automobile

Etymology
From, from + , from.

Noun

 * 1)  A type of motor vehicle designed to move on the ground under its own stored power and intended to carry a driver, a small number of additional passengers, and a very limited amount of other load. A car or motorcar.

Usage notes

 * The word automobile usually implies a car with seating for perhaps up to four or five passengers.
 * A vehicle with more than six or seven seats is usually called a limousine, minivan, van, SUV, bus, etc.
 * A vehicle devoted mainly to cargo is usually called a lorry, truck, or van.

Synonyms

 * ,, motor,  motorcar
 * See also Thesaurus:automobile

Meronyms

 * See

Coordinate terms

 * ,, , , , , , , , , ; wagon, cart, trailer, tractor; airplane, boat, ship

Translations

 * Adyghe: машинэ
 * Afrikaans: automobiel
 * Albanian:, ,
 * Amharic: መኪና, አውቶሞቢል
 * Apache:
 * Jicarilla: bíił
 * Arabic:, أُوتُومُوبِيل ,
 * Egyptian Arabic: عَرَبِيَّة, أوتوموبيل
 * Gulf Arabic: سيارة
 * Hijazi Arabic: سَيَّارَة
 * Moroccan Arabic: طوموبيل
 * Armenian:, , , մաշնա,
 * Assamese: গাড়ী
 * Asturian: automóvil
 * Azerbaijani:, maşın
 * Bashkir: автомобиль
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian:, машы́на, аўтамашы́на, самахо́д, а́ўта
 * Bengali:, , স্বতশ্চলশকট্‌,
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese: ,
 * Buryat: автомашина
 * Carpathian Rusyn: автомобі́л, авто
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: awto
 * Chechen: автомобиль, ворд, машен
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:
 * Dungan: машинэ, чичә
 * Hokkien:, ,
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Chukchi: ковԓёргоор
 * Chuvash: автомобиль
 * Cowlitz: məšín
 * Crimean Tatar: avtomobil
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto: ,
 * Estonian:, automobiil, masin
 * Finnish:, ;
 * French:, , ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:, , , , , , , ,
 * Greek:
 * Gujarati: મોટરગાડી, કાર, ગાડી
 * Haitian Creole: otomobil
 * Hausa:
 * Havasupai-Walapai-Yavapai: anbil
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: मोटरवाहन,, , , मोटर-गाड़ी, मोटरगाड़ी, , मोटरकार, ऑटोमोबाइल
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingush: автомобиль
 * Interlingua: automobile, auto
 * Irish:, carr, mótar
 * Italian:, , , ,
 * Japanese:, , 四輪車,
 * Kannada: ,
 * Kashubian: aùto
 * Kazakh:, , автокөлік, автомашина
 * Khmer: ,
 * Korean:, ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: ئوتوموبیل, ترومبێل,
 * Northern Kurdish:, ,
 * Kyrgyz:, ,
 * Lao: ລົດໃຫຍ່,, ໂອໂຕ
 * Latin: autocinetum, autocurrus, autovehiculum, autoraeda
 * Latvian: automobilis, automašīna, spēkrats
 * Lezgi: автомобиль
 * Lithuanian: ,
 * Macedonian: автомоби́л,
 * Malay: automobil,
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese:, vettura
 * Maori:
 * Marathi: मोटार, मोटारवाहन
 * Mirandese: altemoble, carro
 * Mohawk: kà:sere
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:, автомобиль,
 * Nahuatl:, teposkalnejnenki
 * Navajo: chidí
 * Nepali: मोटरगाडी
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk:
 * Odia:
 * Ojibwe: odaabaan
 * Ossetian: хӕдтулгӕ
 * Pashto: تېزرفتار, ,
 * Persian:
 * Dari: موتَر, ,
 * Iranian Persian:, ,
 * Plautdietsch: Koa,
 * Polish:, , ,
 * Portuguese:, , ,
 * Punjabi:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, , ,  ,  ,
 * Scots: motorcaur
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: аутомо̀бӣл
 * Roman:
 * Sinhalese: මෝටර් රථ
 * Slovak: automobil,
 * Slovene: automobil,
 * Somali:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: awto
 * Upper Sorbian:
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Swahili: motakari bus, motokari bus, ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: awtomobil, isugang batlag, batlag,, awto
 * Tajik: автомобил,, автомошин, худрав
 * Tamil: ,
 * Tatar: автомобиль,
 * Telugu:, ,
 * Thai: ,
 * Tibetan: ཆིས་ཁྲེའེ
 * Tigrinya: ኣውቶሞቢል, መኪና
 * Tonkawa: ˀa·cosa·nan
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: maşyn, ,
 * Tuvan: автомобиль
 * Ukrainian:, маши́на, ,
 * Unami: hatëmopil, amankshkinkw
 * Urdu: گاڑی, کار, آٹوموبِیل
 * Uyghur: ئاپتوموبىل, ماشىنا
 * Uzbek:, ,
 * Vietnamese:, ,
 * Volapük:, tood
 * Yakut: массыына
 * Yiddish: אויטאָמאָביל, אויטאָ, מאַשין
 * Zhuang: giceh

Verb

 * 1)  To travel by automobile.

Translations

 * Finnish:

Adjective

 * 1) Self-moving; self-propelled.

Translations

 * Finnish:

Etymology
From, as the vehicle is powered by an engine rather than pulled by horses.

Adjective

 * 1) automotive

Etymology
From.