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Proto-West Germanic *krāā English crowbar
From crow (“crow (bird)" also "metal lever, crowbar”) + bar, probably because the forked end looks like a crow's foot.
A crowbar
crowbar (plural crowbars)
- An iron or steel bar, often with a flattened end which may also be hook-shaped, to be used as a lever to manually force things apart.
- Synonyms: wrecking bar, jemmy, jimmy, pinchbar, nail bar
- Hypernyms: prise bar, prybar
- An electrical circuit that prevents an overvoltage from causing damage.
- A type of cocktail made with only Crown Royal whiskey and lemon lime soda.
iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart
- Afrikaans: koevoet
- Arabic: عَتَلَة f (ʕatala)
- Armenian: լինգ (hy) (ling)
- Azerbaijani: ling
- Belarusian: цвікадзёр m (cvikadzjór) (nail puller), лом m (lom)
- Catalan: alçaprem (ca), palanqueta
- Cherokee: ᎨᏘᎶᏍᏗ (getilosdi)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 撬棍 (zh) (qiàogùn), 鐵撬 / 铁撬 (zh) (tiěqiào), 撬杠 (zh) (qiàogàng), 鐵挺 / 铁挺 (zh) (tiětǐng)
- Czech: páčidlo (cs) n, pajsr (cs) m, pajcr (cs) m, sochor (cs) m
- Danish: koben (da) n, brækjern n
- Dhivehi: އަލަވަންގު (alavan̊gu)
- Dutch: koevoet (nl) m, breekijzer (nl) n
- Esperanto: levstango
- Estonian: sõrgkang
- Faroese: kúbein n, kleyv f
- Finnish: sorkkarauta (fi)
- French: pied-de-biche (fr) m, pince-monseigneur (fr) f
- Georgian: ძალაყინი (ka) (ʒalaq̇ini)
- German: Brechstange (de) f, Brecheisen (de) n, Hebeeisen n, Nageleisen n, Kuhfuß m, Geißfuß m
- Greek: λοστός (el) m (lostós)
- Ancient Greek: μοχλός m (mokhlós)
- Gujarati: પારી f (pārī)
- Hebrew: לום (he) m (lom)
- Hindi: सब्बल (sabbal), खनती (khantī), रंभा (hi) (rambhā), अधिपारक (adhipārak)
- Hungarian: emelőrúd (hu), emeltyű (hu), feszítővas (hu), pajszer (hu)
- Icelandic: kúbein (is) n
- Indonesian: linggis (id)
- Irish: gró m
- Italian: piede di porco (it) m, palanchino (it) m, levachiodi m, cavachiodi m
- Japanese: 鉄梃 (ja) (かなてこ, kanateko), バール (ja) (bāru), バー (ja) (bā)
- Kannada: ಹಾರೆ (kn) (hāre)
- Kazakh: шегежұлғыш (šegejulğıš), шегесуырғыш (šegesuwırğıš)
- Korean: 노루발못뽑이 (norubalmotppobi), 빠루 (ko) (pparu), 크로우바 (keurouba), 쇠지레 (soejire)
- Latin: vectis (la) m
- Latvian: lauznis m
- Lithuanian: laužtuvas m, dalba f
- Luxembourgish: Briecheisen n
- Macedonian: ќу́скија f (ḱúskija), хе́бла f (hébla)
- Māori: koropā, whakatiriwhana
- Navajo: béésh bee ayanaʼalgoʼí
- Norwegian: brekkjern n, kubein n
- Persian: دِیلُم (fa) (dilom)
- Plautdietsch: Koofoot m
- Polish: łom (pl) m inan
- Portuguese: pé de cabra m
- Romanian: rangă (ro) f
- Russian: лом (ru) m (lom), (small) ло́мик (ru) m (lómik), (nail puller) гвоздодёр (ru) m (gvozdodjór), (criminal slang) фо́мка (ru) f (fómka), ло́мтик (ru) m (lómtik)
- Serbo-Croatian: ćuskija f, pajser (sh) m
- Sikaiana: kolopaa
- Sikkimese: ལྕགས་ཧྲེང (lcags hreng)
- Slovak: páčidlo n, pajsr m
- Spanish: pie de cabra m, pata de cabra f, palanqueta (es) f, barreta (es) f, palanca (es) f, diablo (es) f, diablito f
- Sundanese: suligi
- Swedish: kofot (sv) c, bräckjärn (sv) n
- Tagalog: landok, landol, ligkal
- Tamil: நெம்புகோல் (ta) (nempukōl), கடப்பாரை (ta) (kaṭappārai)
- Tày: ba minh
- Telugu: పలుగు (te) (palugu)
- Thai: ชะแลง (th) (chá-lɛɛng)
- Tok Pisin: koroba
- Turkish: levye (tr)
- Ukrainian: цвяходе́р (uk) m (cvjaxodér) (nail puller), лом (uk) m (lom)
- Ulithian: kuriuba
- Vietnamese: xà beng (vi)
- Walloon: pî-d'-bixhe m, pidbixhe m
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crowbar (third-person singular simple present crowbars, present participle crowbarring, simple past and past participle crowbarred)
- (transitive) To force to move, usually with a crowbar; to prise.
- Synonyms: crow, pry, prise / prize
He crowbarred the door open.
to force to move, usually with a crowbar
