forklift

English

Etymology

From fork +‎ lift.

Pronunciation

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Noun

forklift (plural forklifts)

1. 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.

Synonyms

• fork hoist
• forklift truck
• fork truck
• hi-lo
• jitney
• lift truck
• sideloader
• stacker-truck
• tow-motor
• trailer loader

 

Derived terms

• forklift driver
• forklifter
• forklift operator

 

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 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

Verb

forklift (third-person singular simple present forklifts, present participle forklifting, simple past and past participle forklifted)

1. 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.