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.
2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian[1], archived from the original on 24 January 2025:The concrete floors of B2B sheds were already being built to an exacting degree of flatness, calibrated using lasers, so that forklifts would not teeter while lifting pallets to the highest shelves.
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Translations
small industrial vehicle
- Albanian: pirun ngritës m
- Arabic: رَافِعَةٌ شَوْكِيَّةٌ f (rāfiʕatun šawkiyyatun)
- Belarusian: аўтапагру́зчык m (awtapahrúzčyk), аўтака́р m (awtakár)
- Bulgarian: мотока́р m (motokár), автока́р m (avtokár)
- 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 c, (slang) truck (da) c
- 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, clark (fr) m
- Galician: carretilla elevadora f
- German: Gabelstapler (de) m
- Greek: περονοφόρο (el) n (peronofóro)
- Hebrew: מַלְגֵּזָה (he) f (malgezá)
- Hindi: फ़ोर्कलिफ़्ट f (forkalifṭ)
- Hungarian: targonca (hu), emelővillás targonca
- Icelandic: lyftari (is) m
- Indonesian: truk angkat susun
- 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), 포크리프트 (pokeuripeuteu)
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Macedonian: виљушкар m (viljuškar)
- Malay: trak angkat susun
- Māori: wakatīrou, wakahiki
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: gaffeltruck m, truck (no) m
- Nynorsk: gaffeltruck m, truck m
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: لیفْتِراک (lifterâk)
- Polish: wózek widłowy (pl) m inan, wózek jezdniowy m inan
- 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), автока́р (ru) m (avtokár)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: vȉličār (sh) m, vìljuškār (sh) m
- Latin: ви̏лича̄р m, вѝљушка̄р m
- Silesian: widłowy wůzek m
- Slovak: vysokozdvižný vozík m
- Slovene: viličar m
- 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), автонаванта́жувач (uk) m (avtonavantážuvač), ви́лочний наванта́жувач m (výločnyj navantážuvač), автовізо́к (uk) m (avtovizók), автока́р (uk) m (avtokár)
- Uzbek: avtopogruzchik
- Vietnamese: xe nâng hạ
- 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.
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