )
German: Broterwerber m Broterwerberin f Geldverdiener m Geldverdienerin f
Hungarian: családfenntartó (hu) , kenyérkereső (hu)
Indonesian: penghasil (id)
Ingrian: elättäjä
Irish: saothraí m
Japanese: 扶養者 ( ふようしゃ, fuyōsha ) , 大黒柱 (ja) ( daikokubashira ) , 稼ぎ手 (ja) ( kasegite )
Korean: 생업 ( saeng'eop )
Malay: periuk nasi
Norman: gângne-pain m
Norwegian:
Norwegian Bokmål: familieforsørger m forsørger m
Persian: نانآور ( nân-âvar )
Polish: żywiciel rodziny m
Portuguese: ganha-pão (pt) m
Romanian: câștigător de pâine m salariat (ro)
Russian: корми́лец (ru) m ( kormílec ) , корми́лица (ru) f ( kormílica ) , добы́тчик (ru) m ( dobýtčik )
Scottish Gaelic: cothaiche m fear-cosnaidh m neach-cothachaidh m
Sotho: mohlokomedi wa lelapa
Spanish: cabeza de familia f
Swedish: familjeförsörjare c
