carabiner

English

A carabiner used in climbing.

Carabiner karabiner

Carabiner

Alternative forms

• karabiner

Etymology

Shortened from German Karabinerhaken (“carbine hook”), reflecting that such a link was used for gear slinging even before it was used for rock climbing.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌkæ.ɹəˈbiː.nə/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈkɛ.ɹəˌbi.nɚ/

• Audio (Australia):

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• Hyphenation: ca‧ra‧bi‧ner

Noun

carabiner (plural carabiners)

2. A metal link with a gate that can open and close, generally used for clipping ropes to anchors or other objects or for slinging gear (equipment) on one's person.

   Synonyms: biner, crab, krab, snap-link (carabiner sense)

   Coordinate terms: D-ring, snap hook, snap-link (snap hook sense)

   • 1992 February 2, Jen Wofford, “Activists Protest Price of AIDS Drug”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 28, page 5:

     A carrabeener (metal clasp used in rock climbing) inside the pipes was devised as a release out, a tactic lent to them by Greenpeace.

Related terms

• carabine
• carabiniere
• carabinieri
• carbine

Translations

metal link with a gate

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鐵鎖 / 铁锁 (zh) (tiěsuǒ)

• Czech: karabina (cs) f
• Finnish: karbiinihaka (fi), jousihaka
• French: mousqueton (fr) m
• German: Karabinerhaken (de) m
• Hungarian: karabiner (hu)
• Irish: crúca cairbíneach m
• Italian: moschettone (it) m
• Japanese: カラビナ (karabina)
• Polish: karabinek (pl) m, karabińczyk (pl) m
• Portuguese: mosquetão
• Russian: караби́н (ru) m (karabín)
• Slovak: karabínka f
• Spanish: mosquetón (es) m
• Swedish: karbinhake c
• Tatar: карабин (qarabin)
• Turkish: karabina (tr)
• Ukrainian: карабі́н (karabín)

See also

• slinger