car wash

See also: carwash

English

a car driving through a mechanical car wash

Alternative forms

• carwash

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kɑɹ wɑʃ/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

car wash (plural car washes)

1. An event at which people (often students) wash cars, often for a small fee or donation
2. A place at which a car is washed, usually for a fee and often mechanically by driving the car through a tunnel.

   I'm going to take the car to the car wash.

3. An instance of washing a car, especially such a place.

   I'm going to take the car in for a car wash.

Derived terms

• Mexican car wash

Translations

event at which people wash cars

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 洗車 / 洗车 (zh) (xǐchē)

• Finnish: autonpesu
• Georgian: ავტომობილების რეცხვა (avṭomobilebis recxva)
• German: Wagenwäsche f
• Macedonian: миење кола n (mienje kola), перење кола n (perenje kola)
• Polish: mycie samochodów n
• Russian: мо́йка автомоби́лей f (mójka avtomobílej)
• Swedish: biltvätt (sv), biltvättning

place at which a car is washed, often mechanically

• Afrikaans: karwassery
• Azerbaijani: avtoyuma, moyka
• Basque: auto-garbigune
• Belarusian: аўтамыйня f (awtamyjnja)
• Bulgarian: автомивка f (avtomivka)
• Catalan: centre de rentatge m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 洗車場 / 洗车场 (xǐchēchǎng)

• Czech: mycí linka f
• Danish: bilvask (da) c
• Dutch: wasstraat (nl) f, autowasstraat (nl) f
• Estonian: autopesu
• Finnish: autopesula (fi)
• French: station de lavage (fr) f, lave-auto (fr) m (Canada)
• Georgian: ავტომობილების სამრეცხაო (avṭomobilebis samrecxao), ავტოსამრეცხაო (avṭosamrecxao), მოიკა (moiḳa)
• German: Waschstraße (de) f, Waschanlage (de) f, Wagenwäsche f
• Hungarian: autómosó (hu)
• Indonesian: tempat cuci mobil
• Italian: autolavaggio (it) m
• Japanese: 洗車場 (せんしゃじょう, senshajō)
• Kazakh: автожуу (avtojuu)
• Lao: ຮ້ານລ້າງລົດ (hān lāng lot), ລ້າງລົດ (lāng lot)
• Latvian: auto mazgātava f
• Lithuanian: automobilių plovykla f
• Luxembourgish: Wäschstrooss f
• Macedonian: автопералница f (avtoperalnica), автопера́лна f (avtoperálna)
• Malay: tempat cuci kereta
• Manx: naighyn-carr m
• Mongolian: авто угаалга (avto ugaalga), машин угаалга (mašin ugaalga)
• Norwegian: bilvask m
• Persian: کارواش (fa) (kârvâš)
• Polish: automyjnia f, myjnia samochodowa f
• Portuguese: lava-jato m (Brazil)
• Romanian: spălătorie auto f
• Russian: автомо́йка (ru) f (avtomójka), мо́йка (ru) f (mójka) (автомоби́лей)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: аутопраоница f

  Latin: autopraonica (sh) f

• Slovak: umývacia linka f
• Slovene: avtopralnica f
• Spanish: túnel de lavado m (automated system), autolavado (es) m, lavado de coches / carros / autos m, lavadero de carros / autos m, lavadora de autos m, fregadora (es) f, car wash m
• Swedish: biltvätt (sv) c
• Thai: การล้าง รถ (gaan láang rót)
• Turkish: araç yıkama yeri, oto kuaför, oto yıkama
• Ukrainian: автоми́йка f (avtomýjka)
• Vietnamese: rửa xe

See also

• jetwash

Further reading

• car wash on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Crashaw

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English car wash.

Noun

car wash m

1. (automotive) car wash
   • 2025 October 19, Redacción GH, “Ataque armado deja dos muertos en un car wash de la colonia Las Cruces”, in El Imparcial‎^[1], archived from the original on 19 October 2025:

     Dos trabajadores de un car wash fueron asesinados la tarde de este sábado durante un ataque armado registrado en la colonia Las Cruces, en la delegación San Antonio de los Buenos.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.