vacuum cleaner

English

A domestic vacuum cleaner.

Alternative forms

• vacuum-cleaner

Etymology

From vacuum +‎ cleaner. By synchronic analysis, vacuum-clean (a back-formation) +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Noun

vacuum cleaner (plural vacuum cleaners)

2. A device that uses suction, and often agitation, in order to remove dirt and other debris from carpets and hard floors.

   Synonyms: hoover, vacuum, sweeper

3. (slang, euphemistic) The buttocks.
   • 2000, Irving Berlin, White Christmas:

     And if that's not a good enough explanation, you can shove it up your vacuum cleaner and turn it on high!

Derived terms

• cyclonic vacuum cleaner
• vacuum-clean

Descendants

• → Hindi: वैक्युम क्लीनर (vaikyum klīnar)
• → Irish: folúsghlantóir (calque)
• → Urdu: ویکیوم کلینر (vaikyūm kilīnar)

Translations

machine for cleaning

• Abkhaz: асабеизгага (asabejzgaga)
• Afrikaans: stofsuier (af)
• Albanian: fshesë me korent f
• Arabic: مِكْنَسَة كَهْرَبَائِيَّة f (miknasa kahrabāʔiyya)

  Hijazi Arabic: مُكْنَسة f (muknasa)

• Armenian: փոշեկուլ (hy) (pʻošekul), փոշեծծիչ (hy) (pʻošeccičʻ)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܲܟ݂ܢܲܫܬܵܐ ܒܸܪܩܵܝܬܵܐ f (maḵnaštā birqāytā)
• Asturian: aspiradora f, aspirador m
• Azerbaijani: tozsoran
• Basque: xurgagailu
• Belarusian: пыласо́с m (pylasós)
• Bengali: ভ্যাকুয়াম ক্লিনার (bhêkuẏam 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)

  Dungan: щичынчи (xičɨnči)

  Hokkien: 吸塵器 / 吸尘器 (khip-tîn-khì)

  Mandarin: 吸塵器 / 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) m (sho'év avák)
• Hindi: वैक्युम क्लीनर m (vaikyum klīnar), निर्वात मार्जक m (nirvāt mārjak), हूवर m (hūvar)
• Hungarian: porszívó (hu)
• Icelandic: ryksuga f
• Ido: vakuonetigilo, polvosugilo (io)
• Indonesian: penghisap debu (id), penyedot debu
• Ingush: дома чуувзарг (doma čwuvzarg)
• 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 (caŋ sorguc)
• 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)

  Mongolian: ᠲᠣᠭᠤᠰᠤ
  ᠰᠣᠷᠤᠭᠴᠢ (toɣusu soruɣči)

• Northern Sami: noavki
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: støvsuger (no) m

  Nynorsk: støvsugar m

• Pashto: برقي جارو f (barqi jāru)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: جاروبَرْقی (jârubarği)

• Polish: odkurzacz (pl) m
• Portuguese: aspirador (pt) 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

• Sicilian: aspiraturi m, aspira-pòrbiri 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
• Swahili: kisafishi ombwe
• Swedish: dammsugare (sv) c
• Tagalog: panlinis na humihigop ng dumi
• Tajik: гардкашак (gardkašak), чангкашак (tg) (čangkašak)
• Tamil: தூசி உறிஞ்சி (tūci uṟiñci), துாசகற்றும்கருவிது
• 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), пилосмо́к (uk) m (pylosmók)
• Urdu: وَیکْیُوم کِلِینَر m (vaikyūm kilīnar), بَرْقی جارُوب کَش m (barqī jārūb kaś), بَرْقی جھاڑُو f (barqī jhāṛū)
• 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)