excavator

English

An excavator (#2)

Etymology

excavate +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɛkskəˌveɪtə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɛkskəˌveɪtɚ/
• Hyphenation: ex‧ca‧vat‧or
• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

excavator (plural excavators)

1. A person who excavates.
2. A vehicle, often on tracks, used to dig ditches etc.

   

   Excavator

   Synonyms: digger, excavating machine

3. A curette used to scrape out pathological material.

Hyponyms

• dragline, dragline excavator

Derived terms

• dragline excavator
• excavator operator
• mini excavator
• spoon excavator

 

Translations

person

• Bulgarian: копач (bg) m (kopač)
• Catalan: excavador (ca) m
• Finnish: kaivaja (fi)
• Galician: excavador m
• Georgian: ექსკავატორი (eksḳavaṭori)
• Greek: εκσκαφέας (el) m (ekskaféas)
• Italian: spalatore (it) m, badilante m, sterratore m, scavatore m
• Kyrgyz: экскаватор (ky) (ekskavator)
• Macedonian: копач m (kopač)
• Portuguese: escavador m, cavador (pt) m
• Romanian: excavator (ro) m,săpător (ro) m
• Russian: землеко́п (ru) m (zemlekóp), экскава́торщик (ru) m (ekskavátorščik) (excavator operator)
• Spanish: excavador (es) m
• Swedish: grävare c
• Thai: เครื่องขุด (krʉ̂ʉang-kùt)
• Turkish: ekskavatör (tr)
• Ukrainian: екскаватор (ekskavator)
• Urdu: کھدائی m
• Uzbek: ekskavator (uz)
• Vietnamese: người xới đất

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
• 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)
• 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 (shoberu)
• Kazakh: экскаватор (ékskavator)
• Korean: 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 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)

curette used to scrape out pathological material — see curette

See also

• backhoe
• Excavata

References

• Category:excavators on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of excavō

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French excavateur. Equivalent to excava +‎ -tor.

Noun

excavator n (plural excavatoare)

1. excavator, digger

Declension

Declension of excavator

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) excavator	excavatorul	(niște) excavatoare	excavatoarele
genitive/dative	(unui) excavator	excavatorului	(unor) excavatoare	excavatoarelor
vocative	excavatorule		excavatoarelor