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English
Etymology
From fork + lift.
Pronunciation
Noun
forklift (plural forklifts)
- A small industrial vehicle with a power-operated fork-like pronged platform that can be raised and lowered for insertion under a load, often on pallets, to be lifted and moved.
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Translations
small industrial vehicle
- Arabic: رَافِعَةٌ شَوْكِيَّةٌ f (rāfiʕatun šawkiyyatun)
- Catalan: carretó elevador m, toro mecànic m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 叉車 / 叉车 (zh) (chāchē), 鏟車 / 铲车 (zh) (chǎnchē), 堆高機 / 堆高机 (zh) (duīgāojī)
- Czech: vysokozdvižný vozík (cs) m
- Danish: gaffeltruck, (slang) truck (da)
- Dutch: vorkheftruck (nl) m, heftruck (nl) m, vorklift (nl) m
- Esperanto: ĉarelo, levĉaro
- Estonian: kahveltõstuk
- Faroese: trukkur m, gaffiltrukkur m
- Finnish: haarukkatrukki, trukki (fi)
- French: chariot élévateur (fr) m, élévateur (fr) m
- Galician: carretilla elevadora f
- German: Gabelstapler (de) m
- Greek: περονοφόρο (el) n (peronofóro)
- Hebrew: מַלְגֵּזָה (he) f (malgḗzā)
- Hungarian: targonca (hu), emelővillás targonca
- Icelandic: lyftari (is) m
- Irish: forcardaitheoir m
- Italian: muletto (it) m, carrello elevatore (it) m
- Japanese: フォークリフト (ja) (fōkurifuto)
- Kazakh: айырлы тиегіш (aiyrly tiegış)
- Khmer: please add this translation if you can
- Korean: 지게차 (jigecha)
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Macedonian: виљушкар m (viljuškar)
- Maori: wakatīrou, wakahiki
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: gaffeltruck m, truck (no) m
- Nynorsk: gaffeltruck m, truck m
- Polish: wózek widłowy (pl)
- Portuguese: empilhadeira (pt) f (Brazil), empilhadora (pt) f (Portugal), empilhador m (Portugal)
- Romanian: stivuitor (ro), motostivuitor n
- Russian: ви́лочный погру́зчик (ru) m (víločnyj pogrúzčik), автопогру́зчик (ru) m (avtopogrúzčik)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: vȉličār (sh) m, vìljuškār (sh) m
- Roman: ви̏лича̄р m, вѝљушка̄р m
- Silesian: widłowy wůzek
- Slovak: vysokozdvižný vozík
- Spanish: montacargas (es) m (Latin America), carretilla elevadora f (Spain), grúa horquilla (es) f (Chile), pato (es) m (Peru, colloquial), mula (es) m (Argentina), toro (es) m (Spain, colloquial), montacarga m (Latin America)
- Swedish: gaffeltruck (sv) c, truck (sv) c
- Thai: รถยก (rót-yók)
- Turkish: kaldırmaç (tr)
- Ukrainian: автованта́жник (uk) m (avtovantážnyk)
- Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
- Welsh: wagen fforch godi f
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Verb
forklift (third-person singular simple present forklifts, present participle forklifting, simple past and past participle forklifted)
- To move or stack with, or as if with, such a vehicle.
2009, Garry Thomas Morse, Death in Vancouver, page 49:With bouncerly finesse, Frank forklifted his arms under Gerald's & plucked him off his stool, dragging him towards the back & the source of that incessant voice.
