four-wheel drive

See also: four-wheel-drive

English

Noun

four-wheel drive (countable and uncountable, plural four-wheel drives)

1. A four-wheeled vehicle with a drivetrain that allows all four wheels to receive torque from the engine simultaneously.
2. (uncountable) the type of vehicle transmission system.

Synonyms

• 4WD, 4x4

Related terms

• all-wheel drive

Translations

vehicle

• Arabic: اَلدَّفْع اَلرَّبَاعِيّ m (ad-dafʕ ar-rabāʕiyy)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: tot terreny m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 四輪驅動車／四轮驱动车 (sìlún qūdòngchē), 四輪驅動／四轮驱动 (zh) (sìlún qūdòng), 四輪傳動／四轮传动 (sìlún chuándòng), 四驅車／四驱车 (sìqūchē), 四輪驅動汽車／四轮驱动汽车 (sìlún qūdòng qìchē)

• Danish: firehjulstrækker (da)
• Dutch: fourwheeldrive (nl) m
• Finnish: nelivetoauto
• French: tout-terrain (fr) m
• Georgian: ორხიდიანი მანქანა (orxidiani mankana)
• German: Allradantrieb (de) m, Allrad n
• Hebrew: ארבע על ארבע (he) m (arba' 'al arba')
• Irish: feithicil faoi thiomáint ceithre roth f
• Italian: quattro ruote motrici f
• Japanese: 四輪駆動 (よんりんくどう, yonrin-kudō), 四輪駆動車 (よんりんくどうしゃ, yonrin-kudōsha), 四駆 (よんく, yonku)
• Kazakh: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 사륜구동차 (saryun'gudongcha)
• Malay: pacuan empat roda
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: tracțiune pe patru roți f
• Russian: внедоро́жник (ru) m (vnedoróžnik), вездехо́д (ru) m (vezdexód) (colloquial, has other meanings)
• Spanish: cuatro por cuatro m, todoterreno (es) m

transmission system

• Danish: firehjulstræk
• Dutch: vierwielaandrijving (nl) f
• Finnish: neliveto (fi)
• Irish: tiomáint ceithre roth f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: firehjulsdrift m or f, firehjulstrekk n

  Nynorsk: firehjulsdrift f

• Swedish: fyrhjulsdrift c

See also

• four-on-the-floor (manual transmission)