pickaxe

See also: pick-axe

English

a pickaxe

Alternative forms

pickax, pick-axe

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English pykeaxe, pecaxe, pyke exe (“pickaxe”), an alteration (due to folk etymology association with pick and axe) of Middle English pikeyse, pikeys, pykois, from Anglo-Norman *pikeis, Old French picois, pecois, from Latin picōsa (“pickaxe”), from picca, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *pīk (“sharp point, pike”). Doublet of pique and pike.

Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /ˈpɪkˌæks/
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Noun

pickaxe (plural pickaxes)

A heavy iron tool with a wooden handle; one end of the head is pointed, the other has a chisel edge.

Translations

heavy iron tool

Arabic: مِعْوَل‎ m (miʿwal), فَأْس‎ (ar) f (faʾs)
Hijazi Arabic: مِعْوَل‎ m (miʿwal)
Moroccan Arabic: فاس‎ m (fās)
Aragonese: pica f
Armenian: քլունգ (hy) (kʿlung), բրիչ (hy) (bričʿ)
Basque: pikotx
Bavarian: Grompm, Spitzhock, Picki
Belarusian: кірка f (kirka)
Bulgarian: кирка (bg) f (kirka)
Catalan: pic (ca) m, piqueta
Chinese:
Mandarin: 鶴嘴鋤／鹤嘴锄 (zh) (háozuǐchú, hèzuǐchú), 鶴嘴鎬／鹤嘴镐 (zh) (háozuǐgǎo, hèzuǐgǎo), 鎬頭／镐头 (zh) (gǎotou)
Czech: krumpáč (cs) m
Danish: hakke c
Dutch: pikhouweel (nl) n, pikaks f
Esperanto: pikfosilo, pioĉo
Estonian: kirka
Finnish: hakku (fi)
French: pioche (fr) f
Galician: pico (gl) m, picaraña f
Georgian: წერაქვი (ka) (c̣erakvi)
German: Spitzhacke (de) f, Pickel (de) m
Greek: αξίνα (el) f (axína)
Hausa: digā̀ f
Hebrew: מַכּוֹשׁ‎ m (makósh)
Hungarian: csákány (hu)
Hunsrik: Pikarett f
Icelandic: haki (is) m
Ido: piocho (io)
Irish: piocóid f
Italian: piccone (it) m
Japanese: つるはし (ja) (tsuruhashi), 鶴嘴 (つるはし, tsuruhashi)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: قوڵِنگ‎ (ku) (qulling)
Northern Kurdish: kuling (ku) m
Southern Kurdish: قوڵِنگ‎ (ku) (qulling)
Latin: dolābra f, scudicia f
Latvian: cērte f, kaplis (lv) m (dialectism)
Luxembourgish: piosch f
Macedonian: копач m (kopač), трнокоп m (trnokop), казма f (kazma), крамп m (kramp)
Malayalam: കോടാലി (ml) (kōṭāli), പിക്കാസ് (ml) (pikkāsŭ)
Maltese: fies m, baqqun m
Maori: pika
Mazanderani: کالنگ‎
Norwegian:
Bokmål: hakke (no) m or f
Occitan: trenca f
Persian: کلنگ‎ (fa) (kolang)
Polish: kilof (pl) m, oskard (pl) m, czekan (pl) m
Portuguese: picareta (pt) f
Romanian: târnăcop (ro) n
Russian: кирка́ (ru) f (kirká), моты́га (ru) f (motýga), кайло́ (ru) n (kajló)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: крамп m, будак m, пијук m, наџак m
Roman: kramp (sh) m, budak (sh) m, pijuk (sh) m, nadžak (sh) m
Sicilian: fesi (scn) m, picu (scn) m
Slovak: krompáč m
Slovene: kramp (sl) m
Spanish: pico (es) m
Swedish: korp (sv) c, korphacka c
Tagalog: patik
Thai: อีเต้อ (th) (ii-dtə̂ə)
Turkish: kazma (tr)
Ukrainian: ка́йло (uk) n (kájlo), ки́рка f (kýrka)
Venetian: pich (vec) m, pico m
Veps: kokteine
Vietnamese: cuốc chim (vi)
Zulu: ipiki

Verb

pickaxe (third-person singular simple present pickaxes, present participle pickaxing, simple past and past participle pickaxed)

To use a pickaxe.

Translations

to use a pickaxe

Esperanto: pioĉi
French: piocher (fr)
Russian: рыть (ru) (rytʹ) (киркой, мотыгой)