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English
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A faucet.
Etymology
From Middle English faucet , fawcett , from Old French fausset , of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Late Latin falsāre ( “ to falsify ” ) or from a diminutive of Latin faux, faucēs ( “ throat ” ) . Alternatively, from Old Norse foss , fors ( “ waterfall ” ) ; if so, cognate with English force , foss .
Pronunciation
Noun
faucet (plural faucets )
( Canada , US ) An exposed plumbing fitting ; a tap or spigot ; a regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir.
Synonyms: tap , spigot
2020 , Brandon Taylor , Real Life , Daunt Books Originals, page 80 :Wallace beats his palm against the reluctant handle of the faucet until it gives way, and the water comes out too hard, too fast.
( game development ) One or several systems that inject currency into the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation
Antonym: sink
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Translations
an exposed plumbing fitting; a tap or spigot; a regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir
— see also tap
Albanian: rubinet m
Arabic: حَنَفِيَّة f ( ḥanafiyya ) , صُنْبُور m ( ṣunbūr )
Hijazi Arabic: بَزبوز m ( bazbūz )
Moroccan Arabic: بزبوز m ( bazbūz ) , روبيني m ( rubīni )
Armenian: ծորակ (hy) ( corak )
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܒܵܢܒܘܼܠܵܐ m ( bānbulā ) , ܦܸܬܝܘܿܢ ( pityon )
Azerbaijani: kran
Basque: txorrota
Belarusian: кран m ( kran )
Bengali: কল (bn) ( kol )
Brunei Malay: paip
Bulgarian: чешма́ (bg) f ( češmá ) , кран (bg) m ( kran )
Burmese: ဘုံပိုင် (my) ( bhumpuing )
Catalan: aixeta (ca) f , canella (ca) f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 水龍頭 / 水龙头 ( seoi2 lung4 tau4 )
Hokkien: 水道頭 / 水道头 (zh-min-nan) ( chúi-tō-thâu ) , 水拵頭 / 水拵头 ( chúi-chūn-thâu )
Mandarin: 水龍頭 / 水龙头 (zh) ( shuǐlóngtóu ) , 龍頭 / 龙头 (zh) ( lóngtóu )
Czech: kohout (cs) m , kohoutek (cs) m , pípa (cs) f
Danish: vandhane (da) c
Dutch: kraan (nl) f
Esperanto: krano (eo)
Estonian: kraan
Finnish: hana (fi) , vesihana (fi)
French: champlure (fr) f ( Canada ) , robinet (fr) m
Galician: billa (gl) f
Georgian: კრანი ( ḳrani ) ( informal, proscribed ) , ონკანი ( onḳani )
German: Armatur (de) f , Auslaufventil n ( technical ) , Hahn (de) m , Kran (de) m , Mischbatterie (de) f , Spund (de) m , Zapfen (de) m , Wasserhahn (de) m ,
Greek: βρύση (el) ( vrýsi )
Gujarati: નળ m ( naḷ )
Hebrew: בֶּרֶז (he) m ( bérez )
Hindi: नल (hi) m ( nal )
Hungarian: csap (hu) , csaptelep (hu) , vízcsap (hu)
Icelandic: hani (is) m , krani m
Indonesian: keran (id)
Ingrian: naka
Irish: buacaire m , sconna m
Italian: rubinetto (it) m , spina (it) f
Japanese: 蛇口 (ja) ( じゃぐち, jaguchi )
Kazakh: кран ( kran )
Khmer: ចំពួយ (km) ( cɑmpuəy ) , ក្បាលម៉ាស៊ីនទឹក ( kbaal maasiin tɨk )
Korean: 수도꼭지 (ko) ( sudokkokji )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: henef (ku) f , henîfe (ku) f , henefî (ku) f , mislik (ku) f , zembere (ku) f
Kyrgyz: кран ( kran )
Lao: ກ໊ອກ ( kǭk ) , ກ໊ອກນ້ຳ ( kǭk nam )
Latvian: krāns m
Lithuanian: čiaupas m
Macedonian: чешма (mk) f ( češma ) , славина f ( slavina )
Malay: kepala paip
Malayalam: ടാപ്പ് (ml) ( ṭāppŭ )
Maltese: vit
Maori: kōrere , kōrere wai , putawai
Marathi: नळ (mr) m ( naḷ ) , तोटी f ( toṭī )
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: крант (mn) ( krant ) , усны цорго ( usny corgo )
Norman: coq m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kran (no) m
Ottoman Turkish: موصلق ( musluk )
Pashto: شيردان (ps) m ( širdān )
Persian:
Dari: شیر (fa) ( šēr )
Iranian Persian: شیر (fa) ( šir )
Plautdietsch: Kron m
Polish: bateria (pl) f , kran (pl) m , kurek (pl) m , zawór (pl) m
Portuguese: bica (pt) f , torneira (pt) f
Punjabi:
Gurmukhi: ਟੂਟੀ f ( ṭūṭī )
Shahmukhi: ٹُوٹِی f ( ṭūṭī )
Romanian: robinet (ro) n or m
Russian: кран (ru) m ( kran ) , крант (ru) m ( krant ) ( obsolete )
Samoan: paipa
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: сла̀вина f
Roman: slàvina (sh) f
Sinhalese: කරාම ( karāma )
Slovak: kohútik
Slovene: pipa (sl) f
Spanish: canilla (es) f ( Argentina, Northern Central Spain, Paraguay, Uruguay ) , caño (es) m ( Peru ) , grifo (es) m , llave (es) f ( Bolivia, Central America, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Venezuela ) , paja (es) f ( Nicaragua ) , pluma (es) f ( Colombian Atlantic Coast ) , bitoque m
Swahili: mfereji (sw) , bilula (sw) class n
Swedish: kran (sv) c
Tagalog: gripo (tl)
Tajik: кран ( kran )
Tamil: குழாய் (ta) ( kuḻāy )
Tetum: torneira
Thai: ก๊อกน้ำ ( gɔ́k-náam ) , ก๊อก (th) ( gɔ́k )
Tibetan: ཁ་གཅུས ( kha gcus )
Tongan: tepi
Turkish: musluk (tr)
Turkmen: kran
Ukrainian: кран m ( kran )
Urdu: نَل m ( nal )
Uyghur: كران ( kran ) , ۋودوپروۋود جۈمىكى ( wodoprowod jümiki )
Uzbek: kran (uz)
Vietnamese: vòi (vi) , rô-bi-nê
Walloon: cråne (wa)
Welsh: dwsel m , tap (cy) m
Anagrams
Middle English
Etymology
From Old French fausset , perhaps from Latin faux ( “ throat ” ) .
Noun
faucet
faucet
Descendants