escalator

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• UK: /ˈɛs.kə.leɪ.tə/
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• US: esʹkə-lā-tər
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• US: /ˈɛs.kə.leɪ.tɚ/
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• rhymes with -eɪtə(ɹ)
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From the former trademark Escalator, created by American inventor Charles Seeberger in 1900, from Latin ē- (“from, out of”) + scala (“ladder”) + -tor, which forms nouns of agency; see the appendix. Broader usage may be influenced by its derivative escalate, by surface analysis, escalate + -or. For an alternative etymology, see the Online Etymology Dictionary.

107 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: roltrap — mechanical device
• Albanian: shkallë lëvizëse — mechanical device
• Arabic: دَرَج مُتَحَرِّك (daraj mutaḥarrik) — mechanical device
• Arabic: سُلَّم مُتَحَرِّك (sullam mutaḥarrik) — mechanical device
• Arabic: سُلَّم دَوَّار (sullam dawwār) — mechanical device
• Armenian: շարժասանդուղք (šaržasanduġkʻ) — mechanical device
• Azerbaijani: eskalator — mechanical device
• Belarusian: эскала́тар (eskalátar) — mechanical device
• Bengali: এস্কেলেটর (eskeleṭor) — mechanical device
• Bulgarian: ескала́тор (eskalátor) — mechanical device
• Burmese: စက်လှေကား (cakhleka:) — mechanical device
• Catalan: escala mecànica — mechanical device
• Chinese Cantonese: 扶手電梯 /扶手电梯 (fu4 sau2 din6 tai1) — mechanical device
• Chinese Cantonese: 電梯 /电梯 (din6 tai1) — mechanical device
• Chinese Mandarin: 自動扶梯 /自动扶梯 (zìdòngfútī) — mechanical device
• Chinese Mandarin: 電動扶梯 /电动扶梯 (diàndòng fútī) — mechanical device
• Chinese Mandarin: 自動電梯 /自动电梯 (zìdòngdiàntī) — mechanical device
• Chinese Mandarin: 自動樓梯 /自动楼梯 (zìdònglóutī) — mechanical device
• Chinese Mandarin: 自動鏈梯 /自动链梯 (zìdòngliàntī) — mechanical device
• Chinese Mandarin: 升降階梯 /升降阶梯 (shēngjiàngjiētī) — mechanical device
• Crimean Tatar: eskalator — mechanical device
• Czech: eskalátor — mechanical device
• Czech: pohyblivé schodiště — mechanical device
• Czech: pohyblivé schody — mechanical device
• Czech: jezdicí schody — mechanical device
• Czech: pojízdné schody — mechanical device
• Danish: rulletrappe — mechanical device
• Dutch: roltrap — mechanical device
• Esperanto: eskalatoro — mechanical device
• Esperanto: rulŝtuparo — mechanical device
• Estonian: eskalaator — mechanical device
• Faroese: rullutrappa — mechanical device
• Finnish: liukuportaat — mechanical device
• Finnish: liukuportaikko — mechanical device
• Finnish: rullaportaat — mechanical device
• French: escalator — mechanical device
• French: escalier mécanique — mechanical device
• French: escalateur — mechanical device
• Georgian: ესკალატორი (esḳalaṭori) — mechanical device
• German: Rolltreppe — mechanical device
• German: Fahrtreppe — mechanical device
• Greek: κυλιόμενες σκάλες (kyliómenes skáles) — mechanical device
• Hebrew: דְּרַגְנוֹעַ (dragnóa) — mechanical device
• Hindi: एस्केलेटर (eskeleṭar) — mechanical device
• Hindi: चलसोपान (calsopān) — mechanical device
• Hindi: चलती सीढ़ी (caltī sīṛhī) — mechanical device
• Hungarian: mozgólépcső — mechanical device
• Icelandic: rúllustigi — mechanical device
• Ido: eskalatoro — mechanical device
• Indonesian: tangga berjalan — mechanical device
• Indonesian: eskalator — mechanical device
• Irish: staighre beo — mechanical device
• Italian: scala mobile — mechanical device
• Japanese: エスカレーター (esukarētā) — mechanical device
• Kazakh: эскалатор (éskalator) — mechanical device
• Khmer: ជណ្ដើរយោង (cɔɔcŭəndaə yoong) — mechanical device
• Korean: 에스컬레이터 (eseukeolleiteo) — mechanical device
• Korean: 자동계단 (jadonggyedan) — mechanical device
• Korean: 계단승강기 (gyedanseungganggi) — mechanical device
• Kyrgyz: эскалатор (eskalator) — mechanical device
• Lao: ຂັ້ນໃດເລື່ອນ (khan dai lư̄an) — mechanical device
• Lao: ຂັ້ນໄດໄຟຟ້າ (khan dai fai fā) — mechanical device
• Latvian: eskalators — mechanical device
• Lithuanian: eskalatorius — mechanical device
• Lushootseed: lədzək̓w səxwʔigwəɬ — mechanical device
• Macedonian: ескала́тор (eskalátor) — mechanical device
• Malay: tangga elektrik — mechanical device
• Malay: tangga gerak — mechanical device
• Malay: eskalator — mechanical device
• Māori: ara maiangi — mechanical device
• Māori: ēkareta — mechanical device
• Mongolian: урсдаг шат (ursdag šat) — mechanical device
• Norman: escalateux — mechanical device
• Norwegian Bokmål: rulletrapp — mechanical device
• Norwegian Nynorsk: rulletrapp — mechanical device
• Pashto: برقي ځينه (barqí źiná) — mechanical device
• Dari: پِلَّهبَرْقِی (pilla-barqī) — mechanical device
• Dari: زِینَهٔ بَرْقِی (zīna-yi barqī) — mechanical device
• Iranian Persian: پِلِّهبَرْقی (pelle-barġi) — mechanical device
• Plautdietsch: Rolltrap — mechanical device
• Polish: schody ruchome — mechanical device
• Polish: eskalator — mechanical device
• Portuguese: escada rolante — mechanical device
• Romanian: scară rulantă — mechanical device
• Russian: эскала́тор (eskalátor) — mechanical device
• Serbo-Croatian: еска̀ла̄тор — mechanical device
• Serbo-Croatian: eskàlātor — mechanical device
• Slovak: eskalátor — mechanical device
• Slovak: pohyblivé schody — mechanical device
• Slovene: tekoče stopnice — mechanical device
• Lower Sorbian: běžeca stupnica — mechanical device
• Spanish: escalera mecánica — mechanical device
• Spanish: escalera rodante — mechanical device
• Swedish: rulltrappa — mechanical device
• Tagalog: sigdan — mechanical device
• Tajik: эскалатор (eskalator) — mechanical device
• Thai: บันไดเลื่อน (ban-dai-lʉ̂ʉan) — mechanical device
• Tibetan: གློག་འགུལ་སྐས་འཛེག (glog 'gul skas 'dzeg) — mechanical device
• Turkish: yürüyen merdiven — mechanical device
• Turkmen: eskalator — mechanical device
• Ukrainian: ескала́тор (eskalátor) — mechanical device
• Urdu: ایسْکِلیٹَر (eskileṭar) — mechanical device
• Uzbek: eskalator — mechanical device
• Vietnamese: thang cuốn — mechanical device
• Volapük: rolatridem — mechanical device
• Welsh: esgaladur — mechanical device
• Yiddish: עסקאַלאַטאָר (eskalator) — mechanical device