English [ edit ] A manhole cover in Twickenham , Greater London Etymology [ edit ] man hole
Pronunciation [ edit ] manhole (plural manholes
A hole in the ground used to access the sewers or other underground vaults and installations .
1936 Robert Frost , “The Vindictives”, in A Further Range :The king had scarce ceased to writhe,manhole opened to Hell.
A hole providing access to the inside of a boiler , tank etc.
( informal ) man 's anus , in a sexual context.
Usage notes [ edit ] In contexts such as government documents where anything that might be perceived as sexist is avoided, this has mostly been replaced by maintenance hole Derived terms [ edit ] Translations [ edit ] a hole in the ground used to access the sewers or other underground vaults and installations
Armenian: մտոց (hy) ( mtocʻ ) , լյուկ (hy) ( lyuk )
Bulgarian: шахта f ( šahta )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 沙井 (zh) ( shājǐng ) , 窨井 (zh) ( yìnjǐng ) , 人孔 (zh) ( rénkǒng )
Dutch: mangat (nl) n
Finnish: kulkuaukko katukaivo
French: regard d’égout m trou d’homme (fr) m
German: Mannloch (de) n Kontrollschacht m Einstiegsloch (de) n
Icelandic: mannop n mannsmuga f
Italian: tombino (it) m
Japanese: マンホール ( manhōru ) , 人孔 (ja) ( じんこう, jinkō )
Korean: 맨홀 (ko) ( maenhol )
Macedonian: шахта f ( šahta )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kum m mannhull n ( also in tanks etc. )
Nynorsk: kum m
Polish: właz (pl) m
Portuguese: bueiro (pt) m poço de visita m
Russian: люк (ru) m ( ljuk ) , лаз (ru) m ( laz )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: шахт m
Roman: šaht (sh) m
Sicilian: rigana f rijana f
Spanish: pozo (es) m alcantarilla (es) f
Swedish: gatubrunn c manhål
Tagalog: pinto sa suwelo
Turkish: rögar (tr)
Ukrainian: люк m ( ljuk )
Venetian: gatoło m
Welsh: twll archwilio m
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