English
Etymology
From excavate + -or.
Pronunciation
Noun
excavator (plural excavators)
- A person who excavates.
- A vehicle, often on tracks, used to dig ditches etc.
- Synonyms: digger, excavating machine
- A curette used to scrape out pathological material.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
vehicle
- Albanian: ekskavator (sq) m
- Arabic: حَفَّارَة f (ḥaffāra), حَفَّارَة آلِيَّة f (ḥaffāra ʔāliyya), حَفَّارَة مِيكَانِيكِيَّة f (ḥaffāra mīkānīkiyya)
- Armenian: էքսկավատոր (hy) (ēkʻskavator)
- Azerbaijani: ekskavator
- Belarusian: экскава́тар (be) m (ekskavátar)
- Bulgarian: ба́гер (bg) m (báger), екскава́тор (bg) m (ekskavátor)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 挖土機 / 挖土机 (zh) (wātǔjī), 掘土機 / 掘土机 (zh) (juétǔjī), 挖掘機 / 挖掘机 (zh) (wājuéjī), 怪手 (zh) (guàishǒu)
- Crimean Tatar: ekskavator
- Czech: bagr (cs) m, exkavátor m
- Danish: gravemaskine, gravko c
- Dutch: graafmachine (nl) f
- Esperanto: dragmaŝino, elkavatoro, fosmaŝino
- Estonian: ekskavaator, kopp (common colloquialism), kaevemasin
- Faroese: gravkúgv f
- Finnish: kaivinkone (fi)
- French: excavatrice (fr) f, pelleteuse (fr) f, pelle hydraulique (fr) f, pelle mécanique hydraulique (fr) f, excavateur (fr) m
- Galician: excavadora f
- Georgian: ექსკავატორი (eksḳavaṭori)
- German: Bagger (de) m, Tieflöffelbagger m, Tieflöffelbagger m, Aushubmaschine f
- Greek: εκσκαφέας (el) m (ekskaféas)
- Greenlandic: please add this translation if you can
- Hebrew: מַחְפֵּר (he) m
- Hindi: उत्खनक m (utkhanak)
- Hungarian: markológép (hu)
- Icelandic: grafa (is) f
- Ido: exkavilo (io)
- Indonesian: ekskavator (id)
- Ingrian: ekskavatora
- Italian: ruspa (it) f, escavatore (it) m, escavatrice (it) f, talpa (it) f
- Japanese: 掘削機 (ja) (くっさくき, kussakuki), ショベル (ja) (shoberu)
- Kazakh: экскаватор (ékskavator)
- Korean: 굴삭기 (ko) (gulsakgi), 굴착기 (ko) (gulchakgi), 포크레인 (pokeurein)
- Kyrgyz: экскаватор (ky) (ekskavator)
- Latvian: ekskavators m
- Lithuanian: ekskavatorius m
- Macedonian: багер m (bager)
- Malay: ekskavator
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: экскаватор (mn) (ekskavator), шороо ухах машин (šoroo uxax mašin) (China)
- Mongolian: ᠡᠺᠰᠺᠠᠸᠠᠲ᠋ᠤᠷ (ekskawatur), ᠰᠢᠷᠤᠢ
ᠤᠬᠤᠬᠤ
ᠮᠠᠰᠢᠨ (sirui uququ masin)
- Northern Sami: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: gravemaskin (no) m
- Nynorsk: gravemaskin m or f
- Persian: بیل مکانیکی (bil-e mekâniki)
- Polish: koparka (pl) f
- Portuguese: (Portugal) escavadora f, (Brazil) escavadeira (pt) f
- Romanian: excavator (ro) n
- Russian: экскава́тор (ru) m (ekskavátor)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: багер m
- Roman: bager (sh) m
- Slovak: bager m
- Slovene: kopač m
- Spanish: excavadora (es) f
- Swedish: grävmaskin (sv) c, grävskopa (sv) c, grävare c
- Tagalog: pamungkal
- Tajik: экскаватор (tg) (ekskavator)
- Thai: เครื่องขุด (krʉ̂ʉang-kùt)
- Turkish: ekskavatör (tr), kazaratar (tr), kazmaç (tr), kazı makinesi
- Turkmen: ekskawator
- Ukrainian: екскава́тор m (ekskavátor)
- Uzbek: ekskavator (uz)
- Vietnamese: máy đào, máy xúc (vi)
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curette used to scrape out pathological material
— see curetteSee also
References
Further reading
- “excavator”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “excavator”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “excavator”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “excavator”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
Latin
Verb
excavātor
- second/third-person singular future passive imperative of excavō
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French excavateur. Equivalent to excava + -tor.
Noun
excavator n (plural excavatoare)
- excavator, digger
Declension
Declension of excavator
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plural
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indefinite
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definite
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indefinite
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definite
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excavator
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excavatorul
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excavatoare
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excavatoarele
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excavator
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excavatorului
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excavatoare
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excavatoarelor
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excavatorule
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excavatoarelor
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