English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From wheel + chair.
Pronunciation[edit]
wheelchair (plural wheelchairs)
- A chair mounted on large wheels for the transportation or use of a sick or disabled person.
- (attributive) designed for wheelchairbound people
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
chair
- Arabic: كُرْسِيّ لِلْمُقْعَدِين m (kursiyy li-l-muqʿadīn), كُرْسِيّ مُتَحَرِّك m (kursiyy mutaḥarrik)
- Armenian: անվասայլակ (hy) (anvasaylak)
- Asturian: siella de ruedes f
- Azerbaijani: təkərli kürsü
- Bulgarian: инвалидна количка f (invalidna količka)
- Catalan: cadira de rodes f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 輪椅, 轮椅 (leon⁴ji²)
- Mandarin: 輪椅 (zh), 轮椅 (zh) (lúnyǐ)
- Cornish: kador ros f
- Czech: invalidní vozík m
- Danish: rullestol (da) c, kørestol (da) c
- Dutch: rolstoel (nl) m
- Elfdalian: rullstuol m
- Esperanto: rulseĝo
- Estonian: ratastool (et)
- Faroese: koyristólur m, rullistólur m, akstólur m
- Finnish: pyörätuoli (fi) (colloquial, dated: rullatuoli (fi))
- French: fauteuil roulant (fr) m, chaise roulante (fr) f
- Galician: cadeira de rodas f
- Georgian: ინვალიდის სავარძელი (invalidis savarʒeli)
- German: Rollstuhl (de) m, Krankenfahrstuhl m, Fahrstuhl (de) m
- Greek: αναπηρικό καροτσάκι (el) n (anapirikó karotsáki)
- Greenlandic: issiavik assakaasulik
- Hawaiian: noho huila
- Hebrew: כִּסֵּא גַּלְגַּלִּים / כיסא גלגלים (he) m (kisé galgalím)
- Hindi: व्हीलचेयर (vhīlceyar)
- Hungarian: kerekesszék (hu), (dated and possibly offensive) tolószék (hu), (dated and possibly offensive) tolókocsi (hu)
- Icelandic: hjólastóll m
- Ido: rulstulo
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