screwdriver

English

An assortment of screwdrivers

Etymology

Compound of screw +‎ driver.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈskɹuˌdɹaɪvɚ/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

screwdriver (plural screwdrivers)

2. A hand tool or power 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.

   Synonym: turnscrew

   Hypernyms: driver < tool

   Hyponyms: flat-blade screwdriver, flathead screwdriver, Phillips screwdriver, Yankee screwdriver

   Coordinate term: nutdriver

4. A cocktail made of vodka and orange juice.
   • 2018, Tayari Jones, An American Marriage, Oneworld Publications, page 154:

     Celestial asked for a screwdriver and the bartender poured a good four fingers of Smirnoff into a flimsy cup before opening a can of juice.

Derived terms

• crosshead screwdriver
• flat-blade screwdriver
• flathead screwdriver
• Phillips screwdriver
• Yankee screwdriver

Translations

tool

• Albanian: kaçavidë (sq) f
• Altai:

  Southern Altai: бургуш (burguš), отвёртка (otvyortka)

• Arabic: مِفَكّ الْبَرَاغِيّ m (mifakk al-barāḡiyy)

  Chadian Arabic: ترنبيس (tarnabīs)

  Egyptian Arabic: مفك m (mufakk)

  Hijazi Arabic: مَفَك m (mafakk)

  Iraqi Arabic: درنفيس (darnafīs)

  South Levantine Arabic: مْفَكّ (mfakk)

• Aramaic:

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܕܲܒܸܪ ܚܵܠܘܿܠܵܐ m (dabir ḥālolā)

• Armenian: պտուտակահան (hy) (ptutakahan)
• Azerbaijani: burğac, piçburan
• Basque: bihurkin
• Belarusian: зашру́бка f (zašrúbka), адвёртка f (advjórtka)
• Bengali: স্ক্রু ড্রাইভার (skru ḍraibhar)
• Bhojpuri: पेंचकस (pēñcᵊkas)
• Bulgarian: отве́ртка (bg) f (otvértka)
• Burmese: ဝက်အူလှည့် (my) (wak-uhlany.)
• Catalan: tornavís (ca) m, desengramponador (ca)
• Chechen: сетал (setal)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 螺絲批 / 螺丝批 (lo⁴ si¹ pai¹)

  Mandarin: 螺絲刀 / 螺丝刀 (zh) (luósīdāo), 改錐 / 改锥 (zh) (gǎizhuī)

• Choctaw: isht ashʋnnichi
• Czech: šroubovák (cs) m
• Danish: skruetrækker (da) c
• Dutch: schroevendraaier (nl) m
• Esperanto: ŝraŭbturnilo, ŝraŭbilo
• Estonian: kruvikeeraja
• Finnish: ruuvimeisseli (fi), ruuvitaltta (fi)
• French: tournevis (fr) m
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: skroevedraaier

• Galician: desaparafusador (gl) m
• Georgian: სახრახნისი (ka) (saxraxnisi)
• German: Schraubenzieher (de) m, Schraubendreher (de) m, Schrauber (de) m (colloquial)
• Greek: κατσαβίδι (el) n (katsavídi)
• Hebrew: מַבְרֵג (he) m (mavrég)
• Hindi: पेंचकस m (pẽckas), पेचकस m (peckas), पेचकश (hi) m (peckaś), स्क्रूड्राइवर m (skrūḍrāivar)
• Hungarian: csavarhúzó (hu)
• Icelandic: skrúfjárn n
• Ido: visilo (io), skruboturnilo (io)
• Indonesian: obeng (id), drai (id)
• Irish: scriúire m
• Italian: cacciavite (it) m, giravite (it) m
• Japanese: ドライバー (ja) (doraibā), 螺子回し (ja) (ねじまわし, nejimawashi), スクリュードライバー (ja) (sukuryūdoraibā)
• Kashubian: szruwnik m
• Kazakh: бұрауыш (būrauyş), бұрағыш (būrağyş)
• Khmer: ទួរណឺវិស (km) (tuənəvɨh)
• Korean: 나사돌리개 (ko) (nasadolligae), 스크루드라이버 (seukeurudeuraibeo), 드라이버 (ko) (deuraibeo)
• Kyrgyz: отвёртка (otvyortka), бурагыч (buragıc)
• Lao: ໄຂຄວງ m (khai khūang)
• Latvian: skrūvgriezis (lv) m
• Lithuanian: atsuktuvas m
• Lombard: caçavide m
• Macedonian: одвртка f (odvrtka), шрафцигер m (šrafciger)
• Malay: pemutar skru (ms)
• Maltese: tornavit m
• Māori: huriwiri
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: халив (mn) (xaliv), отвёртка (otvjortka) (pronounced 'avtyerk')

  Mongolian script: ᠬᠠᠯᠢᠪ (qalib)

• Navajo: bee ił adaʼagizí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skrujern (no) n, skrutrekker (no) m

  Nynorsk: skrujarn n, skrujern n, skrutrekkar m, skrutrekkjar m

• Pannonian Rusyn: шрафциґер m inan (šrafciger)
• Persian: پیچ‌گوشتی (pič-gušti)
• Piedmontese: tornavis m
• Plautdietsch: Schruwendreia m
• Polish: śrubokręt (pl) m, wkrętak (pl) m
• Portuguese: chave de fenda (pt) f, chave de parafusos f
• Romanian: șurubelniță (ro) f
• Russian: отвёртка (ru) f (otvjórtka)
• Scottish Gaelic: sgriubhaire m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: одвртка f, одвијач m, шарафцигер m

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

• Slovak: skrutkovač (sk) m
• Slovene: izvijač (sl) m
• Spanish: destornillador (es) m, desarmador (es) m, atornillador (es) m, desatornillador m, entornillador m (Peru)
• Swahili: bisibisi
• Swedish: skruvmejsel (sv) c (hand tool), skruvdragare (sv) c (machine tool)
• Tagalog: destornilyador
• Tajik: винттоб (vinttob), винттобак (vinttobak), мурваттоб (murvattob), мурваттобак (murvattobak), печтоб (pečtob), печчархон (peččarxon), печгӯштӣ (pečgüšti)
• Tamil: திருப்புளி (ta) (tiruppuḷi)
• Thai: ไขควง (th) (kǎi-kuuang)
• Tibetan: གཟེར་གཅུད (gzer gcud)
• Tombonuo: sikoru diribor
• Turkish: tornavida (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: طورناویدا (tornavida)

• Turkmen: otwertka
• Ukrainian: ви́крутка f (výkrutka), за́вертка f (závertka)
• Urdu: پیچ کَش m (pec-kaś), سکریو ڈرایور m (skrū-ḍrāivar)
• Uyghur: ئەتۋىركە (etwirke)
• Uzbek: otvyortka
• Vietnamese: chìa vít, tuộc vít, tuốc-nơ-vít
• Volapük: skrubitulöm, skruböm
• Welsh: sgriwdreif
• Yiddish: שרויפֿן־ציער m (shroyfn-tsyer)

cocktail

• Dutch: screwdriver (nl) m
• German: Screwdriver m, Wodka-Orange m
• Greek: βότκα πορτοκάλι f (vótka portokáli)
• Indonesian: miras vodka jeruk, screwdriver
• Japanese: スクリュードライバー (ja) (sukuryūdoraibā)
• Latvian: skrūve f
• Macedonian: шрафцигер m (šrafciger)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: screwdriver (no) m

  Nynorsk: screwdriver m

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