screwdriver

English

an assortment of screwdrivers

Etymology

screw +‎ driver.

Pronunciation

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Noun

screwdriver (plural screwdrivers)

1. A hand or machine tool which engages with the head of a screw and allows torque to be applied to turn the screw, thus driving it in or loosening it.
2. A drink made of vodka and orange juice.

Translations

tool

• Albanian: kaçavida
• Arabic: مِفَكّ اَلْبَرَاغِيّ‏‎ m (mifakk al-barāḡiyy)
• Armenian: պտուտակահան (hy) (ptutakahan)
• Basque: bihurkin
• Belarusian: зашрубка f (zašrúbka), адвёртка f (advjórtka)
• Bulgarian: oтвертка (otvértka)
• Catalan: tornavís (ca) m, desengramponador
• Chechen: сетал (setal)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 螺絲批, 螺丝批 (lo⁴ si¹ pai¹)

  Mandarin: 螺絲刀 (zh), 螺丝刀 (zh) (luósīdāo)

• Czech: šroubovák (cs) m
• Dutch: schroevendraaier (nl) m
• Esperanto: ŝraŭboturnilo
• Estonian: kruvikeeraja
• Finnish: ruuvimeisseli (fi)
• French: tournevis (fr) m
• Georgian: სახრახნისი (ka) (saxraxnisi)
• German: Schraubenzieher (de) m, Schraubendreher (de) m
• Greek: κατσαβίδι (el) n (katsavídi)
• Hebrew: מברג‏‎ (he) m (mavreg)
• Hungarian: csavarhúzó (hu)
• Indonesian: obeng (id)
• Italian: cacciavite (it) m
• Japanese: スクリュードライバー (sukuryūdoraibā), 螺子回し (ねじまわし, nejimawashi), ドライバー (ja) (doraibā)
• Khmer: ទួរណឺវិស (km) (tuənəvih), ប្រដាប់មួលខ្ចៅ (prɑdap muəl kcav)
• Korean: 나사돌리개 (ko) (nasadolligae)

• Latvian: skrūvgrieznis
• Lithuanian: atsuktuvas
• Macedonian: одвртка f (ódvrtka), шрафцигер m (šráfciger)
• Malay: pemutar skru
• Maltese: tornavit m
• Maori: kōwiri, huriwiri
• Navajo: bee ił hadaʼagizí
• Norwegian: skrujern (no), skrutrekker
• Persian: پیچ‌گوشتی‏‎ (pič-gušti)
• Polish: śrubokręt (pl) m, wkrętak (pl) m
• Portuguese: chave de fenda (pt) f
• Romanian: șurubelniță (ro) f
• Russian: отвёртка (ru) f (otvjórtka)
• Scottish Gaelic: sgriubhaire m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: одвртка f, одвијач m, шарафцигер m

  Roman: odvrtka f, odvijač (sh) m, šarafciger m

• Slovak: šraubovák m
• Slovene: izvijač (sl) m
• Spanish: destornillador (es) m
• Swedish: skruvmejsel (sv) c (hand tool), skruvdragare (sv) c (machine tool)
• Tagalog: destornilyador
• Thai: ไขควง (khaikhuaang)
• Turkish: tornavida (tr)
• Ukrainian: викрутка f (výkrutka), завертка f (zavértka)
• Vietnamese: chìa vít, tuộc vít

drink

• Greek: βότκα πορτοκάλι f (vótka portokáli)
• Latvian: skrūve f
• Macedonian: шрафцигер m (šráfciger)
• Norwegian: screwdriver (no) m

• Portuguese: vodca com suco de laranja f
• Spanish: desarmador m (Latin America), vodka con naranja f (Spain)
• Swedish: screwdriver (sv) c

Synonyms

• turnscrew (tool)