garbage can

English

Noun

Two metal garbage cans

garbage can (plural garbage cans)

1. (Canada, US) A receptacle, usually roughly cylindrical and wider at the top than at the bottom, which serves as a place to discard waste materials.

Usage notes

The phrase originally referred to large metal containers (typically in the shape of a can), but is now used interchangeably with other names of receptacles for waste materials.

Synonyms

• (container for trash): ashcan, dumpster, dustbin, garbage pail, rubbish bin, trash can, wastebin; see also Thesaurus:waste bin

Hyponyms

• (container for wastepaper): wastepaper basket

Translations

waste receptacle

• Afrikaans: vullisdrom (af)
• Armenian: աղբարկղ (hy) (aġbarkġ), աղբաման (hy) (aġbaman)
• Assamese: ডাছ-বিন (das-bin), জাৱৰ পেলোৱা (zawor pelüa)
• Cherokee: ᎤᏟᏩᏗᏅᏓᎦᎵᏙᏗ (utliwadinvdagalidodi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 垃圾桶 (laap⁶ saap³ tung²)

  Hakka: 垃圾桶 (lep-sep-thúng)

  Mandarin: 垃圾桶 (zh) (lājītǒng, lèsètǒng), 垃圾箱 (zh) (lājīxiāng, lèsèxiāng), 垃圾筒 (zh) (lājītǒng, lèsètǒng)

  Min Nan: 糞掃桶／粪扫桶, 粪扫桶 (pùn-sò-tháng), 糞掃籠／粪扫笼, 粪扫笼 (pùn-sò-láng)

• Danish: skraldespand (da) c
• Dutch: vuilnisbak (nl) m
• Esperanto: rubujo
• Estonian: prügikast
• Finnish: jäteastia (fi), roskakori (fi), roskapönttö, roskis (fi), roskatynnyri, roskalaatikko (fi), roskasäiliö
• French: poubelle (fr) f
• Georgian: სანაგვე ყუთი (sanagve q̇uti)
• German: (outdoors, movable) Mülltonne (de) f; (indoors or fixed outdoors) Mülleimer (de) m, Abfalleimer (de) m; (indoors, for paper and dry rubbish) Papierkorb (de) m, Abfallbehälter (de) m
• Greek: σκουπιδοτενεκές (el) m (skoupidotenekés)
• Gujarati: કચરાપેટી (kacrāpeṭī)
• Hawaiian: kini ʻōpala
• Hungarian: szemétvödör (hu), szemetes (hu), kuka (hu), szeméttartó
• Ido: eskombruyo
• Indonesian: tong sampah
• Irish: bosca bruscair m
• Italian: secchio delle immondizie (it), bidone dell'immondizia
• Japanese: ごみ箱 (ごみばこ, gomibako), ごみ入 (ごみいれ, gomiire)
• Khmer: ធុងសម្រាម (thung sɑmraam)
• Korean: 쓰레기통 (ko) (sseuregitong)
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• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• Lao: ຖັງຂີ້ເຫຍື່ອ (thang khī nyư̄a)
• Luxembourgish: Dreckskëscht (lb) f
• Macedonian: ко́рпа за отпа́доци f (kórpa za otpádoci), ка́нта за ѓу́бре f (kánta za ǵúbre)
• Maori: ipu para
• Mongolian: хуучин сав суулга (xuučin sav suulga)
• Norman: bathi à tés m
• Norwegian: søppelbøtte
• Occitan: bordilhièr m
• Persian: سطل زباله (satl-e zobâle), سطل آشغال (satl-e âšğâl)
• Polish: śmietnik (pl) m, kosz na śmieci (pl) m, kontener na śmieci m
• Portuguese: lixeira (pt) f, cesto de lixo m, lata de lixo f, lixo (pt)
• Romanian: coș de gunoi n, pubelă (ro) f, tomberon (ro) n, ladă de gunoi f
• Russian: му́сорный бак (ru) m (músornyj bak), у́рна (ru) f (úrna)
• Scottish Gaelic: biona-stùir m
• Spanish: basurero (es) m (Chile, Costa Rica, Peru), bote de basura m (El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Mexico), caneca de basura f (Colombia), cesto de basura m (especially Cuba and Honduras), cubo de basura m (Spain), latón de basura m (Cuba), pipote de basura m (Venezuela), tacho de basura m (Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay), tinaco de basura m (Panama), zafacón (es) m (Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico)
• Swahili: pipa (sw)
• Swedish: soptunna (sv) c, sophink (sv) c
• Telugu: చెత్తబుట్ట (te) (cettabuṭṭa)
• Thai: ถังขยะ (tǎng-kà-yà)
• Tibetan: གད་སྙིག་ལུག་ས (gad snyig lug sa), གད་སྙིག་བླུག་ས (gad snyig blug sa)
• Turkish: çöp kutusu, çöp tenekesi (tr), çöp (tr)
• Ukrainian: сміттє́вий я́щик m (smittjévyj jáščyk)
• Vietnamese: thùng rác