garbage can

English

Two metal garbage cans

Pronunciation

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Noun

garbage can (plural garbage cans)

1. (Canada, US) A receptacle, usually roughly cylindrical and wider at the top than at the bottom, which serves as a place to discard waste materials.

Usage notes

The phrase originally referred to large metal containers (typically in the shape of a can), but is now used interchangeably with other names of receptacles for waste materials.

Hyponyms

• (container for wastepaper): wastepaper basket

Coordinate terms

• ashcan
• dumpster
• dustbin
• garbage pail
• litter bin
• rubbish bin
• trash bin
• trash can
• wastebin
• wastepaper basket

 

• and see Thesaurus:waste bin

Translations

waste receptacle

• Afrikaans: vullisdrom (af)
• Arabic: حَاوِيَة نُفَايَات f (ḥāwiya(t) nufāyāt)

  Moroccan Arabic: طارو m (ṭārru)

• Armenian: աղբարկղ (hy) (aġbarkġ), աղբաման (hy) (aġbaman)
• Assamese: ডাছ-বিন (das-bin), জাৱৰ পেলোৱা (zawor pelüa)
• Belarusian: сме́тніца f (smjétnica), у́рна f (úrna), сме́ццевы бак m (smjéccjevy bak)
• Bengali: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: ко́фа за боклу́к f (kófa za boklúk)
• Catalan: cubell per brossa m
• Cherokee: ᎤᏟᏩᏗᏅᏓᎦᎵᏙᏗ (utliwadinvdagalidodi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 垃圾桶 (laap⁶ saap³ tung²)

  Hakka: 垃圾桶 (lep-sep-thúng)

  Hokkien: 糞掃桶／粪扫桶 (pùn-sò-tháng), 糞掃籠／粪扫笼 (pùn-sò-láng)

  Mandarin: 垃圾桶 (zh) (lājītǒng, lèsètǒng), 垃圾箱 (zh) (lājīxiāng, lèsèxiāng), 垃圾筒 (zh) (lājītǒng, lèsètǒng)

• Czech: popelnice (cs) f
• Danish: skraldespand (da) c
• Dutch: vuilnisbak (nl) m
• Esperanto: rubujo
• Estonian: prügikast (et)
• Finnish: jäteastia (fi), roskakori (fi), roskapönttö, roskis (fi), roskatynnyri, roskalaatikko (fi), roskasäiliö
• French: poubelle (fr) f
• Galician: please add this translation if you can
• Georgian: სანაგვე ყუთი (sanagve q̇uti)
• German: (outdoors, movable) Mülltonne (de) f; (indoors or fixed outdoors) Mülleimer (de) m, Abfalleimer (de) m; (indoors, for paper and dry rubbish) Papierkorb (de) m, Abfallbehälter (de) m
• Greek: σκουπιδοτενεκές (el) m (skoupidotenekés)
• Gujarati: કચરાપેટી (kacrāpeṭī)
• Haitian Creole: poubèl
• Hawaiian: kini ʻōpala
• Hebrew: פַּח אַשְׁפָּה (he) m (pakh ashpá)
• Hindi: कूड़ादान m (kūṛādān), कचरा पात्र m (kacrā pātra)
• Hungarian: szemétvödör (hu), szemetes (hu), kuka (hu), szeméttartó (hu)
• Ido: eskombruyo
• Indonesian: tong sampah, tempat sampah
• Irish: bosca bruscair m
• Italian: bidone per immondizie, cestino dei rifiuti m
• Japanese: ごみ箱 (ja) (ごみばこ, gomibako), ごみ入 (ごみいれ, gomiire)
• Kazakh: қоқырсауыт (qoqyrsauyt), қоқыс жәшігі (qoqys jäşıgı)
• Khmer: ធុងសំរាម (thung sɑmraam)
• Korean: 쓰레기통 (ko) (sseuregitong)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: تەنەکەی خۆڵ (tenekey xoll)

• Lao: ຖັງຂີ້ເຫຍື່ອ (thang khī nyư̄a)
• Latin: situla prō quisquiliās f, siclus prō quisquiliās m
• Latvian: miskaste f
• Luxembourgish: Dreckskëscht (lb) f
• Macedonian: корпа за отпадоци f (korpa za otpadoci), канта за ѓубре f (kanta za ǵubre)
• Malay: tong sampah (ms)
• Maltese: landa taż-żibel f
• Maori: ipu para
• Maranao: basora'an
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: хуучин сав суулга (xuučin sav suulga)

• Norman: bathi à tés m
• Norwegian: søppelbøtte
• Occitan: bordilhièr m
• Persian: سطل زباله (satl-e zobâle), سطل آشغال (satl-e âšğâl)
• Polish: kosz na śmieci (pl) m, śmietnik (pl) m
• Portuguese: lixeira (pt) f, cesto de lixo m, lata de lixo f, lixo (pt)
• Punjabi: ਕੂੜੇਦਾਨ m (kūṛedān)
• Romanian: coș de gunoi n, pubelă (ro) f, tomberon (ro) n, ladă de gunoi f
• Russian: му́сорный бак (ru) m (músornyj bak), му́сорник (ru) m (músornik), у́рна (ru) f (úrna), му́сорка (ru) f (músorka)
• Samoan: please add this translation if you can
• Scottish Gaelic: biona-stùir m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: канта за смеће f

  Roman: kanta za smeće f

• Silesian: hasiok
• Slovak: smetník m
• Slovene: smetnjak m
• Spanish: basurero (es) m (Chile, Costa Rica, Peru), bote de basura m (El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Mexico), caneca (es) f (Colombia), cesto de basura m (especially Cuba and Honduras), cubo de basura m (Spain), latón (es) m (Cuba), pipote (es) m (Venezuela), tacho (es) m (Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay), tinaco m (Panama), zafacón (es) m (Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico), safacón m (Dominican Republic)
• Swahili: pipa (sw)
• Swedish: soptunna (sv) c, sophink (sv) c
• Telugu: చెత్తబుట్ట (te) (cettabuṭṭa)
• Tetum: sestu
• Thai: ถังขยะ (tǎng-kà-yà)
• Tibetan: གད་སྙིག་ལུག་ས (gad snyig lug sa), གད་སྙིག་བླུག་ས (gad snyig blug sa)
• Tongan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: çöp kutusu, çöp tenekesi (tr), çöp (tr)
• Ukrainian: смітни́к m (smitnýk), сміттє́вий бак m (smittjévyj bak), у́рна f (úrna)
• Urdu: کوڑے دان m (kūṛe dān)
• Vietnamese: thùng rác
• Welsh: bin sbwriel (cy) m, tun sbwriel m, tun fflwcs m, bin lludw m, tun lludw m
• Yiddish: מיסטקאַסטן m (mistkastn)

Further reading

• garbage can on Wikipedia.Wikipedia