vacuum cleaner

vacuum cleaner

English

A domestic vacuum cleaner.

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Noun

vacuum cleaner (plural vacuum cleaners)

1. A domestic or industrial mobile machine for cleaning floors and similar surfaces that draws dust and other particles into a container (a cyclonic type bin, or a filter bag) by the suction created by an electric motor driving a fan.

   Synonyms: hoover, vacuum, sweeper

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• vacuum-clean

Translations

machine for cleaning

Abkhaz: асабеизгага (asabejzgaga) Afrikaans: stofsuier Albanian: fshesë me korent f Arabic: مِكْنَسَة كَهْرَبَائِيَّة‎ f (miknasa kahrabāʾiyya) Hijazi Arabic: مُكْنَسة‎ f (muknasa) Armenian: փոշեկուլ (hy) (pʿošekul), փոշեծծիչ (hy) (pʿošeccičʿ) Asturian: aspiradora f, aspirador m Azerbaijani: tozsoran Basque: xurgagailu Belarusian: пыласо́с m (pylasós) Bengali: ভ্যাকুয়াম ক্লিনার (bbhakuẏam klinar) Breton: sunerez f Bulgarian: прахосмука́чка (bg) f (prahosmukáčka) Burmese: ဖုန်စုပ်စက် (hpuncupcak) Catalan: aspiradora (ca) f Chechen: чанъузург (čanʔuzurg) Chinese: Cantonese: 吸塵機, 吸尘机 (kap1 can4 gei1) Mandarin: 吸塵器 (zh), 吸尘器 (zh) (xīchénqì), 真空吸塵器, 真空吸尘器 (zhēnkōng xīchénqì) Czech: vysavač (cs) m, lux (cs) m Danish: støvsuger (da) c Dutch: stofzuiger (nl) m Elfdalian: dambsauger m Esperanto: polvosuĉilo (eo) Estonian: tolmuimeja Faroese: dustsúgvari m Finnish: imuri (fi), pölynimuri (fi) French: aspirateur (fr) m, balayeuse (fr) f (Quebec) Galician: aspirador (gl) m, aspiradora f Georgian: მტვერსასრუტი (mṭversasruṭi) German: Staubsauger (de) m Greek: ηλεκτρική σκούπα (el) f (ilektrikí skoúpa) Gujarati: ખેંચણિયું ? (kheñcṇiyũ) Hebrew: שׁוֹאֵב אָבָק‎ (he) (sho'ev 'avak) Hindi: वैक्युम क्लीनर ? (vaikyum klīnar) Hungarian: porszívó (hu) Icelandic: ryksuga f Ido: vakuonetigilo, polvosugilo (io) Indonesian: penghisap debu (id), penyedot debu (id) Ingush: дома чуувзарг (doma čwuwzarg) Interlingua: aspirator Irish: folúsghlantóir m, húvar m Italian: aspirapolvere (it) m Japanese: 掃除機 (ja) (そうじき, sōjiki) Kazakh: шаңсорғыш (kk) (şañsorğyş) Khmer: ម៉ាស៊ីនបោសសំអាត (maasɨn baoh sɑmʼaat) Korean: 진공청소기(眞空淸掃器) (jin'gongcheongsogi), 청소기(淸掃機) (ko) (cheongsogi) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: gêziya ceryanê, gêziya elektrîkê Kyrgyz: пылесос (pılesos), чаң соргуч (çaŋ sorguç) Lao: ຈັກດູດຝຸ່ນ (lo) (chak dūt fun), ເຄື່ອງດູດຝຸ່ນ (khư̄ang dūt fun) Latvian: putekļsūcējs m Lithuanian: dulkių siurblys m Low German: Stoffsuger m, Huulbessen m (colloquial) Luxembourgish: Staubsauger (lb) m Macedonian: правосму́калка f (pravosmúkalka) Malay: pembersih hampagas Maori: pūrere ngote puehu, mīhini ngote puehu Mongolian: Cyrillic: тоос сорогч (toos sorogč) Northern Sami: noavki Norwegian: Bokmål: støvsuger (no) m Nynorsk: støvsugar m Pashto: برقي جارو‎ f (barqi jāru) Persian: جارو برقی‎ (fa) (jâru bârqi) Polish: odkurzacz (pl) m Portuguese: aspirador m, aspirador de pó m Romanian: aspirator (ro) n Romansch: tschitschapulvra m Russian: пылесо́с (ru) m (pylesós) Scottish Gaelic: sguabadair m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: усисѝва̄ч m, усѝса̄ч m Roman: usisìvāč (sh) m, usìsāč (sh) m Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can Slovak: vysávač m Slovene: sesalnik m Sorbian: Upper Sorbian: prochsrěbak m Spanish: aspiradora (es) f, aspirador m Swedish: dammsugare (sv) c Tagalog: panlinis na humihigop ng dumi Tajik: гардкашак (gardkašak), чангкашак (tg) (čangkašak) Thai: เครื่องดูดฝุ่น (th) (krʉ̂ʉang-dùut-fùn) Tibetan: གློག་འགུལ་ཕྱགས་མ (glog 'gul phyags ma) Turkish: elektrikli süpürge (tr) Turkmen: tozan sorujy Ukrainian: пилосо́с m (pylosós) Urdu: ویکیم کلینر‎ (vaikyum klīnar) Uyghur: چاڭ-توزان سۈمۈرگۈچ‎ (chang-tozan sümürgüch) Uzbek: changyutgich Vietnamese: máy hút bụi (vi) Volapük: püfisugian (vo) Welsh: sugnwr llwch m, sugnlanhäwr m, hwfer m Yiddish: וואַקוּום‎ m (vakuum), שטויבזויגער‎ m (shtoybzoyger), שטויבמאַשין‎ f (shtoybmashin)