pedal

See also Pedal, and pedał

English

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Pronunciation

• (noun, verb) enPR: pĕdʹəl, IPA: /ˈpɛdəl/, X-SAMPA: /"pEd@l/
• (adjective) enPR: pēdʹəl, IPA: /ˈpiːdəl/, X-SAMPA: /"pi:d@l/ or as the noun
• Rhymes: -ɛdəl, -iːdəl
• Homophones: peddle, petal (some dialects)

Etymology

From French pédale, Italian pedale, Latin pedālis

Noun

pedal (plural pedals)

1. A lever operated by one's foot that is used to control a machine or mechanism, such as a bicycle or piano

   There are three pedals on manual cars, two on automatics.

   A piano usually has two or three pedals.

   the pedal of a loom

2. (medicine) a foot or footlike part.

Derived terms

• pedal pushers
• soft pedal
• sostenuto pedal
• sustaining pedal

Translations

lever operated by one's foot

• Armenian: պեդալ (hy) (pedal), ոտնակ (hy) (otnak)
• Belarusian: педаль (be) (pedálʹ) f
• Bulgarian: педал (bg) (pedál) m
• Catalan: pedal (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 踏板 (cmn) (tàbǎn) (car), 腳蹬子 (cmn), 脚蹬子 (cmn) (jiǎodèngzi) (bicycle), 腳蹬 (cmn), 脚蹬 (cmn) (jiǎodèng)

• Czech: pedál (cs) m
• Danish: pedal (da) c
• Finnish: poljin (fi), (in instruments) pedaali (fi)
• French: pédale (fr) f
• German: Pedal (de) n
• Hungarian: pedál (hu)
• Irish: troitheán (ga) m
• Italian: pedale (it) m
• Japanese: ペダル (ja) (pedaru)

• Jèrriais: pédale f
• Korean: 페달 (ko) (pedal)
• Macedonian: педала (mk) (pedála) f
• Manx: coshal (gv)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pedal (no) m

  Nynorsk: pedal (nn) m

• Polish: pedał (pl) m
• Portuguese: pedal (pt) m
• Russian: педаль (ru) (pedálʹ) f
• Scottish Gaelic: casachan (gd) f, troighean (gd) m
• Spanish: pedal (es) m
• Swedish: pedal (sv) c, trampa (sv) c
• Turkish: pedal (tr), ayaklık (tr)
• Ukrainian: педаль (uk) (pedálʹ) f

Verb

pedal (third-person singular simple present pedals, present participle pedalling (UK) or pedaling (US), simple past and past participle pedalled (UK) or pedaled (US))

1. To operate a pedal attached to a wheel in a continuous circular motion.

   to pedal one's loom

2. To operate a bicycle.

   He was out of breath from pedalling up the steep hill.

Translations

to operate a pedal

• Catalan: pedalejar (ca)
• Finnish: polkea (fi)
• French: pédaler (fr)
• Irish: troitheánaigh (ga)
• Italian: pedalare (it)

• Macedonian: педалира (mk) (pedalíra)
• Polish: pedałować (pl)
• Spanish: pedalear (es)
• Swedish: trampa (sv)

Adjective

pedal (comparative more pedal, superlative most pedal)

1. Of or relating to the foot.

Coordinate terms

• manual, relating to the hand

Anagrams

• padel
• paled
• plead

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Spanish

Noun

pedal m (plural pedales)

1. pedal

Derived terms

• pedalear

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Swedish

Noun

pedal c

1. pedal; a lever operated by one's foot that is used to control a machine or mechanism, such as a bicycle or piano

Declension

Declension of pedal

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	pedal	pedalen	pedaler	pedalerna
genitive	pedals	pedalens	pedalers	pedalernas