Phrase guide

steering wheel

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • stîr′ĭng(h)wēl′
  • Australian, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈstɪə.ɪŋ ˌ(h)wiːl/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Canada, General-American: /ˈstɪɹ.ɪŋ ˌ(h)wil/
  • New-Zealand: /ˈstiə̯.əŋ ˌ(h)wiːl/
  • Scotland: /ˈstiɹ.ɪŋ ˌ(h)wil/
  • India: /ˈsʈɪjər.ɪŋ ˌ(h)wiːl/

1

noun

Meaning 1

A wheel-shaped control that is rotated by the driver to steer, existing in most modern land vehicles.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: driving wheel, hand wheel, wheel

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

a handwheel that is used for steering

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: wheel

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: handwheel

History

Etymology

No etymology was provided for this word.

Across languages

Translations

153 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: timon — wheel-shaped control
  • Amharic: የመኪና መሪ (yämäkina märi) — wheel-shaped control
  • Arabic: مِقْوَد (miqwad) — wheel-shaped control
  • Arabic: عَجَلَةُ الْقِيَادَةِ (ʕajalatu l-qiyādati) — wheel-shaped control
  • Arabic: دِرِكسيُون (diriksyoon) — wheel-shaped control
  • Arabic: ستيرنج (stīring) — wheel-shaped control
  • Arabic: ستيرنق (stēring, stīring) — wheel-shaped control
  • Arabic: دركسون (diriksōn) — wheel-shaped control
  • Iraqi Arabic: سُكَّان (sukkān) — wheel-shaped control
  • Sudanese Arabic: دركسون (diriksōn) — wheel-shaped control
  • Armenian: ղեկ (ġek) — wheel-shaped control
  • Asturian: guía — wheel-shaped control
  • Azerbaijani: sükan — wheel-shaped control
  • Azerbaijani: rul — wheel-shaped control
  • Azerbaijani: fərman — wheel-shaped control
  • Basque: bolante — wheel-shaped control
  • Belarusian: руль (rulʹ) — wheel-shaped control
  • Belarusian: стырно́ (styrnó) — wheel-shaped control
  • Belarusian: штурва́л (šturvál) — wheel-shaped control
  • Belarusian: руляво́е ко́ла (ruljavóje kóla) — wheel-shaped control
  • Breton: rod-stur — wheel-shaped control
  • Bulgarian: вола́н (volán) — wheel-shaped control
  • Bulgarian: корми́ло (kormílo) — wheel-shaped control
  • Bulgarian: щурва́л (šturvál) — wheel-shaped control
  • Burmese: ပဲ့ကိုင်ဘီး (pai.kuingbhi:) — wheel-shaped control
  • Carpathian Rusyn: волан (volan) — wheel-shaped control
  • Catalan: volant — wheel-shaped control
  • Cherokee: ᎠᎯᎸᏍᏗᎢ (ahilvsdii) — wheel-shaped control
  • Chinese Cantonese: 軚盤 /𮷗盘 (taai5 pun4) — wheel-shaped control
  • Chinese: 方向盤 /方向盘 (hong-hiòng-pôan) — wheel-shaped control
  • Chinese: 捍多路 (hăn-tó͘-luh) — wheel-shaped control
  • Chinese Mandarin: 方向盤 /方向盘 (fāngxiàngpán) — wheel-shaped control
  • Chinese Mandarin: 舵輪 /舵轮 (duòlún) — wheel-shaped control
  • Czech: volant — wheel-shaped control
  • Danish: rat — wheel-shaped control
  • Dutch: stuurwiel — wheel-shaped control
  • Dutch: stuur — wheel-shaped control
  • Dutch: stuurrad — wheel-shaped control
  • Esperanto: stirrado — wheel-shaped control
  • Estonian: rool — wheel-shaped control
  • Finnish: ratti — wheel-shaped control
  • Finnish: ohjauspyörä — wheel-shaped control
  • Finnish: ohjain — wheel-shaped control
  • Finnish: ohjaussauva — wheel-shaped control
  • French: volant — wheel-shaped control
  • Friulian: guide — wheel-shaped control
  • Galician: volante — wheel-shaped control
  • Georgian: საჭე (sač̣e) — wheel-shaped control
  • German: Lenkrad — wheel-shaped control
  • German: Steuer — wheel-shaped control
  • German: Steuerrad — wheel-shaped control
  • German: Volant — wheel-shaped control
  • Greek: τιμόνι (timóni) — wheel-shaped control
  • Hebrew: הֶגֶה (hége) — wheel-shaped control
  • Hindi: स्टीयरिंग व्हील (sṭīyriṅg vhīl) — wheel-shaped control
  • Hungarian: kormány — wheel-shaped control
  • Hungarian: kormánykerék — wheel-shaped control
  • Hungarian: volán — wheel-shaped control
  • Icelandic: stýri — wheel-shaped control
  • Icelandic: stýrishjól — wheel-shaped control
  • Ido: guvernilo — wheel-shaped control
  • Indonesian: setir — wheel-shaped control
  • Indonesian: kemudi — wheel-shaped control
  • Italian: sterzo — wheel-shaped control
  • Italian: volante — wheel-shaped control
  • Japanese: ハンドル (handoru) — wheel-shaped control
  • Japanese: 操舵輪 (sōdarin) — wheel-shaped control
  • Japanese: ステアリング・ホイール (suteiringu-hoīru) — wheel-shaped control
  • Kazakh: руль (rul) — wheel-shaped control
  • Khmer: ចង្កូត (cɑɑcɑngkout) — wheel-shaped control
  • Khmer: ដៃ (day) — wheel-shaped control
  • Korean: 핸들 (haendeul) — wheel-shaped control
  • Korean: 운전대 (unjeondae) — wheel-shaped control
  • Korean: 스티어링 휠 (seutieoring hwil) — wheel-shaped control
  • Northern Kurdish: dîreksiyon — wheel-shaped control
  • Northern Kurdish: rûl — wheel-shaped control
  • Kyrgyz: руль (rul) — wheel-shaped control
  • Lao: ພວງມາໄລ (phūang mā lai) — wheel-shaped control
  • Latvian: stūre — wheel-shaped control
  • Latvian: stūres rats — wheel-shaped control
  • Lithuanian: vairas — wheel-shaped control
  • Luxembourgish: Steierrad — wheel-shaped control
  • Luxembourgish: Lenkrad — wheel-shaped control
  • Macedonian: управувач (upravuvač) — wheel-shaped control
  • Macedonian: волан (volan) — wheel-shaped control
  • Malay: roda stereng — wheel-shaped control
  • Malayalam: വളയം (vaḷayaṁ) — wheel-shaped control
  • Mongolian: жолоо (žoloo) — wheel-shaped control
  • Mongolian: залуур (zaluur) — wheel-shaped control
  • Mongolian: жолооны хүрд (žoloony xürd) — wheel-shaped control
  • Mongolian: үрүүл (ürüül) — wheel-shaped control
  • Mongolian: залах дугуй (zalax duguj) — wheel-shaped control
  • Mongolian: ᠵᠢᠯᠤᠭᠤ (ǰiluɣu) — wheel-shaped control
  • Mongolian: ᠵᠠᠯᠠᠭᠤᠷ (ǰalaɣur) — wheel-shaped control
  • Mongolian: ᠵᠢᠯᠤᠭᠤ ᠶ᠋ᠢᠨ ᠬᠦᠷᠳᠦ (ǰiluɣu yin qürdü) — wheel-shaped control
  • Mongolian: ᠦᠷᠦᠭᠦᠯ (ürügül) — wheel-shaped control
  • Mongolian: ᠵᠠᠯᠠᠬᠤ ᠳᠤᠭᠤᠢ (ǰalaqu duɣui) — wheel-shaped control
  • Norman: reue d'avo — wheel-shaped control
  • Norwegian Bokmål: ratt — wheel-shaped control
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: ratt — wheel-shaped control
  • Occitan: volant — wheel-shaped control
  • Pannonian Rusyn: кормань (kormanʹ) — wheel-shaped control
  • Pashto: اشترنګ (eštreng) — wheel-shaped control
  • Pashto: شترنګ (štreng) — wheel-shaped control
  • Persian: فرمان (farmân) — wheel-shaped control
  • Persian: رول (rul) — wheel-shaped control
  • Persian: رل (rol) — wheel-shaped control
  • Persian: اشترنگ (eštereng) — wheel-shaped control
  • Piedmontese: sters — wheel-shaped control
  • Piedmontese: volant — wheel-shaped control
  • Plautdietsch: Lenkjraut — wheel-shaped control
  • Polish: kierownica — wheel-shaped control
  • Portuguese: volante — wheel-shaped control
  • Portuguese: direção — wheel-shaped control
  • Romanian: volan — wheel-shaped control
  • Romansh: roda da manar — wheel-shaped control
  • Russian: руль (rulʹ) — wheel-shaped control
  • Russian: рулево́е колесо́ (rulevóje kolesó) — wheel-shaped control
  • Russian: бара́нка (baránka) — wheel-shaped control
  • Scottish Gaelic: cuibhle-stiùiridh — wheel-shaped control
  • Serbo-Croatian: во̀ла̄н — wheel-shaped control
  • Serbo-Croatian: упра̀вља̄ч — wheel-shaped control
  • Serbo-Croatian: vòlān — wheel-shaped control
  • Serbo-Croatian: upràvljāč — wheel-shaped control
  • Slovak: volant — wheel-shaped control
  • Slovene: volán — wheel-shaped control
  • Lower Sorbian: wóźidło — wheel-shaped control
  • Upper Sorbian: wodźidło — wheel-shaped control
  • Spanish: volante — wheel-shaped control
  • Spanish: cabrilla — wheel-shaped control
  • Spanish: guía — wheel-shaped control
  • Spanish: guía — wheel-shaped control
  • Spanish: manubrio — wheel-shaped control
  • Spanish: timón — wheel-shaped control
  • Swahili: usukani — wheel-shaped control
  • Swedish: ratt — wheel-shaped control
  • Tagalog: manibela — wheel-shaped control
  • Tajik: рул (rul) — wheel-shaped control
  • Tajik: зимом (zimom) — wheel-shaped control
  • Thai: พวงมาลัย (puuang-maa-lai) — wheel-shaped control
  • Tibetan: ཁ་ལོ་སྒྱུར་འཁོར (kha lo sgyur 'khor) — wheel-shaped control
  • Turkish: direksiyon — wheel-shaped control
  • Turkmen: rul — wheel-shaped control
  • Ukrainian: кермо́ (kermó) — wheel-shaped control
  • Ukrainian: стерно́ (sternó) — wheel-shaped control
  • Uyghur: رول (rol) — wheel-shaped control
  • Uzbek: rul — wheel-shaped control
  • Vietnamese: tay lái — wheel-shaped control
  • Vietnamese: bánh lái — wheel-shaped control
  • Vietnamese: vô-lăng — wheel-shaped control
  • Volapük: stiraluib — wheel-shaped control
  • Welsh: llyw — wheel-shaped control
  • Welsh: olwyn llywio — wheel-shaped control