excavator

English

Etymology

excavate +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛkskəˌveɪtə/
• IPA^(key): /ˈɛkskəˌveɪtɚ/, /-ɾɚ/
• Hyphenation: ex‧ca‧vat‧or

Noun

excavator (plural excavators)

1. A person who excavates.
2. A curette used to scrape out pathological material.
3. A vehicle, often on tracks, used to dig ditches etc; a backhoe; digger.

Hyponyms

• dragline, dragline excavator

Derived terms

• dragline excavator

Translations

person who excavates

• Bulgarian: копач (bg) m (kopač)
• Catalan: excavador (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 挖掘机 (zh) (wājué jī), 挖掘機／挖掘机 (zh) (wājuéjī)

• Finnish: kaivaja (fi)
• Galician: excavador m
• Georgian: ექსკავატორი (eksḳavaṭori)
• Greek: εκσκαφέας (el) m (ekskaféas)
• Italian: spalatore (it) m, badilante m, sterratore m, scavatore m
• Korean: 굴착기 (ko) (gulchakgi)
• Kyrgyz: экскаватор (ky) (ekskavator)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: excavador m, cavador (pt) m
• Russian: землеко́п (ru) m (zemlekóp), экскава́торщик (ru) m (ekskavátorščik) (excavator operator)
• Spanish: excavador (es) m
• Swedish: grävare c, grävmaskin (sv)
• Thai: เครื่องขุด (krʉ̂ʉang-kùt)
• Turkish: ekskavatör (tr)
• Ukrainian: екскаватор (ekskavator)
• Urdu: کھدائی m
• Uzbek: ekskavator (uz)
• Vietnamese: người xới đất

curette used to scrape out pathological material — see curette

vehicle, often on tracks, used to dig ditches etc; a backhoe

• Albanian: ekskavator (sq) m
• Arabic: حَفَّارَة f (ḥaffāra), حَفَّارَة آلِيَّة f (ḥaffāra ʾāliyya), 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: 掘土機／掘土机 (zh) (juétǔjī), 掘土机 (zh) (juétǔjī), 挖掘機／挖掘机 (zh) (wājuéjī), 挖掘机 (zh) (wājuéjī), 挖土機／挖土机 (zh) (wātǔjī), 挖土机 (zh) (wātǔjī)

• Crimean Tatar: ekskavator
• Czech: bagr (cs) m, exkavátor m
• Danish: gravemaskine, gravko c
• Dutch: graafmachine (nl) f
• Esperanto: elkavatoro
• Estonian: ekskavaator
• Faroese: gravkúgv f
• Finnish: kaivinkone (fi)
• French: excavateur (fr) m
• Galician: excavadora f
• Georgian: ექსკავატორი (eksḳavaṭori)
• German: Bagger (de) m, Aushubmaschine f
• Greek: εκσκαφέας (el) f (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)
• Italian: escavatore (it) m, escavatrice (it) f, ruspa (it) f, talpa (it) f
• Japanese: 掘削機 (くっさくき, kussakuki), ショベル (shoberu)
• Kazakh: экскаватор (ékskavator)
• Korean: 굴착기 (ko) (gulchakgi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Kyrgyz: экскаватор (ky) (ekskavator)
• Latvian: ekskavators m
• Lithuanian: ekskavatorius m
• Macedonian: багер m (bager)
• Malay: ekskavator
• Mongolian: экскаватор (mn) (ekskavator)
• 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: excavadora 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)
• Turkmen: ekskawator
• Ukrainian: екскава́тор m (ekskavátor)
• Uzbek: ekskavator (uz)
• Vietnamese: máy đào, máy xúc (vi)

See also

• Excavata

References

• Category:excavators on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) excavātor

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