Practivistas India/vocabulary
These are words specifically related to Appropriate Technology, Social Entrepreneurship, and the Environment that the students of the Practivistas India program found useful.
Vocabulary
[edit | edit source]Words relating to Appropriate Technology, Social Entrepreneurship, the Environment, and construction in general.
| English | Hindi |
|---|---|
| 5 gallon water jug | |
| Activated Carbon | |
| Adiabatic | |
| Aligator clips | |
| Aluminum | |
| Agua | |
| Appropriate Technology | |
| Architect | |
| Arena | |
| Ash | |
| Available Energy | |
| Awl | |
| Aquaponics Systems | |
| Bamboo | |
| Barbed wire | |
| Beam (construction) | |
| Bearings | |
| Bilingual | |
| Blowtorch | |
| Bolt & nut | |
| Brick | |
| Broom | |
| Cast Iron | |
| Cement | |
| Cement mixer | |
| Ceramic | |
| Chain Saw | |
| Charge | |
| Charge Controller | |
| Chicken wire | |
| Chicken wire (DR) | |
| Climate change | |
| Clamp | |
| Clay | |
| Coal | |
| Compost | |
| Composting Toilet | |
| Camaraderie | |
| Construction | |
| Carbon Dioxide | |
| Crowbar | |
| Current | |
| Diffuser | |
| Dig | |
| Dog | |
| Dowel | |
| Drill | |
| Dynamic Pressure | |
| Drill Bit | |
| Embodied Energy | |
| Energy | |
| Engineer | |
| Entropy | |
| Environmental engineering | |
| Environmental science | |
| Epoxy Resin | |
| Fertilizer | |
| Filtration | |
| Finishing coat | |
| Flow | |
| Foot | |
| Greenhouse | |
| Gutter | |
| Gully, ravine | |
| Hack Saw | |
| Hammer | |
| Head | |
| Head | |
| Heat | |
| Heat Transfer | |
| Inch | |
| Install | |
| Inverter | |
| Knife | |
| Leak | |
| Level | |
| Light Bulb | |
| Lightning Arrester | |
| Lime powder | |
| Literature Review | |
| Load | |
| Mace (Mallet) | |
| Metal | |
| Meter | |
| Micro-hydro | |
| Multimeter | |
| Nail | |
| Nature | |
| Newspaper | |
| Organic | |
| Outlet | |
| Permaculture | |
| Permit | |
| Photovoltaic | |
| Pickaxe | |
| Pipe | |
| Plant | |
| Plaster (verb) | |
| Plaster (noun) | |
| Plastic extruder | |
| Pliers | |
| Powerhouse | |
| Protective gloves | |
| Purify | |
| Rain Water | |
| Rebar | |
| Renewable energy | |
| Reuse | |
| Resistance | |
| Rock | |
| Sack | |
| Saw | |
| Saw Dust | |
| Sand | |
| Scale | |
| Screw | |
| Screwdriver | |
| Silicone | |
| Slope | |
| Sledge Hammer | |
| Solar Cell | |
| Straight Edge | |
| Straw | |
| Sun | |
| Shovel | |
| Sift | |
| Soldering Gun | |
| Square | |
| Steel | |
| Stream | |
| Sulfur | |
| Sustainability | |
| Tape Measure | |
| Tire (or rubber) | |
| Tests | |
| Trowel (rectangular, metal, smoothing) | |
| Truss | |
| Viscous | |
| Voltage | |
| Volume | |
| Wall | |
| Washer | |
| Waste water treatment | |
| Water | |
| Water bottle building | |
| Water storage tanks | |
| Watts | |
| Weathering | |
| Weir | |
| Welding | |
| Wheelbarrow | |
| Wind Energy | |
| Wire (Electrical) | |
| Wood | |
| Work Boots |
Phrases
[edit | edit source]Useful Hindi phrases:
| English | Hindi |
|---|---|
| Can you bring me the | |
| Do you need anything? | |
| Can I help you? | |
| Could you help me? | |
| Where can I get... | |
| Look out! | |
| pass me (Insert word) please | |
| How do you make(---)? | |
| What do you think? |
Instructions
[edit | edit source]To add your word, click edit and: Copy the following code (not including the pre and /pre) and paste it just before the |} in the table above.
|- | English word | Hindi word
| Authors | Lonny |
|---|---|
| License | CC-BY-SA-3.0 |
| Organizations | Cal Poly Humboldt |
| Cite as | Lonny (2018–2025). "Practivistas India/vocabulary". Appropedia. Retrieved June 4, 2026. |