# tractor
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈtɹæktə/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈtɹæktɚ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -æktə(ɹ)

### Noun

tractor (plural tractors)
* (agriculture) A vehicle used in farms e.g. for pulling farm equipment and preparing the fields.
* (agriculture) A movable coop without a floor to allow for free ranging.
* (US) A truck (or lorry) for pulling a semi-trailer or trailer.
* Any piece of machinery that pulls something.
* (aviation) An aeroplane where the propeller is located in front of the fuselage.
* (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 (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 (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 (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!
* (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 (to$^1$ laai$^1$ gei$^1$)
    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)

#### See also

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

### Verb

tractor (third-person singular simple present tractors, present participle tractoring, simple past and past participle tractored)
* (transitive, agriculture) To prepare (land) with a tractor.
* (intransitive) To drive a tractor.
* (transitive, science fiction) To move with a tractor beam.
* (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)
* (agriculture) tractor (farm vehicle)

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [tɾəkˈto]
* IPA: (Valencia) [tɾakˈtoɾ]

### Noun

tractor m (plural tractors)
* (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, 2025
* “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)
* tractor (agricultural vehicle)
    Synonym: trekker

#### Derived terms

* P.C. Hoofttractor

#### Descendants

* → Caribbean Javanese: trèktor, plèktor

## Latin
### Verb

tractor
* 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)
* Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) 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)
* tractor

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɾaɡˈtoɾ/ [t̪ɾaɣ̞ˈt̪oɾ]
* Rhymes: -oɾ
* Syllabification: trac‧tor

### Adjective

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

### Noun

tractor m (plural tractores)
* tractor

#### Related terms

* traer

### Further reading

* “tractor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Welsh
### Etymology

From English tractor.

### Noun

tractor m (plural tractorau or tractors)
* tractor

### Mutation

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