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English
Etymology
From Middle English loksmith; equivalent to lock + smith.
Pronunciation
Noun
locksmith (plural locksmiths)
- one who practices locksmithing
1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 21, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC: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.
- (gambling, slang) someone who only bets when they are sure they will win
- Synonym: (slang) handcuff artist
Translations
one who practices locksmithing
- Albanian: bravandreqës (sq) m, bravapunues (sq) m, çelësabërës (sq) m
- Arabic: قَفَّال m (qaffāl), قَفَّالَة f (qaffāla)
- Armenian: փականագործ (hy) (pʻakanagorc)
- Azerbaijani: çilingər (az)
- Belarusian: сле́сар m (sljésar), сьле́сар m (sʹljésar)
- Breton: alc'hwezer (br) m
- Bulgarian: ключа́р m (ključár), шло́сер (bg) m (šlóser)
- Catalan: manyà (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 鎖匠／锁匠 (zh) (suǒjiàng)
- Corsican: chjavaghjolu m, chjavaghju m
- Crimean Tatar: çilengir
- Czech: zámečník (cs) m
- Danish: låsesmed c
- Dutch: slotenmaker (nl) m
- Esperanto: seruristo
- Estonian: lukksepp
- Faroese: lásasmiður m
- Finnish: lukkoseppä (fi)
- French: serrurier (fr) m
- Galician: cerralleiro m
- Georgian: ზეინკალი (zeinḳali)
- German: Schlosser (de) m
- Greek: κλειδαράς (el) m (kleidarás)
- Hebrew: מַנְעוּלָן m (man'ulán)
- Hungarian: lakatos (hu)
- Icelandic: lásasmiður m
- Ido: seruristo (io)
- Indonesian: please add this translation if you can
- Irish: glasadóir m, glasaire m
- Italian: serraturiere (it) m
- Japanese: 錠前屋 (じょうまえや, jōmaeya)
- Khmer: ជាងសោ (ciəng sao)
- Korean: 자물쇠 장수 (jamulsoe jangsu), 자물쇠 수리인 (jamulsoe suriin)
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Latin: claustrārius m
- Latvian: atslēdznieks
- Lithuanian: šaltkalvis m
- Macedonian: бра́вар m (brávar), клу́чар m (klúčar)
- Malay: please add this translation if you can
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: түлхүүрчин (tülxüürčin), слесарь (mn) (slesarʹ)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: låsesmed m, kleinsmed m
- Nynorsk: låsesmed m, kleinsmed m
- Plautdietsch: Schlätelschmett m
- 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-gun-jɛɛ)
- Turkish: çilingir (tr), anahtarcı (tr)
- Ukrainian: слю́сар m (sljúsar)
- Vietnamese: thợ sửa ống khóa
- Yiddish: שלאָסער m (shloser)
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