suitcase

See also: suit-case

English

Alternative forms

• suit-case (archaic)

Etymology

From suit +‎ case.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈs(j)uːtkeɪs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsutkeɪs/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -uːtkeɪs

Noun

suitcase (plural suitcases)

1. A large (usually rectangular) piece of luggage used for carrying clothes, and sometimes suits, when travelling.

   My suitcase is stowed in the luggage rack.

2. (computing) In the Classic Mac OS operating system, a file containing fonts, icons, sounds, and other resources.

Coordinate terms

• briefcase

Derived terms

• fold like a cheap suitcase
• suitcase farmer
• suitcase nuke

 

Descendants

• → Hindi: सूटकेस (sūṭkes)
• → Japanese: スーツケース (sūtsukēsu)
• → Korean: 슈트케이스 (syuteukeiseu)
• → Urdu: سوٹ کیس (soṭ kes)

Translations

large piece of luggage

• Albanian: valixhe (sq) f
• Amharic: ሻንጣ (šanṭa)
• Arabic: حَقِيبَةُ السَّفَر f (ḥaqībatu s-safar), شَنْطَة (ar) f (šanṭa)

  Egyptian Arabic: شَنْطَة f (šanṭa), صندوق m (ṣandūʔ)

• Armenian: ճամպրուկ (hy) (čampruk), չամադան (čʻamadan)
• Azerbaijani: çamadan (az)
• Bashkir: сумаҙан (sumaźan)
• Belarusian: валі́за f (valíza), валі́зка f (valízka), чамада́н m (čamadán), ку́фар m (kúfar), куфэ́рак m (kuférak)
• Bengali: সুটকেস (bn) (śuṭkes)
• Bulgarian: ку́фар (bg) m (kúfar)
• Burmese: လက်ဆွဲသေတ္တာ (lakhcwai:setta)
• Catalan: maleta (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 篋／箧 (yue) (gip¹), 喼 (gip¹), 手提箱 (sau² tai⁴ soeng¹)

  Mandarin: 手提箱 (zh) (shǒutíxiāng), 皮箱 (zh) (píxiāng) (leather), 行李箱 (zh) (xínglǐxiāng), 衣箱 (zh) (yīxiāng)

• Chuvash: чӑматан (čămat̬an)
• Czech: kufr (cs) m
• Danish: kuffert (da) c
• Dutch: valies (nl) f, koffer (nl) c
• Esperanto: valizo
• Estonian: kohver
• Faroese: kuffert n
• Finnish: matkalaukku (fi)
• French: valise (fr) f
• Galician: mala f, maleta f
• Georgian: სამგზავრო ჩანთა (samgzavro čanta), ჩემოდანი (čemodani), საკვოიაჟი (saḳvoiaži)
• German: Koffer (de) m; Reisetasche (de) f (see entries for distinction)
• Greek: βαλίτσα (el) f (valítsa)
• Greenlandic: kufferti
• Hebrew: מזוודה \ מִזְוָדָה (he) f (mizvadá)
• Hindi: सूटकेस (hi) m (sūṭkes)
• Hungarian: kézitáska (hu), bőrönd (hu), koffer (hu)
• Icelandic: ferðataska (is) f
• Indonesian: koper (id)
• Irish: cás m
• Italian: valigia (it) f
• Japanese: スーツケース (ja) (sūtsukēsu), トランク (ja) (toranku)
• Kabyle: tabalizt f
• Kannada: please add this translation if you can
• Kazakh: шабадан (şabadan)
• Khmer: វ៉ាលីស៍ (vaalii), ហិប (km) (həp)
• Korean: 여행 가방 (yeohaeng gabang), 트렁크 (ko) (teureongkeu), 슈트케이스 (ko) (syuteukeiseu)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: جانتا (canta)

  Northern Kurdish: bawil (ku), bahol (ku)

• Kyrgyz: чемодан (ky) (cemodan), жагдан (ky) (jagdan)
• Ladino: validja
• Lao: ຫີບ (lo) (hīp), ຫີບເດິນທາງ (hīp dœn thāng)
• Latin: riscus m, vīdulus m
• Latvian: čemodāns m, koferis m
• Lithuanian: lagaminas m
• Luxembourgish: Wallis f
• Macedonian: куфер m (kufer), кофер m (kofer)
• Malay: beg pakaian
• Maltese: valiġġa f, bagalja f
• Maori: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: авдар (mn) (avdar), чемодан (mn) (čemodan)

• Navajo: tsitsʼaaʼ naadloʼí, ééʼ bee naatʼáhí
• Northern Sami: koaffar
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: koffert m

  Nynorsk: koffert m

• Occitan: maleta f, valisa (oc) f
• Pashto: بکس (ps) m (baks)
• Persian:

  Dari: بَکْس (baks)

  Iranian Persian: چَمِدان (fa) (čamedân), چَمِدون‎ (čamedun) (colloquial, Tehrani), جامِه‌دان (fa) (jâme-dân)

• Piedmontese: valis f
• Plautdietsch: Koffa m
• Polish: walizka (pl) f
• Portuguese: mala (pt) f, valise (pt) f
• Romanian: geamantan (ro) n, valiză (ro) f
• Russian: чемода́н (ru) m (čemodán)
• Scottish Gaelic: baga m, màileid f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ко̀фер m

  Roman: kòfer (sh) m

• Sinhalese: සූට්කේස් (sūṭkēs)
• Slovak: kufor (sk) m
• Slovene: kovček (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: kofer m

• Spanish: maleta (es) f, petaca (es) f (Mexico, colloquial), valija (es) f (Argentina, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Uruguay)
• Swedish: resväska (sv), koffert (sv)
• Tagalog: maleta (tl)
• Tajik: чамадон (tg) (čamadon)
• Tamil: பெட்டி (ta) (peṭṭi)
• Taos: belísena
• Tatar: чемодан (çemodan)
• Thai: กระเป๋าเดินทาง (grà-bpǎo-dəən-taang), กระเป๋า (th) (grà-bpǎo)
• Tibetan: སྒམ (sgam), ཀོ་འབོག (ko 'bog)
• Tigrinya: ባልጃ ልብሲ (balǧa ləbsi)
• Turkish: bavul (tr)
• Turkmen: çemedan
• Ukrainian: валі́за (uk) f (valíza), валі́зка (uk) f (valízka), чемода́н m (čemodán)
• Urdu: سُوٹْکیس m (sūṭkes), سُوٹ کیس m (sūṭ kes), اَٹاچی (ur) m (aṭācī), اَٹَیچی (ur) m (aṭaicī), جامَہ دان m (jāma dān)
• Uyghur: چامادان (chamadan)
• Uzbek: chemodan (uz)
• Vietnamese: va li (vi), rương hành lý (箱行李)
• Volapük: tävatrök
• Welsh: ces dillad m, siwtces m
• West Frisian: bûse n
• Yiddish: טשעמאָדאַן m (tshemodan)
• Yup'ik: yaassiigek
• Zazaki: bağul, waliz, valiz

Verb

suitcase (third-person singular simple present suitcases, present participle suitcasing, simple past and past participle suitcased)

1. To trade using samples in a suitcase.
2. (prison slang) To smuggle in one's rectum.

Anagrams

• Escutias, sauciest