traffic cone

English

An orange traffic cone

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

traffic cone (plural traffic cones)

1. A cone-shaped marker, generally made out of plastic or rubber, that is placed on roads or footpaths to temporarily redirect traffic in a safe manner.

   Coordinate term: construction barrel

Synonyms

• road cone, safety cone, construction cone, pylon, witch's hat (Australia)

Translations

cone-shaped marker

• Azerbaijani: yol konusu, nəqliyyat konusu
• Catalan: con de trànsit m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 雪糕筒 (syut³ gou¹ tung^4-2)

  Mandarin: 交通錐 / 交通锥 (zh) (jiāotōngzhuī), 路障 (zh) (lùzhàng), 路錐 / 路锥 (lùzhuī)

• Czech: dopravní kužel m
• Dutch: verkeerskegel m, afzetkegel m, pylon (nl) m
• Faroese: ferðslukeyla f
• Finnish: sulkukartio, tötsä (fi)
• French: plot (fr) m, cône de chantier (fr) m, cône de signalisation (fr) m
• German: Leitkegel (de) (officially), Lübecker Hütchen (de), Verkehrsleitkegel (de), Pylon (de), Verkehrshütchen (de), Haberkornhütchen (Austrian), Verkehrsstöggel (Swiss)
• Hungarian: terelőkúp
• Icelandic: umferðarkeila f
• Irish: cón tráchta m
• Italian: birillo (it) m
• Japanese: カラーコーン (ja) (karā kōn), 三角コーン (ja) (sankaku kōn), パイロン (ja) (pairon), ロードコーン (ja) (rōdo kōn)
• Korean: 트래픽콘 (teuraepik'kon), 칼라콘 (kallakon), 라바콘 (rabakon), 삼각콘 (samgak'kon)
• Norman: cône dé trafi f
• Polish: pachołek drogowy m
• Portuguese: cone de trânsito m, cone de tráfego m
• Russian: доро́жный ко́нус m (doróžnyj kónus)
• Sicilian: pipitollu m
• Spanish: cono de tráfico m
• Swedish: kon (sv) c, vägkon c, trafikkon c
• Turkish: trafik konisi
• Ulithian: koun
• Welsh: côn traffig m

References

• traffic cone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia