tractor

English

A tractor (farm vehicle).

A modern 4WD farm tractor

Etymology

Formed from Latin tractus, perfect passive participle of trahere (“to pull”), + agent noun suffix -or.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹæktə/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹæktɚ/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -æktə(ɹ)

Noun

tractor (plural tractors)

(agriculture) A vehicle used in farms e.g. for pulling farm equipment and preparing the fields.
(agriculture) A movable coop without a floor to allow for free ranging.
(US) A truck (or lorry) for pulling a semi-trailer or trailer.
Any piece of machinery that pulls something.
(aviation) An aeroplane where the propeller is located in front of the fuselage.
(UK, rail transport) A British Rail Class 37 locomotive.
- 1995 May 23, Andrew Cooke, “Re: British Rail: At Last The 1948 Show”, in misc.transport.rail.europe, Usenet‎:
  On the other hand the EE type 3's have offered in a 1750 hp package, probably the most successful loco BR bought. As any crew will tell you a tractor will pull anything anywhere, and yet at the same time they were nippy enough for use on the Anglian mainlines for 20 years.
- 2000 April 25, Grandpops, “Calling Norfolk tractor bashers with a good brain for numbers! Possible conclusion?”, in uk.railway, Usenet‎:
  With a recent email from Mike Tetlow, I found out that there were two other 37s [37252 and 37031] present that day, also shuttling between Cambridge and Kings Lynn. As you correctly observe, the pic of little me shows that I am in a Dutch liveried tractor.
- 2000 May 17, Matt, “Re: "Unfixing" Class 37s and Doncaster control (rant!!)”, in uk.railway, Usenet‎:
  EWS are also denying any rumours of tractors going to Spain, then again they denyed the rumours of tractors going to France until the contract was signed!
(archaic) A metal rod used in tractoration, or Perkinism.

Related terms

single-axle tractor
traction
tractor beam
tractor out
tractor pull
tractor-trailer
tractor unit
truck-tractor
two-wheel tractor
walking tractor

Descendants

→ Bengali: ট্র্যাক্টর (ṭrĵakṭôrô)
→ Japanese: トラクター (torakutā)
→ Hindi: ट्रेक्टर (ṭrekṭar), ट्रैक्टर (ṭraikṭar)
→ Khmer: ត្រាក់ទ័រ (traktɔə)
→ Korean: 트랙터 (teuraekteo)
→ Russian: тра́ктор (tráktor), тра́кторъ (tráktor)
- → Armenian: տրակտոր (traktor)
- → Azerbaijani: traktor
- ⇒ Chinese:
  Cantonese: 拖拉機／拖拉机 (to1 laai1 gei1)
  Dungan: туәлаҗи (tuəlaži)
  Mandarin: 拖拉機／拖拉机 (tuōlājī)
  Min Nan: 拖拉機／拖拉机 (thoa-la-ki / tho-la-ki)
  - → Bouyei: toylayjiy
  - → Burmese: ထော် လာဂျီ (htau lagyi)
  - → Lü: ᦷᦒᧈᦟᦱᧈᦋᦲᧈ (tho¹laa¹tsii¹)
  - → Tibetan: ཐོ་ལ་ཅི (tho la ci)
  - → Zhuang: dohlahgih
- → Chinese:
  Dungan: трактор (traktor)
- → Georgian: ტრაქტორი (ṭrakṭori)
- → Ingrian: traktora
- → Kazakh: трактор (traktor)
- → Korean: 뜨락또르 (tteurakttoreu) (North Korea)
- → Kyrgyz: трактор (traktor)
- → Mongolian:
  Cyrillic: трактор (traktor)
  Mongolian: ᠲ᠋ᠷᠠᠻᠲ᠋ᠣᠷ (trakhtor)
- → Tajik: трактор (traktor)
- → Turkmen: traktor
- → Uyghur: تراكتور‎ (traktor)
- → Uzbek: traktor
→ Thai: แทรกเตอร์ (trɛ́k-dtə̂ə)

Translations

farm vehicle

Albanian: traktor (sq) m
Arabic: جَرَار‎ m (jarār), تَرَاكْتُور‎ m (tarāktūr)
Armenian: տրակտոր (hy) (traktor)
Assamese: টেক্টৰ (tektor), ট্ৰেক্টৰ (trektor)
Asturian: tractor m
Azerbaijani: traktor (az)
Basque: traktore
Belarusian: тра́ктар m (tráktar)
Bengali: ট্র্যাক্টর (ṭrĵakṭôrô)
Bouyei: toylayjiy
Bulgarian: тра́ктор (bg) m (tráktor)
Burmese: ထွန်စက် (my) (htwancak), ထော် လာဂျီ (htau lagyi)
Catalan: tractor (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 拖拉機, 拖拉机 (to¹ laai¹ gei¹), 鐵牛, 铁牛 (tit³ ngau⁴)
Dungan: туәлаҗи (tuəlaži), трактор (traktor)
Mandarin: 拖拉機／拖拉机 (zh) (tuōlājī), 鐵牛／铁牛 (zh) (tiěniú)
Min Nan: 拖拉機, 拖拉机 (thoa-la-ki, tho-la-ki), 鐵牛, 铁牛 (thih-gû)
Czech: traktor (cs) m
Danish: traktor (da) c
Dutch: tractor (nl) m, trekker (nl) m
Esperanto: traktoro
Estonian: traktor
Faroese: traktorur m
Finnish: traktori (fi)
French: tracteur (fr) m
Galician: tractor (gl) m, chimpín m
Georgian: ტრაქტორი (ṭrakṭori)
German: Traktor (de) m, (North German) Trecker (de) m, Schlepper (de) m
Greek: ελκυστήρας (el) m (elkystíras), (colloquial) τρακτέρ (el) n (traktér)
Hebrew: טְרַקְטוֹר‎ (he) m (tráktor)
Hindi: ट्रैक्टर (ṭraikṭar), ट्रेक्टर (hi) (ṭrekṭar)
Hungarian: traktor (hu), mezőgazdasági vontató (formally)
Hunsrik: Tratoer m
Icelandic: dráttarvél f
Ido: traktoro (io)
Indonesian: traktor (id)
Interlingua: tractor
Italian: trattore (it) m
Japanese: トラクター (ja) (torakutā)
Kazakh: трактор (traktor)
Khmer: ត្រាក់ទ័រ (km) (traktɔə)
Korean: 트랙타 (teuraekta), 트랙터 (ko) (teuraekteo), 뜨락또르 (ko) (tteurakttoreu) (North)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: traktor (ku)
Kyrgyz: трактор (ky) (traktor)
Lao: ລົດຕັກເຕິ (lot tak tœ), ລົດແກ່ (lot kǣ), ລົດໄຖ (lot thai)
Latvian: traktors m
Lithuanian: traktorius m
Lü: ᦷᦒᧈᦟᦱᧈᦋᦲᧈ (tho¹laa¹tsii¹)
Macedonian: тра́ктор m (tráktor)
Malay: traktor, tarakihana
Maltese: mutur tal-ħart m, trekter m
Maori: tarakihana, tarakitā
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: трактор (mn) (traktor)
Mongolian: ᠲ᠋ᠷᠠᠻᠲ᠋ᠣᠷ (trakhtor)
Norman: tracteu m
Northern Sami: tráktor
Norwegian:
Bokmål: traktor m
Nynorsk: traktor m
Occitan: tractor (oc) m
Pashto: تراکتور‎ (ps) m (tarāktór), ټراکټور‎ m (ṭrākṭór), ټرکټر‎ m (ṭractár)
Persian: تراکتور‎ (fa) (terâktor)
Polish: traktor (pl) m, ciągnik (pl) m
Portuguese: trator (pt) m
Romanian: tractor (ro) n
Russian: тра́ктор (ru) m (tráktor)
Rusyn: тра́ктор m (tráktor)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: тра̏ктор m
Roman: trȁktor (sh) m
Sinhalese: ට්රැක්ටර් (ṭrækṭar)
Skolt Sami: trakttor
Slovak: traktor m
Slovene: traktor (sl) m
Southern Sami: traktovre
Spanish: tractor (es) m
Swahili: trekta (sw)
Swedish: traktor (sv) c
Tagalog: guyod
Tajik: трактор (tg) (traktor)
Tatar: трактор (traqtor)
Thai: แทรกเตอร์ (trɛ́k-dtə̂ə)
Tibetan: ཐོ་ལ་ཅི (tho la ci)
Turkish: traktör (tr)
Turkmen: traktor
Ukrainian: тра́ктор m (tráktor)
Urdu: ٹریکٹر‎ (ṭraikṭar)
Uyghur: تراكتور‎ (traktor)
Uzbek: traktor (uz)
Vietnamese: máy kéo (vi)
Volapük: träktor
Walloon: tracteur m
Yiddish: טראַקטאָר‎ m (traktor)
Yoruba: katakata
Zhuang: dohlahgih

truck (or lorry) for pulling a trailer

Bulgarian: влека́ч m (vlekáč)
Finnish: vetoauto (fi)
German: Sattelzugmaschine (de) f
Greek: γερανός (el) m (geranós)
Hungarian: vontató (hu), kamion (hu)
Italian: motrice (it) f
Lao: ລົດແກ່ (lot kǣ)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: trekkvogn m or f
Nynorsk: trekkvogn f
Russian: тра́ктор-тяга́ч (ru) m (tráktor-tjagáč), тяга́ч (ru) m (tjagáč)
Spanish: cabezal (es) m

any piece of machinery that pulls something

Bulgarian: влека́ч m (vlekáč)
Finnish: vetolaite, veturi (fi)
Greek: γερανός (el) m (geranós), ελκυστήρας (el) m (elkystíras)
Hungarian: vontató (hu)
Italian: motrice (it) f

aircraft configuration

Japanese: 牽引式飛行機 (けんいんしきひこうき, ken'inshiki hikōki)

Verb

tractor (third-person singular simple present tractors, present participle tractoring, simple past and past participle tractored)

(transitive, agriculture) To prepare (land) with a tractor.
(transitive, science fiction) To move with a tractor beam.
(transitive, medicine, archaic) To treat by means of tractoration, or Perkinism.

Asturian

Etymology

Borrowed from English tractor, formed from Latin tractus + the suffix -or.

Noun

tractor m (plural tractores)

(agriculture) tractor (farm vehicle)

Catalan

Noun

tractor m (plural tractors)

(agriculture) tractor (farm vehicle)

Related terms

treure

Dutch

Etymology

From English tractor.

Pronunciation

Audio (file)

Noun

tractor m (plural tractoren or tractors, diminutive tractortje n)

tractor (agricultural vehicle)
Synonym: trekker

Descendants

→ Caribbean Javanese: trèktor, plèktor

Latin

Verb

tractor

first-person singular present passive indicative of tractō

References

tractor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Portuguese

Noun

tractor m (plural tractores)

Superseded spelling of trator. (Superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform and by the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and as an alternative spelling in Portugal.)

Romanian

Etymology

From French tracteur.

Noun

tractor n (plural tractoare)

tractor

Declension

Declension of tractor

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) tractor	tractorul	(niște) tractoare	tractoarele
genitive/dative	(unui) tractor	tractorului	(unor) tractoare	tractoarelor
vocative	tractorule		tractoarelor

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English tractor, formed from Latin tractus, perfect passive participle of trahere (“to pull”), + agent noun suffix -or.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tɾaɡˈtoɾ/ [t̪ɾaɣ̞ˈt̪oɾ]
Rhymes: -oɾ
Syllabification: trac‧tor

Adjective

tractor (feminine tractora, masculine plural tractores, feminine plural tractoras)

driving

Noun

tractor m (plural tractores)

tractor

Related terms

traer

Welsh

Etymology

From English tractor.

Noun

tractor m (plural tractorau or tractors)

tractor

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
tractor	dractor	nhractor	thractor
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

tractor

English

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Related terms

Descendants

Translations

See also

Verb

Asturian

Etymology

Noun

Catalan

Noun

Related terms

Further reading

Dutch

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Descendants

Latin

Verb

References

Portuguese

Noun

Romanian

Etymology

Noun

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Pronunciation

Adjective

Noun

Related terms

Further reading

Welsh

Etymology

Noun

Mutation

Further reading