lubricant

English

Etymology

From lubricate +‎ -ant.

Pronunciation

• (US, General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈlubɹəkənt/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈluːbɹɪkənt/, /ˈljuːbɹɪkənt/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

lubricant (plural lubricants)

1. 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).

2. A personal lubricant.

Synonyms

• lube

Derived terms

• loob
• lube
• personal lubricant
• social lubricant

Related terms

• lubricate
• lubrication
• lubricious
• lubricity
• lubricous

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

personal lubricant — see personal lubricant

Anagrams

• intraclub

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [lu.βɾiˈkan]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [lu.bɾiˈkant]

Adjective

lubricant m or f (masculine and feminine plural lubricants)

1. lubricant, lubricating

   Synonym: lubrificant

Noun

lubricant m (plural lubricants)

1. lubricant

   Synonym: lubrificant

Verb

lubricant

1. gerund of lubricar

Latin

Verb

lūbricant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of lūbricō