car wash

See also: carwash

English

a car driving through a mechanical car wash

Alternative forms

• carwash

Noun

car wash (plural car washes)

1. An event at which people (often students) wash cars, often for a small fee or donation
2. A place at which a car is washed, usually for a fee and often mechanically by driving the car through a tunnel.

   I'm going to take the car to the car wash.

3. An instance of washing a car, especially such a place.

   I'm going to take the car in for a car wash.

Derived terms

• Mexican car wash

 

Translations

event at which people wash cars

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 洗車／洗车 (zh) (xǐchē)

• Finnish: autonpesu
• Georgian: ავტომობილების რეცხვა (avṭomobilebis recxva)
• German: Wagenwäsche f
• Macedonian: миење кола n (mienje kola), перење кола n (perenje kola)
• Russian: мо́йка автомоби́лей f (mójka avtomobílej)
• Swedish: biltvätt (sv), biltvättning

place at which a car is washed, often mechanically

• Afrikaans: karwas
• Basque: auto-garbigune
• Bulgarian: автомивка f (avtomivka)
• Catalan: centre de rentatge m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 洗車場／洗车场 (xǐchēchǎng)

• Czech: mycí linka f
• Danish: bilvask (da) c
• Dutch: wasstraat (nl) f, autowasstraat (nl) f
• Estonian: autopesu
• Finnish: autopesula
• French: station de lavage (fr) f, lave-auto (fr) m (Canada)
• Georgian: ავტომობილების სამრეცხაო (avṭomobilebis samrecxao), ავტოსამრეცხაო (avṭosamrecxao), მოიკა (moiḳa)
• German: Waschstraße (de) f, Waschanlage (de) f, Wagenwäsche f
• Hungarian: autómosó (hu)
• Italian: autolavaggio (it) m
• Japanese: 洗車場 (せんしゃじょう, senshajō)
• Kazakh: автожуу (avtojuu)
• Lao: ຮ້ານລ້າງລົດ (hān lāng lot), ລ້າງລົດ (lāng lot)
• Latvian: auto mazgātava f
• Lithuanian: automobilių plovykla f
• Luxembourgish: Wäschstrooss f
• Macedonian: автопералница f (avtoperalnica), автопера́лна f (avtoperálna)
• Manx: naighyn-carr m
• Mongolian: авто угаалга (avto ugaalga), машин угаалга (mašin ugaalga)
• Norwegian: bilvask m
• Persian: کارواش (fa) (kârvâš)
• Polish: automyjnia f, myjnia samochodowa f
• Portuguese: lava-jato m (Brazil)
• Romanian: spălătorie auto f
• Russian: автомо́йка (ru) f (avtomójka), мо́йка (ru) f (mójka) (автомоби́лей)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: аутопраоница f

  Roman: autopraonica (sh) f

• Slovak: umývacia linka f
• Slovene: avtopralnica f
• Spanish: túnel de lavado m (automated system), autolavado m (Mexico, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Venezuela), lavado de coches m (Spain), lavado de carros m (Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Puerto Rico, parts of Mexico), lavadero de carros m (Colombia, Mexico, Peru), lavadero de autos m (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay), lavado de autos m (Ecuador), lavadora de autos m (Ecuador), fregadora (es) f (Cuba)
• Swedish: biltvätt (sv) c
• Thai: การล้าง รถ (gaan láang rót)
• Turkish: araç yıkama yeri, oto kuaför, oto yıkama
• Ukrainian: автоми́йка f (avtomýjka)
• Vietnamese: rửa xe

See also

• jetwash

Further reading

• car wash on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Crashaw