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 .
small industrial vehicle
Arabic: رَافِعَةٌ شَوْكِيَّةٌ f ( rāfiʕatun šawkiyyatun )
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 , ( slang ) truck (da)
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
Galician: carretilla elevadora f
German: Gabelstapler (de) m
Greek: περονοφόρο (el) n ( peronofóro )
Hebrew: מַלְגֵּזָה (he) f ( malgḗzā )
Hungarian: targonca (hu) , emelővillás targonca
Icelandic: lyftari (is) m
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 )
Lao: please add this translation if you can
Macedonian: виљушкар m ( viljuškar )
Maori: wakatīrou
Norwegian:
Bokmål: gaffeltruck m , truck (no) m
Nynorsk: gaffeltruck m , truck m
Polish: wózek widłowy (pl)
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 )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: vȉličār (sh) m , vìljuškār (sh) m
Roman: ви̏лича̄р m , вѝљушка̄р m
Silesian: widłowy wůzek
Slovak: vysokozdvižný vozík
Spanish: montacargas (es) m ( Latin America ) , carretilla elevadora f ( Spain ) , grúa horquilla 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 )
Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
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 , Garry Thomas Morse, 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.