handbrake

See also: hand brake

English

Alternative forms

• hand brake

Etymology

hand +‎ brake

Noun

handbrake (plural handbrakes)

1. (mechanical engineering, automotive, rail transport) A brake in a vehicle, set by hand, and usually locking on until released by hand, enabling its use when parked.
2. (mechanical engineering, automotive, rail transport) The mechanism, particularly the locking hand-operated lever or foot-operated toggle lever in a motorcar or the hand-operated crank on a railcar, which is used to set and release such a brake.

Synonyms

• parking brake

Derived terms

• handbrake turn
• release the handbrake

Translations

hand-operated brake in a car

• Arabic:

  Hijazi Arabic: جَلَنْط m (jalanṭ)

• Bengali: হাত ব্রেক (hat brek)
• Catalan: fre de mà m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 手掣 (sau² zai³)

  Mandarin: 手剎／手刹 (shǒushā), 手剎車／手刹车 (zh) (shǒushāchē), 手閘／手闸 (shǒuzhá)

• Danish: håndbremse
• Dutch: handrem (nl) f
• Finnish: käsijarru (fi), seisontajarru (fi)
• French: frein à main (fr) m
• German: Handbremse (de) f
• Greek: χειρόφρενο (el) n (cheirófreno)
• Hebrew: אמברקס (he) m (ambreks)
• Hungarian: kézifék (hu)
• Icelandic: handbremsa f
• Italian: freno a mano m
• Japanese: ハンドブレーキ (handoburēki)
• Luxembourgish: Handbrems f
• Macedonian: рачна кочница f (račna kočnica)
• Norwegian: håndbrekk n
• Persian: ترمز دستی (fa) (tormoz dasti)
• Polish: hamulec ręczny m
• Portuguese: freio de mão m (Brazil), travão de mão m (Portugal)
• Russian: ручно́й то́рмоз m (ručnój tórmoz), ручни́к (ru) m (ručník) (colloquial)
• Spanish: freno de mano m
• Swedish: handbroms (sv) c
• Tagalog: kamay-pigil
• Turkish: el freni (tr)

Verb

handbrake (third-person singular simple present handbrakes, present participle handbraking, simple past and past participle handbraked)

1. To apply the handbrake in a vehicle.