suitcase

English

Etymology

From suit +‎ case.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /ˈsutkeɪs/
• IPA^(key): /ˈsjuːtkeɪs/, /ˈsuːtkeɪs/

Noun

suitcase (plural suitcases)

1. A large (usually rectangular) piece of luggage used for carrying clothes, and sometimes suits, when travelling.

Translations

large piece of luggage

• Albanian: valixhe (sq) f
• Arabic: حَقِيبَةُ السَّفَر f (ḥaqībatu s-safar), شَنْطَة (ar) f (šanṭa)

  Egyptian Arabic: شَنْطَة f (šanṭa), صندوق m (ṣandūʾ)

• Armenian: ճամպրուկ (hy) (čampruk), չամադան (čʻamadan)
• Azerbaijani: çamadan (az)
• Bashkir: сумаҙан (sumaźan)
• Belarusian: чамада́н m (čamadán), валі́за f (valíza), валі́зка f (valízka)
• Bengali: সুটকেস (śuṭkes)
• Bulgarian: ку́фар (bg) m (kúfar)
• Burmese: လက်ဆွဲသေတ္တာ (lakhcwai:setta)
• Catalan: maleta (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 手提箱 (zh) (shǒutíxiāng), 皮箱 (zh) (píxiāng) (leather), 行李箱 (zh) (xínglǐxiāng), 衣箱 (zh) (yīxiāng)

• Czech: kufr (cs) m
• Danish: kuffert (da) c
• Dutch: valies (nl) f, koffer (nl) c
• Esperanto: valizo
• Estonian: kohver
• Faroese: kuffert n
• Finnish: matkalaukku (fi)
• French: valise (fr) f
• Galician: maleta f
• Georgian: სამგზავრო ჩანთა (samgzavro čanta), ჩემოდანი (čemodani), საკვოიაჟი (saḳvoiaži)
• German: Koffer (de) m; Reisetasche (de) f (see entries for distinction)
• Greek: βαλίτσα (el) f (valítsa)
• Greenlandic: kufferti
• Hebrew: מזוודה \ מִזְוָדָה (he) f (mizvadá)
• Hindi: सूटकेस (hi) m (sūṭkes)
• Hungarian: kézitáska (hu), bőrönd (hu), koffer (hu)
• Icelandic: ferðataska (is) f
• Indonesian: koper (id)
• Irish: cás m
• Italian: valigia (it) f
• Japanese: スーツケース (sūtsukēsu), トランク (toranku)
• Kannada: please add this translation if you can
• Kazakh: шабадан (şabadan)
• Khmer: វ៉ាលីស៍ (vaalii), ហិប (km) (həp)
• Korean: 여행 가방 (yeohaeng gabang), 트렁크 (ko) (teureongkeu), 슈트케이스 (ko) (syuteukeiseu)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• Kyrgyz: чемодан (ky) (cemodan)
• Lao: ຫີບ (lo) (hīp), ຫີບເດິນທາງ (hīp dœn thāng)
• Latin: riscus m, vīdulus m
• Latvian: čemodāns m, koferis m
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• Lithuanian: lagaminas m
• Luxembourgish: Wallis f
• Macedonian: ку́фер m (kúfer), ко́фер m (kófer)
• Malay: beg pakaian
• Maltese: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: авдар (mn) (avdar), чемодан (mn) (čemodan)
• Navajo: tsitsʼaaʼ naadloʼí, ééʼ bee naatʼáhí
• Northern Sami: koaffar
• Norwegian: koffert m
• Pashto: بکس (ps) m (baks)
• Persian: چمدان (fa) (čamedân)
• Polish: walizka (pl) f
• Portuguese: mala (pt) f, valise (pt) f
• Romanian: geamantan (ro) n, valiză (ro) f
• Russian: чемода́н (ru) m (čemodán)
• Scottish Gaelic: baga m, màileid f
• Serbo-Croatian: кофер m, kofer (sh) m
• Slovak: kufor (sk) m
• Slovene: kovček (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: kofer m

• Spanish: maleta (es) f, petaca (es) f (Mexico, colloquial), valija (es) f (Argentina, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Uruguay)
• Swedish: resväska (sv), koffert (sv)
• Tagalog: please add this translation if you can
• Tajik: чамадон (tg) (čamadon)
• Taos: belísena
• Tatar: чемодан (çemodan)
• Thai: กระเป๋าเดินทาง (grà-bpǎo-dəən-taang), กระเป๋า (th) (grà-bpǎo)
• Tibetan: སྒམ (sgam), ཀོ་འབོག (ko 'bog)
• Turkish: bavul (tr)
• Turkmen: çemedan
• Ukrainian: чемода́н m (čemodán), валі́за (uk) f (valíza), валі́зка (uk) f (valízka)
• Urdu: سوٹکیس m (sūṭkes)
• Uyghur: چامادان (chamadan)
• Uzbek: chemodan (uz)
• Vietnamese: va li (vi), rương hành lý (箱行李)
• Volapük: tävatrök
• Welsh: ces dillad m, siwtces m
• West Frisian: bûse n
• Yiddish: טשעמאָדאַן m (tshemodan)
• Yup'ik: yaassiigek
• Zazaki: bağul, waliz, valiz

Verb

1. To trade using samples in a suitcase.

Anagrams

• Escutias, sauciest