tractor

English

A tractor (farm vehicle).

A modern 4WD farm tractor

Etymology

Formed from Latin tractus, perfect passive participle of trahere (“to pull”), + agent noun suffix -or.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹæktə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹæktɚ/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -æktə(ɹ)

Noun

tractor (plural tractors)

1. (agriculture) A vehicle used in farms e.g. for pulling farm equipment and preparing the fields.
2. (agriculture) A movable coop without a floor to allow for free ranging.
3. (US) A truck (or lorry) for pulling a semi-trailer or trailer.
4. Any piece of machinery that pulls something.
5. (aviation) An aeroplane where the propeller is located in front of the fuselage.
6. (UK, rail transport) A British Rail Class 37 locomotive.
   • 1995 May 23, Andrew Cooke, “Re: British Rail: At Last The 1948 Show”, in misc.transport.rail.europe‎^[1] (Usenet):

     On the other hand the EE type 3's have offered in a 1750 hp package, probably the most successful loco BR bought. As any crew will tell you a tractor will pull anything anywhere, and yet at the same time they were nippy enough for use on the Anglian mainlines for 20 years.

   • 2000 April 25, Grandpops, “Calling Norfolk tractor bashers with a good brain for numbers! Possible conclusion?”, in uk.railway‎^[2] (Usenet):

     With a recent email from Mike Tetlow, I found out that there were two other 37s [37252 and 37031] present that day, also shuttling between Cambridge and Kings Lynn. As you correctly observe, the pic of little me shows that I am in a Dutch liveried tractor.

   • 2000 May 17, Matt, “Re: "Unfixing" Class 37s and Doncaster control (rant!!)”, in uk.railway‎^[3] (Usenet):

     EWS are also denying any rumours of tractors going to Spain, then again they denyed the rumours of tractors going to France until the contract was signed!

7. (archaic) A metal rod used in tractoration, or Perkinism.

Related terms

• Chelsea tractor
• chicken tractor
• monowheel tractor
• semi-tractor
• single-axle tractor
• traction
• tractor beam
• tractor driver
• tractor out
• tractor pull
• tractor trailer
• tractor-trailer
• tractor unit
• tractor vaporising oil
• truck-tractor
• two-wheel tractor
• walking tractor

 

Descendants

• → Bengali: ট্র্যাক্টর (ṭrjakṭor)
• → Japanese: トラクター (torakutā)
• → Hindi: ट्रेक्टर (ṭrekṭar), ट्रैक्टर (ṭraikṭar)
• → Khmer: ត្រាក់ទ័រ (traktɔə)
• → Korean: 트랙터 (teuraekteo)
• → Russian: тра́ктор (tráktor), тра́кторъ (tráktor) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
  • → Armenian: տրակտոր (traktor)
  • → Azerbaijani: traktor
  • ⇒ Chinese:

    Cantonese: 拖拉機／拖拉机 (to¹ laai¹ gei¹)

    Dungan: туәлаҗи (tuəlaži)

    Mandarin: 拖拉機／拖拉机 (tuōlājī)

    Min Nan: 拖拉機／拖拉机 (thoa-la-ki / tho-la-ki)

    • → Bouyei: toylayjiy
    • → Burmese: ထော် လာဂျီ (htau lagyi)
    • → Lü: ᦷᦒᧈᦟᦱᧈᦋᦲᧈ (tho¹laa¹tsii¹)
    • → Tibetan: ཐོ་ལ་ཅི (tho la ci)
    • → Zhuang: dohlahgih
  • → Dungan: трактор (traktor)
  • → Georgian: ტრაქტორი (ṭrakṭori)
  • → Ingrian: traktora
  • → Kazakh: трактор (traktor)
  • → Korean: 뜨락또르 (tteurakttoreu) (North Korea)
  • → Kyrgyz: трактор (traktor)
  • → Mongolian:

    Cyrillic script: трактор (traktor)

    Mongolian script: ᠲ᠋ᠷᠠᠻᠲ᠋ᠣᠷ (traktor)

  • → Tajik: трактор (traktor)
  • → Turkmen: traktor
  • → Uyghur: تراكتور (traktor)
  • → Uzbek: traktor
• → Thai: แทรกเตอร์ (trɛ́k-dtə̂ə)
• → Urdu: ٹْرَیکْٹَر (ṭraikṭar), ٹَرَیکْٹَر (ṭaraikṭar)

Translations

farm vehicle

• Albanian: traktor (sq) m
• Amharic: ትራክተር (təraktär)
• Arabic: جَرَار m (jarār), تَرَاكْتُور m (tarāktūr)
• Armenian: տրակտոր (hy) (traktor)
• Assamese: টেক্টৰ (tektor), ট্ৰেক্টৰ (trektor)
• Asturian: tractor m
• Azerbaijani: traktor (az)
• Basque: traktore
• Belarusian: тра́ктар m (tráktar)
• Bengali: ট্র্যাক্টর (bn) (ṭrjakṭor)
• Bouyei: toylayjiy
• Bulgarian: тра́ктор (bg) m (tráktor)
• Burmese: ထွန်စက် (my) (htwancak), ထော် လာဂျီ (htau lagyi)
• Carpathian Rusyn: тра́ктор m (tráktor)
• Catalan: tractor (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 拖拉機／拖拉机 (to¹ laai¹ gei¹), 鐵牛／铁牛 (tit³ ngau⁴, literally “iron bull/cow”)

  Dungan: туәлаҗи (tuəlaži), трактор (traktor)

  Hakka: 拖拉機／拖拉机 (to¹ laai¹ gei¹)

  Hokkien: 拖拉機／拖拉机 (thoa-la-ki, tho-la-ki), 鐵牛／铁牛 (thih-gû, literally “iron bull/cow”)

  Jin: 拖拉機／拖拉机 (te¹ la¹ ji¹)

  Mandarin: 拖拉機／拖拉机 (zh) (tuōlājī), 鐵牛／铁牛 (zh) (tiěniú, literally “iron bull/cow”)

• Czech: traktor (cs) m
• Danish: traktor (da) c
• Dutch: tractor (nl) m, trekker (nl) m
• Esperanto: traktoro
• Estonian: traktor
• Faroese: traktorur m
• Finnish: traktori (fi)
• French: tracteur (fr) m
• Galician: tractor (gl) m, chimpín m
• Georgian: ტრაქტორი (ka) (ṭrakṭori)
• German: Traktor (de) m, (North German) Trecker (de) m, Schlepper (de) m
• Greek: ελκυστήρας (el) m (elkystíras), (colloquial) τρακτέρ (el) n (traktér)
• Hebrew: טְרַקְטוֹר (he) m (tráktor)
• Hindi: ट्रैक्टर m (ṭraikṭar), ट्रेक्टर (hi) m (ṭrekṭar)
• Hungarian: traktor (hu), mezőgazdasági vontató (formally)
• Hunsrik: Tratoer m
• Icelandic: dráttarvél f
• Ido: traktoro (io)
• Indonesian: traktor (id)
• Interlingua: tractor
• Italian: trattore (it) m
• Japanese: トラクター (ja) (torakutā)
• Kazakh: трактор (traktor)
• Khmer: ត្រាក់ទ័រ (km) (traktɔə)
• Korean: 트랙타 (teuraekta), 트랙터 (ko) (teuraekteo), 뜨락또르 (ko) (tteurakttoreu) (North Korea)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: traktor (ku)

• Kyrgyz: трактор (ky) (traktor)
• Lao: ລົດຕັກເຕິ (lot tak tœ), ລົດແກ່ (lot kǣ), ລົດໄຖ (lot thai)
• Latvian: traktors m
• Lithuanian: traktorius m
• Lü: ᦷᦒᧈᦟᦱᧈᦋᦲᧈ (tho¹laa¹tsii¹)
• Macedonian: тра́ктор (mk) m (tráktor)
• Malay: traktor, tarakihana
• Maltese: mutur tal-ħart m, trekter m
• Maori: tarakihana, tarakitā
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: трактор (mn) (traktor)

  Mongolian: ᠲ᠋ᠷᠠᠻᠲ᠋ᠣᠷ (traktor)

• Norman: tracteu m
• Northern Sami: tráktor
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: traktor m

  Nynorsk: traktor m

• Occitan: tractor (oc) m
• Pashto: تراکتور (ps) m (tarāktor), ټراکټور m (ṭrākṭor), ټرکټر m (ṭraktar)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: تِراکْتور (fa) (terâktor)

• Polish: traktor (pl) m, ciągnik (pl) m
• Portuguese: trator (pt) m
• Romanian: tractor (ro) n
• Russian: тра́ктор (ru) m (tráktor)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тра̏ктор m

  Roman: trȁktor (sh) m

• Sinhalese: ට්රැක්ටර් (ṭrækṭar)
• Skolt Sami: trakttor
• Slovak: traktor m
• Slovene: traktor (sl) m
• Southern Sami: traktovre
• Spanish: tractor (es) m, tractor agrícola m, tractor agrario m, agrotractor m
• Swahili: trekta (sw)
• Swedish: traktor (sv) c
• Tagalog: guyod
• Tajik: трактор (tg) (traktor)
• Tatar: трактор (traqtor)
• Thai: แทรกเตอร์ (trɛ́k-dtə̂ə)
• Tibetan: ཐོ་ལ་ཅི (tho la ci)
• Tigrinya: ትራክተር (təraktär)
• Turkish: traktör (tr)
• Turkmen: traktor
• Ukrainian: тра́ктор m (tráktor)
• Urdu: ٹْرَیکْٹَر m (ṭraikṭar), ٹَرَیکْٹَر m (ṭaraikṭar)
• Uyghur: تراكتور (traktor)
• Uzbek: traktor (uz)
• Vietnamese: máy kéo (vi)
• Volapük: träktor
• Walloon: tracteur m
• Yiddish: טראַקטאָר m (traktor)
• Yoruba: katakata
• Zhuang: dohlahgih

truck (or lorry) for pulling a trailer

• Bulgarian: влека́ч m (vlekáč)
• Finnish: vetoauto (fi)
• German: Sattelzugmaschine (de) f
• Greek: γερανός (el) m (geranós)
• Hungarian: vontató (hu), kamion (hu)
• Italian: motrice (it) f
• Lao: ລົດແກ່ (lot kǣ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: trekkvogn m or f

  Nynorsk: trekkvogn f

• Russian: тра́ктор-тяга́ч (ru) m (tráktor-tjagáč), тяга́ч (ru) m (tjagáč)
• Spanish: cabezal (es) m, tractocamión m, camión tractor m

any piece of machinery that pulls something

• Bulgarian: влека́ч m (vlekáč)
• Finnish: vetolaite, veturi (fi)
• German: Zugmaschine (de) f
• Greek: γερανός (el) m (geranós), ελκυστήρας (el) m (elkystíras)
• Hungarian: vontató (hu)
• Italian: motrice (it) f
• Polish: ciągnik (pl) m
• Spanish: tractor (es) m

aircraft configuration

• Japanese: 牽引式飛行機 (けんいんしきひこうき, ken'inshiki hikōki)

See also

• (aviation): pusher
• (agriculture): traction engine

Verb

tractor (third-person singular simple present tractors, present participle tractoring, simple past and past participle tractored)

1. (transitive, agriculture) To prepare (land) with a tractor.
2. (intransitive) To drive a tractor.
3. (transitive, science fiction) To move with a tractor beam.
4. (transitive, medicine, archaic) To treat by means of tractoration, or Perkinism.

Asturian

Etymology

Borrowed from English tractor, formed from Latin tractus + the suffix -or.

Noun

tractor m (plural tractores)

1. (agriculture) tractor (farm vehicle)

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [tɾəkˈto]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [tɾakˈtoɾ]

Noun

tractor m (plural tractors)

1. (agriculture) tractor (farm vehicle)

Related terms

• treure

Further reading

• “tractor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “tractor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “tractor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “tractor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

From English tractor.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

tractor m (plural tractoren or tractors, diminutive tractortje n)

1. tractor (agricultural vehicle)

   Synonym: trekker

Derived terms

• P.C. Hoofttractor

 

Descendants

• → Caribbean Javanese: trèktor, plèktor

Latin

Verb

tractor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of tractō

References

• tractor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Portuguese

Noun

tractor m (plural tractores)

1. Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1990) of trator. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn't come into effect; may occur as a sporadic misspelling.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French tracteur.

Noun

tractor n (plural tractoare)

1. tractor

Declension

Declension of tractor

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) tractor	tractorul	(niște) tractoare	tractoarele
genitive/dative	(unui) tractor	tractorului	(unor) tractoare	tractoarelor
vocative	tractorule		tractoarelor

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English tractor, formed from Latin tractus, perfect passive participle of trahere (“to pull”), + agent noun suffix -or.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɾaɡˈtoɾ/ [t̪ɾaɣ̞ˈt̪oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: trac‧tor

Adjective

tractor (feminine tractora, masculine plural tractores, feminine plural tractoras)

1. driving

Noun

tractor m (plural tractores)

1. tractor

Related terms

• traer

 

Further reading

• “tractor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28

Welsh

Etymology

From English tractor.

Noun

tractor m (plural tractorau or tractors)

1. tractor

Mutation

Mutated forms of tractor

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
tractor	dractor	nhractor	thractor

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “tractor”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies