camshaft

English

Etymology

cam +‎ shaft

Noun

camshaft (plural camshafts)

1. A shaft fitted with cams; especially one in a piston engine that activates the valves.

Translations

a shaft fitted with cams

• Arabic: عَمُود الحَدَبَات m (ʕamūd al-ḥadabāt)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: разпределителен вал (razpredelitelen val)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 凸輪軸／凸轮轴 (zh), 凸轮轴 (zh) (tūlúnzhóu)

• Czech: vačkový hřídel
• Danish: kamaksel
• Dutch: nokkenas (nl) m or f
• Estonian: nukkvõll
• Finnish: nokka-akseli (fi)
• French: arbre à cames (fr)
• German: Nockenwelle (de) f
• Hebrew: גַּל פִּיקוֹת m (gal pikot), גַּל זִיזִים m (gal zizim)
• Indonesian: poros bubungan (id)
• Italian: albero a camme (it) m
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• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: paskirstymo velenas m
• Macedonian: брегаста осови́на f (bregasta osovína)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kamaksel (no) m

  Nynorsk: kamaksel m, kamaksling m

• Polish: wałek rozrządu
• Portuguese: eixo de comando m, árvore de cames f
• Romanian: arbore cu came m, ax cu came n
• Russian: распределительный кулачковый вал m (raspredelitelʹnyj kulačkovyj val), распредвал (ru) m (raspredval)
• Spanish: árbol de levas m
• Swedish: kamaxel c
• Tagalog: tandos-umbok
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

See also

• crankshaft

Further reading

• camshaft on Wikipedia.Wikipedia