washing machine

See also: washing-machine

English

Alternative forms

• washing-machine (dated)

Pronunciation

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Noun

washing machine (plural washing machines)

2. A machine, usually automatic, that washes clothes, etc.

Synonyms

• washer

Translations

machine that washes clothes

• Abkhaz: аӡәӡәага машьына (adzʷdzʷaga mašəna)
• Afrikaans: wasmasjien (af)
• Albanian: makinë larëse f, lavatriçe f
• Arabic: غَسَّالَة f (ḡassāla)

  Moroccan Arabic: مكينة الصابون (makīnet eṣ-ṣābūn), مكينة التصبين (makīnet et-taṣbīn), مكينة الغسيل (makīnet le-ḡsīl)

• Armenian: լվացքի մեքենա (lvacʻkʻi mekʻena)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܲܣܠܝܵܢܬܵܐ f (māslyanta)
• Azerbaijani: paltaryuyan maşın
• Basque: garbigailu, ikuzgailu
• Belarusian: пра́льная машы́на f (prálʹnaja mašýna)
• Bengali: ওয়াশিং মেশিন (ōẇaśiṅ meśin)
• Bulgarian: пера́лна маши́на f (perálna mašína), пера́лня (bg) f (perálnja)
• Burmese: အဝတ်လျှောက်စက် (a.wathlyaukcak)
• Catalan: rentadora (ca) f
• Chechen: хӏуманаш юьтту машен (humanaš jüttu mašen)
• Cherokee: ᏗᎬᎩᎣᏍᎩ (digvgiosgi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 洗衣機 / 洗衣机 (sai² ji¹ gei¹)

  Mandarin: 洗衣機 / 洗衣机 (zh) (xǐyījī)

• Cimbrian: bèschmaschì
• Corsican: lavatrice f
• Czech: pračka (cs) f
• Danish: vaskemaskine (da) c
• Dutch: wasmachine (nl) f
• Esperanto: lavmaŝino (eo)
• Estonian: pesumasin
• Faroese: vaskimaskina f
• Finnish: pesukone (fi) (general); pyykinpesukone (fi) (clothes); pyykkikone (fi) (clothes, informal)
• French: lave-linge (fr) m, machine à laver (fr) f (France), laveuse (fr) f (Canada)
• Galician: lavadora (gl) f
• Georgian: სარეცხი მანქანა (sarecxi mankana)
• German: Waschmaschine (de) f
• Greek: πλυντήριο (el) n (plyntírio), πλυντήριο ρούχων (el) n (plyntírio roúchon)
• Greenlandic: errorsissut, errorsivik
• Hebrew: מְכוֹנַת כְּבִיסָה (he) f (mekhonát kvisá)
• Hindi: कपड़ा धोने की मशीन f (kapṛā dhone kī maśīn)
• Hungarian: mosógép (hu)
• Icelandic: þvottavél (is) f
• Indonesian: mesin cuci (id)
• Irish: meaisín níocháin m, inneall níocháin m
• Italian: lavatrice (it) f
• Japanese: 洗濯機 (ja) (せんたっき, sentakki; せんたくき, sentakuki)
• Kazakh: кір жуғыш машина (kk) (kır juğyş maşina), кір жуатын машина (kır juatyn maşina)
• Khmer: ម៉ាស៊ីនបោកគក់ (maasɨn baok kŭək)
• Korean: 세탁기(洗濯機) (ko) (setakgi)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: cilşok (ku)

• Kyrgyz: кир жуугуч машине (kir juuguc maşine)
• Lao: ຈັກຊັກເຄື່ອງ (lo) (chak sak khư̄ang), ຈັກຊັກຜ້າ (chak sak phā)
• Latvian: veļas mašīna f
• Lithuanian: skalbimo mašina f, skalbyklė f
• Luxembourgish: Wäschmaschinn f
• Macedonian: пера́лна f (perálna)
• Malay: mesin basuh
• Maltese: magni tal-ħasil
• Marathi: वॉशिंग मशीन f (vŏśiṅga maśīn)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: угаалгын машин (ugaalgyn mašin)

• Norman: machinne à laver f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vaskemaskin (no) m

  Nynorsk: vaskemaskin m or f

• Occitan: lavadoira f, lavalinge m
• Pannonian Rusyn: райбачка f (rajbačka)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: ماشینِ لِباس‌شویی (mâšin-e lebâs-šuyi), ماشینِ رَخْت‌شویی (mâšin-e raxt-šuyi)

• Plautdietsch: Wauschmaschien f
• Polish: pralka (pl) f
• Portuguese: máquina de lavar roupa f, máquina de lavar f
• Romanian: mașină de spălat f
• Romansch: maschina da lavar f
• Russian: стира́льная маши́на (ru) f (stirálʹnaja mašína), стира́лка (ru) f (stirálka) (colloquial)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ве̏шмашӣна f, ва̏шмашӣна f, пѐрилица f

  Roman: vȅšmašīna (sh) f, vȁšmašīna (sh) f, pèrilica (sh) f

• Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can
• Slovak: práčka f
• Slovene: pralni stroj (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: pałkańska mašina f

  Upper Sorbian: płokawa f, płokanska mašina f

• Spanish: lavadora (es) f, lavarropas (es) f (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay)
• Swahili: mashine ya kufulia
• Swedish: tvättmaskin (sv) c
• Tagalog: makinang panlaba
• Tajik: мошинаи либосшӯӣ (mošina-yi libosšüi), мошинаи ҷомашӯӣ (mošina-yi jomašüi)
• Tatar: кер юу машинасы (ker yuu maşinası)
• Telugu: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: เครื่องซักผ้า (th) (krʉ̂ʉang-sák-pâa)
• Tibetan: འཁྲུ་འཁོར ('khru 'khor), འཁྲུ་ཡག་འཕྲུལ་འཁོར ('khru yag 'phrul 'khor)
• Turkish: çamaşır makinası, çamaşır makinesi (tr)
• Turkmen: ýuwýan maşyn
• Ukrainian: пра́льна маши́на f (prálʹna mašýna), пра́лка f (prálka) (colloquial)
• Urdu: دھونے والی مَشِین f (dhone vālī maśīn) (generic washer)
• Uyghur: كىرئالغۇ (kir'alghu)
• Uzbek: kiyimlarni yuvish
• Vietnamese: máy giặt (vi) (𢵯㴽)
• Welsh: peiriant golchi (cy) m
• West Frisian: wasmasine
• Yiddish: וואַשמאַשין f (vashmashin)

Anagrams

• machine washing, machine-washing