lever

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈliː.və/
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• Canada, General-American: /ˈlɛv.ɚ/
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• Canada, General-American: /ˈli.vɚ/
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• Australian: /ˈliː.və/
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• rhymes with -iːvə(ɹ)
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• rhymes with -ɛvə(ɹ)
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• homophone: leaver
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• homophone: Lever
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• CMU ARPABET: L EH1 V ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: L IY1 V ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English lever, comparative of leve, leef (“dear, beloved, lief”), equivalent to lief + -er. Related to German lieber (“rather”).

From Middle English lever, levore, levour, from Old French leveor, leveur (“a lifter, lever (also Old French and French levier)”), from Latin levātor (“a lifter”), from levō (“to raise”). Doublet of levator.

Borrowed from French lever.

164 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: hefboom — rigid piece
• Albanian: lloz — rigid piece
• Albanian: levë — rigid piece
• Arabic: مُخْل (muḵl) — rigid piece
• Arabic: مُحْل (muḥl) — rigid piece
• Arabic: عَتَلَة (ʕatala) — rigid piece
• Arabic: رَافِعَة (rāfiʕa) — rigid piece
• Armenian: լծակ (lcak) — rigid piece
• Azerbaijani: ling — rigid piece
• Bashkir: һалмауыр (halmawır) — rigid piece
• Basque: palanka — rigid piece
• Basque: altxaprima — rigid piece
• Belarusian: падва́жнік (padvážnik) — rigid piece
• Belarusian: вага́р (vahár) — rigid piece
• Belarusian: рыча́г (ryčáh) — rigid piece
• Bengali: লিভার (libhar) — rigid piece
• Bulgarian: лост (lost) — rigid piece
• Burmese: ကုတ် (kut) — rigid piece
• Catalan: alçaprem — rigid piece
• Catalan: palanca — rigid piece
• Chinese Mandarin: 槓桿 /杠杆 (gànggǎn) — rigid piece
• Czech: páka — rigid piece
• Danish: vægtstang — rigid piece
• Dutch: hefboom — rigid piece
• Esperanto: baskulo — rigid piece
• Esperanto: levstango — rigid piece
• Esperanto: levilo — rigid piece
• Estonian: kang — rigid piece
• Finnish: vipu — rigid piece
• French: levier — rigid piece
• West-Frisian: hefbeam — rigid piece
• West-Frisian: hefaerm — rigid piece
• Galician: cambón — rigid piece
• Galician: panca — rigid piece
• Galician: perpau — rigid piece
• Galician: palferro — rigid piece
• Galician: alzaprema — rigid piece
• Galician: palastra — rigid piece
• Galician: mourón — rigid piece
• Galician: gurra — rigid piece
• Galician: bimbarra — rigid piece
• Georgian: ბერკეტი (berḳeṭi) — rigid piece
• German: Hebel — rigid piece
• Greek: μοχλός (mochlós) — rigid piece
• Ancient Greek: μοχλός (mokhlós) — rigid piece
• Gujarati: ઉચ્ચાલક (uccālak) — rigid piece
• Hebrew: מָנוֹף (manóf) — rigid piece
• Hindi: उत्तोलक (uttolak) — rigid piece
• Hindi: लीवर (līvar) — rigid piece
• Hungarian: emelő — rigid piece
• Hungarian: emelőrúd — rigid piece
• Icelandic: vogarstöng — rigid piece
• Icelandic: lyftistöng — rigid piece
• Indonesian: tuas — rigid piece
• Indonesian: pengungkit — rigid piece
• Irish: luamhán — rigid piece
• Italian: leva — rigid piece
• Japanese: 梃子 (teko) — rigid piece
• Kazakh: иінтірек (iıntırek) — rigid piece
• Khmer: គម្នាស់ (kɔɔkumnŏəh) — rigid piece
• Khmer: ដងថ្លឹង (dɑɑngthləng) — rigid piece
• Korean: 지레 (jire) — rigid piece
• Kyrgyz: рычаг (rıcag) — rigid piece
• Lao: ລີ້ນ (līn) — rigid piece
• Lao: ຊະແລງ (sa lǣng) — rigid piece
• Lao: ໄມ້ງັດ (mai ngat) — rigid piece
• Latin: vectis — rigid piece
• Latvian: svira — rigid piece
• Lithuanian: svirtis — rigid piece
• Lithuanian: svertas — rigid piece
• Macedonian: лост (lost) — rigid piece
• Malay: tuil — rigid piece
• Malay: tuas — rigid piece
• Malay: pengumpil — rigid piece
• Malay: pengungkil — rigid piece
• Malay: pengungkit — rigid piece
• Malayalam: ഉത്തോലകം (uttōlakaṁ) — rigid piece
• Māori: hua — rigid piece
• Māori: tūwhiti — rigid piece
• Māori: kauwhiti — rigid piece
• Central Melanau: tuwaih — rigid piece
• Central Melanau: suwil — rigid piece
• Mongolian: хөшүүрэг (xöšüüreg) — rigid piece
• Classical Nahuatl: cuammītl — rigid piece
• Newar: थिँभः (thĩbha:) — rigid piece
• Norwegian Bokmål: vektstang — rigid piece
• Norwegian Nynorsk: vektstong — rigid piece
• Pashto: رافعه (rāfe'á) — rigid piece
• Pashto: اړم (aṛám) — rigid piece
• Pashto: اړمی (aramáy) — rigid piece
• Pashto: خريز (xriz) — rigid piece
• Pashto: دغری (daǧǝ́ray) — rigid piece
• Pashto: دورسي (duresí) — rigid piece
• Persian: اهرم (ahrom) — rigid piece
• Polish: dźwignia — rigid piece
• Polish: drążek — rigid piece
• Polish: lewar — rigid piece
• Polish: wajcha — rigid piece
• Portuguese: alavanca — rigid piece
• Romanian: pârghie — rigid piece
• Russian: рыча́г (ryčág) — rigid piece
• Serbo-Croatian: по̀луга — rigid piece
• Serbo-Croatian: pòluga — rigid piece
• Slovak: páka — rigid piece
• Slovene: vzvod — rigid piece
• Spanish: palanca — rigid piece
• Swedish: hävstång — rigid piece
• Tagalog: dalawit — rigid piece
• Tajik: фашанг (fašang) — rigid piece
• Tajik: фишанг (fišang) — rigid piece
• Tajik: дастак (dastak) — rigid piece
• Tamil: நெம்புகோல் (nempukōl) — rigid piece
• Telugu: తులాదండము (tulādaṇḍamu) — rigid piece
• Thai: คาน (kaan) — rigid piece
• Turkish: kaldıraç — rigid piece
• Turkmen: leňňer — rigid piece
• Ukrainian: ва́жіль (vážilʹ) — rigid piece
• Ukrainian: підо́йма (pidójma) — rigid piece
• Ukrainian: підва́га (pidváha) — rigid piece
• Urdu: لیور (līvar) — rigid piece
• Uzbek: pishang — rigid piece
• Uzbek: dastak — rigid piece
• Uzbek: richag — rigid piece
• Vietnamese: đòn bẩy — rigid piece
• Walloon: djîsse — rigid piece
• Walloon: levî — rigid piece
• Bulgarian: ръ́чка (rǎ́čka) — small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device
• Catalan: palanca — small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device
• Chinese Mandarin: 槓桿 /杠杆 (gànggǎn) — small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device
• Czech: páka — small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device
• Dutch: hendel — small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device
• Esperanto: baskulo — small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device
• Finnish: vipu — small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device
• French: levier — small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device
• French: manette — small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device
• Galician: travón — small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device
• Georgian: ბერკეტი (berḳeṭi) — small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device
• German: Hebel — small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device
• Greek: μοχλός (mochlós) — small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device
• Hungarian: kar — small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device
• Hungarian: fogantyú — small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device
• Italian: levetta — small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device
• Korean: 지레 (jire) — small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device
• Norwegian: spak — small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device
• Norwegian Nynorsk: spak — small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device
• Portuguese: alavanca — small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device
• Slovak: páka — small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device
• Spanish: palanca — small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device
• Spanish: maneta — small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device
• Swedish: spak — small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device
• Finnish: vivuta — to move with a lever
• German: hebeln — to move with a lever
• Hungarian: megemel — to move with a lever
• Hungarian: felemel — to move with a lever
• Māori: huaranga — to move with a lever
• Māori: rangahua — to move with a lever
• Khiamniungan Naga: ngàu — to move with a lever
• Portuguese: alavancar — to move with a lever
• Spanish: apalancar — to move with a lever
• Spanish: palanquear — to move with a lever
• Finnish: vivuttaa — to use like a lever
• Spanish: centrarse en — to use like a lever
• Finnish: vivuttaa — finance: to increase the share of debt
• Spanish: ampliar capital — finance: to increase the share of debt