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wheelbarrow

noun · verb · 5 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.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈwiːlbæɹəʊ/
  • General-American: /ˈwilbæɹoʊ/ without the Mary–marry–merry merger
  • /ˈwilbɛɹoʊ/ General American, Mary–marry–merry merger
  • US: Mmmm Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Australian: /ˈwiːlbæɹəʉ/
  • Australian: /ˈwiːlbæɹə/
  • Australian: /ˈwiːlbəɹə/
  • Scotland: /ˈʍilbaɾo/
  • Wales: /ˈwiːlbaɾou/ without the toe–tow merger
  • CMU ARPABET: W IY1 L B EH2 R OW0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  • CMU ARPABET 2: HH W IY1 L B EH2 R OW0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A small, one-wheeled (or rarely, two-wheeled) cart with handles at one end for transporting small loads.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: barrow

2

verb

Meaning 2

To convey in a wheelbarrow.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

verb

Meaning 3

To cause the weight of an aeroplane to become concentrated around the nosewheel.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Topics: aeronautics, aerospace, aviation, business, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

a cart for carrying small loads; has handles and one or more wheels

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: barrow, garden cart, lawn cart

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: handcart, pushcart, cart, go-cart

5

verb

Meaning 5

transport in a wheelbarrow

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: transport

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kwel- Proto-Indo-European *kwekwléh2 Proto-Germanic *hweulō Old English hwēol Middle English whel Proto-Indo-European *bher-der. Proto-Germanic *barwijǭ Proto-West Germanic *barwijā Old English *bearwe Middle English barwe Middle English whelbarwe English wheelbarrow From Middle English whelbarwe; equivalent to wheel + barrow.

Across languages

Translations

205 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: kruiwa — small cart
  • Alabama: iswiha — small cart
  • Albanian: karrocë dore — small cart
  • Amharic: ኩርኩር (kurkur) — small cart
  • Arabic: عَرَبَة يَدَوِيَّة (ʕaraba yadawiyya) — small cart
  • Arabic: عَجَلَة يَد (ʕajalat yad) — small cart
  • Arabic: برويطة (barwīṭa) — small cart
  • Aragonese: carretillo — small cart
  • Aragonese: carriola — small cart
  • Armenian: ձեռնասայլակ (jeṙnasaylak) — small cart
  • Armenian: հոպնակ (hopnak) — small cart
  • Armenian: սայլակ (saylak) — small cart
  • Asturian: carretilla — small cart
  • Avar: тачка (tačka) — small cart
  • Azerbaijani: əl arabası — small cart
  • Azerbaijani: daşka — small cart
  • Bashkir: тачка (taçka) — small cart
  • Basque: eskorga — small cart
  • Basque: orgatila — small cart
  • Belarusian: та́чка (táčka) — small cart
  • Bengali: ঠেলাগাড়ি (ṭhelagaṛi) — small cart
  • Bengali: ঠেলা (ṭhela) — small cart
  • Bislama: bruet — small cart
  • Bislama: wilbara — small cart
  • Breton: karrigell — small cart
  • Breton: kravazh-rodellek — small cart
  • Bulgarian: ръ́чна коли́чка (rǎ́čna kolíčka) — small cart
  • Bulgarian: коли́чка (kolíčka) — small cart
  • Bulgarian: багажна количка (bagažna količka) — small cart
  • Burmese: တစ်ဘီး လက်တွန်းလှည်း (tacbhi: laktwan:hlany:) — small cart
  • Carpathian Rusyn: фурик (furyk) — small cart
  • Catalan: carretó — small cart
  • Cayuga: sgá꞉t wʼęnihsgaǫ́꞉t enę́hgwitaʼ — small cart
  • Cebuano: karetilya — small cart
  • Chamorro: karetiya — small cart
  • Cherokee: ᏓᏆᎴᎷ (daqualelu) — small cart
  • Chichewa: wilibala — small cart
  • Chinese Mandarin: 獨輪車 /独轮车 (dúlúnchē) — small cart
  • Chinese Mandarin: 手推車 /手推车 (shǒutuīchē) — small cart
  • Chinese Mandarin: 轆轤車 /辘轳车 (lùlúchē) — small cart
  • Cornish: gravath ros — small cart
  • Corsican: carretta — small cart
  • Corsican: carriola — small cart
  • Crimean Tatar: şana — small cart
  • Czech: kolečko — small cart
  • Danish: trillebør — small cart
  • Dutch: kruiwagen — small cart
  • Dzongkha: དོ་འཁོར་ལག་འཧུད། (do 'khor lag 'hud) — small cart
  • Emilian: cariola — small cart
  • Esperanto: ĉarumo — small cart
  • Esperanto: puŝveturilo — small cart
  • Estonian: aiakäru — small cart
  • Faroese: børa — small cart
  • Faroese: hjólbøra — small cart
  • Finnish: kottikärry — small cart
  • Franco-Provençal: tsaretta — small cart
  • French: brouette — small cart
  • West-Frisian: kroade — small cart
  • Friulian: cariole — small cart
  • Gagauz: el arabası — small cart
  • Galician: carretilla — small cart
  • Galician: carreta — small cart
  • Galician: cozo — small cart
  • Gallo: bërouette — small cart
  • Georgian: ურიკა (uriḳa) — small cart
  • German: Schubkarre — small cart
  • German: Scheibtruhe — small cart
  • German: Schübkàrra — small cart
  • German: Schtooskàrra — small cart
  • German: Bënne — small cart
  • Greek: καροτσάκι (karotsáki) — small cart
  • Ancient Greek: μονότροχος (monótrokhos) — small cart
  • Ancient Greek: μονόκυκλος (monókuklos) — small cart
  • Greenlandic: qamutaasat — small cart
  • Gujarati: ઠેલો (ṭhelo) — small cart
  • Hawaiian: huilapalala — small cart
  • Hebrew: מְרִיצָה (m'ritsá) — small cart
  • Hindi: व्हील बैरो (vhīl bairo) — small cart
  • Hungarian: talicska — small cart
  • Hunsrik: Schuppkarre — small cart
  • Icelandic: hjólbörur — small cart
  • Ido: brueto — small cart
  • Indonesian: gerobak tangan — small cart
  • Ingrian: tacka — small cart
  • Interlingua: carretta de mano — small cart
  • Inuktitut: akiagautik (Inuttut) — small cart
  • Irish: barra rotha — small cart
  • Italian: carriola — small cart
  • Japanese: 猫車 (nekoguruma) — small cart
  • Japanese: 猫 (neko) — small cart
  • Kannada: ಚಕ್ರದ ಕೈಬಂಡಿ ಯಾ ತಳ್ಳುಬಂಡಿ (cakrada kaibaṇḍi yā taḷḷubaṇḍi) — small cart
  • Karachay-Balkar: тачка (taçka) — small cart
  • Karachay-Balkar: арбачыкъ (arbaçıq) — small cart
  • Kazakh: тәшке (täşke) — small cart
  • Khmer: រទេះរុញ (rɔɔrɔteh ruñ) — small cart
  • Korean: 손수레 (sonsure) — small cart
  • Korean: 수레 (sure) — small cart
  • Korean: 일륜차 (illyuncha) — small cart
  • Kumyk: тачка (taçka) — small cart
  • Central Kurdish: داشقە (daşqe) — small cart
  • Kyrgyz: тачка (tacka) — small cart
  • Ladin: graton — small cart
  • Ladin: careta — small cart
  • Ladin: ziviera — small cart
  • Lak: даву (dawu) — small cart
  • Lao: ລໍ້ຊຸກ (lǭ suk) — small cart
  • Lao: ລໍ້ (lǭ) — small cart
  • Latin: pabō — small cart
  • Latvian: ķerra — small cart
  • Ligurian: carétta — small cart
  • Ligurian: brueta — small cart
  • Limburgish: krouwkaar — small cart
  • Limburgish: sjörkar — small cart
  • Limburgish: sjörreskar — small cart
  • Limburgish: sjoepkar — small cart
  • Lithuanian: karutis — small cart
  • Low German: Schuuvkoor — small cart
  • Luxembourgish: Schubkar — small cart
  • Macedonian: ра́чна ко́личка (ráčna kólička) — small cart
  • Macedonian: ко́личка (kólička) — small cart
  • Malagasy: laborety — small cart
  • Malay: kereta sorong — small cart
  • Manx: barrey queeylagh — small cart
  • Māori: huripara — small cart
  • Maranao: tibal — small cart
  • Maranao: kariton — small cart
  • Middle English: whelbarwe — small cart
  • Mongolian: түрдэг тэрэг (türdeg tereg) — small cart
  • Mongolian: ᠲᠦᠷᠢᠳᠡᠭ ᠲᠡᠷᠭᠡ (türideg terge) — small cart
  • Navajo: nabégilí — small cart
  • Norman: chiviéthe — small cart
  • Norwegian Bokmål: trillebår — small cart
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: trillebår — small cart
  • Occitan: carriòl — small cart
  • Occitan: carriòla — small cart
  • Occitan: bariòta — small cart
  • Occitan: baròta — small cart
  • Occitan: carriòt — small cart
  • Oromo: gaarii — small cart
  • Pannonian Rusyn: фурик (furik) — small cart
  • Pannonian Rusyn: кочик (kočik) — small cart
  • Pashto: لاس ګاډی (lâs gâḍay) — small cart
  • Persian: فرغون (forġun) — small cart
  • Persian: چرخدستی (čarx-dasti) — small cart
  • Piedmontese: carëta — small cart
  • Polish: taczka — small cart
  • Portuguese: carrinho de mão — small cart
  • Romanian: roabă — small cart
  • Romansh: charretta — small cart
  • Russian: та́чка (táčka) — small cart
  • Russian: теле́жка (teléžka) — small cart
  • Sami: rilˈlabōrat — small cart
  • Sardinian: carriola — small cart
  • Campidanese Sardinian: carrùcciu — small cart
  • Sassarese: carruzzu — small cart
  • Scots: hurl-barrow — small cart
  • Scots: hurlie-barrow — small cart
  • Scottish Gaelic: bara — small cart
  • Scottish Gaelic: bara-cuibhle — small cart
  • Scottish Gaelic: bara-rotha — small cart
  • Scottish Gaelic: bleodhan — small cart
  • Serbo-Croatian: та̏чке — small cart
  • Serbo-Croatian: коли́ца — small cart
  • Serbo-Croatian: tȁčke — small cart
  • Serbo-Croatian: kolíca — small cart
  • Shona: bhara — small cart
  • Silesian: kara — small cart
  • Sinhalese: වීල්බැරැක්කය (wīlbærækkaya) — small cart
  • Slovak: fúrik — small cart
  • Slovene: samokolnica — small cart
  • Somali: gaari gacan — small cart
  • Lower Sorbian: kara — small cart
  • Lower Sorbian: karka — small cart
  • Spanish: carretilla — small cart
  • Spanish: carrucha — small cart
  • Sranan Tongo: kroiwagi — small cart
  • Swahili: ngolofimo — small cart
  • Swedish: skottkärra — small cart
  • Swedish: rullebör — small cart
  • Tagalog: bitlag — small cart
  • Tajik: занбарғалтак (zanbarġaltak) — small cart
  • Tamil: ஒற்றைச் சில்லு வண்டி தள்ளுவண்டி (oṟṟaic cillu vaṇṭi) — small cart
  • Tatar: тачка (taçqa) — small cart
  • Thai: รถเข็นล้อเดียว (rót-kěn-lɔ́ɔ-diao) — small cart
  • Thai: รถเข็นทราย (rót-kěn-saai) — small cart
  • Tok Pisin: wilbaro — small cart
  • Turkish: el arabası — small cart
  • Turkmen: taçka — small cart
  • Tuscarora: yakęhraʔθkwáhthaʔ — small cart
  • Tuscarora: uʔθréhčreh neyęhčaráhkhwaʔ — small cart
  • Udmurt: тачка (taćka) — small cart
  • Ukrainian: та́чка (táčka) — small cart
  • Uzbek: zambilgʻaltak — small cart
  • Uzbek: tachka — small cart
  • Venetan: cariola — small cart
  • Venetan: carjol — small cart
  • Venetan: barela — small cart
  • Vietnamese: xe đẩy — small cart
  • Vietnamese: xe cút kít — small cart
  • Vietnamese: xe rùa — small cart
  • Volapük: bruät — small cart
  • Walloon: berwete — small cart
  • West Flemish: kortwoagn — small cart
  • Yiddish: טאַטשקע (tatshke) — small cart
  • Zulu: ibhala — small cart
Real reading context

wheelbarrow in complete knowledge articles