backpack

English

Alternative forms

• back pack

Etymology

From back +‎ pack.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbæk.pæk/

• Audio (UK):

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Noun

backpack (plural backpacks)

1. A knapsack, sometimes mounted on a light frame, but always supported by straps, worn on a person’s back for the purpose of carrying things, especially when hiking, or on a student's back when carrying books.
   • 2011, Thelma J. Miller, What's in Your Backpack?, page 8:

     Rachel discovered that she could also keep things in her backpack that were important to her, nobody would know about them because they would be hidden. These important things included a small round rock that she had found […]

2. A similarly placed item containing a parachute or other life-support equipment.

Synonyms

• haversack
• knapsack (US)
• packsack
• rucksack
• bookbag

Translations

worn on a person's back, e.g., for hiking

• Afrikaans: rugsak
• Albanian: çantë shpine f
• Arabic: حَقِيبَة ظَهْر f (ḥaqībat ẓahr)
• Armenian: ուղեպարկ (hy) (uġepark), ուսապարկ (hy) (usapark)
• Asturian: mochila f
• Azerbaijani: arxa çantası
• Basque: bizkar-zorro
• Belarusian: рукза́к m (rukzák), ра́нец m (ránjec), запле́чнік m (zapljéčnik)
• Bengali: ব্যাকপ্যাক (bêkoppak)
• Bulgarian: ра́ница f (ránica)
• Burmese: ကျောပိုးအိတ် (my) (kyau:pui:it)
• Catalan: motxilla (ca) f
• Chechen: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 背包 (zh) (bēibāo), 背囊 (zh) (bēináng)

• Czech: batoh (cs) m, ruksak m
• Danish: rygsæk (da) c
• Dutch: rugzak (nl) m
• Elfdalian: bög m
• Erzya: лавтовкескал (lavtovkeskal)
• Esperanto: dorsosako, tornistro (eo)
• Estonian: seljakott, ranits
• Faroese: ryggsekkur m
• Finnish: reppu (fi), selkäreppu (fi), rinkka (fi)
• French: sac à dos (fr) m
• Friulian: persac
• Galician: mochila f
• Georgian: ზურგჩანთა (zurgčanta)
• German: Rucksack (de) m
• Greek: σακίδιο (el) n (sakídio)

  Ancient: γυλιός m (guliós)

• Greenlandic: nammattagaq
• Hebrew: יַלְקוּט (he) (yalkut), תַּרְמִיל (he) (tarmil), תִּיק גַּב (he) m (tik gav)
• Hindi: बैकपैक m (baikpaik)
• Hungarian: hátizsák (hu)
• Icelandic: bakpoki (is) m
• Ido: dorsosako (io)
• Indonesian: ransel (id), tas punggung (id)
• Irish: mála droma m
• Italian: zaino (it) m, sacco a pelo m
• Japanese: リュック (ja) (ryukku), リュックサック (ja) (ryukkusakku), バックパック (bakkupakku)
• Kazakh: рюкзак (rükzak), жолдорба (joldorba)
• Khmer: សាកាដូ (saakaadou)
• Korean: 배낭 (ko) (baenang) (背囊 (ko)), 륙색 (ryuksaek)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

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• Kyrgyz: рюкзак (ryukzak), жонбаштык (jonbaştık)
• Lao: ບາໂລ (bā lō), ຖົງເປ້ (thong pē)
• Latin: sacciperium dorsuale n
• Latvian: mugursoma f
• Lithuanian: kuprinė f
• Luxembourgish: Rucksak m
• Macedonian: ра́нец m (ránec)
• Malay: ransel
• Maori: pīkaunga
• Mongolian: үүргэвч (mn) (üürgevč)
• Navajo: azis bee naʼaljidí
• Northern Sami: lávka
• Norwegian: ryggsekk m
• Ossetian: рюкзак (rjukzak)
• Persian: کیف کوله (kif-e kule)
• Polish: plecak (pl) m
• Portuguese: mochila (pt) f
• Romanian: rucsac (ro) n
• Romansch: satgados m, bulscha f
• Russian: рюкза́к (ru) m (rjukzák), ра́нец (ru) m (ránec)
• Scottish Gaelic: màla-droma f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ранац m, руксак m

  Roman: ranac (sh) m, ruksak (sh) m

• Slovak: batoh (sk) m, ruksak m
• Slovene: nahrbtnik (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: nachribjetnik m

• Spanish: mochila (es) f, ^{(please verify)} bolsón (es) m (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras), ^{(please verify)} morral (es) m (Colombia, Venezuela)
• Swedish: ryggsäck (sv) c
• Tagalog: kabalyas, bag
• Tajik: борхалта (borxalta)
• Thai: เป้ (bpay), กระเป๋าเป้สะพายหลัง (grà-bpăo bpây sà-paai lăng)
• Tibetan: རྒྱབ་ཕད (rgyab phad)
• Turkish: sırt çantası
• Turkmen: rýukzak
• Ukrainian: рюкза́к m (rjukzák), ра́нець m (ránecʹ)
• Urdu: بیکپیک m (baikpaik)
• Uzbek: ryukzak (uz)
• Vietnamese: ba lô (vi)
• Welsh: sach gefn f
• Yiddish: רוקזאַק m (rukzak)

containing parachute

• Finnish: reppu (fi)
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• German: ^{(please verify)} Fallschirmcontainer m

Verb

backpack (third-person singular simple present backpacks, present participle backpacking, simple past and past participle backpacked)

1. (intransitive) to hike and camp overnight in backcountry with one's gear carried in a backpack
2. (intransitive) to engage in low-cost, generally urban, travel with minimal luggage and frugal accommodations
3. (transitive) to place or carry (an item or items) in a backpack

Derived terms

• backpackable
• backpacker
• backpacking (noun)

 

Translations

to hike and camp overnight in backcountry with one's gear carried in a backpack

• Dutch: backpacken (nl)
• Finnish: reppumatkailla
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• Irish: taistil le mála droma

to place or carry (an item or items) in a backpack

• Finnish: kantaa repussa
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• Irish: iompair i mála droma

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• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} backpacken (nl)
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