vacuum cleaner

English

A domestic vacuum cleaner.

Pronunciation

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Noun

vacuum cleaner (plural vacuum cleaners)

A domestic or industrial mobile machine for cleaning floors and similar surfaces that draws dust and other particles into a container (a cyclonic type bin, or a filter bag) by the suction created by an electric motor driving a fan.
Synonyms: hoover, vacuum, sweeper

Derived terms

cyclonic vacuum cleaner

Related terms

vacuum-clean

Descendants

→ Hindi: वैक्युम क्लीनर (vaikyum klīnar)
→ Irish: folúsghlantóir (calque)
→ Urdu: ویکیوم کلینر (vaikyūm kilīnar)

Translations

machine for cleaning

Abkhaz: асабеизгага (asabejzgaga)
Afrikaans: stofsuier (af)
Albanian: fshesë me korent f
Arabic: مِكْنَسَة كَهْرَبَائِيَّة f (miknasa kahrabāʔiyya)
Hijazi Arabic: مُكْنَسة f (muknasa)
Armenian: փոշեկուլ (hy) (pʻošekul), փոշեծծիչ (hy) (pʻošeccičʻ)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܲܟ݂ܢܲܫܬܵܐ ܒܸܪܩܵܝܬܵܐ f (maḵnaštā birqāytā)
Asturian: aspiradora f, aspirador m
Azerbaijani: tozsoran
Basque: xurgagailu
Belarusian: пыласо́с m (pylasós)
Bengali: ভ্যাকুয়াম ক্লিনার (bhêkuẏam klinar)
Breton: sunerez f
Bulgarian: прахосмука́чка (bg) f (prahosmukáčka)
Burmese: ဖုန်စုပ်စက် (hpuncupcak)
Catalan: aspiradora (ca) f
Chechen: чанъузург (čanʔuzurg)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 吸塵機／吸尘机 (kap¹ can⁴ gei¹)

Dungan: щичынчи (xičɨnči)

Hokkien: 吸塵器／吸尘器 (khip-tîn-khì)

Mandarin: 吸塵器／吸尘器 (zh) (xīchénqì), 真空吸塵器／真空吸尘器 (zhēnkōng xīchénqì)
Czech: vysavač (cs) m, lux (cs) m
Danish: støvsuger (da) c
Dutch: stofzuiger (nl) m
Elfdalian: dambsauger m
Esperanto: polvosuĉilo (eo)
Estonian: tolmuimeja
Faroese: dustsúgvari m
Finnish: imuri (fi), pölynimuri (fi)
French: aspirateur (fr) m, balayeuse (fr) f (Quebec)
Galician: aspirador (gl) m, aspiradora f
Georgian: მტვერსასრუტი (mṭversasruṭi)
German: Staubsauger (de) m
Greek: ηλεκτρική σκούπα (el) f (ilektrikí skoúpa)
Gujarati: ખેંચણિયું ? (kheñcṇiyũ)
Hebrew: שׁוֹאֵב אָבָק (he) m (sho'év avák)
Hindi: वैक्युम क्लीनर m (vaikyum klīnar), निर्वात मार्जक m (nirvāt mārjak), हूवर m (hūvar)
Hungarian: porszívó (hu)
Icelandic: ryksuga f
Ido: vakuonetigilo, polvosugilo (io)
Indonesian: penghisap debu (id), penyedot debu
Ingush: дома чуувзарг (doma čwuvzarg)
Interlingua: aspirator
Irish: folúsghlantóir m, húvar m
Italian: aspirapolvere (it) m
Japanese: 掃除機 (ja) (そうじき, sōjiki)
Kazakh: шаңсорғыш (kk) (şañsorğyş)
Khmer: ម៉ាស៊ីនបោសសំអាត (maasɨn baoh sɑmʼaat)
Korean: 진공청소기(眞空淸掃器) (jin'gongcheongsogi), 청소기(淸掃機) (ko) (cheongsogi)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: gêziya ceryanê, gêziya elektrîkê
Kyrgyz: пылесос (pılesos), чаң соргуч (caŋ sorguc)
Lao: ຈັກດູດຝຸ່ນ (lo) (chak dūt fun), ເຄື່ອງດູດຝຸ່ນ (khư̄ang dūt fun)
Latvian: putekļsūcējs m
Lithuanian: dulkių siurblys m
Low German: Stoffsuger m, Huulbessen m (colloquial)
Luxembourgish: Staubsauger (lb) m
Macedonian: правосму́калка f (pravosmúkalka)
Malay: pembersih hampagas
Maori: pūrere ngote puehu, mīhini ngote puehu
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: тоос сорогч (toos sorogč)

Mongolian: ᠲᠣᠭᠤᠰᠤ
ᠰᠣᠷᠤᠭᠴᠢ (toɣusu soruɣči)
Northern Sami: noavki
Norwegian:
Bokmål: støvsuger (no) m

Nynorsk: støvsugar m
Pashto: برقي جارو f (barqi jāru)
Persian:
Iranian Persian: جاروبَرْقی (fa) (jârubarği)
Polish: odkurzacz (pl) m
Portuguese: aspirador m
Romanian: aspirator (ro) n
Romansch: tschitschapulvra m
Russian: пылесо́с (ru) m (pylesós)
Scottish Gaelic: sguabadair m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: усисѝва̄ч m, усѝса̄ч m

Roman: usisìvāč (sh) m, usìsāč (sh) m
Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can
Slovak: vysávač m
Slovene: sesalnik m
Sorbian:
Upper Sorbian: prochsrěbak m
Spanish: aspiradora (es) f, aspirador m
Swahili: kisafishi ombwe
Swedish: dammsugare (sv) c
Tagalog: panlinis na humihigop ng dumi
Tajik: гардкашак (gardkašak), чангкашак (tg) (čangkašak)
Tamil: தூசி உறிஞ்சி (tūci uṟiñci), துாசகற்றும்கருவிது
Thai: เครื่องดูดฝุ่น (th) (krʉ̂ʉang-dùut-fùn)
Tibetan: གློག་འགུལ་ཕྱགས་མ (glog 'gul phyags ma)
Turkish: elektrikli süpürge (tr)
Turkmen: tozan sorujy
Ukrainian: пилосо́с m (pylosós), пилосмо́к (uk) m (pylosmók)
Urdu: وَیکْیُوم کِلِینَر m (vaikyūm kilīnar), بَرْقی جارُوب کَش m (barqī jārūb kaś), بَرْقی جھاڑُو f (barqī jhāṛū)
Uyghur: چاڭ-توزان سۈمۈرگۈچ (chang-tozan sümürgüch)
Uzbek: changyutgich
Vietnamese: máy hút bụi (vi)
Volapük: püfisugian (vo)
Welsh: sugnwr llwch m, sugnlanhäwr m, hwfer m
Yiddish: וואַקוּום m (vakuum), שטויבזויגער m (shtoybzoyger), שטויבמאַשין f (shtoybmashin)

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