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From fork lift
forklift (plural forklifts
A small industrial vehicle with a power -operated fork -like pronged platform that can be raised and lowered for insertion under a load , often on pallets , to be lifted and moved .
2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian [1] the original on 24 January 2025 :The concrete floors of B2B sheds were already being built to an exacting degree of flatness, calibrated using lasers, so that forklifts would not teeter while lifting pallets to the highest shelves.
small industrial vehicle
Albanian: pirun ngritës m
Arabic: رَافِعَةٌ شَوْكِيَّةٌ f ( rāfiʕatun šawkiyyatun )
Belarusian: аўтапагру́зчык m ( awtapahrúzčyk ) , аўтака́р m ( awtakár )
Bulgarian: мотока́р m ( motokár ) , автока́р m ( avtokár )
Catalan: carretó elevador m toro mecànic m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 叉車 / 叉车 (zh) ( chāchē ) , 鏟車 / 铲车 (zh) ( chǎnchē ) , 堆高機 / 堆高机 (zh) ( duīgāojī )
Czech: vysokozdvižný vozík (cs) m
Danish: gaffeltruck c ( slang ) truck (da) c
Dutch: vorkheftruck (nl) m heftruck (nl) m vorklift (nl) m
Esperanto: ĉarelo levĉaro
Estonian: kahveltõstuk
Faroese: trukkur m gaffiltrukkur m
Finnish: haarukkatrukki trukki (fi)
French: chariot élévateur (fr) m élévateur (fr) m clark (fr) m
Galician: carretilla elevadora f
German: Gabelstapler (de) m
Greek: περονοφόρο (el) n ( peronofóro )
Hebrew: מַלְגֵּזָה (he) f ( malgezá )
Hindi: फ़ोर्कलिफ़्ट f ( forkalifṭ )
Hungarian: targonca (hu) , emelővillás targonca
Icelandic: lyftari (is) m
Indonesian: truk angkat susun
Irish: forcardaitheoir m
Italian: muletto (it) m carrello elevatore (it) m
Japanese: フォークリフト (ja) ( fōkurifuto )
Kazakh: айырлы тиегіш ( aiyrly tiegış )
Khmer: please add this translation if you can
Korean: 지게차 ( jigecha ) , 포크리프트 ( pokeuripeuteu )
Lao: please add this translation if you can
Macedonian: виљушкар m ( viljuškar )
Malay: trak angkat susun
Māori: wakatīrou wakahiki
Norwegian:
Bokmål: gaffeltruck m truck (no) m
Nynorsk: gaffeltruck m truck m
Persian:
Iranian Persian: لیفْتِراک ( lifterâk )
Polish: wózek widłowy (pl) m inan wózek jezdniowy m inan
Portuguese: empilhadeira (pt) f ( Brazil ) , empilhadora (pt) f ( Portugal ) , empilhador m ( Portugal )
Romanian: stivuitor (ro) , motostivuitor n
Russian: ви́лочный погру́зчик (ru) m ( víločnyj pogrúzčik ) , автопогру́зчик (ru) m ( avtopogrúzčik ) , автока́р (ru) m ( avtokár )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: vȉličār (sh) m vìljuškār (sh) m
Latin: ви̏лича̄р m вѝљушка̄р m
Silesian: widłowy wůzek m
Slovak: vysokozdvižný vozík m
Slovene: viličar m
Spanish: montacargas (es) m ( Latin America ) , carretilla elevadora f ( Spain ) , grúa horquilla (es) f ( Chile ) , pato (es) m ( Peru, colloquial ) , mula (es) m ( Argentina ) , toro (es) m ( Spain, colloquial ) , montacarga m ( Latin America )
Swedish: gaffeltruck (sv) c truck (sv) c
Thai: รถยก ( rót-yók )
Turkish: kaldırmaç (tr)
Ukrainian: автованта́жник (uk) m ( avtovantážnyk ) , автонаванта́жувач (uk) m ( avtonavantážuvač ) , ви́лочний наванта́жувач m ( výločnyj navantážuvač ) , автовізо́к (uk) m ( avtovizók ) , автока́р (uk) m ( avtokár )
Uzbek: avtopogruzchik
Vietnamese: xe nâng hạ
Welsh: wagen fforch godi f
forklift (third-person singular simple present forklifts present participle forklifting simple past and past participle forklifted
To move or stack with, or as if with, such a vehicle.
2009 Death in Vancouver , page 49 :With bouncerly finesse, Frank forklifted his arms under Gerald's & plucked him off his stool, dragging him towards the back & the source of that incessant voice.
