auger

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* As a French surname, borrowed from French Auger. * As a German surname, a variant of Auer, with the -g- said to reflect a West Frisian influence. * As an English surname, variant of Alger.

From a rebracketing of Middle English a nauger (seen as an + auger), from Old English nafugār (“nave drill”, literally “nave spear”), from Proto-West Germanic *nabugaiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *nabōgaizaz. Cognate with Dutch avegaar.

71 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• French: Auger — Translations
• Bulgarian: свредел (svredel) — carpenter's tool
• Bulgarian: бургия (burgija) — carpenter's tool
• Burmese: လွန် (lwan) — carpenter's tool
• Burmese: လွန်ပူ (lwanpu) — carpenter's tool
• Catalan: barrina — carpenter's tool
• Chinese Mandarin: 螺絲鑚 /螺丝鑚 — carpenter's tool
• Chinese Mandarin: 螺旋鑽 /螺旋钻 — carpenter's tool
• Czech: nebozez — carpenter's tool
• Danish: naver — carpenter's tool
• Danish: naverbor — carpenter's tool
• Esperanto: borilo — carpenter's tool
• Finnish: kaira — carpenter's tool
• French: tarière — carpenter's tool
• French: tarière à trépan — carpenter's tool
• Galician: trade — carpenter's tool
• Galician: tarabela — carpenter's tool
• Georgian: ბურღი (burɣi) — carpenter's tool
• German: Holzbohrer — carpenter's tool
• Ancient Greek: τρύπανον (trúpanon) — carpenter's tool
• Hawaiian: wili nui — carpenter's tool
• Irish: tarathar — carpenter's tool
• Old Irish: tarathar — carpenter's tool
• Italian: succhiello — carpenter's tool
• Italian: menarola — carpenter's tool
• Jingpho: lun bu — carpenter's tool
• Macedonian: сврдел (svrdel) — carpenter's tool
• Macedonian: бургија (burgija) — carpenter's tool
• Malay: pelir itik — carpenter's tool
• Malay: pelitik — carpenter's tool
• Manx: tarrar — carpenter's tool
• Māori: wiri — carpenter's tool
• Middle English: nauger — carpenter's tool
• Mon: ခပူ — carpenter's tool
• Old English: nafugār — carpenter's tool
• Persian: برمه (barme) — carpenter's tool
• Plautdietsch: Boa — carpenter's tool
• Polish: świder — carpenter's tool
• Portuguese: trado — carpenter's tool
• Portuguese: verrumão — carpenter's tool
• Russian: бур (bur) — carpenter's tool
• Russian: бура́в (buráv) — carpenter's tool
• Russian: сверло́ (sverló) — carpenter's tool
• Scottish Gaelic: tora — carpenter's tool
• Serbo-Croatian: свр̏дло — carpenter's tool
• Serbo-Croatian: svȑdlo — carpenter's tool
• Slovak: nebožiec — carpenter's tool
• Lower Sorbian: njabozac — carpenter's tool
• Upper Sorbian: njeboz — carpenter's tool
• Spanish: barrena — carpenter's tool
• Spanish: barreno — carpenter's tool
• Spanish: taladrador — carpenter's tool
• Spanish: taladro — carpenter's tool
• Spanish: berbiquí — carpenter's tool
• Swedish: navare — carpenter's tool
• Tagalog: balibol — carpenter's tool
• Tagalog: barena — carpenter's tool
• Turkish: burgu — carpenter's tool
• Ottoman Turkish: بورغو (burgu) — carpenter's tool
• Welsh: taradr — carpenter's tool
• Bulgarian: сонда (sonda) — hollow drill used to take core samples of soil
• Finnish: maakaira — hollow drill used to take core samples of soil
• Finnish: maaperäkaira — hollow drill used to take core samples of soil
• German: Erdbohrer — hollow drill used to take core samples of soil
• Spanish: barrena — hollow drill used to take core samples of soil
• Bulgarian: сондирам (sondiram) — drill holes using an auger
• Finnish: kairata — drill holes using an auger
• Galician: tradar — drill holes using an auger
• Italian: verrinare — drill holes using an auger
• Spanish: taladrar — drill holes using an auger
• Spanish: barrenar — drill holes using an auger