forklift

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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
• fork truck
• lift truck
• sideloader
• stacker-truck
• tow-motor
• trailer loader

Translations

small industrial vehicle

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 叉車 (cmn), 叉车 (cmn) (chāchē), 鏟車 (cmn), 铲车 (cmn) (chǎnchē)

• Czech: vysokozdvižný vozík (cs) m
• Danish: gaffeltruck (da), (slang) truck (da)
• Dutch: vorkheftruck (nl)
• Estonian: kahveltõstuk (et)
• Finnish: haarukkatrukki (fi), trukki (fi)
• French: chariot élévateur (fr)
• German: Gabelstapler (de) m
• Hungarian: targonca (hu)
• Icelandic: gaffallyftari (is) m
• Irish: forcardaitheoir (ga) m
• Italian: transpallet (it) m
• Japanese: フォークリフト (ja) (fōkurifuto)

• Macedonian: вилушкар (mk) (víluškar) m, виличар (mk) (víličar) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gaffeltruck (nb) m, truck (nb) m

  Nynorsk: gaffeltruck (nn) m, truck (nn) m

• Polish: wózek widłowy (pl)
• Portuguese: empilhadeira (pt) f
• Romanian: stivuitor (ro)
• Russian: вилочный погрузчик (ru) (víločnyj pogrúzčik) m
• Serbo-Croatian: viljuškar (sh) m
• Silesian: widłowy wůzek
• Spanish: montacargas (es) m
• Swedish: gaffeltruck (sv) c, truck (sv) c
• Turkish: kaldırmaç (tr)

Verb

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

1. to move or stack using such a vehicle