English
Etymology
Named after Rudolf Diesel. More in Wikipedia at diesel engine § History.
Pronunciation
Noun
diesel engine (plural diesel engines)
- (mechanical engineering) An internal combustion engine of piston engine type that operates using the Diesel cycle, with diesel fuel being sprayed into the hot, high-pressure air in the combustion chamber at the end of the compression stroke.
- Synonym: diesel motor
- (usually automotive, transport) Such an engine that burns diesel (diesel fuel).
- (rail transport) a diesel locomotive.
- Hypernyms: engine, locomotive < machine
- Hyponyms: diesel-electric, diesel-hydraulic
Translations
type of engine
- Afrikaans: dieselenjin
- Arabic: محرك ديزل
- Azerbaijani: dizel mühərriki
- Belarusian: дызельны рухавік m (dyzjelʹny ruxavik)
- Bulgarian: дизелов двигател m (dizelov dvigatel)
- Catalan: motor dièsel m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 柴油引擎
- Czech: dieselový motor m, vznětový motor m
- Danish: dieselmotor (da) c
- Dutch: dieselmotor (nl)
- Esperanto: dizelmotoro
- Estonian: diiselmootor
- Finnish: dieselmoottori (fi)
- French: moteur Diesel (fr) m
- Galician: motor diésel m
- German: Dieselmotor (de) m, Diesel (de) m
- Greek: κινητήρας ντίζελ m (kinitíras ntízel)
- Hebrew: מְנוֹעַ דִּיזֶל (he) m (menoa dizel)
- Hindi: डीज़ल इंजन (ḍīzal iñjan)
- Hungarian: dízelmotor (hu)
- Icelandic: dísilvél (is) f
- Ido: dizel-motoro
- Indonesian: mesin diesel (id)
- Irish: inneall díosail m
- Italian: motore Diesel m
- Japanese: ディーゼルエンジン (dīzeru-enjin)
- Kazakh: дизель қозғалтқыш (dizel qozğaltqyş)
- Latvian: dīzeļdzinējs m
- Malay: enjin diesel
- Malayalam: ഡീസൽ എഞ്ചിൻ (ḍīsal eñciṉ)
- Marathi: डीझेल इंजिन (ḍījhel iñjin)
- Mongolian: дизель хөдөлгүүр (dizelʹ xödölgüür)
- Nepali: डिजेल इन्जिन (ḍijel injina)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: dieselmotor m
- Nynorsk: dieselmotor m
- Persian: موتور دیزل
- Polish: silnik wysokoprężny m, silnik o zapłonie samoczynnym m
- Portuguese: motor a diesel m
- Romanian: motor diesel (ro) n
- Russian: ди́зельный дви́гатель m (dízelʹnyj dvígatelʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian: dizel motor m, dieselov motor m
- Slovak: naftový motor m
- Spanish: motor diésel m
- Swedish: dieselmotor (sv) c
- Tamil: டீசல் பொறி (ṭīcal poṟi)
- Telugu: డీజిల్ ఇంజన్ (ḍījil iñjan)
- Thai: เครื่องยนต์ดีเซล
- Turkish: dizel motoru (tr)
- Ukrainian: дизельний двигун m (dyzelʹnyj dvyhun)
- Urdu: ڈیزل انجن
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