backpack

English

Alternative forms

back pack

Etymology

From back +‎ pack.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbæk.pæk/
Audio (UK) (file)

Noun

backpack (plural backpacks)

A knapsack, sometimes mounted on a light frame, but always supported by straps, worn on a person’s back for the purpose of carrying things, especially when hiking, or on a student's back when carrying books.
- 2011, Thelma J. Miller, What's in Your Backpack?, page 8:
  Rachel discovered that she could also keep things in her backpack that were important to her, nobody would know about them because they would be hidden. These important things included a small round rock that she had found […]
A similarly placed item containing a parachute or other life-support equipment.

Synonyms

haversack
knapsack (US)
packsack
rucksack
bookbag

Translations

worn on a person's back, e.g., for hiking

Afrikaans: rugsak
Albanian: çantë shpine f
Arabic: حَقِيبَة ظَهْر‎ f (ḥaqībat ẓahr)
Armenian: ուղեպարկ (hy) (ułepark), ուսապարկ (hy) (usapark)
Asturian: mochila f
Azerbaijani: arxa çantası
Basque: bizkar-zorro
Belarusian: рукза́к m (rukzák), ра́нец m (ránjec), запле́чнік m (zapljéčnik)
Bengali: ব্যাকপ্যাক (bjakôpjak)
Bulgarian: ра́ница f (ránica)
Burmese: ကျောပိုးအိတ် (my) (kyau:pui:it)
Catalan: motxilla (ca) f
Chechen: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Mandarin: 背包 (zh) (bēibāo), 背囊 (zh) (bēináng)
Czech: batoh (cs) m, ruksak m
Danish: rygsæk (da) c
Dutch: rugzak (nl) m
Elfdalian: bög m
Erzya: лавтовкескал (lavtovkeskal)
Esperanto: dorsosako, tornistro (eo)
Estonian: seljakott, ranits
Faroese: ryggsekkur m
Finnish: reppu (fi), selkäreppu (fi), rinkka (fi)
French: sac à dos (fr) m
Friulian: persac
Galician: mochila f
Georgian: ზურგჩანთა (zurgčanta)
German: Rucksack (de) m
Greek: σακίδιο (el) n (sakídio)
Greenlandic: nammattagaq
Hebrew: יַלְקוּט‎ (he) (yalkut), תַּרְמִיל‎ (he) (tarmil), תִּיק גַּב‎ (he) m (tik gav)
Hindi: बैकपैक m (baikpaik)
Hungarian: hátizsák (hu)
Icelandic: bakpoki (is) m
Ido: dorsosako (io)
Indonesian: ransel (id), tas punggung (id)
Irish: mála droma m
Italian: zaino (it) m, sacco a pelo m
Japanese: リュック (ja) (ryukku), リュックサック (ja) (ryukkusakku), バックパック (bakkupakku)
Kazakh: рюкзак (rywkzak), жолдорба (joldorba)
Khmer: សាកាដូ (saakaadou)
Korean: 배낭 (ko) (baenang) (背囊 (ko)), 륙색 (ryuksaek)
Kurdish:
Sorani: جانتای پشت‎ (ku) (cantay pişt)

Kyrgyz: рюкзак (ryukzak), жонбаштык (conbaştık)
Lao: ບາໂລ (bā lō), ຖົງເປ້ (thong pē)
Latin: sacciperium dorsuale n
Latvian: mugursoma f
Lithuanian: kuprinė f
Luxembourgish: Rucksak m
Macedonian: ра́нец m (ránec)
Malay: ransel
Maori: pīkaunga
Mongolian: үүргэвч (mn) (üürgevč)
Navajo: azis bee naʼaljidí
Northern Sami: lávka
Norwegian: ryggsekk m
Ossetian: рюкзак (rjukzak)
Persian: کیف کوله‎ (kif-e kule)
Polish: plecak (pl) m
Portuguese: mochila (pt) f
Romanian: rucsac (ro) n
Romansch: satgados m, bulscha f
Russian: рюкза́к (ru) m (rjukzák), ра́нец (ru) m (ránec)
Scottish Gaelic: màla-droma f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ранац m, руксак m
Roman: ranac (sh) m, ruksak (sh) m
Slovak: batoh (sk) m, ruksak m
Slovene: nahrbtnik (sl) m
Sorbian:
Upper Sorbian: nachribjetnik m
Spanish: mochila (es) f, ^{(please verify)} bolsón (es) m (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras), ^{(please verify)} morral (es) m (Colombia, Venezuela)
Swedish: ryggsäck (sv) c
Tagalog: kabalyas
Tajik: борхалта (borxalta)
Thai: เป้ (bpay), กระเป๋าเป้สะพายหลัง (grà-bpăo bpây sà-paai lăng)
Tibetan: རྒྱབ་ཕད (rgyab phad)
Turkish: sırt çantası
Turkmen: rýukzak
Ukrainian: рюкза́к m (rjukzák), ра́нець m (ránecʹ)
Urdu: بیکپیک‎ m (baikpaik)
Uzbek: ryukzak (uz)
Vietnamese: ba lô (vi)
Welsh: sach gefn f
Yiddish: רוקזאַק‎ m (rukzak)

containing parachute

Finnish: reppu (fi)

German: ^{(please verify)} Fallschirmcontainer m

Verb

backpack (third-person singular simple present backpacks, present participle backpacking, simple past and past participle backpacked)

(intransitive) to hike and camp overnight in backcountry with one's gear carried in a backpack
(intransitive) to engage in low-cost, generally urban, travel with minimal luggage and frugal accommodations
(transitive) to place or carry (an item or items) in a backpack

Derived terms

backpacking (noun)
backpackable
backpacker

Translations

to hike and camp overnight in backcountry with one's gear carried in a backpack

Dutch: backpacken (nl)
Finnish: reppumatkailla

Irish: taistil le mála droma

to place or carry (an item or items) in a backpack

Finnish: kantaa repussa

Irish: iompair i mála droma

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

Dutch: ^{(please verify)} backpacken (nl)

Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} ferðast fótgangandi með bakpoka