horsepower

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• General-American: hôrsʹpou'ər
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• General-American: /ˈhɔɹsˌpaʊɚ/
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• Received-Pronunciation: hôsʹpou'ə
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈhɔːsˌpaʊə/
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• CMU ARPABET: HH AO1 R S P AW2 ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From horse + power: the unit was originally defined as the amount of power that a horse could provide. Both non-metric and metric units of power were derived from effectively identical measurements of the power a draught horse could sustain over several hours, with the difference in watts solely due to different rounding errors to express that power in round numbers in the original non-SI units (ft·lbf/min and kgf⋅m/s respectively).

117 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Belarusian: ко́нская сі́ла (kónskaja síla) — non-metric
• Bulgarian: ко́нска си́ла (kónska síla) — non-metric
• Chinese Mandarin: 馬力 /马力 (mǎlì) — non-metric
• Chuvash: лаша вӑйӗ (laš̬a văjĕ) — non-metric
• Czech: koňská síla — non-metric
• Danish: hestekraft — non-metric
• Dutch: (mechanische) paardenkracht — non-metric
• Esperanto: ĉevalpovo — non-metric
• Estonian: hobujõud — non-metric
• Faroese: hestakraft — non-metric
• Finnish: hevosvoima — non-metric
• Georgian: ცხენის ძალა (cxenis ʒala) — non-metric
• German: Pferdestärke — non-metric
• Hungarian: (gépi) lóerő — non-metric
• Indonesian: tenaga kuda — non-metric
• Indonesian: daya kuda — non-metric
• Irish: each-chumhacht — non-metric
• Italian: cavallo vapore — non-metric
• Japanese: 馬力 (bariki) — non-metric
• Khmer: ហយពល (haʼyĕəʼpŭəl) — non-metric
• Khmer: អស្វឫទ្ធិ (ʼahsvaʼrɨt) — non-metric
• Korean: 마력 (maryeok) — non-metric
• Latvian: zirgspēks — non-metric
• Lithuanian: arklio galia — non-metric
• Macedonian: коњска сила (konjska sila) — non-metric
• Malay: kuasa kuda — non-metric
• Malayalam: കുതിരശക്തി (kutiraśakti) — non-metric
• Norwegian Bokmål: hestekraft — non-metric
• Norwegian Nynorsk: hestekraft — non-metric
• Plautdietsch: Pieetskrauft — non-metric
• Polish: koń parowy — non-metric
• Portuguese: cavalo-vapor — non-metric
• Romanian: cal-putere — non-metric
• Russian: лошади́ная си́ла (lošadínaja síla) — non-metric
• Serbo-Croatian: коњска снага — non-metric
• Serbo-Croatian: konjska snaga — non-metric
• Slovak: konská sila — non-metric
• Slovene: konjska moč — non-metric
• Spanish: caballo de vapor — non-metric
• Spanish: caballo de fuerza — non-metric
• Spanish: caballo de potencia — non-metric
• Swedish: hästkraft — non-metric
• Tagalog: kabalyo — non-metric
• Thai: แรงม้า (rɛɛng-máa) — non-metric
• Ukrainian: кі́нська си́ла (kínsʹka sýla) — non-metric
• Vietnamese: mã lực — non-metric
• Welsh: marchnerth — non-metric
• Yakut: ат күүһэ (at küühe) — non-metric
• Arabic: حِصَان (ḥiṣān) — metric
• Armenian: ձիաուժ (jiauž) — metric
• Azerbaijani: at gücü — metric
• Belarusian: ко́нская сі́ла (kónskaja síla) — metric
• Bulgarian: ко́нска си́ла (kónska síla) — metric
• Catalan: cavall de vapor — metric
• Chinese Mandarin: 馬力 /马力 (mǎlì) — metric
• Chuvash: лаша вӑйӗ (laš̬a văjĕ) — metric
• Czech: koňská síla — metric
• Danish: hestekraft — metric
• Dutch: (metrieke) paardenkracht — metric
• Estonian: hobujõud — metric
• Faroese: hestakraft — metric
• Finnish: hevosvoima — metric
• French: cheval-vapeur — metric
• Galician: cabalo de vapor — metric
• Georgian: ცხენის ძალა (cxenis ʒala) — metric
• German: Pferdestärke — metric
• Greek: ίππος (íppos) — metric
• Hebrew: כּוֹחַ סוּס (kóaḥ sus) — metric
• Hindi: अश्वशक्ति (aśvaśakti) — metric
• Hungarian: (metrikus) lóerő — metric
• Irish: each-chumhacht — metric
• Italian: cavallo vapore — metric
• Japanese: 馬力 (bariki) — metric
• Kazakh: ат күші (at küşı) — metric
• Khmer: ហយពល (haʼyĕəʼpŭəl) — metric
• Khmer: អស្វឫទ្ធិ (ʼahsvaʼrɨt) — metric
• Korean: 마력 (maryeok) — metric
• Latvian: zirgspēks — metric
• Lithuanian: arklio galia — metric
• Macedonian: коњска сила (konjska sila) — metric
• Malay: kuasa kuda — metric
• Malayalam: കുതിരശക്തി (kutiraśakti) — metric
• Mongolian: морины хүч (moriny xüč) — metric
• Norwegian: hestekraft — metric
• Norwegian Bokmål: hestekraft — metric
• Norwegian Nynorsk: hestekraft — metric
• Persian: اسب بخار (asb-e boxâr) — metric
• Plautdietsch: Pieetskrauft — metric
• Polish: koń mechaniczny — metric
• Portuguese: cavalo de vapor — metric
• Portuguese: cavalo-vapor — metric
• Romanian: cal-putere — metric
• Russian: лошади́ная си́ла (lošadínaja síla) — metric
• Russian: л. с. (l. s.) — metric
• Serbo-Croatian: коњска снага — metric
• Serbo-Croatian: konjska snaga — metric
• Slovak: kôň — metric
• Slovak: konská sila — metric
• Slovak: strojný kôň — metric
• Slovene: konjska moč — metric
• Spanish: caballo de vapor — metric
• Swedish: hästkraft — metric
• Tamil: குதிரைத் திறன் (kutirait tiṟaṉ) — metric
• Telugu: అశ్వ సామర్థ్యం (aśva sāmarthyaṁ) — metric
• Thai: แรงม้า (rɛɛng-máa) — metric
• Turkish: beygir gücü — metric
• Turkmen: at güýji — metric
• Ukrainian: кі́нська си́ла (kínsʹka sýla) — metric
• Urdu: اسپی طاقت — metric
• Uzbek: ot kuchi — metric
• Vietnamese: mã lực — metric
• Chinese Mandarin: 馬力 /马力 (mǎlì) — strength
• Dutch: macht — strength
• Finnish: vääntövoima — strength
• Polish: koń mechaniczny — strength
• Portuguese: força — strength
• Russian: лошади́ная си́ла (lošadínaja síla) — strength