blogger

See also: Blogger

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁-?

Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós

Proto-Germanic *weraz

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-

Proto-Indo-European *h₂életi

Proto-Germanic *alaną

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Germanic *-þiz

Proto-Germanic *aldiz

Proto-Germanic *weraldiz

Proto-West Germanic *weraldi

Old English weorold

Middle English world

English world

Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁

Proto-Indo-European *dwi-

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁-der.

Proto-Germanic *wīdaz

Old English wīd

English wide

English -wide

English worldwide

Proto-Indo-European *webʰ-der.

Proto-Germanic *webaną

Proto-Germanic *wabją

Old English webb

Middle English web

English web

English World Wide Web

English Web

Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *légʰyeti

Proto-Germanic *ligjaną

Old Norse liggjader.?

Middle English logge

English log

Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵosder.?

Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g-der.?

Proto-Germanic *bōks

Proto-West Germanic *bōk

Old English bōc

Middle English bok

English book

English logbook

English log

English weblog

English blog

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āsjos

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English blogger

From blog + -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈblɒ.ɡə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈblɔ.ɡəɹ/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɒɡə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: blog‧ger

Noun

blogger (plural bloggers)

1. (blogging) A contributor to a blog (from weblog) or online journal.

   Synonyms: (rare) blogmaster, (rare) blogster

   • 2005 March, William Powers, “Sleeping With the Enemy”, in Cullen Murphy, editor, The Atlantic‎^[1], Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 July 2025:

     The New York Times called it “another signal moment for bloggers,” while over at HardwareGeeks.com (“a community for sophisticated geeks and geekettes”), they were flying the victory flag: “A blogger with a White House Press pass? Just another sign of the times and another indication that bloggers are as powerful as regular media.”

Derived terms

• biblioblogger
• blawger
• bloggerati
• guest blogger
• j-blogger
• liveblogger
• microblogger
• mom blogger
• mommy blogger
• nonblogger
• photoblogger
• uberblogger
• überblogger
• videoblogger
• vlogger
• warblogger
• weblogger

Translations

contributor to a blog

• Arabic: مُدَوِّن m (mudawwin), مُدَوِّنَة f (mudawwina)
• Armenian: բլոգեր (hy) (bloger)
• Belarusian: бло́гер m (blóhjer)
• Bulgarian: бло́гър m (blógǎr), бло́гърка f (blógǎrka)
• Catalan: bloguer (ca) m, bloguera (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 博客 (zh) (bókè), 博主 (bózhǔ) (Mainland China), 部落客 (bùluòkè) (Taiwan)

• Czech: bloger (cs) m, blogerka f
• Danish: blogger c
• Dutch: blogger (nl) m
• Esperanto: blogisto, blogistino (female)
• Estonian: blogija
• Faroese: bloggari m
• Finnish: bloggaaja (fi)
• French: blogueur (fr) m, blogueuse (fr) f
• Georgian: ბლოგერი (blogeri)
• German: Blogger (de) m, Bloggerin (de) f
• Greek: ιστολόγος (el) m or f (istológos), ιστογράφος (el) m or f (istográfos)
• Hindi: ब्लॉगर m (blŏgar)
• Hungarian: blogger (hu)
• Icelandic: bloggari m, netverji m
• Indonesian: narablog, bloger, pengeblog
• Italian: blogger (it) m or f, bloggista (it) m or f, blogghista m or f
• Japanese: ブロガー (burogā)
• Kannada: ಮಿನ್ನುಡಿಗ (kn) (minnuḍiga)
• Korean: 블로거 (beullogeo)
• Macedonian: блогер (mk) m (bloger)
• Malay: pemblog, ڤمبلوݢ (pemblug)
• Māori: kairangitaki, kaituhi rangitaki
• Marathi: ब्लॉगर (blŏgar)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: blogger (no) m

  Nynorsk: bloggar (nn) m

• Persian: وبلاگ‌نویس (veblâg-navis, veblâg-nevis), وبلاگ نویس (veblâg navis, veblâg nevis), نوب‌نویس (veb-navis, veb-nevis), وب نویس (veb navis, veb nevis)
• Polish: bloger (pl) m pers, blogerka (pl) f, blogowicz m pers, blogowiczka f
• Portuguese: blogueiro (pt) m, blogueira (pt) f, bloguista (pt) m or f, blogger (pt) m or f
• Romanian: blogger (ro) m
• Russian: бло́ггер (ru) m (blógger), бло́гер (ru) m (blóger)
• Slovak: bloger m, blogerka f, blogér m, blogérka f
• Slovene: bloger m
• Spanish: bloguero (es) m, bloguera f, blogger (es) m or f
• Swahili: mwanablogu
• Swedish: bloggare (sv) c
• Telugu: బ్లాగరు (blāgaru)
• Thai: บล็อกเกอร์ (blɔ́k-gə̂ə)
• Turkish: blogçu, blog yazarı
• Ukrainian: бло́гер (uk) m (blóher), бло́ґер m (blóger)
• Welsh: blogiwr m
• Yoruba: akọbúlọ́ọ̀gù

Anagrams

• boggler, broggle

Cebuano

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English blogger.

Noun

blogger

1. (blogging) blogger

Danish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English blogger.

Noun

blogger

1. blogger

Declension

Declension of blogger

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	blogger	bloggeren	bloggere	bloggerne
genitive	bloggers	bloggerens	bloggeres	bloggernes

Dutch

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English blogger. By surface analysis, bloggen +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈblɔ.ɣər/, /ˈblɔ.ɡər/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔɣər
• Hyphenation: blog‧ger

Noun

blogger m (plural bloggers, no diminutive)

1. (blogging) blogger

   Synonym: weblogger

Hungarian

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from English blogger.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbloɡːɛr]
• Rhymes: -ɛr
• Hyphenation: blog‧ger

Noun

blogger (plural bloggerek)

1. (blogging) blogger

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	blogger	bloggerek
accusative	bloggert	bloggereket
dative	bloggernek	bloggereknek
instrumental	bloggerrel	bloggerekkel
causal-final	bloggerért	bloggerekért
translative	bloggerré	bloggerekké
terminative	bloggerig	bloggerekig
essive-formal	bloggerként	bloggerekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	bloggerben	bloggerekben
superessive	bloggeren	bloggereken
adessive	bloggernél	bloggereknél
illative	bloggerbe	bloggerekbe
sublative	bloggerre	bloggerekre
allative	bloggerhez	bloggerekhez
elative	bloggerből	bloggerekből
delative	bloggerről	bloggerekről
ablative	bloggertől	bloggerektől
non-attributive possessive – singular	bloggeré	bloggereké
non-attributive possessive – plural	bloggeréi	bloggerekéi

Possessive forms of blogger

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	bloggerem	bloggereim
2nd person sing.	bloggered	bloggereid
3rd person sing.	bloggere	bloggerei
1st person plural	bloggerünk	bloggereink
2nd person plural	bloggeretek	bloggereitek
3rd person plural	bloggerük	bloggereik

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English blogger.

Noun

blogger m or f by sense (invariable)

1. (blogging) blogger

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Noun

blogger m

1. indefinite plural of blogg

Etymology 2

From blogg +‎ -er, possibly from English blogger

Noun

blogger m (definite singular bloggeren, indefinite plural bloggere, definite plural bloggerne)

1. (blogging) blogger (one who writes a blog)

See also

• bloggar (Nynorsk)

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• blóguer (adapted spelling)

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English blogger.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈblɔ.ɡeʁ/ [ˈblɔ.ɡeh]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈblɔ.ɡeʁ/ [ˈblɔ.ɡeh]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈblɔ.ɡeɾ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈblɔ.ɡeʁ/ [ˈblɔ.ɡeχ]
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /ˈblɔ.ɡeɻ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈblɔ.ɡɛɾ/ [ˈblɔ.ɣɛɾ]

Noun

blogger m (plural bloggers)

1. (blogging) blogger

   Synonym: blogueiro

Further reading

• “blogger”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English blogger.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈblo.ɡər/ (as if spelled *blogăr)
• Rhymes: -oɡər
• Hyphenation: blog‧ger

Noun

blogger m (plural bloggeri)

1. (blogging) blogger

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	blogger	bloggerul	bloggeri	bloggerii
genitive-dative	blogger	bloggerului	bloggeri	bloggerilor
vocative	bloggerule		bloggerilor

Related terms

• blog

See also

• vlogger

Further reading

• “blogger”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English blogger.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbloɡeɾ/ [ˈblo.ɣ̞eɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɡeɾ
• Syllabification: blog‧ger

Noun

blogger m (plural bloggers)

1. (blogging) blogger

   Synonyms: bloguer, bloguero