English [edit]
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Etymology [edit]
From Middle English whele, from Old English hwēoġol, hwēol, from Proto-Germanic *hwehwlą (compare West Frisian tsjil, Dutch wiel, Danish hjul), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷekʷlóm, *kʷékʷlos (cf. Tocharian B kokale (“cart, wagon”), Ancient Greek κύκλος (kuklos, “cycle, wheel”), Avestan (čaxrō), Sanskrit चक्र (cakrá)), reduplication of *kʷel- (“to turn”) (compare Welsh dymchwel (“to overturn, upset”), Latin colere (“to till, cultivate”), Tocharian A and B käl (“to bear; bring”), Ancient Greek (Aeolic) (pélesthai, “to be in motion”), Old Church Slavonic коло (kolo, “wheel”), Albanian sjell (“to bring, carry, turn around”), Avestan (čaraiti, “it circulates”), Sanskrit (cárati, “it moves, wanders”)).
Pronunciation [edit]
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wheel on a 1991 Cadillac Fleetwood d'Elegance
Painting of
wheel (instrument of torture)
wheel (plural wheels)
- A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.
- A wheel-like device used as an instrument of torture or punishment.
- (informal, with "the") A steering wheel and its implied control of a vehicle.
- (nautical) The instrument attached to the rudder by which a vessel is steered.
- (slang) A person with a great deal of power or influence; a big wheel.
- (poker slang) The lowest straight in poker: ace, 2, 3, 4, 5.
- (automotive) wheel rim
- a round portion of cheese
Synonyms [edit]
Derived terms [edit]
Terms derived from wheel (noun)
See also [edit]
Translations [edit]
a circular device facilitating movement or transportation
- Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
- Afrikaans: wiel (af)
- Albanian: rrotë (sq)
- Amharic: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: عجلة (ar) (ʿájala) f
- Aragonese: rueda (an) f
- Armenian: անիվ (hy) (aniv), ակ (hy) (ak)
- Aromanian: roatã (rup) f, arãcoatã (rup), furcutash (rup), ghirgal (rup)
- Assamese: please add this translation if you can
- Asturian: rueda (ast) f
- Avar: please add this translation if you can
- Azeri: çarx (az), tәkәr (az)
- Basque: gurpil (eu), txirringa (eu), txirrika (eu)
- Belarusian: кола (be) (kóla) n
- Bengali: চাকা (bn) (caka)
- Bulgarian: колело (bg) (koleló) n
- Burmese: ဘီး (my) (bein:)
- Catalan: roda (ca) f
- Chichewa: please add this translation if you can
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 輪子 (cmn), 轮子 (cmn) (lúnzi)
- Czech: kolo (cs) n
- Danish: hjul (da) n
- Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: wiel (nl) n
- Esperanto: rado (eo)
- Estonian: ratas (et)
- Ewe: please add this translation if you can
- Extremaduran: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: pyörä (fi), ratas (fi)
- French: roue (fr) f
- Friulian: ruede f
- Galician: roda (gl) f
- Georgian: ბორბალი (ka) (borbali)
- German: Rad (de) n
- Greek: τροχός (el) (trochós) m, ρόδα (el) (róda) f
- Gujarati: ચક્ર (gu) (cakra) f
- Hausa: please add this translation if you can
- Hebrew: גלגל (he) (galgal) m
- Hindi: चक्र (hi) (cakra) m
- Hungarian: kerék (hu)
- Icelandic: hjól (is) n
- Ido: roto (io)
- Igbo: please add this translation if you can
- Indonesian: roda (id)
- Interlingua: rota (ia)
- Interlingue: please add this translation if you can
- Irish: roth (ga) m
- Italian: ruota (it) f
- Japanese: 車輪 (ja) (しゃりん, sharin), 輪 (ja) (わ, wa)
- Jèrriais: reue f
- Kannada: ಚಕ್ರ (kn) (cakra)
- Kazakh: доңғалақ (kk) (doñgalaq), дөңгелек (kk) (döñgelek)
- Kinyarwanda: please add this translation if you can
- Kirundi: please add this translation if you can
- Korean: 바퀴 (ko) (bakwi)
- Kyrgyz: дөңгөлөк (ky) (döñgölök)
- Lao: ກົງ (lo) (koŋ)
- Latin: rota (la) f
- Latvian: ritenis (lv) m, rats (lv) m
- Lithuanian: ratas (lt)
- Luganda: please add this translation if you can
- Luxembourgish: Rad (lb) n
- Macedonian: тркало (mk) (t'rkálo) n
- Malay: roda (ms)
- Malayalam: ചക്രം (ml) (cakraṁ)
- Maltese: rota (mt)
- Manx: queeyl (gv)
- Maori: wīra (mi)
- Marathi: please add this translation if you can
- Mirandese: ruoda f
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- Mongolian: хүрд (mn) (hürd)
- Nahuatl: malacatl (nah), malakatl (nah)
- Neapolitan: rota f
- Novial: please add this translation if you can
- Occitan: ròda (oc), arròda (oc)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: коло (cu) (kolo) n
- Old Dutch: wiel
- Old English: hwēoġol (ang) n, hwēoġl (ang) n, hwēol (ang) pl
- Old Frisian: hwēl
- Old Irish: roth
- Old Saxon: hwiol
- Oriya: please add this translation if you can
- Ossetian: please add this translation if you can
- Pali:
- Burmese: စက္က (pi) n
- Devanagari: चक्क (pi) n
- Latin: cakka (pi) n
- Pashto: please add this translation if you can
- Persian: چرخ (fa) (čarx)
- Piedmontese: please add this translation if you can
- Polish: koło (pl) n
- Portuguese: roda (pt) f
- Punjabi: please add this translation if you can
- Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can
- Romanian: roată (ro) f
- Romansch: roda (rm) f, rouda (rm) f
- Russian: колесо (ru) (kolesó) n
- Sanskrit: चक्र (sa) (cakra)
- Santali: ᱪᱚᱠ (cak)
- Sardinian: roda (sc), arroda (sc), rota (sc), orroda (sc)
- Scottish Gaelic: roth (gd) m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ко̀та̄ч (sh) m
- Roman: kòtāč (sh) m
- Sicilian: rota (scn) f
- Sindhi: please add this translation if you can
- Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can
- Skolt Sami: kåå´lez
- Slovak: koleso (sk) n
- Slovene: kolo (sl) n
- Somali: please add this translation if you can
- Spanish: rueda (es) f
- Swahili: gurudumu (sw) (noun 5/6)
- Swedish: hjul (sv)
- Tagalog: gulong (tl)
- Tajik: чарх (tg) (čarx)
- Tamil: சில்லு (ta) (cillu)
- Taos: t’áwaną
- Telugu: చక్రం (te) (cakraM), చక్రము (te) (cakramu)
- Thai: ล้อรถ (th) (lór rót), ล้อ (th) (lór)
- Tibetan: འཁོར་ལོ (bo) (kor-lo)
- Tocharian A: wärkänt
- Tocharian B: yerkwanto
- Turkish: tekerlek (tr), teker (tr)
- Turkmen: tigir (tk), çarh (tk)
- Tuvan: дугуй (duguj)
- Ukrainian: колесо (uk) (kóleso) n, коло (uk) (kólo) n
- Urdu: پہیہ (ur) (pahiyya)
- Uzbek: gʻildirak (uz)
- Venetian: rua f
- Vietnamese: bánh xe (vi)
- Volapük: please add this translation if you can
- Walloon: rowe (wa)
- Welsh: olwyn (cy) f
- West Frisian: tsjil (fy) n
- Wolof: please add this translation if you can
- Xhosa: please add this translation if you can
- Yiddish: ראד (yi) (rad) f
- Yoruba: please add this translation if you can
- Zulu: please add this translation if you can
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steering wheel and its implied control of a vehicle
steering device in a vessel
person with a great deal of power or influence
References [edit]
wheel (third-person singular simple present wheels, present participle wheeling, simple past and past participle wheeled)
- (intransitive or transitive) To roll along as on wheels.
- Wheel that trolley over here, would you?
- (intransitive) To travel around in large circles, particularly in the air.
- The vulture wheeled above us.
- (transitive) To transport something or someone using any wheeled mechanism, such as a wheelchair.
Derived terms [edit]
Terms derived from the verb wheel
Translations [edit]
To roll along as on wheels
To travel around in large circles, particularly in the air
