sprinkler

See also: Sprinkler

English

Sprinklers spraying water to irrigate vine plants in a vineyard (#2)

A fire sprinkler mounted on a ceiling (#3)

Etymology

Etymology tree

English sprinkle

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English sprinkler

From sprinkle + -er.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈspɹiŋklɚ/

Noun

sprinkler (plural sprinklers)

1. Anything that sprinkles.
2. An irrigation device that sprays water into the air whilst moving back and forth.
3. A heat-activated device that sprays water in the event of a fire, usually mounted on a ceiling.

   Synonyms: fire sprinkler, sprinkler head

   Coordinate terms: drencher, fire extinguisher

4. (preceded by definite article) A dance move in which the dancer places one hand on the head behind the ear, with elbow bent, stretches the other arm forwards and mimics the motions of an irrigation sprinkler with a rotary head.

Derived terms

• dry sprinkler
• holy water sprinkler
• microsprinkler
• sprinkler alarm
• sprinkler bell
• sprinkler gong
• sprinkler strategy
• sprinkler system
• sprinkler timer

Translations

anything that sprinkles

• Bashkir: һиптергес (hipterges)
• Bulgarian: пръскачка f (prăskačka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 灑水器 / 洒水器 (sǎshuǐqì)

• Georgian: წყალგამშხეფი (c̣q̇algamšxepi), წყალგამფრქვევი (c̣q̇algamprkvevi), სპრინკლერი (sṗrinḳleri)
• Hebrew: ממטרה (he) f (mamtéra)
• Hungarian: permetező (hu)
• Italian: spruzzatore m
• Japanese: スプリンクラー (ja) (supurinkurā)
• Korean: 스프링클러 (seupeuringkeulleo)
• Russian: разбры́згиватель (ru) m (razbrýzgivatelʹ), опры́скиватель (ru) m (oprýskivatelʹ), пульвериза́тор (ru) m (pulʹverizátor), спри́нклер (ru) m (sprínkler)

irrigation device

• Bulgarian: дъждовална машина (dăždovalna mašina)
• Catalan: ruixador m, arruixador m, aspersor (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 噴灑裝置 / 喷洒装置 (pēnsǎ zhuāngzhì), 噴灌器 / 喷灌器 (pēnguànqì), 灑水器 / 洒水器 (sǎshuǐqì)

• Finnish: sadettaja (fi), sadetin (fi)
• French: arroseur (fr) m, asperseur (fr) m
• Galician: aspersor m
• Georgian: წყალგამშხეფი (c̣q̇algamšxepi)
• German: Sprinkler (de) m, Sprinkleranlage (de) f
• Hungarian: locsoló (hu)
• Irish: aisréadóir m, spréire m
• Japanese: スプリンクラー (ja) (supurinkurā)
• Macedonian: пр́скалка f (pŕskalka)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: spreder m

  Nynorsk: spreiar m

• Polish: zraszacz m
• Portuguese: aspersor (pt) m
• Russian: разбры́згиватель (ru) m (razbrýzgivatelʹ), опры́скиватель (ru) m (oprýskivatelʹ), дождева́льная устано́вка f (doždeválʹnaja ustanóvka), спри́нклер (ru) m (sprínkler)
• Spanish: aspersor (es) m, aspersor de irrigación m
• Swedish: vattenspridare (sv) c, sprinkler (sv) c
• Turkish: fıskiye (tr)
• Walloon: stritchete (wa) f, spritchoûle (wa) f

fire sprinkler

• Bulgarian: противопожарен душ (protivopožaren duš)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 自動噴水滅火裝置 / 自动喷水灭火装置 (zìdòng pēnshuǐ mièhuǒ zhuāngzhì)

• Finnish: sprinkleri (fi)
• French: gicleur d'incendie (fr) m, sprinkleur (fr) m
• Georgian: სპრინკლერი (sṗrinḳleri), წყალგამფრქვევი (c̣q̇algamprkvevi), წყლის გამფრქვევი (c̣q̇lis gamprkvevi)
• German: Feuerlöschanlage f
• Greek: καταιονητήρας (el) m (kataionitíras), καταιωνιστήρας (el) m (kataionistíras)
• Hungarian: automata tűzoltókészülék
• Irish: spréire uisce m
• Macedonian: противпожарна прскалка f (protivpožarna prskalka)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sprinkler m

  Nynorsk: sprinklar m

• Polish: tryskacz (pl) m
• Russian: противопожа́рный спри́нклер m (protivopožárnyj sprínkler)
• Spanish: rociador (es) m, rociador automático m, rociador contraincendio m, aspersor antiincendios m
• Swedish: sprinkler (sv) c
• Turkish: fıskiye (tr)

Verb

sprinkler (third-person singular simple present sprinklers, present participle sprinklering, simple past and past participle sprinklered)

1. (transitive) To fit with automatic sprinklers for fire prevention.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English sprinkler.

Noun

sprinkler m (definite singular sprinkleren, indefinite plural sprinklere, definite plural sprinklerne)

1. (firefighting) a sprinkler

See also

• sprinklar (Nynorsk)

References

• “sprinkler” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English sprinkler.

Noun

sprinkler n (plural sprinklere)

1. sprinkler

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	sprinkler	sprinklerul	sprinklere	sprinklerele
genitive-dative	sprinkler	sprinklerului	sprinklere	sprinklerelor
vocative	sprinklerule		sprinklerelor

Swedish

Noun

sprinkler c

1. a sprinkler (irrigation device)

   Synonym: vattenspridare

2. a sprinkler (fire protection device)

Declension

Declension of sprinkler

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	sprinkler	sprinklers
	definite	sprinklern	sprinklerns
plural	indefinite	sprinkler, sprinklers	sprinklers
	definite	sprinklerna	sprinklernas

References

• “sprinkler”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “sprinkler”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “sprinkler”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)