rickshaw

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• /ˈɹɪkˌʃɔː/
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Etymology tree Middle Chinese 人 (nyin) Middle Chinese 力 (lik) Middle Chinese 人力 Proto-Indo-European *kwel- Proto-Indo-European *kwékwlos Proto-Tocharian *kuk(ä)lebor.? Middle Chinese 車 Japanese 人力車clip. Japanese 力車bor. English rickshaw Borrowed from Japanese 力(りき)車(しゃ) (rikisha), a clipping of 人(じん)力(りき)車(しゃ) (jinrikisha), from Middle Chinese 人力 (nyin lik, “human power”) + 車 (t͡ʃhæ, “cart”) (compare Mandarin 人力車 /人力车 (rénlìchē)).

87 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: رِيكْشَا (rīkšā) — two-wheeled carriage
• Armenian: ռիկշա (ṙikša) — two-wheeled carriage
• Assamese: ৰিক্সা (riksa) — two-wheeled carriage
• Azerbaijani: rikşa — two-wheeled carriage
• Belarusian: ры́кша (rýkša) — two-wheeled carriage
• Bengali: রিকশা (rikśa) — two-wheeled carriage
• Bengali: রিক্সা (rikśa) — two-wheeled carriage
• Bulgarian: ри́кша (ríkša) — two-wheeled carriage
• Burmese: လန်ချား (lanhkya:) — two-wheeled carriage
• Chinese Cantonese: 人力車 /人力车 (jan4 lik6 ce1) — two-wheeled carriage
• Chinese Cantonese: 車仔 /车仔 (ce1 zai2) — two-wheeled carriage
• Chinese Cantonese: 黃包車 /黄包车 (wong4 baau1 ce1) — two-wheeled carriage
• Chinese Cantonese: 東洋車 /东洋车 (dung1 joeng4 ce1) — two-wheeled carriage
• Hakka Chinese: 人力車 /人力车 (ngìn-li̍t-chhâ) — two-wheeled carriage
• Chinese: 人車 /人车 (lâng-chhia) — two-wheeled carriage
• Chinese: 牽車 /牵车 (zh-min-nan) — two-wheeled carriage
• Chinese: 手車 /手车 (chhiú-chhia) — two-wheeled carriage
• Chinese: 人力車 /人力车 (jîn-le̍k-chhia) — two-wheeled carriage
• Chinese Mandarin: 人力車 /人力车 (rénlìchē) — two-wheeled carriage
• Chinese Mandarin: 黃包車 /黄包车 (huángbāochē) — two-wheeled carriage
• Chinese Mandarin: 東洋車 /东洋车 (dōngyángchē) — two-wheeled carriage
• Chinese Mandarin: 洋車 /洋车 (yángchē) — two-wheeled carriage
• Czech: rikša — two-wheeled carriage
• Danish: rickshaw — two-wheeled carriage
• Dutch: riksja — two-wheeled carriage
• Dzongkha: རིག་ཤཱ (rig shā) — two-wheeled carriage
• Esperanto: rikiŝo — two-wheeled carriage
• Finnish: riksa — two-wheeled carriage
• Finnish: rikša — two-wheeled carriage
• French: pousse-pousse — two-wheeled carriage
• French: rickshaw — two-wheeled carriage
• Georgian: რიქშა (rikša) — two-wheeled carriage
• German: Rikscha — two-wheeled carriage
• Greek: δίτροχη χειράμαξα (dítrochi cheirámaxa) — two-wheeled carriage
• Hebrew: רִיקְשָׁה (ríksha) — two-wheeled carriage
• Hindi: रिक्शा (rikśā) — two-wheeled carriage
• Hindi: रिक्षा (rikṣā) — two-wheeled carriage
• Hungarian: riksa — two-wheeled carriage
• Indonesian: angkong — two-wheeled carriage
• Indonesian: langcia — two-wheeled carriage
• Indonesian: langca — two-wheeled carriage
• Indonesian: becak — two-wheeled carriage
• Italian: risciò — two-wheeled carriage
• Italian: rickshaw — two-wheeled carriage
• Italian: jinrikisha — two-wheeled carriage
• Japanese: 人力車 (jinrikisha) — two-wheeled carriage
• Japanese: 人力 (jinriki) — two-wheeled carriage
• Japanese: 力車 (rikisha) — two-wheeled carriage
• Kazakh: рикша (rikşa) — two-wheeled carriage
• Khmer: រថអូស (rŭət ʼouh) — two-wheeled carriage
• Khmer: ឆែកែវ (chae kaew) — two-wheeled carriage
• Korean: 인력거 (illyeokgeo) — two-wheeled carriage
• Lao: ຣົຖລາກ (rot lāk) — two-wheeled carriage
• Macedonian: ри́кша (ríkša) — two-wheeled carriage
• Malay: beca — two-wheeled carriage
• Malay: lanca — two-wheeled carriage
• Malay: lancia — two-wheeled carriage
• Malayalam: റിക്ഷ (ṟikṣa) — two-wheeled carriage
• Marathi: रिक्शा (rikśā) — two-wheeled carriage
• Nepali: रिक्शा (rikśā) — two-wheeled carriage
• Iranian Persian: ریکْشا (rikšâ) — two-wheeled carriage
• Polish: riksza — two-wheeled carriage
• Polish: ryksza — two-wheeled carriage
• Portuguese: jinriquixá — two-wheeled carriage
• Portuguese: riquixá — two-wheeled carriage
• Portuguese: charrete — two-wheeled carriage
• Punjabi: ਰਿਕਸ਼ਾ (rikśā) — two-wheeled carriage
• Romanian: ricșă — two-wheeled carriage
• Russian: ри́кша (ríkša) — two-wheeled carriage
• Sinhalese: රික්ෂෝව (rikṣōwa) — two-wheeled carriage
• Slovak: rikša — two-wheeled carriage
• Spanish: rickshaw — two-wheeled carriage
• Swedish: riksha — two-wheeled carriage
• Swedish: rickshaw — two-wheeled carriage
• Sylheti: ꠞꠤꠡ꠆ꠇꠣ (riśka) — two-wheeled carriage
• Thai: รถลาก (rót-lâak) — two-wheeled carriage
• Thai: สามล้อ (sǎam-lɔ́ɔ) — two-wheeled carriage
• Turkish: çekçek — two-wheeled carriage
• Ukrainian: ри́кша (rýkša) — two-wheeled carriage
• Urdu: رِکْشَہ (rikśa) — two-wheeled carriage
• Uzbek: riksha — two-wheeled carriage
• Vietnamese: xe kéo — two-wheeled carriage
• Vietnamese: xe tay — two-wheeled carriage
• Volapük: rikjod — two-wheeled carriage
• Zhuang: cibau — two-wheeled carriage
• Zhuang: bauci — two-wheeled carriage
• Zulu: ilisho — two-wheeled carriage