Phrase guide

combine harvester

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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Pronunciation

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  • US: /ˈkɑmˌbaɪn ˈhɑɹvəstəɹ/
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noun

Meaning 1

A farm machine that harvests, threshes, and winnows ripe grain.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: agriculture, business, lifestyle

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: combine

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: harvester

History

Etymology

So called because it is a single harvester that manages to combine several machines into one, doing several jobs: a reaper component doing the reaping, a thresher component doing the threshing, and a winnower component doing the winnowing.

Across languages

Translations

78 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: stroper — combine
  • Albanian: autokombajnë — combine
  • Arabic: حَصَّادَة شَامِلَة (ḥaṣṣāda šāmila) — combine
  • Arabic: حَصَّادَة (ḥaṣṣāda) — combine
  • Arabic: مكينة الحصاد (makīnat le-ḥṣād) — combine
  • Armenian: կոմբայն (kombayn) — combine
  • Azerbaijani: kombayn — combine
  • Belarusian: камба́йн (kambájn) — combine
  • Bulgarian: комба́йн (kombájn) — combine
  • Catalan: recol·lectora — combine
  • Chinese Mandarin: 聯合收割機 /联合收割机 (liánhé shōugējī) — combine
  • Chinese Mandarin: 康拜因 (kāngbàiyīn) — combine
  • Crimean Tatar: kombayn — combine
  • Czech: kombajn — combine
  • Danish: mejetærsker — combine
  • Dutch: maaidorser — combine
  • Esperanto: kombajno — combine
  • Esperanto: rikolta draŝmaŝino — combine
  • Estonian: kombain — combine
  • Finnish: leikkuupuimuri — combine
  • Finnish: puimuri — combine
  • French: moissonneuse-batteuse — combine
  • Georgian: კომბაინი (ḳombaini) — combine
  • German: Mähdrescher — combine
  • German: Combine — combine
  • German: Kombine — combine
  • Greek: θεριζοαλωνιστική μηχανή (therizoalonistikí michaní) — combine
  • Greek: κομπίνα (kompína) — combine
  • Hebrew: קומביין תבואות — combine
  • Hebrew: קומביין — combine
  • Hebrew: קצרדש — combine
  • Hungarian: kombájn — combine
  • Icelandic: þreskivél — combine
  • Italian: mietitrebbiatrice — combine
  • Japanese: コンバインハーベスター (konbain hābesutā) — combine
  • Japanese: コンバイン (konbain) — combine
  • Kazakh: комбайн (kombain) — combine
  • Korean: 콤바인 (kombain) — combine
  • Kyrgyz: комбайн (kombayn) — combine
  • Latvian: kombains — combine
  • Lithuanian: kombainas — combine
  • Luxembourgish: Méidrescher — combine
  • Macedonian: комба́јн (kombájn) — combine
  • Mongolian: комбайн (kombajn) — combine
  • Norwegian Bokmål: skurdtresker — combine
  • Norwegian Bokmål: skurtresker — combine
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: skurdtreskar — combine
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: skurdtreskjar — combine
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: skurtreskar — combine
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: skurtreskjar — combine
  • Persian: کمباین (kombâyn) — combine
  • Polish: kombajn — combine
  • Portuguese: colheitadeira — combine
  • Portuguese: ceifeira-debulhadora — combine
  • Portuguese: colhedeira — combine
  • Romanian: secerătoare-treierătoare — combine
  • Romanian: combină — combine
  • Russian: комба́йн (kombájn) — combine
  • Serbo-Croatian: комбајн — combine
  • Serbo-Croatian: kombajn — combine
  • Slovak: kombajn — combine
  • Slovene: kombajn — combine
  • Spanish: cosechadora — combine
  • Spanish: trilladora — combine
  • Swedish: skördetröska — combine
  • Swedish: tröska — combine
  • Tajik: комбайн (kombayn) — combine
  • Tatar: комбайн (qombayn) — combine
  • Turkish: biçerdöver — combine
  • Turkmen: kombaýn — combine
  • Ukrainian: комба́йн (kombájn) — combine
  • Uzbek: kombayn — combine
  • Vietnamese: máy liên hợp — combine
  • Vietnamese: máy gặt đập liên hợp — combine
  • Walloon: grosse machene — combine
  • Walloon: fåtcheuse-bateuse — combine
  • Welsh: cynaeafydd — combine
  • Welsh: combein — combine