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English
Etymology
From door + knocker.
Noun
doorknocker (plural doorknockers)
- (architecture) A knocker mounted on a door.
- A person who doorknocks.
Synonyms
Translations
knocker mounted on a door
- Catalan: picaporta (ca) f, balda (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 門環 / 门环 (zh) (ménhuán)
- Czech: klepátko n, klepadlo n
- Danish: dørhammer c
- Dutch: deurklopper (nl) m, deurhamer m
- Finnish: kolkutin (fi), ovenkolkutin
- French: heurtoir (fr) m
- Friulian: batel m, batecul m
- Galician: chamador (gl), aldraba f, petador (gl) m, picaporte m
- Georgian: კარის ჩაქუჩი (ḳaris čakuči)
- German: Türklopfer (de) m, Klopfer (de) m
- Greek: ρόπτρο (el) n (róptro)
- Hungarian: kopogtató (hu), ajtókopogtató (hu)
- Italian: batacchio (it) m, battaglio (it) m
- Japanese: ドアノッカー (doanokkā), ノッカー (nokkā)
- Macedonian: клу́кало n (klúkalo), чу́кало n (čúkalo), чу́калка f (čúkalka)
- Norwegian: dørklinke m
- Ottoman Turkish: طوقماق (tokmak)
- Persian: زلفین (fa) (zolfin), زفرین (fa) (zofrin)
- Polish: kołatka (pl) f, antaba (pl) f (dated)
- Portuguese: aldrava (pt) f
- Russian: дверно́й молото́к m (dvernój molotók), дверно́е кольцо́ n (dvernóje kolʹcó)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: звекир m
- Roman: zvekir (sh) m
- Spanish: aldaba (es) f, picaporte (es) m
- Swedish: portklapp (sv) c, dörrklapp (sv) c, klapp (sv) c, dörrknackare (sv) c
- Turkish: kapı tokmağı (tr)
- Ukrainian: клепа́ло n (klepálo), сту́кальце n (stúkalʹce), стука́чка f (stukáčka), грю́кальце n (hrjúkalʹce)
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