mechanic

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• Received-Pronunciation: /mɪˈkænɪk/
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• British, Northern-England, Scotland, Southern, Standard, Wales: /məˈkanɪk/
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• Canada, General-American: /mɪˈkænɪk/
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• Canada, General-American: /məˈkænɪk/
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• Australian: /məˈkæːnɪk/
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• Australian: /-ək/
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• New-Zealand: /məˈkɛnək/
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• rhymes with -ænɪk
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• CMU ARPABET: M AH0 K AE1 N IH0 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: M IH0 K AE1 N IH0 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *megh-der.? Ancient Greek μηχανή (mēkhanḗ) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós) Ancient Greek μηχανικός (mēkhanikós)bor. Latin mēchanicusder. Old French mecaniquebor. Middle English mekanyk English mechanic From Middle English mekanyk (“mechanical”), from Old French mecanique, from Latin mechanicus (“of or belonging to machines or mechanics, inventive”), from Ancient Greek μηχανικός (mēkhanikós, “pertaining to machines or contrivance, mechanic, ingenious, inventive”), from μηχανή (mēkhanḗ, “a machine, contrivance”); see machine.

124 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: werktuigkundige — skilled worker on machinery
• Albanian: mekanik — skilled worker on machinery
• Arabic: مِيكَانِيكِيّ (mīkānīkiyy) — skilled worker on machinery
• Arabic: بنچرچي (bəncərci) — skilled worker on machinery
• Armenian: մեխանիկ (mexanik) — skilled worker on machinery
• Azerbaijani: mexanik — skilled worker on machinery
• Belarusian: меха́нік (mjexánik) — skilled worker on machinery
• Bengali: কারিগর (karigor) — skilled worker on machinery
• Bengali: যান্ত্রিক (jantrik) — skilled worker on machinery
• Bulgarian: меха́ник (mehánik) — skilled worker on machinery
• Bulgarian: меха́ничка (mehánička) — skilled worker on machinery
• Burmese: စက်ဆရာ (cakhca.ra) — skilled worker on machinery
• Catalan: mecànic — skilled worker on machinery
• Cebuano: mekaniko — skilled worker on machinery
• Chinese Cantonese: 技工 (gei6 gung1) — skilled worker on machinery
• Chinese Cantonese: 機械工 /机械工 (gei1 haai6 gung1) — skilled worker on machinery
• Chinese: 技工 (zh-min-nan) — skilled worker on machinery
• Chinese Mandarin: 技工 (jìgōng) — skilled worker on machinery
• Chinese Mandarin: 機械工 /机械工 (jīxiègōng) — skilled worker on machinery
• Wu Chinese: 技工 (6ji-kon) — skilled worker on machinery
• Czech: mechanik — skilled worker on machinery
• Czech: mechanička — skilled worker on machinery
• Danish: mekaniker — skilled worker on machinery
• Danish: industritekniker — skilled worker on machinery
• Danish: maskinarbejder — skilled worker on machinery
• Dutch: mecanicien — skilled worker on machinery
• Dutch: werktuigkundige — skilled worker on machinery
• Esperanto: meĥaniko — skilled worker on machinery
• Esperanto: maŝinisto — skilled worker on machinery
• Estonian: mehaanik — skilled worker on machinery
• Faroese: mekanikari — skilled worker on machinery
• Finnish: mekaanikko — skilled worker on machinery
• Finnish: koneasentaja — skilled worker on machinery
• Finnish: autonasentaja — skilled worker on machinery
• French: mécanicien — skilled worker on machinery
• French: mécanicienne — skilled worker on machinery
• Georgian: მექანიკოსი (mekaniḳosi) — skilled worker on machinery
• German: Mechaniker — skilled worker on machinery
• German: Mechanikerin — skilled worker on machinery
• Greek: μηχανικός (michanikós) — skilled worker on machinery
• Greek: μηχανοτεχνίτης (michanotechnítis) — skilled worker on machinery
• Hebrew: מְכוֹנַאי (mekhonai) — skilled worker on machinery
• Hindi: मिस्त्री (mistrī) — skilled worker on machinery
• Hindi: मेकेनिक (mekenik) — skilled worker on machinery
• Hungarian: gépész — skilled worker on machinery
• Hungarian: műszerész — skilled worker on machinery
• Hungarian: géplakatos — skilled worker on machinery
• Hungarian: szerelő — skilled worker on machinery
• Icelandic: vélvirki — skilled worker on machinery
• Indonesian: montir — skilled worker on machinery
• Indonesian: mekanik — skilled worker on machinery
• Italian: meccanico — skilled worker on machinery
• Italian: meccanica — skilled worker on machinery
• Japanese: 修理工 (shūrikō) — skilled worker on machinery
• Japanese: 自動車整備士 (jidōsha seibishi) — skilled worker on machinery
• Japanese: メカニック (mekanikku) — skilled worker on machinery
• Kazakh: механик (mexanik) — skilled worker on machinery
• Khmer: ជាងម៉ាស៊ីន (ciəng maasɨn) — skilled worker on machinery
• Korean: 정비공 (jeongbigong) — skilled worker on machinery
• Korean: 기계공 (gigyegong) — skilled worker on machinery
• Northern Kurdish: mekanîker — skilled worker on machinery
• Kyrgyz: механик (mehanik) — skilled worker on machinery
• Lao: ຊ່າງຈັກ (sāng chak) — skilled worker on machinery
• Lao: ຊ່າງເຄື່ອງຈັກ (sāng khư̄ang chak) — skilled worker on machinery
• Lao: ນາຍຈັກ (nāi chak) — skilled worker on machinery
• Latvian: mehāniķis — skilled worker on machinery
• Latvian: mehāniķe — skilled worker on machinery
• Lithuanian: mechanikas — skilled worker on machinery
• Lithuanian: mechanikė — skilled worker on machinery
• Macedonian: меха́ничар (meháničar) — skilled worker on machinery
• Macedonian: механичарка (mehaničarka) — skilled worker on machinery
• Malay: mekanik — skilled worker on machinery
• Maltese: mekanik — skilled worker on machinery
• Māori: kaiaka mīhini — skilled worker on machinery
• Mongolian: механикч (mexanikč) — skilled worker on machinery
• Mongolian: ᠮᠧᠬᠠᠨᠢᠭᠴᠢ (mēqaniɣči) — skilled worker on machinery
• Norman: mécanicien — skilled worker on machinery
• Norwegian Bokmål: mekaniker — skilled worker on machinery
• Norwegian Nynorsk: mekanikar — skilled worker on machinery
• Occitan: mecanician — skilled worker on machinery
• Ojibwe: nanaa'idaabaanewinini — skilled worker on machinery
• Pashto: ميخانيک (mayxāník) — skilled worker on machinery
• Pashto: مستري (mestarí) — skilled worker on machinery
• Pashto: ماشينکار (māšinkār) — skilled worker on machinery
• Iranian Persian: مِکانیک (mekânik) — skilled worker on machinery
• Polish: mechanik — skilled worker on machinery
• Portuguese: mecânico — skilled worker on machinery
• Portuguese: mecânica — skilled worker on machinery
• Romanian: mecanic — skilled worker on machinery
• Romanian: mecanică — skilled worker on machinery
• Russian: меха́ник (mexánik) — skilled worker on machinery
• Scottish Gaelic: innleadair — skilled worker on machinery
• Scottish Gaelic: meacanaig — skilled worker on machinery
• Serbo-Croatian: меха̀нича̄р — skilled worker on machinery
• Serbo-Croatian: mehàničār — skilled worker on machinery
• Slovak: mechanik — skilled worker on machinery
• Slovak: mechanička — skilled worker on machinery
• Slovene: mehanik — skilled worker on machinery
• Slovene: mehaničarka — skilled worker on machinery
• Spanish: mecánico — skilled worker on machinery
• Spanish: mecánica — skilled worker on machinery
• Swahili: makanika — skilled worker on machinery
• Swedish: mekaniker — skilled worker on machinery
• Tagalog: mekaniko — skilled worker on machinery
• Tagalog: maninigmo — skilled worker on machinery
• Tajik: механик (mexanik) — skilled worker on machinery
• Tatar: механик (mexanik) — skilled worker on machinery
• Thai: ช่างเครื่อง (châang-krʉ̂ʉang) — skilled worker on machinery
• Tibetan: འཕྲུལ་འཁོར་བཟོ་མཁན ('phrul 'khor bzo mkhan) — skilled worker on machinery
• Tibetan: སྐམ་སྤྱོད་བཟོ་བ (skam spyod bzo ba) — skilled worker on machinery
• Tibetan: འཕྲུལ་ཆས་བཟོ་པ ('phrul chas bzo pa) — skilled worker on machinery
• Turkish: mekanikçi — skilled worker on machinery
• Turkish: makineci — skilled worker on machinery
• Ottoman Turkish: ماكینهجی (makınacı) — skilled worker on machinery
• Turkmen: mehanik — skilled worker on machinery
• Ukrainian: меха́нік (mexánik) — skilled worker on machinery
• Urdu: مِسْتْری (mistrī) — skilled worker on machinery
• Urdu: دَسْتْکار (dastkār) — skilled worker on machinery
• Urdu: مِکینِک (mikenik) — skilled worker on machinery
• Urdu: مِکَینِک (mikainik) — skilled worker on machinery
• Uyghur: مېخانىك (mëxanik) — skilled worker on machinery
• Uzbek: mexanik — skilled worker on machinery
• Vietnamese: thợ máy — skilled worker on machinery
• Yiddish: מעכאַניקער (mekhaniker) — skilled worker on machinery