diesel engine

English

Etymology

Named after Rudolf Diesel.

Pronunciation

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Noun

diesel engine (plural diesel engines)

1. (automotive) an internal combustion engine which operates using diesel fuel
2. (mechanical engineering) a piston engine that operates using the Diesel cycle, with fuel being sprayed into the hot, high-pressure air in the combustion chamber at the end of the compression stroke
3. (rail transport) a diesel locomotive

Synonyms

• diesel motor

Translations

type of engine

• Afrikaans: dieselenjin
• Arabic: محرك ديزل
• Azerbaijani: dizel mühərriki
• Belarusian: дызельны рухавік m (dyzjelʹny ruxavik)
• Bulgarian: дизелов двигател m (dizelov dvigatel)
• Catalan: motor dièsel m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 柴油引擎

• Czech: dieselový motor m, vznětový motor m
• Danish: dieselmotor (da) c
• Dutch: dieselmotor (nl)
• Esperanto: dizelmotoro
• Estonian: diiselmootor
• Finnish: dieselmoottori (fi)
• French: moteur Diesel (fr) m
• Galician: motor diésel m
• German: Dieselmotor (de) m, Diesel (de) m
• Greek: κινητήρας ντίζελ m (kinitíras ntízel)
• Hebrew: מְנוֹעַ דִּיזֶל (he) m (menoa dizel)
• Hindi: डीज़ल इंजन (ḍīzal iñjan)
• Hungarian: dízelmotor (hu)
• Icelandic: dísilvél (is) f
• Ido: dizel-motoro
• Indonesian: mesin diesel (id)
• Irish: inneall díosail m
• Italian: motore Diesel m
• Japanese: ディーゼルエンジン (dīzeru-enjin)
• Kazakh: дизель қозғалтқыш (dizel qozğaltqyş)
• Latvian: dīzeļdzinējs m
• Malay: enjin diesel
• Malayalam: ഡീസൽ എഞ്ചിൻ (ḍīsal eñciṉ)
• Marathi: डीझेल इंजिन (ḍījhel iñjin)
• Mongolian: дизель хөдөлгүүр (dizelʹ xödölgüür)
• Nepali: डिजेल इन्जिन (ḍijel injina)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dieselmotor m

  Nynorsk: dieselmotor m

• Persian: موتور دیزل
• Polish: silnik wysokoprężny m, silnik o zapłonie samoczynnym
• Portuguese: motor a diesel m
• Romanian: motor diesel (ro) n
• Russian: ди́зельный дви́гатель m (dízelʹnyj dvígatelʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: dizel motor m, dieselov motor m
• Slovak: naftový motor m
• Spanish: motor diésel m
• Swedish: dieselmotor (sv) c
• Tamil: டீசல் பொறி (ṭīcal poṟi)
• Telugu: డీజిల్ ఇంజన్ (ḍījil iñjan)
• Thai: เครื่องยนต์ดีเซล
• Turkish: dizel motoru (tr)
• Ukrainian: дизельний двигун m (dyzelʹnyj dvyhun)
• Urdu: ڈیزل انجن

diesel locomotive — see diesel locomotive

See also

• petrol engine