"Ressam"

Translation: The painter

[Abdirahman751232]

Painter as in decorator or painter as in artist?

[gouru]

Absolutely like in artist. actually, it's just for the artist. For house painter we use "boyacı"

[arctos89]

Thanks! I was wondering about that.

[ToddKedes]

It's Arabic. I know because it is like hebrew, roshem, to write down with a tool

[Akash_Polyglot]

in India (Hindi Language ) Ressam is Rituals ..Wow words are exact same but meaning is tottally different .

[Lars200]

It sounds like she says /resã/ with a nasalised a. Is that how it's supposed to be pronounced?

[Isha517992]

I have the same query. A sound/pronounciation link can help too :)
Thanks in advance!

[Momo.Reza]

For those who loves morphology( it is persian morphology not turkish)
Rassam: painter
Rasm : drawing

[Abdallahhajj]

It's from Arabic actually

[Farzan_Fathi]

It's Arabic, dude

[martha.lar4]

I was thinking that ressam was a photograph and painter boyacı.

[tu.8zPhLD72zzoZN]

http://www.turkishdictionary.net/?word=painter
"Photograph" is "fotoğraf". http://www.turkishdictionary.net/?word=photograph
Oh, I found it. http://www.turkishdictionary.net/?word=boyac%C4%B1
So, "boyacı" is "dyer" or "house painter" or "dealer in paints" or "shoeshine boy".
"ressam" is the artist kind of painter. http://www.turkishdictionary.net/?word=ressam

[deactivated user]

But aren't 'ressam' and 'sanatçı' basically interchangeable? From what I've learned about Turkish outside of Duolingo, 'ressam' just means artist. Never heard of the word 'sanatçı' until just now.

[gouru]

In Turkish perspective, an artist is someone who produces art.

So, a musician (müzisyen) is an artist (sanatçı) because she produces music and music is art!

A sculptor (heykeltıraş) is an artist because she produces sculptures and this is art!

So an artist (ressam) also is an artist :D because she produces paintings, and again, that's art!

see? easy : )