seat belt

See also: seatbelt and seat-belt

English

Alternative forms

• seatbelt

Pronunciation

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Noun

seat belt (plural seat belts)

1. (automotive) A restraining belt attached to a vehicle seat and fastened around occupants in order to keep them in place and decelerate them smoothly rather than suddenly in an accident, mitigating the risk of injury from uncontrolled impact with injurious objects.
   • 2023 September 20, Jorge Liboreiro, quoting Michelle Yeoh, Euronews‎^[1], archived from the original on 26 July 2025:

     "Wearing a seat belt for drivers and front seat occupants reduces the risk of death by 45 to 50%. Just think about that for a moment. A 50% more chance of staying alive. Who wouldn't go for that?"

Synonyms

• safety belt

Derived terms

• lap sash seatbelt
• seat belt sign
• seat belt syndrome
• would you mind putting on your seat belt

Related terms

• lap belt

Translations

restraining belt

• Arabic: حِزَام أَمَان (ḥizām ʔamān)
• Armenian: ամրագոտի (amragoti)
• Azerbaijani: təhlükəsizlik kəməri
• Bengali: সুরক্ষা-বদ্ধনী (śurokkha-bondhonī)
• Breton: gouriz-surentez m
• Bulgarian: предпазен колан m (predpazen kolan)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 安全帶 / 安全带 (on¹ cyun⁴ daai^3-2)

  Hokkien: 安全帶 / 安全带 (an-choân-tòa)

  Mandarin: 安全帶 / 安全带 (zh) (ānquándài)

• Cornish: grugys diogeledh m
• Czech: bezpečnostní pás (cs) m
• Danish: sikkerhedssele (da) c, sikkerhedsbælte n
• Dutch: veiligheidsgordel (nl) m, veiligheidsriem (nl) m
• Esperanto: sekurzono
• Faroese: trygdarbelti n
• Finnish: turvavyö (fi), istuinvyö
• French: ceinture de sécurité (fr) f
• German: Sicherheitsgurt (de) m
• Greek: ζώνη ασφαλείας (el) f (zóni asfaleías)
• Hebrew: חגורת בטיחות (he) f
• Hindi: पेटी (hi) (peṭī), रक्षा पेटी (rakṣā peṭī)
• Hungarian: biztonsági öv (hu)
• Icelandic: öryggisbelti (is) n
• Indonesian: sabuk pengaman (id)
• Interlingua: cinctura de securitate
• Irish: crios sábhála m
• Italian: cintura di sicurezza f
• Japanese: シートベルト (ja) (shītoberuto)
• Kazakh: қауіпсіздік белбеуі (qauıpsızdık belbeuı)
• Korean: 안전벨트 (ko) (anjeonbelteu), 안전띠 (anjeontti)
• Macedonian: сигурносен појас m (sigurnosen pojas)
• Malay: tali pinggang keledar
• Manx: cryss sauchys f
• Māori: tātua tūru
• Mongolian: аюулгүйн бүс (ajuulgüjn büs)
• Norman: cheintuthe dé seûtheté f
• Norwegian: sikkerthetsbelt n

  Bokmål: bilbelte n, setebelte n

  Nynorsk: bilbelte n, setebelte n

• Persian: کمربند ایمنی (kamarband-e imeni)
• Polish: pas bezpieczeństwa (pl) m
• Portuguese: cinto de segurança m
• Romanian: centură de siguranță (ro) f
• Russian: реме́нь безопа́сности (ru) m (reménʹ bezopásnosti)
• Scottish Gaelic: crios-sàbhailteachd m, crios-sàbhalaidh m
• Slovak: bezpečnostný pás m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: wěstotny pas m

• Spanish: cinturón de seguridad (es) m, cinturón (es) m
• Swedish: säkerhetsbälte (sv) n, bilbälte (sv)
• Tajik: тасмаи бехатарӣ (tasma-yi bexatari)
• Thai: เข็มขัดนิรภัย (th) (kěm-kàt-ní-rá-pai)
• Turkish: emniyet kemeri (tr)
• Urdu: پیٹی (peṭī), حفاظتی بند (hifāzatī-band), حفاظتی پیٹی (hifāzatī-peṭī)
• Vietnamese: dây an toàn (vi) (絏安全), đai an toàn
• Welsh: gwregys diogelwch m

Anagrams

• Abel test, settable, testable