crankshaft

English

Crankshaft

Etymology

crank +‎ shaft

Noun

crankshaft (plural crankshafts)

1. A rotating shaft that drives (or is driven by) a crank.

Coordinate terms

• conrod
• crankcase
• transaxle

Translations

rotating shaft that drives a crank

• Afrikaans: krukas
• Arabic: عَمُود الْمِرْفَق m (ʕamūd al-mirfaq)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: колянов вал m (koljanov val)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 曲軸／曲轴 (zh) (qūzhóu), 曲轴 (zh) (qūzhóu)

• Czech: kliková hřídel f
• Danish: krumtapaksel c
• Dutch: krukas (nl) f
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: kampiakseli (fi)
• French: vilebrequin (fr)
• German: Kurbelwelle (de) f
• Greek: στροφαλοφόρος άξονας (el) m (strofalofóros áxonas)
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• Hebrew: גַּל אַרְכֻּבָּה m (gal arkuba)
• Hungarian: főtengely, forgattyústengely
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: veivaksel (no) m

  Nynorsk: veivaksel m, veivaksling m

• Portuguese: virabrequim (pt) m, cambota f (of a vehicle)
• Romanian: arbore cotit m, vilbrochen (ro) n
• Russian: коле́нчатый вал (ru) m (kolénčatyj val), коленва́л (ru) m (kolenvál)
• Serbo-Croatian: koljeničasta osovina f
• Spanish: cigüeñal
• Swedish: vevaxel c
• Tagalog: sikaran, tandos-sikaran
• Thai: please add this translation if you can

See also

• camshaft

Further reading

• crankshaft on Wikipedia.Wikipedia