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English
Etymology
From lubricate + -ant.
Pronunciation
Noun
lubricant (plural lubricants)
- A substance used to reduce friction between objects or surfaces.
2008 May, Walneck's Classic Cycle Trader, page 101:Before you apply the lubricant, be sure the chain gets a good cleaning with a stiff bristle brush and a good rub down in clean rags or shop towels.
2013, John Sandrolini, One for Our Baby:She'd come back from the hangar with Clint and some shop towels for Bendix's wound.
2011, Sibtain Hamid, “Food-grade hydraulic fluids”, in George Totten, editor, Handbook of Hydraulic Fluid Technology, 2nd edition, page 915:Food-grade lubricants are made for meat and poultry and other food-processing equipment. These lubricants are generally registered with the National Sanitary Foundation (NSF).
- A personal lubricant.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
substance used to reduce friction
- Arabic: مِزْلَق m (mizlaq)
- Armenian: քսանյութ (hy) (kʻsanyutʻ), քսուք (hy) (kʻsukʻ)
- Basque: labaingarri
- Belarusian: зма́зка f (zmázka), зма́зачны матэрыя́л m (zmázačny materyjál)
- Bulgarian: сма́зка (bg) f (smázka)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 潤滑劑 / 润滑剂 (zh) (rùnhuájì), 潤滑油 / 润滑油 (zh) (rùnhuáyóu)
- Czech: mazivo n, mazadlo (cs) n, lubrikant (cs) m
- Danish: smøremiddel n
- Dutch: gel (nl) m, glijmiddel (nl) n
- Estonian: määrdeaine
- Finnish: voiteluaine (fi), liukastin, liukaste, liukastusaine, liukuvoide (fi), liukkari (fi)
- French: lubrifiant (fr) m
- Galician: lubricante m
- Georgian: საპოხი (saṗoxi), შესაზეთი (šesazeti), საცხი (sacxi)
- German: Schmierstoff m, Schmiermittel n, Schmiere (de) f, Gleitmittel n
- Greek: λιπαντικό (el) n (lipantikó)
- Hindi: स्नेहक (hi) (snehak)
- Hungarian: kenőolaj (hu)
- Icelandic: sleipiefni n
- Indonesian: pelumas (id)
- Irish: bealadh m
- Italian: lubrificante (it) m
- Japanese: 潤滑剤 (ja) (じゅんかつざい, junkatsuzai), 潤滑油 (ja) (じゅんかつゆ, junkatsuyu)
- Khmer: ប្រេងរំអិល (preeng rumʼəl)
- Korean: 윤활제(潤滑劑) (yunhwalje), 윤활유(潤滑油) (yunhwaryu)
- Latvian: smērviela f
- Lithuanian: tepalas m
- Macedonian: мазиво n (mazivo)
- Malay: pelincir (ms)
- Marathi: वंगण n (vaṅgaṇ)
- Navajo: bee nidiltoʼí
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: smøremiddel n
- Nynorsk: smørjemiddel n
- Persian: روانساز (fa) (ravân-sâz)
- Polish: smar (pl) m
- Portuguese: lubrificante (pt) m
- Romanian: lubrifiant (ro) m
- Russian: сма́зка (ru) f (smázka), сма́зочный материа́л m (smázočnyj materiál)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ма̏зӣво n
- Roman: mȁzīvo (sh) n
- Slovak: mastivo n, mazadlo n, lubrikant m
- Slovene: mazivo n
- Spanish: lubrificante m, lubricante (es) m
- Swedish: glidmedel (sv) n, smörjmedel (sv) n, glid (sv) n
- Tagalog: pampadulas, padanlog
- Thai: สารหล่อลื่น (sǎan-lɔ̀ɔ-lʉ̂ʉn)
- Turkish: kayganlaştırıcı
- Ukrainian: масти́ло (uk) n (mastýlo), масти́льний матеріа́л m (mastýlʹnyj materiál)
- Uzbek: smazka
- Vietnamese: dầu nhờn
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Pronunciation
Adjective
lubricant m or f (masculine and feminine plural lubricants)
- lubricant, lubricating
- Synonym: lubrificant
Noun
lubricant m (plural lubricants)
- lubricant
- Synonym: lubrificant
Verb
lubricant
- gerund of lubricar
Latin
Verb
lūbricant
- third-person plural present active indicative of lūbricō