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.

   Synonym: turnscrew

2. A drink made of vodka and orange juice.

Translations

tool

• Albanian: kaçavidë (sq) f
• Arabic: مِفَكّ اَلْبَرَاغِيّ‎ m (mifakk al-barāḡiyy)
• Armenian: պտուտակահան (hy) (ptutakahan)
• Azerbaijani: burğac, piçburan
• Basque: bihurkin
• Belarusian: зашру́бка f (zašrúbka), адвёртка f (advjórtka)
• Bulgarian: отве́ртка (bg) f (otvértka)
• Burmese: ဝက်အူလှည့် (my) (wak-uhlany.)
• 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: מַבְרֵג‎ (he) m (mavrég)
• Hindi: पेंचकस m (peñckas)
• Hungarian: csavarhúzó (hu)
• Ido: visilo (io)
• Indonesian: obeng (id)
• Irish: scriúire m
• 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)
• Kashubian: szruwnik m
• Kazakh: бұрауыш (burawış), бұрағыш (kk) (burağış)
• Khmer: ទួរណឺវិស (km) (tuənəvɨh)
• Korean: 나사돌리개 (ko) (nasadolligae)

• Kyrgyz: отвёртка (otvyortka), бурагыч (buragıç)
• Lao: ໄຂຄວງ m (khai khūang)
• Latvian: skrūvgrieznis m
• Lithuanian: atsuktuvas m
• Macedonian: одвртка f (odvrtka), шрафцигер m (šrafciger)
• 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, 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

  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 (kǎi-kuuang)
• Tibetan: གཟེར་གཅུད (gzer gcud)
• Turkish: tornavida (tr)
• Turkmen: otwertka
• Ukrainian: ви́крутка f (výkrutka), за́вертка f (závertka)
• Uyghur: ئەتۋىركە‎ (etwirke)
• Uzbek: otvyortka
• Vietnamese: chìa vít, tuộc vít
• Welsh: sgriwdreif

drink

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

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