motorcycle

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈməʊtəˌsaɪkəl/
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• General-American: /ˈmoʊtɚˌsaɪkəl/
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• General-American: [ˈmoʊɾɚˌsaɪkl̩]
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• dated: /ˈmoʊtɚsɪk(ə)l/
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• CMU ARPABET: M OW1 T ER0 S AY2 K AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From motor + cycle, from the Motorcyclette produced in 1897 by the French Werner Frères et Cie.

189 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: motorfiets — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Albanian: motoçikletë — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Albanian: motor — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Amharic: ዶቅዶቄ (doḳdoḳe) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Amharic: ሞተርሳይክል (motärsaykəl) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Arabic: مُوتُوسِيكِل (mōtōsīkil) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Arabic: دَرَّاجَة نَارِيَّة — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Arabic: متوسكل (mutusekl) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Arabic: دباب (dabbab) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Iraqi Arabic: ماطورْ (māṭōr) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Armenian: մոտոցիկլետ (motocʻiklet) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Armenian: մոտոցիկլ (motocʻikl) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Armenian: մոտո (moto) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Assamese: মটৰ চাইকেল — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Asturian: motocicleta — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Asturian: moto — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Azerbaijani: motosiklet — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Bashkir: мотоцикл (mototsikl) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Belarusian: матацы́кл (matacýkl) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Bengali: মোটরসাইকেল (mōṭrośaikel) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Central Bikol: motorsiklo — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Bulgarian: мотоцикле́т (motociklét) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Burmese: မော်တော်ဆိုင်ကယ် (mautauhcuingkai) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Catalan: motocicleta — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Catalan: moto — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Cebuano: motorsiklo — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Chinese Cantonese: 電單車 /电单车 (din6 daan1 ce1) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Chinese Cantonese: 摩托車 /摩托车 (mo1 tok3 ce1) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Chinese: мотуәчә (motuəčə) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Chinese: хуәчичәзы (huəqičəzɨ) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Chinese: мотоцикл (motocikl) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Eastern Min Chinese: 摩托車 /摩托车 (mò̤-táuk-chiă) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Hakka Chinese: 奧多拜 /奥多拜 (ò-to-pái) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Hakka Chinese: 機車 /机车 (kî-chhâ) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Hakka Chinese: 引擎 (ên-chín) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Chinese: 撲撲車 /扑扑车 (phok-phok-chhia) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Chinese: 歐兜邁 /欧兜迈 (o͘-tó͘-bái) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Chinese: 機車 /机车 (zh-min-nan) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Chinese: 引擎 (iân-jín) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Chinese: 機器跤踏車 /机器跤踏车 (ki-khì kha-ta̍h-chhia) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Chinese Mandarin: 摩托車 /摩托车 (mótuōchē) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Chinese Mandarin: 機車 /机车 (jīchē) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Chinese Mandarin: 摩托 (mótuō) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Chinese Mandarin: 機器腳踏車 /机器脚踏车 (jīqì jiǎotàchē) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Chinese Mandarin: 電單車 /电单车 (diàndānchē) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Wu Chinese: 摩托車 /摩托车 (6mo-thoq-tsho) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Czech: motocykl — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Czech: motorka — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Danish: motorcykel — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Dutch: motorfiets — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Dutch: motor — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Esperanto: motorbiciklo — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Esperanto: motorciklo — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Estonian: mootorratas — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Finnish: moottoripyörä — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• French: moto — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• French: motocyclette — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• French: motocycle — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Galician: motocicleta — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Galician: moto — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Georgian: მოტოციკლი (moṭociḳli) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Georgian: მოტოციკლეტი (moṭociḳleṭi) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• German: Motorrad — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• German: Töff — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Greek: μηχανή (michaní) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Greek: δίκυκλο (díkyklo) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Greek: μοτοσικλέτα (motosikléta) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Greek: μοτοσυκλέτα (motosykléta) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Greek: μοτοποδήλατο (motopodílato) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Gujarati: મોટરસાયકલ (moṭarsāyakal) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Gujarati: બાઈક (bāīka) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Hausa: babur — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Hawaiian: mokokaikala — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Hebrew: אוֹפַנּוֹעַ (ofanóa) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Hiligaynon: motorsiklo — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Hindi: मोटरसाइकिल (moṭarsāikil) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Hindi: मोटरबाइक (moṭarbāik) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Hungarian: motorkerékpár — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Hungarian: motorbicikli — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Icelandic: mótorhjól — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Ido: motorobiciklo — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Indonesian: sepeda motor — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Irish: gluaisrothar — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Italian: motocicletta — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Italian: moto — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Italian: motociclo — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Japanese: オートバイ (ōtobai) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Japanese: バイク (baiku) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Japanese: 自動二輪車 (jidō nirinsha) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Japanese: 単車 (tansha) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Javanese: montor — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Javanese: motor — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Javanese: dogos — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Kazakh: мотоцикл (motosikl) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Khmer: ទោចក្រយានយន្ត (toocakkrɑyiən yŭən) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Khmer: ម៉ូតូ (moutou) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Korean: 오토바이 (otobai) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Korean: 모터사이클 (moteosaikeul) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Northern Kurdish: motorsiklêt — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Kyrgyz: мотоцикл (mototsikl) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Lao: ລົດຈັກ (lot chak) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Lao: ຣົຖຈັກ (rot chak) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Latin: autobirota — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Latvian: motocikls — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Lithuanian: motociklas — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Lü: ᦷᦙᧉᦷᦒᧉ (mo2tho2) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Luxembourgish: Moto — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Luxembourgish: Motorrad — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Macedonian: мотор (motor) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Macedonian: мотоци́кл (motocíkl) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Malagasy: môtô — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Malay: sepeda motor — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Malay: motosikal — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Maltese: mutur — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Māori: motopaika — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Marshallese: wōtbai — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Mongolian: мотоцикл (motocikl) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Mongolian: ᠮᠣᠲ᠋ᠣᠼᠢᠻᠯ (motocikl) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Navajo: dziʼizítsoh — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Nepali: मोटरसाइकल (moṭarsāikal) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Norwegian Bokmål: motorsykkel — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Norwegian Nynorsk: motorsykkel — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Odia: ମଟର ସାଇକେଲ (maṭara sāikela) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Pannonian Rusyn: моторка (motorka) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Pashto: موټرسايکل (moṭarsāykel) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Pashto: موټرګاټ (moṭargāṭ) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Pashto: ټپټپ (ṭapṭap) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Pashto: ټپټپی (ṭapṭapay) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Dari: موتَرْسَیْکَل (mōtarsaykal) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Iranian Persian: موتورْسیکْلِت (motorsiklet) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Polish: motocykl — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Polish: motor — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Portuguese: motocicleta — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Portuguese: moto — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Punjabi: ਮੋਟਰਸਾਈਕਲ (moṭrasāīkal) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Punjabi: ਬਾਈਕ (bāīka) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Punjabi: ਮੋਟਰਬਾਈਕ (moṭrabāīka) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Punjabi: موٹر سیکل (moṭr sekl) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Romanian: motocicletă — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Russian: мотоци́кл (motocíkl) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Serbo-Croatian: мотоцѝкл — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Serbo-Croatian: motocìkl — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Shan: မေႃႇတေႃႇၸၢႆႇၵိူဝ်ႇ (màu tàu tsàai kòe) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Shan: လူတ်ႉၶိူင်ႈ (lṵ̂ut khōeng) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Sindhi: موٽر سائيڪل (moṭr sāekl) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Sinhalese: යතුරුපැදිය (yaturupædiya) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Slovak: motocykel — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Slovak: motorka — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Slovene: motocikel — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Sotho: sethuthuthu — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Southern Altai: мотоцикл (motocikl) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Spanish: motocicleta — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Spanish: moto — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Spanish: motor — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Spanish: motora — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Swahili: pikipiki — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Swedish: motorcykel — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Tagalog: motorsiklo — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Tajik: мотосикл (motosikl) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Thai: จักรยานยนต์ (jàk-grà-yaan-yon) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Thai: มอเตอร์ไซค์ (mɔɔ-dtəə-sai) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Thai: รถเครื่อง (rót-krʉ̂ʉang) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Thai: มอไซค์ (mɔɔ-sai) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Tibetan: སྦག་སྦག (sbag sbag) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Tibetan: མོ་ཐོ (mo tho) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Tibetan: མོ་ཐོ་ཁྲེ (mo tho khre) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Tigrinya: ሞቶ (moto) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Turkish: motosiklet — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Turkmen: motosikl — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Ukrainian: мотоци́кл (motocýkl) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Urdu: موٹَر سائِیکِل (moṭar sāīkil) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Uyghur: موتسىكلىت (motsiklit) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Uzbek: mototsikl — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Vietnamese: xe mô tô — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Vietnamese: mô tô — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Vietnamese: xe máy — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Vietnamese: xe gắn máy — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Volapük: motorasaikul — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Welsh: beic modur — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Wutunhua: moto — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Yiddish: מאָטאָציקל (mototsikl) — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Yoruba: ọ̀kadà — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Yoruba: alùpùpù — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Zhuang: mohdozceh — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Zhuang: mozdozceh — open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel
• Dutch: motorrijden — to ride a motorcycle
• Finnish: moottoripyöräillä — to ride a motorcycle
• Marshallese: wōtbai — to ride a motorcycle
• Polish: jeździć na motocyklu — to ride a motorcycle