A wheelchair .
A dog wheelchair .
From wheel + chair .
wheelchair (plural wheelchairs )
A chair mounted on large wheels for the transportation or use of a sick or disabled person.
2021 January 13, Paul Clifton, “Island Line bids farewell to 1930s "icon of transport"...”, in Rail , page 9:"And there are aspirations that we must rightly meet - people travelling in a wheelchair should be able to get on and off the train."
( attributive ) Designed for use by wheelchairbound people.
( by extension ) Any device involving wheels designed to assist a non-human animal with locomotion .
See wheelchairbound . The expressions bound to a wheelchair and confined to a wheelchair are both inaccurate and offensive, as wheelchairs are intended as freedom enhancers.
→ Persian: ویلچر ( vilčer )
chair
Afrikaans: rolstoel
Arabic: كُرْسِيّ لِلْمُقْعَدِين m ( kursiyy li-l-muqʕadīn ) , كُرْسِيّ مُتَحَرِّك m ( kursiyy mutaḥarrik )
Armenian: անվասայլակ (hy) ( anvasaylak )
Asturian: siella de ruedes f
Azerbaijani: təkərli kürsü , əlil arabası
Bulgarian: инвалидна количка f ( invalidna količka )
Burmese: ဘီးတပ်ကုလားထိုင် ( bhi:tapku.la:htuing )
Catalan: cadira de rodes f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 輪椅 / 轮椅 ( leon4 ji2 )
Mandarin: 輪椅 / 轮椅 (zh) ( lúnyǐ )
Cornish: kador ros f
Czech: invalidní vozík m
Danish: rullestol (da) c , kørestol (da) c
Dutch: rolstoel (nl) m
Elfdalian: rullstuol m
Esperanto: rulseĝo , radseĝo sg
Estonian: ratastool (et)
Faroese: koyristólur m , rullistólur m , akstólur m
Finnish: pyörätuoli (fi) ; rullatuoli (fi) ( colloquial, dated )
French: fauteuil roulant (fr) m , chaise roulante (fr) f
Galician: cadeira de rodas f
Georgian: ინვალიდის სავარძელი ( invalidis savarʒeli )
German: Rollstuhl (de) m , Krankenfahrstuhl m , Fahrstuhl (de) m
Greek: αναπηρικό καροτσάκι (el) n ( anapirikó karotsáki ) , αναπηρικό αμαξίδιο (el) n ( anapirikó amaxídio )
Greenlandic: issiavik assakaasulik
Hawaiian: noho huila
Hebrew: כִּסֵּא גַּלְגַּלִּים / כיסא גלגלים (he) m ( kisé galgalím )
Hindi: व्हीलचेयर ( vhīlceyar )
Hungarian: kerekesszék (hu) , ( dated and possibly offensive ) tolószék (hu) , ( dated and possibly offensive ) tolókocsi (hu)
Icelandic: hjólastóll m
Ido: rulstulo
Indonesian: kursi roda (id)
Irish: cathaoir rothaí f
Italian: sedia a rotelle f
Japanese: 車椅子 (ja) ( くるまいす, kurumaisu ) , ホイールチェア ( hoīruchea )
Khmer: រទេះជនពិការ ( rɔtih cŭən pikaa )
Korean: 휠체어 (ko) ( hwilcheeo ) , 바퀴의자 ( bakwiuija )
Latin: sella rotalis f
Latvian: ratiņkrēsls m
Luxembourgish: Rollstull m
Macedonian: инвали́дска ко́личка f ( invalídska kólička ) , ко́личка (mk) f ( kólička )
Maltese: siġġu tar-roti f
Manx: caair wheeylagh f
Maori: tūru wīra
Navajo: ił naalbąąsí
Norman: tchaîse à reues f
Norwegian: rullestol (no) m
Persian: ویلچر (fa) ( vilčer )
Plautdietsch: Rollstool m
Polish: wózek inwalidzki (pl) m
Portuguese: cadeira de rodas f
Romanian: scaun rulant n , scaun cu rotile n
Romansch: sutga cun rodas f
Russian: кре́сло-ката́лка (ru) n ( kréslo-katálka ) , инвали́дное кре́сло n ( invalídnoje kréslo ) , инвали́дная коля́ска f ( invalídnaja koljáska ) , кре́сло-коля́ска (ru) n ( kréslo-koljáska )
Scottish Gaelic: cathair-cuibhle f
Spanish: silla de ruedas (es) f
Swahili: kitimaguru , kiti cha magurudumu , kiti mwendo
Swedish: rullstol (sv) c
Telugu: చక్రాలకుర్చీ ( cakrālakurcī )
Turkish: tekerlekli sandalye (tr)
Ukrainian: інвалі́дний візо́к m ( invalídnyj vizók ) , крі́сло-ката́лка n ( kríslo-katálka )
Uyghur: چاقلىق ئورۇندۇق ( chaqliq orunduq )
Vietnamese: xe lăn (vi)
Welsh: cadair olwyn f