drill

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From Middle Dutch drillen (“bore, move in a circle”).

Perhaps the same as Etymology 3; compare German Rille which can also mean "small furrow".

Uncertain. Compare the same sense of trill, and German trillen, drillen. Attestation predates Etymology 1.

] Source unknown. Probably of African origin; compare mandrill.

From German Drillich (“denim, canvas, drill”).

From Middle English drillen (“to delay, defer, put off”), of origin unknown.

377 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: turjelë — tool
• Southern Altai: ӧрӱм (örüm) — tool
• Arabic: مِثْقَاب (miṯqāb) — tool
• Arabic: بريمة (barrima) — tool
• Armenian: գայլիկոնիչ (gaylikoničʻ) — tool
• Armenian: դռել (dṙel) — tool
• Asturian: táladru — tool
• Asturian: barrenu — tool
• Asturian: tarabiella — tool
• Azerbaijani: burğu — tool
• Bashkir: бырау (bıraw) — tool
• Belarusian: дрыль (drylʹ) — tool
• Belarusian: бормашы́на (bormašýna) — tool
• Bengali: তুরপুন (turopun) — tool
• Bhojpuri: बरमा (barəmā) — tool
• Bulgarian: свре́дел (svrédel) — tool
• Bulgarian: бо́рмашина (bórmašina) — tool
• Catalan: trepant — tool
• Chinese Mandarin: 鑽 /钻 (zuān) — tool
• Czech: vrtačka — tool
• Danish: bor — tool
• Danish: boremaskine — tool
• Dutch: boor — tool
• Dutch: boormachine — tool
• Esperanto: drilo — tool
• Esperanto: borilo — tool
• Estonian: trell — tool
• Estonian: trellpuur — tool
• Finnish: pora — tool
• Finnish: kaira — tool
• French: foreuse — tool
• French: perceuse — tool
• West-Frisian: boarmasine — tool
• Galician: trade — tool
• Georgian: ბურღი (burɣi) — tool
• German: Bohrer — tool
• German: Bohrmaschine — tool
• Greek: δράπανο (drápano) — tool
• Ancient Greek: ἀρίς (arís) — tool
• Ancient Greek: τόρος (tóros) — tool
• Greenlandic: qillerut — tool
• Hebrew: מקדחה (makdekhá) — tool
• Hindi: ड्रिल (ḍril) — tool
• Hindi: बरमा (barmā) — tool
• Hungarian: fúrógép — tool
• Hungarian: fúró — tool
• Icelandic: bor — tool
• Ido: borilo — tool
• Indonesian: bor — tool
• Indonesian: jara — tool
• Ingrian: pura — tool
• Irish: druilire — tool
• Italian: trapano — tool
• Japanese: ドリル (doriru) — tool
• Kashubian: bórmaszinka — tool
• Kazakh: үскі (üskı) — tool
• Kazakh: бәрбі (bärbı) — tool
• Korean: 드릴 (deuril) — tool
• Central Kurdish: سمەک (simek) — tool
• Kyrgyz: дрель (drel) — tool
• Latin: terebra — tool
• Macedonian: ду́пчалка (dúpčalka) — tool
• Macedonian: борма́шина (bormášina) — tool
• Malay: gerudi — tool
• Maltese: trapan — tool
• Maltese: golja — tool
• Maltese: driller — tool
• Māori: hōrete — tool
• Māori: tūwiri — tool
• Mongolian: өрөм (öröm) — tool
• Mongolian: ᠥᠷᠦᠮ᠎ᠡ (örüm-e) — tool
• Nanai: лунгу (luŋu) — tool
• Norman: drîn — tool
• Norwegian: bor — tool
• Norwegian Bokmål: boremaskin — tool
• Pangasinan: barena — tool
• Persian: درل (drel) — tool
• Persian: دریل (dereyl) — tool
• Persian: مته (matte) — tool
• Plautdietsch: Boa — tool
• Polish: wiertarka — tool
• Portuguese: furadeira — tool
• Portuguese: berbequim — tool
• Romanian: burghiu — tool
• Romanian: sfredel — tool
• Romanian: bormașină — tool
• Romanian: mașină de găurit — tool
• Russian: дрель (drelʹ) — tool
• Russian: бура́в (buráv) — tool
• Russian: коловоро́т (kolovorót) — tool
• Russian: бормаши́на (bormašína) — tool
• Serbo-Croatian: бушилица — tool
• Serbo-Croatian: bušilica — tool
• Slovak: vŕtačka — tool
• Slovene: vrtalnik — tool
• Spanish: taladro — tool
• Spanish: taladradora — tool
• Spanish: barrena — tool
• Swedish: borrmaskin — tool
• Tagalog: barena — tool
• Tajik: парма (parma) — tool
• Thai: สว่าน (sà-wàan) — tool
• Turkish: matkap — tool
• Ottoman Turkish: بورغو (burgu) — tool
• Ottoman Turkish: مثقب (miskab) — tool
• Ukrainian: дриль (drylʹ) — tool
• Ukrainian: бормаши́на (bormašýna) — tool
• Urdu: ڈرل (ḍril) — tool
• Uzbek: drel — tool
• Vietnamese: máy khoan — tool
• Welsh: dril m tyllwr — tool
• Yiddish: עקבער (ekber) — tool
• Arabic: لقمة ثقب (luqmat thuqb) — driving part of a drill
• Bulgarian: бурги́я (burgíja) — driving part of a drill
• Dutch: boor — driving part of a drill
• Finnish: istukka — driving part of a drill
• French: chignole — driving part of a drill
• Galician: broca — driving part of a drill
• German: Drill — driving part of a drill
• Hungarian: fúrófej — driving part of a drill
• Indonesian: mata bor — driving part of a drill
• Italian: punta — driving part of a drill
• Macedonian: бу́ргија (búrgija) — driving part of a drill
• Māori: niho — driving part of a drill
• Polish: wiertło — driving part of a drill
• Portuguese: broca — driving part of a drill
• Russian: сверло́ (sverló) — driving part of a drill
• Russian: пёрка (pjórka) — driving part of a drill
• Russian: бур (bur) — driving part of a drill
• Swedish: borr — driving part of a drill
• Welsh: dril — driving part of a drill
• Arabic: نِظام مُنْضَمّ (niẓām munḍamm) — activity done as an exercise or practice
• Arabic: تَدْرِيْبات (tadriybāt) — activity done as an exercise or practice
• Bashkir: күнегеү (künegew) — activity done as an exercise or practice
• Belarusian: трэніро́ўка (trenirówka) — activity done as an exercise or practice
• Bulgarian: трениро́вка (treniróvka) — activity done as an exercise or practice
• Bulgarian: строева́ подгото́вка (stroevá podgotóvka) — activity done as an exercise or practice
• Chinese Mandarin: 演練 /演练 (yǎnliàn) — activity done as an exercise or practice
• Chinese Mandarin: 訓練 /训练 (xùnliàn) — activity done as an exercise or practice
• Dutch: dril — activity done as an exercise or practice
• Finnish: harjoitus — activity done as an exercise or practice
• Finnish: harjoite — activity done as an exercise or practice
• French: exercice — activity done as an exercise or practice
• French: entraînement — activity done as an exercise or practice
• German: Drill — activity done as an exercise or practice
• Greek: γυμνάσιο (gymnásio) — activity done as an exercise or practice
• Greek: άσκηση (áskisi) — activity done as an exercise or practice
• Ancient Greek: μελέτη (melétē) — activity done as an exercise or practice
• Hungarian: gyakorlatozás — activity done as an exercise or practice
• Hungarian: kiképzés — activity done as an exercise or practice
• Hungarian: gyakorlat — activity done as an exercise or practice
• Indonesian: latihan — activity done as an exercise or practice
• Indonesian: simulasi — activity done as an exercise or practice
• Indonesian: dril — activity done as an exercise or practice
• Italian: esercitazione — activity done as an exercise or practice
• Japanese: 訓練 (kunren) — activity done as an exercise or practice
• Korean: 훈련 (hullyeon) — activity done as an exercise or practice
• Macedonian: ве́жба (véžba) — activity done as an exercise or practice
• Macedonian: стро́ева о́бука (stróeva óbuka) — activity done as an exercise or practice
• Macedonian: егзерци́р (egzercír) — activity done as an exercise or practice
• Malay: latihan — activity done as an exercise or practice
• Malay: latih tubi — activity done as an exercise or practice
• Manx: drilley — activity done as an exercise or practice
• Norwegian: drill — activity done as an exercise or practice
• Polish: musztra — activity done as an exercise or practice
• Portuguese: treino — activity done as an exercise or practice
• Portuguese: treinamento — activity done as an exercise or practice
• Portuguese: simulação — activity done as an exercise or practice
• Russian: муштра́ (muštrá) — activity done as an exercise or practice
• Russian: трениро́вка (treniróvka) — activity done as an exercise or practice
• Russian: строева́я подгото́вка (strojevája podgotóvka) — activity done as an exercise or practice
• Russian: уче́ние (učénije) — activity done as an exercise or practice
• Spanish: repetición — activity done as an exercise or practice
• Spanish: simulacro — activity done as an exercise or practice
• Swahili: kwata — activity done as an exercise or practice
• Swedish: drill — activity done as an exercise or practice
• Ukrainian: тренува́ння (trenuvánnja) — activity done as an exercise or practice
• Vietnamese: thực hành — activity done as an exercise or practice
• Portuguese: saquaritá — mollusc
• Chinese Mandarin: 耬 /耧 (lóu) — agricultural implement
• Chinese Mandarin: 耬車 /耧车 — agricultural implement
• French: sillon — agricultural implement
• French: semoir — agricultural implement
• Hungarian: sorvetőgép — agricultural implement
• Italian: seminatrice — agricultural implement
• Portuguese: seminadeira — agricultural implement
• Spanish: sembradora — agricultural implement
• Ukrainian: сівалка (sivalka) — agricultural implement
• Welsh: dril — agricultural implement
• Finnish: vako — light furrow or channel to put seed into
• French: sillon — light furrow or channel to put seed into
• Hungarian: vetőbarázda — light furrow or channel to put seed into
• Hungarian: barázda — light furrow or channel to put seed into
• Italian: solco — light furrow or channel to put seed into
• Italian: surco — light furrow or channel to put seed into
• Spanish: surco — light furrow or channel to put seed into
• Welsh: dril — light furrow or channel to put seed into
• Finnish: vako — row of seeds sown in a furrow
• Finnish: noro — small trickling stream
• Bulgarian: мандрил (mandril) — Old World monkey
• Danish: dril — Old World monkey
• Finnish: drilli — Old World monkey
• French: drill — Old World monkey
• Greek: δρίλλος (dríllos) — Old World monkey
• Japanese: ドリル (doriru) — Old World monkey
• Russian: дрил (dril) — Old World monkey
• Spanish: dril — Old World monkey
• Asturian: dril — cotton fabric
• Bulgarian: габардин (gabardin) — cotton fabric
• Catalan: dril — cotton fabric
• Esperanto: dreliko — cotton fabric
• Finnish: kilpikangas — cotton fabric
• Finnish: drelli — cotton fabric
• Finnish: reivas — cotton fabric
• French: coutil — cotton fabric
• German: Drillich — cotton fabric
• Kashubian: drëlich — cotton fabric
• Polish: drelich — cotton fabric
• Russian: тик (tik) — cotton fabric
• Spanish: dril — cotton fabric
• Uyghur: تىرىكە (tirike) — cotton fabric
• Arabic: ثَقَبَ (ṯaqaba) — to make a hole
• Arabic: نَقَبَ (naqaba) — to make a hole
• Bulgarian: пробивам (probivam) — to make a hole
• Bulgarian: сондирам (sondiram) — to make a hole
• Catalan: perforar — to make a hole
• Catalan: foradar — to make a hole
• Cherokee: ᎠᏔᎴᏍᎦ (atalesga) — to make a hole
• Chinese Mandarin: 鑽孔 /钻孔 (zuānkǒng) — to make a hole
• Czech: vrtat — to make a hole
• Danish: bore — to make a hole
• Dutch: boren — to make a hole
• Elfdalian: buorå — to make a hole
• Estonian: drillima — to make a hole
• Faroese: bora — to make a hole
• Finnish: porata — to make a hole
• Finnish: kairata — to make a hole
• French: forer — to make a hole
• French: percer — to make a hole
• Galician: tradear — to make a hole
• German: bohren — to make a hole
• Greek: τρυπώ (trypó) — to make a hole
• Hebrew: קדח (kadákh) — to make a hole
• Hungarian: fúr — to make a hole
• Icelandic: bora — to make a hole
• Ido: borar — to make a hole
• Indonesian: mengebor — to make a hole
• Ingrian: purata — to make a hole
• Italian: perforare — to make a hole
• Italian: forare — to make a hole
• Italian: trapanare — to make a hole
• Italian: trivellare — to make a hole
• Italian: crivellare — to make a hole
• Kabuverdianu: fura — to make a hole
• Khmer: ខួង (khuəng) — to make a hole
• Khmer: ស្វាន (svaan) — to make a hole
• Lao: ເຈາະ (chǫ) — to make a hole
• Latgalian: svuorpstuot — to make a hole
• Latgalian: vūrbt — to make a hole
• Latgalian: būreit — to make a hole
• Latin: terebrō — to make a hole
• Latin: trānsfīgō — to make a hole
• Latvian: urbt — to make a hole
• Macedonian: ду́пчи (dúpči) — to make a hole
• Māori: ore — to make a hole
• Māori: wiri — to make a hole
• Norwegian: bore — to make a hole
• Polish: wiercić — to make a hole
• Polish: borować — to make a hole
• Polish: świdrować — to make a hole
• Portuguese: furar — to make a hole
• Portuguese: perfurar — to make a hole
• Portuguese: brocar — to make a hole
• Romanian: a găuri — to make a hole
• Russian: сверли́ть (sverlítʹ) — to make a hole
• Russian: бури́ть (burítʹ) — to make a hole
• Slovene: vrtati — to make a hole
• Slovene: izvrtati — to make a hole
• Spanish: perforar — to make a hole
• Spanish: agujerear — to make a hole
• Spanish: taladrar — to make a hole
• Spanish: horadar — to make a hole
• Spanish: drilear — to make a hole
• Swahili: -toboa — to make a hole
• Swedish: borra — to make a hole
• Thai: เจาะ (jɔ̀) — to make a hole
• Turkish: delmek — to make a hole
• Turkish: burgulamak — to make a hole
• Ottoman Turkish: بورغولامق (burgulamak) — to make a hole
• Ukrainian: свердли́ти (sverdlýty) — to make a hole
• Vietnamese: khoan — to make a hole
• Welsh: drilio — to make a hole
• Bulgarian: тренирам (treniram) — to practice
• Bulgarian: обучавам се (obučavam se) — to practice
• Dutch: drillen — to practice
• Finnish: harjoitella — to practice
• French: s'entraîner — to practice
• German: schleifen — to practice
• Greek: εκπαιδεύω (ekpaidévo) — to practice
• Hebrew: תרגל (tirgél) — to practice
• Hungarian: gyakorlatozik — to practice
• Ido: exercar — to practice
• Indonesian: berlatih — to practice
• Italian: esercitarsi — to practice
• Lao: ຫັດ (hat) — to practice
• Macedonian: ве́жба (véžba) — to practice
• Norwegian: drille — to practice
• Polish: ćwiczyć — to practice
• Polish: musztrować — to practice
• Portuguese: treinar — to practice
• Portuguese: exercitar — to practice
• Russian: муштрова́ть (muštrovátʹ) — to practice
• Russian: тренирова́ть (trenirovátʹ) — to practice
• Russian: обуча́ть (obučátʹ) — to practice
• Russian: тренирова́ться (trenirovátʹsja) — to practice
• Russian: обуча́ться (obučátʹsja) — to practice
• Spanish: entrenar — to practice
• Spanish: practicar — to practice
• Spanish: ensayar — to practice
• Spanish: hacer / realizar un simulacro — to practice
• Spanish: drilear — to practice
• Swedish: drilla — to practice
• Swedish: träna — to practice
• Thai: หัด (hàt) — to practice
• Bulgarian: обучавам (obučavam) — to cause to drill, or practise
• Finnish: harjoittaa — to cause to drill, or practise
• Finnish: harjoituttaa — to cause to drill, or practise
• Finnish: äkseerätä — to cause to drill, or practise
• French: entraîner — to cause to drill, or practise
• Indonesian: melatih — to cause to drill, or practise
• Italian: addestrare — to cause to drill, or practise
• Italian: addestrarsi — to cause to drill, or practise
• Italian: esercitare — to cause to drill, or practise
• Italian: esercitarsi — to cause to drill, or practise
• Macedonian: о́бучи (óbuči) — to cause to drill, or practise
• Russian: обуча́ть (obučátʹ) — to cause to drill, or practise
• Spanish: entrenar — to cause to drill, or practise
• Swedish: drilla — to cause to drill, or practise
• Dutch: stampen — to repeat in order to make remember
• Dutch: blokken — to repeat in order to make remember
• Dutch: drillen — to repeat in order to make remember
• Finnish: teroittaa — to repeat in order to make remember
• Finnish: tähdentää — to repeat in order to make remember
• French: rabâcher — to repeat in order to make remember
• German: drillen — to repeat in order to make remember
• Hungarian: belesulykol — to repeat in order to make remember
• Hungarian: sulykol — to repeat in order to make remember
• Italian: inculcare — to repeat in order to make remember
• Norwegian: terpe — to repeat in order to make remember
• Portuguese: inculcar — to repeat in order to make remember
• Russian: вда́лбливать (vdálblivatʹ) — to repeat in order to make remember
• Russian: вдолби́ть (vdolbítʹ) — to repeat in order to make remember
• Spanish: repetir — to repeat in order to make remember
• Swedish: drilla — to repeat in order to make remember
• Swedish: nöta — to repeat in order to make remember
• Dutch: graven — to investigate closer
• Finnish: porautua — to investigate closer
• French: approfondir — to investigate closer
• Italian: scavare — to investigate closer
• Norwegian: dypdykke — to investigate closer
• Portuguese: averiguar — to investigate closer
• Russian: копа́ть (kopátʹ) — to investigate closer
• Russian: копну́ть (kopnútʹ) — to investigate closer
• Slovene: vrtati — to investigate closer
• Spanish: averiguar — to investigate closer
• Swedish: undersöka — to investigate closer
• Finnish: pamauttaa — to hit or kick with a lot of power
• Dutch: pompen — vulgar: to have sexual intercourse with
• Finnish: porata — vulgar: to have sexual intercourse with
• Finnish: jyystää — vulgar: to have sexual intercourse with
• French: baiser — vulgar: to have sexual intercourse with
• French: niquer — vulgar: to have sexual intercourse with
• Finnish: kylvää vakoon — to sow along a furrow or in a row
• Finnish: kylvää riviin — to sow along a furrow or in a row
• Finnish: suodattaa — to cause to flow in trickles
• Finnish: viekoitella — to entice or allure
• Finnish: kuluttaa — to cause to slip or waste away by degrees