engine

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• UK, US: /ˈɛnd͡ʒɪn/
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• pin-pen-merger: /ˈɪnd͡ʒɪn/
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• /ˈɛnd͡ʒən/ weak vowel merger
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• Australian: /ˈend͡ʒɪn/
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• Australian: /ˈend͡ʒən/
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• New-Zealand: /ˈend͡ʒɘn/
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• India: /ˈɪn.dʒɪn/
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• India: /ˈɪn.dʒən/
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• India: /ɪnˈdʒiːn/
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• CMU ARPABET: EH1 N JH AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: IH1 N JH AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English engyn, from Anglo-Norman engine, Old French engin (“skill, cleverness, war machine”), from Latin ingenium (“innate or natural quality, nature, genius, a genius, an invention, (in Late Latin) a war-engine, battering-ram”), related to ingignō (“to instil by birth, implant, produce in”). Compare gin, ingenious, engineer.

159 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: enjin — mechanical device
• Albanian: motor — mechanical device
• Amharic: ሞተር (motär) — mechanical device
• Arabic: مُحَرِّك (muḥarrik) — mechanical device
• Arabic: مُوتُور (mūtūr) — mechanical device
• Armenian: շարժիչ (šaržičʻ) — mechanical device
• Asturian: motor — mechanical device
• Azerbaijani: mühərrik — mechanical device
• Azerbaijani: motor — mechanical device
• Bashkir: двигатель (dvigatelʹ) — mechanical device
• Bashkir: мотор (motor) — mechanical device
• Basque: motor — mechanical device
• Belarusian: рухаві́к (ruxavík) — mechanical device
• Belarusian: мато́р (matór) — mechanical device
• Bengali: ইঞ্জিন (injin) — mechanical device
• Bengali: মোটর (mōṭor) — mechanical device
• Bulgarian: мото́р (motór) — mechanical device
• Bulgarian: дви́гател (dvígatel) — mechanical device
• Burmese: အင်ဂျင် (anggyang) — mechanical device
• Burmese: စက်ခေါင်း (cakhkaung:) — mechanical device
• Catalan: motor — mechanical device
• Chinese Mandarin: 引擎 (yǐnqíng) — mechanical device
• Chinese Mandarin: 發動機 /发动机 (fādòngjī) — mechanical device
• Chinese Mandarin: 馬達 /马达 (mǎdá) — mechanical device
• Chinese Mandarin: 摩托 (mótuō) — mechanical device
• Coptic: ⲙⲏⲭⲁⲛⲏ (mēkhanē) — mechanical device
• Cornish: jynn — mechanical device
• Czech: motor — mechanical device
• Danish: motor — mechanical device
• Dutch: motor — mechanical device
• Dutch: aandrijving — mechanical device
• Esperanto: motoro — mechanical device
• Estonian: mootor — mechanical device
• Finnish: moottori — mechanical device
• French: moteur — mechanical device
• Galician: motor — mechanical device
• Georgian: ძრავა (ʒrava) — mechanical device
• Georgian: მატორი (maṭori) — mechanical device
• German: Motor — mechanical device
• German: Triebwerk — mechanical device
• German: Antrieb — mechanical device
• Greek: μηχανή (michaní) — mechanical device
• Greek: κινητήρας (kinitíras) — mechanical device
• Ancient Greek: μηχανή (mēkhanḗ) — mechanical device
• Hebrew: מָנוֹעַ (manóa) — mechanical device
• Hindi: इंजन (iñjan) — mechanical device
• Hindi: मोटर (moṭar) — mechanical device
• Hungarian: motor — mechanical device
• Icelandic: vél — mechanical device
• Icelandic: mótor — mechanical device
• Ido: mashino — mechanical device
• Indonesian: mesin — mechanical device
• Indonesian: motor — mechanical device
• Indonesian: enjin — mechanical device
• Interlingua: motor — mechanical device
• Irish: inneall — mechanical device
• Irish: mótair — mechanical device
• Italian: motore — mechanical device
• Japanese: エンジン (enjin) — mechanical device
• Japanese: 機関 (kikan) — mechanical device
• Japanese: 機械 (kikai) — mechanical device
• Japanese: モーター (mōtā) — mechanical device
• Japanese: 発動機 (hatsudōki) — mechanical device
• Japanese: 原動機 (kendōki) — mechanical device
• Kazakh: қозғалтқыш (qozğaltqyş) — mechanical device
• Kazakh: мотор (motor) — mechanical device
• Khmer: ម៉ូតូ (moutou) — mechanical device
• Khmer: ម៉ាស៊ីន (maasɨn) — mechanical device
• Korean: 기관 (gigwan) — mechanical device
• Korean: 모터 (moteo) — mechanical device
• Korean: 엔진 (enjin) — mechanical device
• Central Kurdish: بزوێنەر (bizwêner) — mechanical device
• Central Kurdish: مۆتۆر (motor) — mechanical device
• Northern Kurdish: makîne — mechanical device
• Kyrgyz: кыймылдаткыч (kıymıldatkıc) — mechanical device
• Kyrgyz: мотор (motor) — mechanical device
• Lao: ເຄື່ອງຈັກ (khư̄ang chak) — mechanical device
• Latvian: dzinējs — mechanical device
• Latvian: motors — mechanical device
• Lithuanian: variklis — mechanical device
• Lithuanian: motoras — mechanical device
• Macedonian: мо́тор (mótor) — mechanical device
• Malay: enjin — mechanical device
• Maltese: mutur — mechanical device
• Māori: initia — mechanical device
• Māori: mīhini — mechanical device
• Māori: pūkaha — mechanical device
• Marathi: इंजिन (iñjin) — mechanical device
• Marathi: अभियंत्र (abhiyantra) — mechanical device
• Mongolian: хөдөлгүүр (xödölgüür) — mechanical device
• Mongolian: мотор (motor) — mechanical device
• Navajo: atsiitsʼiin — mechanical device
• Norwegian Bokmål: motor — mechanical device
• Norwegian Nynorsk: motor — mechanical device
• Pashto: انجن (enǰǝ́n) — mechanical device
• Pashto: ماشين (māšín) — mechanical device
• Dari: موتَر (mōtar) — mechanical device
• Iranian Persian: موتور (motor) — mechanical device
• Iranian Persian: مُحَرِّک (moharrek) — mechanical device
• Plautdietsch: Inzhen — mechanical device
• Polish: silnik — mechanical device
• Polish: motor — mechanical device
• Portuguese: motor — mechanical device
• Romanian: motor — mechanical device
• Russian: дви́гатель (dvígatelʹ) — mechanical device
• Russian: мото́р (motór) — mechanical device
• Scots: ingine — mechanical device
• Scottish Gaelic: einnsean — mechanical device
• Serbo-Croatian: мо̀то̄р — mechanical device
• Serbo-Croatian: mòtōr — mechanical device
• Sinhalese: එන්ජිම (enjima) — mechanical device
• Slovak: motor — mechanical device
• Slovene: motor — mechanical device
• Southern Altai: двигатель (dvigatelʹ) — mechanical device
• Southern Altai: мотор (motor) — mechanical device
• Spanish: motor — mechanical device
• Swahili: injini — mechanical device
• Swedish: motor — mechanical device
• Tagalog: likhisog — mechanical device
• Tajik: муҳаррик (muharrik) — mechanical device
• Tajik: мотор (motor) — mechanical device
• Tatar: йөрткеч (yörtkeç) — mechanical device
• Tatar: мотор (motor) — mechanical device
• Thai: เครื่องยนต์ (krʉ̂ʉang-yon) — mechanical device
• Thai: มอเตอร์ (mɔɔ-dtə̂ə) — mechanical device
• Turkish: motor — mechanical device
• Turkmen: dwigatel — mechanical device
• Turkmen: motor — mechanical device
• Ukrainian: двигу́н (dvyhún) — mechanical device
• Ukrainian: мото́р (motór) — mechanical device
• Urdu: اِنْجَن (injan) — mechanical device
• Urdu: موٹَر (moṭar) — mechanical device
• Uyghur: ماتور (mator) — mechanical device
• Uzbek: motor — mechanical device
• Uzbek: dvigatel — mechanical device
• Vietnamese: động cơ — mechanical device
• Welsh: peiriant — mechanical device
• Welsh: ermig — mechanical device
• West Frisian: motor — mechanical device
• Yiddish: מאָטאָר (motor) — mechanical device
• Bulgarian: дви́гател (dvígatel) — influential group
• French: moteur — influential group
• German: Motor — influential group
• Italian: motore — influential group
• Macedonian: дви́гател (dvígatel) — influential group
• Romanian: motor — influential group
• Russian: дви́гатель (dvígatelʹ) — influential group
• Swedish: motor — influential group
• Esperanto: motoro — software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task
• Finnish: moottori — software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task
• Japanese: エンジン (enjin) — software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task
• Macedonian: дви́гател (dvígatel) — software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task
• Marathi: इंजिन (iñjin) — software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task
• Polish: aparat — software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task
• Polish: mechanizm — software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task
• Polish: silnik — software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task
• Portuguese: motor — software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task
• Russian: движо́к (dvižók) — software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task
• Spanish: motor — software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task