locksmith

English

Etymology

From lock +‎ smith.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑksmɪθ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈlɒksmɪθ/

• Audio (AU)

  (file)

• Hyphenation: lock‧smith

Noun

locksmith (plural locksmiths)

1. one who practices locksmithing
   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 21

     Piccadilly, 12:30 o'clock.--Just before we reached Fenchurch Street Lord Godalming said to me, "Quincey and I will find a locksmith. You had better not come with us in case there should be any difficulty. For under the circumstances it wouldn't seem so bad for us to break into an empty house.

2. (gambling, slang) someone who only bets when they are sure they will win

   Synonym: handcuff artist (slang)

Translations

one who practices locksmithing

• Arabic: قَفَّال‎ m (qaffāl)
• Armenian: փականագործ (hy) (pʿakanagorc)
• Azerbaijani: çilingər (az) m
• Belarusian: сле́сар m (sljésar)
• Breton: alc'hwezer (br) m
• Bulgarian: ключар (bg) m (ključar), шло́сер (bg) m (šlóser)
• Catalan: manyà (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鎖匠 (zh), 锁匠 (zh) (suǒjiàng)

• Corsican: chjavaghjolu m, chjavaghju m
• Crimean Tatar: çilengir
• Czech: zámečník (cs)
• Danish: låsesmed
• Dutch: slotenmaker (nl)
• Esperanto: seruristo
• Estonian: lukksepp
• Finnish: lukkoseppä (fi)
• French: serrurier (fr)
• Galician: cerralleiro
• German: Schlosser (de) m
• Greek: κλειδαράς (el) m (kleidarás)
• Hungarian: lakatos (hu)
• Ido: seruristo (io)
• Irish: glasadóir m, glasaire m
• Italian: serraturiere (it)

• Japanese: 錠前屋 (じょうまえや, jōmaeya)
• Khmer: ជាងសោ (cieŋ sao)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: atslēdznieks
• Lithuanian: šaltkalvis
• Macedonian: бра́вар m (brávar)
• Polish: ślusarz (pl) m
• Portuguese: chaveiro (pt) m
• Romanian: lăcătuș (ro) m
• Russian: сле́сарь (ru) m (slésarʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: шло̏сер m, бра̏ва̄р m

  Roman: šlȍser (sh) m, brȁvār (sh) m

• Slovak: zámočník m
• Slovene: bravar m
• Spanish: cerrajero m
• Swedish: låssmed (sv) c
• Tagalog: panday-kaban
• Thai: ช่างทำกุญแจ (châang tam gunjae)
• Turkish: çilingir (tr), anahtarcı (tr)
• Ukrainian: слю́сар m (sljúsar)
• Vietnamese: thợ sửa ống khóa
• Yiddish: שלאָסער‎ m (shloser)