From bread + winner, where to win = to earn. Compare 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: مَعِيل m (maʕīl)
- 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
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