handbrake

See also: hand brake

English

Alternative forms

• hand brake

Etymology

hand +‎ brake

Noun

handbrake (plural handbrakes)

1. (automotive) A brake in a vehicle, set by hand, and usually locking on until released by hand, enabling its use when parked.
2. (automotive) The mechanism, particularly the locking hand-operated lever in a motor car, which is used to set and release such a brake.

Synonyms

• parking brake

Derived terms

• handbrake turn

Translations

hand-operated brake in a car

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 手掣 (zh) (shoǔchè), 手剎車／手刹车 (zh) (shǒushāchē), 手刹车 (shǒushāchē), 手閘／手闸 (shǒuzhá), 手闸 (shǒuzhá)

• Danish: håndbremse
• Finnish: käsijarru (fi)
• French: frein à main (fr) m
• German: Handbremse (de) f
• Greek: χειρόφρενο (el) n (cheirófreno)
• Hebrew: אמברקס (he) m (ambreks)
• Icelandic: handbremsa f
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• Italian: freno a mano m
• Japanese: ハンドブレーキ (handoburēki)
• Luxembourgish: Handbrems f
• Macedonian: рачна кочница f (račna kočnica)
• Portuguese: freio de mão m
• Russian: ручно́й то́рмоз m (ručnój tórmoz), ручни́к (ru) m (ručník) (colloquial)
• Spanish: freno de mano m
• Swedish: handbroms (sv) c
• Tagalog: kamay-pigil

Verb

handbrake (third-person singular simple present handbrak, present participle ing, simple past and past participle handbraked)

1. To apply the handbrake in a vehicle.