Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

-s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
-ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
-ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

painter

UK /ˈpeɪntə/ · US /ˈpeɪntɚ/ noun, proper noun

Forms painters Paynter

noun An artist who paints pictures.
noun A laborer or workman who paints surfaces using a paintbrush or other means.
noun (obsolete) A chain or rope used to attach the shank of an anchor to the side of a ship when not in use.
noun (nautical) A rope that is attached to the bow of a dinghy, or other small boat, and used for tying up or towing.
noun (Southern US) A mountain lion.
proper noun A surname transferred from the common noun.
proper noun A town in Accomack County, Virginia.

Synonyms

Inherited from Middle English peyntour, from Old French peintor, equivalent to paint + -er.

Probably from Middle French pendeur.

From a variation of panther, paralleling other Southern pronunciations for can't and aunt (see ain't for more details).

See painter.

noun A rope at the bow of a boat, used to fasten it to anything.
noun The panther, or puma. [A form representing an illiterate pronunciation, U. S.] J. F. Cooper.
noun One whose occupation is to paint; esp.: (a) One who covers buildings, ships, ironwork, and the like, with paint.

Etymology [OE, pantere a noose, snare, F. pantière, LL. panthera, L. panther a hunting net, fr. Gr. ; painteir a net, gin, snare, Gael. painntear.]

Etymology [Corrupt. of panther.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “painter”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “painter” (best matches first).

कृणु kṛṇu a painter.
तौलिक taulika a painter;
तौलिकिक taulikika a painter.
रजयित्री rajayitrī a female painter or colourist.
वर्णाट varṇāṭa a painter; a singer; one who makes his living by his wife; a lover.
रक्तृ raktṛ one who colours or dyes, a colourist, painter, (more correctly raṅktṛ. )
तूलि tūli a painter's brush or pencil or a fibrous stick so used and for other purposes;
ईषिका īṣikā an elephant's eyeball; a painter's brush, etc.; a weapon, a dart or arrow. See iṣīkā and īṣīkā.