From hand + shake. See the appendix for the history of the gesture itself.
Handshake 1.
handshake (plural handshakes)
- The grasping of hands by two people when greeting, leave-taking, or making an agreement.
1960, John Updike, 'Rabbit, Run', page 88:Eccles' handshake, eager and practiced and hard, seems to symbolize for him an embrace. For an instant Rabbit fears he will never let go.
- (computing) An exchange of signals between two devices when communications begin in order to ensure synchronization.
grasping of hands by two people
- Arabic: مُصَافَحَة f (muṣāfaḥa)
- Armenian: ձեռքսեղմում (hy) (jeṙkʻseġmum)
- Belarusian: по́ціск m (pócisk), по́ціск рукі́ m (pócisk rukí), по́ціск рук m (pócisk ruk)
- Bengali: মুসাফা (bn) (muśapha)
- Bulgarian: ръкости́скане (bg) n (rǎkostískane), ръку́ване (bg) n (rǎkúvane)
- Catalan: encaixada (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 握手 (zh) (wòshǒu)
- Czech: podání ruky n
- Danish: håndtryk n
- Dutch: handdruk (nl)
- Esperanto: manpremo
- Finnish: kättely (fi)
- French: poignée de main (fr) f, shake-hand (fr) m (uncommon)
- German: Händeschütteln (de) n, Handschlag (de) m, Händedruck (de) m
- Greek: χειραψία (el) f (cheirapsía)
- Hungarian: kézfogás (hu)
- Icelandic: handaband (is) n
- Indonesian: jabat tangan (id)
- Italian: stretta di mano f
- Japanese: 握手 (ja) (あくしゅ, akushu), ハンドシェーク (handoshēku)
- Korean: 악수(握手) (ko) (aksu), 핸드세이크 (haendeuseikeu), 핸드셰이크 (haendeusyeikeu)
- Latvian: rokasspiediens m
- Macedonian: ракување n (rakuvanje)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: håndtrykk
- Nynorsk: handtrykk
- Persian: مصافحه (fa) (mosâfahe), دستدادن (fa) (dast-dâdan)
- Polish: uścisk dłoni m, uścisk ręki m
- Portuguese: aperto de mão m, passou-bem m (Portugal, informal), bacalhau (pt) m (Portugal, colloquial)
- Romanian: strângere de mână f
- Russian: рукопожа́тие (ru) n (rukopožátije)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: руковање n
- Roman: rukovanje (sh) n
- Slovak: podanie ruky n
- Spanish: apretón de manos (es) m, estrechamiento de manos m, estrechadura de manos
- Swedish: handskakning c, handslag (sv) n, handtryckning (sv) c
- Tajik: дастфушурӣ (dastfušuri)
- Telugu: కరచాలనం (te) (karacālanaṁ)
- Turkish: el sıkışma, el sıkma
- Ukrainian: рукостиска́ння n (rukostyskánnja), по́тиск m (pótysk)
- Urdu: مُصافَحَہ (musāfahā)
- Vietnamese: cái bắt tay (vi)
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an exchange of signals between two devices
handshake (third-person singular simple present handshakes, present participle handshaking, simple past and past participle handshaked or handshook)
- (intransitive) To perform a handshake; to shake hands.
- (computing, intransitive) To perform a handshake with another device.
