padlock

English

A padlock

Etymology

From earlier pad lock (19th c.); (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English padlok, from pad-, of unknown origin, + lok (“lock”). Perhaps originally a lock for a pad (“gate”), or a gate opening to a path, or a lock for a basket or pannier, from UK dialect pad (“a pannier”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpadˌlɒk/
• Hyphenation: pad‧lock

Noun

padlock (plural padlocks)

1. A detachable lock that can be used to secure something by means of a sliding or hinged shackle

Hypernyms

• lock

Translations

type of lock

• Arabic: كَيْلُون m (kaylūn), كَالُون m (kālūn)

  Egyptian Arabic: قفل m (ʾifl)

• Aromanian: cãtinar n
• Azerbaijani: asma qıfıl
• Basque: giltzarrapo
• Belarusian: замак навясны (zamak navjasny)
• Bulgarian: катина́р (bg) m (katinár)
• Catalan: cadenat m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 掛鎖／挂锁 (zh) (guàsuǒ), 挂锁 (zh) (guàsuǒ)

• Czech: visací zámek m
• Danish: hængelås (da) c
• Dutch: hangslot (nl) n
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: riippulukko (fi), munalukko (fi)
• French: cadenas (fr) m
• Galician: cadeado (gl) m
• Georgian: ბოქლომი (boklomi)
• German: Vorhängeschloss (de) n
• Greek: λουκέτο (el) n (loukéto)
• Gujarati: તાળું (tāḷũ)
• Hindi: ताला (hi) m (tālā)
• Hungarian: lakat (hu)
• Hunsrik: Hengschloss n, Katëaat m
• Ido: padloko (io)
• Indonesian: gembok (id)
• Irish: glas fraincín m, glas crochta m
• Italian: lucchetto (it) m
• Japanese: 南京錠 (なんきんじょう, Nankin-jō, literally “Nanjing lock”), パドロック (padorokku), パッドロック (paddorokku), 蝦錠 (えびじょう, ebijō)
• Javanese: gembok (jv), kontholan
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: 자물쇠 (ko) (jamulsoe)
• Lao: ຮູບ​ກຸນ​ແຈ (hūp kun chǣ)
• Lithuanian: spynà f
• Lun Bawang: fasek
• Luxembourgish: Schlass (lb) n, Klauschter (lb) n
• Macedonian: катанец m (katanec), катина́р m (katinár)
• Malay: mangga (ms)
• Mongolian: цоожоор (coožoor)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hengelås m or n

  Nynorsk: hengelås m or n, hengjelås m or n

• Polish: kłódka (pl) f
• Portuguese: cadeado (pt) m, tranca (pt) f
• Romanian: lacăt (ro) n
• Russian: вися́чий замо́к m (visjáčij zamók), замо́к (ru) m (zamók)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ка̀танац m, ло̏кот m

  Roman: kàtanac (sh) m, lȍkot (sh) m

• Slovene: žabica f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: pyto n

  Upper Sorbian: please add this translation if you can

• Spanish: candado (es) m
• Swahili: kufuli (sw)
• Swedish: hänglås (sv) n
• Telugu: తాళము (te) (tāḷamu)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Urdu: تالا m (tālā)
• Uzbek: osma qulf
• Welsh: clo clap m, clo clwt m
• Yiddish: please add this translation if you can
• Yup'ik: kelucaq

See also

• combination lock

Verb

padlock (third-person singular simple present padlocks, present participle padlocking, simple past and past participle padlocked)

1. To lock using a padlock.
   • 1989, Del Amitri, “Nothing Ever Happens” (song):

     Janitors padlock the gates.

Translations

to lock using a padlock

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 用掛鎖鎖上／用挂锁锁上 (yòng guàsuǒ suǒshàng), 用挂锁锁上 (yòng guàsuǒ suǒshàng)

• Dutch: met een hangslot afsluiten
• Finnish: sulkea riippulukolla
• French: cadenasser (fr)
• German: mit einem Vorhängeschloss verschließen
• Hungarian: lakatol (hu), lelakatol (hu) (but you can also say bezár or lezár which simply means lock)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Ido: padlokagar (io)
• Italian: lucchetto (it)
• Lun Bawang: masek
• Macedonian: закатанчува (zakatančuva)
• Portuguese: cadear, trancar (pt)
• Spanish: candar (es)

References

• padlock on Wikipedia.Wikipedia