майстер

Borrowed from German Meister, from Middle High German meister, from Old High German meistar, from Vulgar Latin *maester, from Latin magister. Doublet of магі́стр (mahístr, “possessor of master's degree”) and мі́стер (míster, “mister (term of address in English-speaking countries)”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈmai̯ster]

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ма́йстер • (májster) m pers (genitive ма́йстра, nominative plural ма́йстри, genitive plural ма́йстрів, feminine майстри́ня)

1. expert, master, professional, specialist

   Synonym: фахіве́ць (faxivécʹ)

2. foreman, overseer (leader of a work crew)
3. master (a skilled artist)
4. (colloqiual) carpenter
5. (computing) wizard (program or script used to simplify complex operations)

   Synonym: ві́зард (vízard)

• (verbs) майструва́ти (majstruváty), ви́майструвати (výmajstruvaty), змайструва́ти (zmajstruváty), помайструва́ти (pomajstruváty)
• (adjective) майсте́рний (majstérnyj), майстрови́й (majstrovýj)

• Hrinchenko, Borys, editor (1907–1909), “ма́йстер”, in Словарь украинского языка [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Russian), Kyiv: Kievskaya starina
• Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “майстер”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
• Shyrokov, V. A., editor (2010–2023), “майстер”, in Словник української мови: у 20 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 20 vols] (in Ukrainian), volumes 1–14 (а – префере́нція), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka; Ukrainian Lingua-Information Fund, →ISBN
• “майстер”, in Горох – Словозміна [Horokh – Inflection] (in Ukrainian)