pickaxe

See also: pick-axe

English

a pickaxe

Alternative forms

• pickax, pick-axe

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English pykeaxe, pecaxe, pyke exe (“pickaxe”), an alteration (due to folk etymology association with pick and axe) of Middle English pikeyse, pikeys, pykois, from Anglo-Norman *pikeis, Old French picois, pecois, from Latin picōsa (“pickaxe”), from picca, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *pīk (“sharp point, pike”). Doublet of pique and pike.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpɪkˌæks/

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Noun

pickaxe (plural pickaxes)

1. A heavy iron tool with a wooden handle; one end of the head is pointed, the other has a chisel edge.

Translations

heavy iron tool

• Arabic: مِعْوَل m (miʕwal), فَأْس (ar) f (faʔs)

  Hijazi Arabic: مِعْوَل m (miʕwal)

  Moroccan Arabic: فاس m (fās)

• Aragonese: pica f
• Armenian: քլունգ (hy) (kʻlung), բրիչ (hy) (bričʻ)
• Basque: pikotx
• Bavarian: Grompm, Spitzhock, Picki
• Belarusian: кірка f (kirka)
• Bulgarian: кирка (bg) f (kirka)
• Catalan: pic (ca) m, piqueta
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鶴嘴鋤／鹤嘴锄 (zh) (háozuǐchú, hèzuǐchú), 鶴嘴鎬／鹤嘴镐 (zh) (háozuǐgǎo, hèzuǐgǎo), 鎬頭／镐头 (zh) (gǎotou)

• Czech: krumpáč (cs) m
• Danish: hakke c
• Dutch: pikhouweel (nl) n, pikaks f
• Esperanto: pikfosilo, pioĉo
• Estonian: kirka (et)
• Finnish: hakku (fi)
• French: pioche (fr) f
• Galician: pico (gl) m, picaraña f
• Georgian: წერაქვი (ka) (c̣erakvi)
• German: Spitzhacke (de) f, Pickel (de) m
• Greek: αξίνα (el) f (axína)
• Hausa: digā̀ f
• Hebrew: מַכּוֹשׁ m (makósh)
• Hungarian: csákány (hu)
• Hunsrik: Pikarett f
• Icelandic: haki (is) m
• Ido: piocho (io)
• Indonesian: gancu (id), belencong (id)
• Irish: piocóid f
• Italian: piccone (it) m
• Japanese: つるはし (ja) (tsuruhashi), 鶴嘴 (ja) (つるはし, tsuruhashi)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: قوڵِنگ (qulling)

  Northern Kurdish: kuling (ku) m

  Southern Kurdish: قوڵِنگ (ku) (qulling)

• Latin: dolābra f
• Latvian: cērte f, kaplis (lv) m (dialectism)
• Luxembourgish: piosch f
• Macedonian: копач m (kopač), трнокоп m (trnokop), казма f (kazma), крамп m (kramp)
• Malayalam: കോടാലി (ml) (kōṭāli), പിക്കാസ് (ml) (pikkāsŭ)
• Maltese: fies m, baqqun m
• Maori: pika
• Mazanderani: کالنگ
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hakke (no) m or f

• Occitan: pic (oc) m, trenca f
• Ottoman Turkish: قازمه (kazma), كلنك (külünk), فاس (fas), صاقور (sakur)
• Persian: کلنگ (fa) (kolang)
• Polish: kilof (pl) m, oskard (pl) m, czekan (pl) m
• Portuguese: picareta (pt) f
• Romanian: târnăcop (ro) n
• Russian: кирка́ (ru) f (kirká), моты́га (ru) f (motýga), кайло́ (ru) n (kajló)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: крамп m, будак m, пијук m, наџак m

  Roman: kramp (sh) m, budak (sh) m, pijuk (sh) m, nadžak (sh) m

• Sicilian: fesi (scn) m, picu (scn) m
• Slovak: krompáč m
• Slovene: kramp (sl) m
• Spanish: pico (es) m
• Swedish: korp (sv) c, korphacka c
• Tagalog: patik
• Tarifit: ariyzim m
• Thai: อีเต้อ (th) (ii-dtə̂ə)
• Tibetan: ཏོག་ཙེ (tog tse), སྟ་གྲི (sta gri, literally “axe-knife”)
• Turkish: kazma (tr)
• Tày: bủa
• Ukrainian: ка́йло (uk) n (kájlo), ки́рка f (kýrka)
• Venetan: pich (vec) m, pico m
• Veps: kokteine
• Vietnamese: cuốc chim (vi)
• Zulu: ipiki

Verb

pickaxe (third-person singular simple present pickaxes, present participle pickaxing, simple past and past participle pickaxed)

1. To use a pickaxe.

Translations

to use a pickaxe

• Esperanto: pioĉi
• French: piocher (fr)
• Russian: рыть (ru) (rytʹ) (киркой, мотыгой)
• Spanish: picar (es)