carburetor

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carburetor

Alternative forms

carburator
carburettor (Australia, Britain, New Zealand)
carbureter
carburetter

Etymology

Attested from 1862, from carburet (“enrich an illuminating gas with carbon-rich fuel”) +‎ -or. The motor vehicle sense is attested since 1896

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːb(j)əˌɹɛtə/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑɹb(j)əˌɹeɪtɚ/
Audio (US): (file)

Noun

carburetor (plural carburetors)

(US, Canada) A device in an internal combustion engine where fuel is vaporized and mixed with air prior to ignition. [from 1890s]
Synonyms: carb (North America), carby (Australia)

Coordinate terms: fuel injection, injector

Near-synonym: gasifier
(slang, drugs) A water pipe or bong; a device or contrivance for mixing air with burning cannabis or cocaine. [from 1970s]
- 1989, United States International Trade Commission, Importation of certain drug paraphernalia into the United States, page 8:
  Variations on the bong included air-driven pipes, electric pipes, ice pipes (chillers), mask pipes, chamber pipes, and carburetor pipes.
- 2008, Dale Gieringer, Ed Rosenthal, Gregory Carter, Marijuana Medical Handbook‎, page 172:
  Some pipes feature a “carburetor,” which is a small hole in the air chamber located past the bowl. The carburetor is held shut while the bowl is being lit and the smoke drawn.
(obsolete) A device for enhancing illuminating gas by mixing in carbon-rich fuel. [from 1860s]
- Second, the employment of a current of air between the carburettor and the tube leading to the burner, is described.
  The Mechanics' Magazine, July 25, 1862.

Related terms

carburetion

Translations

a device in an internal combustion engine

Arabic: مَازِج m (māzij)
Armenian: կարբյուրատոր (hy) (karbyurator)
Azerbaijani: karbürator
Basque: karburagailu
Belarusian: карбюра́тар m (karbjurátar)
Bulgarian: карбура́тор (bg) m (karburátor)
Burmese: ကာဘရိုက်တာ (kabha.ruikta)
Catalan: carburador m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 化油器 (zh) (huàyóuqì), 汽化器 (zh) (qìhuàqì)
Czech: karburátor m
Danish: karburator c
Dutch: carburator (nl), carburateur (nl) m
Esperanto: karburilo, karburatoro
Estonian: karburaator
Faroese: blendari m
Finnish: kaasutin (fi)
French: carburateur (fr) m
Georgian: კარბიურატორი (ḳarbiuraṭori)
German: Vergaser (de) m
Greek: εξαερωτήρας (el) m (exaerotíras), καρμπυρατέρ (el) n (karmpyratér)
Hebrew: מְאַיֵד m
Hindi: कार्ब्युरेटर (kārbyureṭar)
Hungarian: porlasztó (hu), karburátor (hu)
Icelandic: blöndungur m, karbúrator m
Indonesian: karburator (id)
Irish: carbradóir m
Italian: carburatore (it) m
Japanese: キャブレター (kyaburetā)
Kazakh: карбюратор (karbürator)
Khmer: កាបឺរ័រ (kaabəɨrɔə)
Korean: 기화기 (gihwagi), 카뷰레터 (kabyureteo)
Kyrgyz: карбюратор (karbyurator)
Lao: please add this translation if you can
Macedonian: карбуратор m (karburator)
Malay: karburetor
Marathi: कार्ब्युरेटर m (kārbyureṭar)
Mongolian: карбюратор (mn) (karbjurator)
Navajo: gááboleita
Norwegian:
Bokmål: forgasser m

Nynorsk: forgassar m
Persian: کاربراتور (fa) (kârburâtar)
Plautdietsch: Karbaräta m
Polish: gaźnik (pl) m
Portuguese: carburador (pt) m
Romanian: carburator (ro) n
Russian: карбюра́тор (ru) m (karbjurátor)
Serbo-Croatian: rasplinjač (sh) m
Cyrillic: карбуратор m

Roman: karburator (sh) m
Slovak: karburátor m
Slovene: uplinjač m, karburátor m
Spanish: carburador (es) m
Swahili: kabureta
Swedish: förgasare (sv) c, karburator (sv) c
Tagalog: tambutso, paningaw, karburador
Tajik: карбюратор (karbyurator)
Thai: คาร์บูเรเตอร์ (kaa-buu-ree-dtə̂ə)
Turkish: karbüratör (tr)
Turkmen: karbýurator
Ukrainian: карбюра́тор m (karbjurátor)
Uzbek: karbyurator (uz)
Vietnamese: bộ chế hoà khí
Welsh: carbwradur m, carbwredur

References

“carburetor”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present