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• Received-Pronunciation: /lɒk/
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• General-American: lŏk
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• General-American: /lɑk/
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• US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• rhymes with -ɒk
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• homophone: Locke
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• homophone: (Anglicised) loch
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• homophone: lough
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• homophone: lakh (one pronunciation)
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• homophone: lark (non-rhotic)
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• homophone: lawk (cot–caught merger)
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• CMU ARPABET: L AA1 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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* As an English, German and Dutch surname, from the noun lock. * Also as an English surname, from Middle English loke, itself from Old English loca (“enclosure”) or *Loca (“Loki”) (theonym of the latter). * Also as an English surname, from Middle English locke, from Old English locc (“lock of hair”). * Also as a German surname, Americanized from Loch. * As a Chinese surname, variant of Lok, itself from: ** a Cantonese form of 樂 /乐, see Le. ** a Cantonese form of 陸 /陆, 鹿 (lù), 逯 (lù), and 禄 (lù), see Lu. ** a Cantonese form of 駱 /骆 (luò), see Luo.

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *lewg-der. Proto-Germanic *luką Proto-West Germanic *lok Old English loc Middle English lok English lock From Middle English lok, from Old English loc, from Proto-West Germanic *lok, from Proto-Germanic *luką from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“to bend; turn”). Cognate with Cimbrian loch, lòch (“hole”), Dutch lok (“hole”), German Loch (“hole”), German Low German Lock (“hole”), Luxembourgish Lach (“hole”), Vilamovian łöch (“hole”), Yiddish לאָך (lokh, “hole”), Danish låg (“lid, cover”), Norwegian Bokmål lokk (“lid, cover”), Norwegian Nynorsk lok, lokk (“lid, cover”). more detail The verb is from Middle English locken, lokken, louken, from Old English lūcan, Proto-West Germanic *lūkan, from Proto-Germanic *lūkaną. Cognate with Dutch luiken (“to close, to shut”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål lukke (“to close, to shut”), Faroese lúka (“to end, to finish”), Icelandic ljúka (“to close, to shut”), Norwegian Nynorsk lukka (“to close, to shut”). Related to luxe via Latin.

From Middle English lok, lokke, from Old English locc (“hair of the head, hair, lock of hair, curl, ringlet”), from Proto-West Germanic *lokk, from Proto-Germanic *lukkaz, from Proto-Indo-European *lugnó-, from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“to bend”). Cognate with Alemannic German lokha (“hair”), Dutch lok (“lock of hair, curl”), German Locke (“lock of hair, curl”), Danish lok (“lock of hair, curl”), Faroese, Icelandic lokkur (“lock of hair, curl”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk lokk (“lock of hair, curl”), Swedish lock (“lock of hair, curl”). It has been theorised that the word may be related to the Gothic verb *𐌻𐌿𐌺𐌰𐌽 (*lukan, “to shut”) in its ancient meaning "to curb".

529 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abkhaz: ацаԥха (acapxa) — something used for fastening
• Afrikaans: slot — something used for fastening
• Albanian: kyç — something used for fastening
• Northern Altai: пектег (pekteg) — something used for fastening
• Southern Altai: сомок (somok) — something used for fastening
• Arabic: قُفْل (qufl) — something used for fastening
• Arabic: قُفُل (guful) — something used for fastening
• Arabic: قِفِل (ʔifil) — something used for fastening
• Arabic: زَرفيل (zarfīl) — something used for fastening
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܩܘܼܦܠܵܐ (quplā) — something used for fastening
• Armenian: կողպեք (koġpekʻ) — something used for fastening
• Asturian: peslleru — something used for fastening
• Avar: kӏулал — something used for fastening
• Azerbaijani: qıfıl — something used for fastening
• Bashkir: йоҙаҡ (yoźaq) — something used for fastening
• Basque: sarraila — something used for fastening
• Belarusian: замо́к (zamók) — something used for fastening
• Bengali: তালা (tala) — something used for fastening
• Bulgarian: ключа́лка (ključálka) — something used for fastening
• Bulgarian: бра́ва (bráva) — something used for fastening
• Burmese: သော့ (sau.) — something used for fastening
• Catalan: cadenat — something used for fastening
• Chakma: 𑄖𑄣 (tālā) — something used for fastening
• Chinese Cantonese: 鎖 /锁 (so2) — something used for fastening
• Chinese: суәзы (suəzɨ) — something used for fastening
• Eastern Min Chinese: 锁 (sō̤) — something used for fastening
• Chinese Mandarin: 鎖 /锁 (suǒ) — something used for fastening
• Chinese Mandarin: 鎖子 /锁子 (suǒzi) — something used for fastening
• Choctaw: afachʋli — something used for fastening
• Ngazidja Comorian: itasa — something used for fastening
• Czech: zámek — something used for fastening
• Dalmatian: pescatoira — something used for fastening
• Danish: lås — something used for fastening
• Dutch: slot — something used for fastening
• Esperanto: fermilo — something used for fastening
• Esperanto: seruro — something used for fastening
• Esperanto: ŝloso — something used for fastening
• Estonian: lukk — something used for fastening
• Finnish: lukko — something used for fastening
• French: verrou — something used for fastening
• French: cadenas — something used for fastening
• French: serrure — something used for fastening
• North Frisian: Slot — something used for fastening
• Galician: cerradura — something used for fastening
• Galician: fechadura — something used for fastening
• Galician: pechadura — something used for fastening
• Georgian: კლიტე (ḳliṭe) — something used for fastening
• Georgian: საკეტი (saḳeṭi) — something used for fastening
• German: Schloss — something used for fastening
• Greek: κλειδαριά (kleidariá) — something used for fastening
• Gujarati: તાળું (tāḷũ) — something used for fastening
• Hebrew: מַנְעוּל (man'úl) — something used for fastening
• Hindi: ताला (tālā) — something used for fastening
• White Hmong: ntsuas phoo — something used for fastening
• Hungarian: zár — something used for fastening
• Hungarian: lakat — something used for fastening
• Hungarian: retesz — something used for fastening
• Icelandic: lás — something used for fastening
• Ido: seruro — something used for fastening
• Indonesian: kunci — something used for fastening
• Ingush: чӏега (čʼega) — something used for fastening
• Interlingua: serratura — something used for fastening
• Irish: glas — something used for fastening
• Italian: serratura — something used for fastening
• Italian: chiavistello — something used for fastening
• Italian: lucchetto — something used for fastening
• Japanese: 錠前 (jōmae) — something used for fastening
• Japanese: 錠 (jō) — something used for fastening
• Japanese: 鎹 (kasugai) — something used for fastening
• Japanese: 釘 (kugi) — something used for fastening
• Kapampangan: kandaru — something used for fastening
• Kapampangan: seradura — something used for fastening
• Kapampangan: kunsi — something used for fastening
• Kazakh: бекіткіш (bekıtkış) — something used for fastening
• Kazakh: құлып (qūlyp) — something used for fastening
• Khmer: សោ (sao) — something used for fastening
• Korean: 자물쇠 (jamulsoe) — something used for fastening
• Kumyk: беклик (beklik) — something used for fastening
• Kumyk: къала (qala) — something used for fastening
• Kumyk: сарай (saray) — something used for fastening
• Kumyk: дворец (dworets) — something used for fastening
• Kumyk: замок (zamok) — something used for fastening
• Northern Kurdish: qilf — something used for fastening
• Kyrgyz: кулпу (kulpu) — something used for fastening
• Lao: ແມ່ກະແຈ (mǣ ka chǣ) — something used for fastening
• Latin: claustra — something used for fastening
• Latin: clausūra — something used for fastening
• Latvian: atslēga — something used for fastening
• Latvian: slēdzene — something used for fastening
• Lithuanian: užraktas — something used for fastening
• Luxembourgish: Schlass — something used for fastening
• Luxembourgish: Klauschter — something used for fastening
• Macedonian: брава (brava) — something used for fastening
• Macedonian: катанец (katanec) — something used for fastening
• Malay: ibu kunci — something used for fastening
• Māori: raka — something used for fastening
• Marathi: कुलूप (kulūp) — something used for fastening
• Mongolian: цоож (coož) — something used for fastening
• Mongolian: түгжээ (tügžee) — something used for fastening
• Mongolian: оньс (onʹs) — something used for fastening
• Mongolian: ᠴᠣᠣᠵᠢ (čooǰi) — something used for fastening
• Mongolian: ᠲᠦᠭᠵᠢᠶ᠎ᠡ (tügǰiy-e) — something used for fastening
• Mongolian: ᠣᠨᠢᠰᠤ (onisu) — something used for fastening
• Norwegian Bokmål: lås — something used for fastening
• Norwegian Nynorsk: lås — something used for fastening
• Occitan: verrolh — something used for fastening
• Odia: ତାଲା (tālā) — something used for fastening
• Ojibwe: gashkaabika'igan — something used for fastening
• Old English: loc — something used for fastening
• Old Norse: láss — something used for fastening
• Ossetian: гуыдыр — something used for fastening
• Pazeh: sausu — something used for fastening
• Dari: قُفْل (qufl) — something used for fastening
• Iranian Persian: قُفْل (ġofl) — something used for fastening
• Piedmontese: saradura — something used for fastening
• Plautdietsch: Schlott — something used for fastening
• Polish: zamek — something used for fastening
• Polish: kłódka — something used for fastening
• Portuguese: fechadura — something used for fastening
• Portuguese: cadeado — something used for fastening
• Romanian: încuietoare — something used for fastening
• Romanian: lacăt — something used for fastening
• Romanian: broască — something used for fastening
• Romanian: zăvor — something used for fastening
• Romanian: clanță — something used for fastening
• Russian: замо́к (zamók) — something used for fastening
• Russian: запо́р (zapór) — something used for fastening
• Russian: затво́р (zatvór) — something used for fastening
• Scots: lock — something used for fastening
• Scottish Gaelic: glas — something used for fastening
• Serbo-Croatian: бра̀ва — something used for fastening
• Serbo-Croatian: ка̀танац (padlock) — something used for fastening
• Serbo-Croatian: bràva — something used for fastening
• Serbo-Croatian: kàtanac — something used for fastening
• Sindhi: تالو (tālo) — something used for fastening
• Slovak: zámok — something used for fastening
• Slovene: ključavnica — something used for fastening
• Lower Sorbian: zamk — something used for fastening
• Spanish: cerradura — something used for fastening
• Spanish: candado — something used for fastening
• Spanish: chapa — something used for fastening
• Spanish: piesllo — something used for fastening
• Spanish: cerrojo — something used for fastening
• Spanish: pestillo — something used for fastening
• Spanish: tranca — something used for fastening
• Spanish: verrojo — something used for fastening
• Swahili: kufuli — something used for fastening
• Swedish: lås — something used for fastening
• Tagalog: kandado — something used for fastening
• Tahitian: pōnao — something used for fastening
• Tai Dam: ꪄꪫ꪿ꪱ (khoá) — something used for fastening
• Tajik: қуфл (qufl) — something used for fastening
• Tajik: қулф (qulf) — something used for fastening
• Tamil: பூட்டு (pūṭṭu) — something used for fastening
• Tarifit: tišfart — something used for fastening
• Tatar: бик (bik) — something used for fastening
• Tatar: йозак (yozaq) — something used for fastening
• Telugu: తాళము (tāḷamu) — something used for fastening
• Thai: กุญแจ (gun-jɛɛ) — something used for fastening
• Thai: ประแจ (bprà-jɛɛ) — something used for fastening
• Thai: ล็อก (lɔ́k) — something used for fastening
• Thai: แม่กุญแจ (mɛ̂ɛ-gun-jɛɛ) — something used for fastening
• Northern Thai: ᨾᩯ᩵ᨠᩕᨧᩯ — something used for fastening
• Tibetan: སྒོ་ལྕགས (sgo lcags) — something used for fastening
• Turkish: kilit — something used for fastening
• Ottoman Turkish: كلید (kilid) — something used for fastening
• Ottoman Turkish: مغلاق (miğlak) — something used for fastening
• Turkmen: gulp — something used for fastening
• Tuvan: дээк (deek) — something used for fastening
• Tuvan: шооча (şooça) — something used for fastening
• Ukrainian: замо́к (zamók) — something used for fastening
• Unami: këpakhwikàn — something used for fastening
• Urdu: تالا (tālā) — something used for fastening
• Uyghur: قۇلۇپ (qulup) — something used for fastening
• Uzbek: qulf — something used for fastening
• Vietnamese: khóa — something used for fastening
• Vietnamese: ổ khóa — something used for fastening
• Volapük: lök — something used for fastening
• Welsh: clo — something used for fastening
• Yiddish: שלאָס (shlos) — something used for fastening
• Yup'ik: kelucaq — something used for fastening
• Zazaki: qılf — something used for fastening
• Zazaki: qefıl — something used for fastening
• Zhuang: suj — something used for fastening
• Zhuang: daep — something used for fastening
• Chinese Mandarin: 鎖定 /锁定 (suǒdìng) — a mutex or other token
• Finnish: lukko — a mutex or other token
• German: Lock — a mutex or other token
• Hungarian: lock — a mutex or other token
• Hungarian: mutex — a mutex or other token
• Hungarian: zár — a mutex or other token
• Hungarian: zárolás — a mutex or other token
• Russian: блокиро́вка (blokiróvka) — a mutex or other token
• Turkish: kilit — a mutex or other token
• Zazaki: qesa — a mutex or other token
• Afrikaans: sluis — segment of a canal
• Arabic: هَوِّيس (hawwīs) — segment of a canal
• Bulgarian: шлюз (šljuz) — segment of a canal
• Catalan: resclosa — segment of a canal
• Chinese Mandarin: 船閘 /船闸 (chuánzhá) — segment of a canal
• Czech: zdymadlo — segment of a canal
• Czech: plavební komora — segment of a canal
• Dutch: sluis — segment of a canal
• Esperanto: kluzo — segment of a canal
• Finnish: sulku — segment of a canal
• French: écluse — segment of a canal
• French: sas — segment of a canal
• German: Schleuse — segment of a canal
• German: Schiffshebewerk — segment of a canal
• Greek: υδατοφράκτης (ydatofráktis) — segment of a canal
• Hebrew: תָּא שַׁיִט (ta shayit) — segment of a canal
• Hebrew: תָּא סָכוּר (ta sakhur) — segment of a canal
• Hebrew: מִסְכוֹר (miskhor) — segment of a canal
• Hungarian: zsilip — segment of a canal
• Hungarian: hajózsilip — segment of a canal
• Indonesian: pintu air — segment of a canal
• Italian: chiusa — segment of a canal
• Japanese: 水門 (suimon) — segment of a canal
• Japanese: 水門閘門 (mito) — segment of a canal
• Luxembourgish: Schleis — segment of a canal
• Macedonian: преводница (prevodnica) — segment of a canal
• Malay: pintu air — segment of a canal
• Māori: matatara — segment of a canal
• Māori: matatara poti — segment of a canal
• Polish: śluza — segment of a canal
• Portuguese: eclusa — segment of a canal
• Romanian: stăvilar — segment of a canal
• Russian: шлюз (šljuz) — segment of a canal
• Slovak: plavebná komora — segment of a canal
• Slovak: vzdúvadlo — segment of a canal
• Spanish: esclusa — segment of a canal
• Swedish: sluss — segment of a canal
• Volapük: klut — segment of a canal
• Welsh: loc — segment of a canal
• Bulgarian: затво́р (zatvór) — firing mechanism of a gun
• Catalan: segur — firing mechanism of a gun
• Chinese Mandarin: 槍機 /枪机 (qiāngjī) — firing mechanism of a gun
• Chinese Mandarin: 保險栓 /保险栓 (bǎoxiǎnshuān) — firing mechanism of a gun
• Czech: zámek — firing mechanism of a gun
• Dutch: haan — firing mechanism of a gun
• Finnish: lukko — firing mechanism of a gun
• French: verrou — firing mechanism of a gun
• German: Schloss — firing mechanism of a gun
• Hungarian: závárzat — firing mechanism of a gun
• Italian: otturatore — firing mechanism of a gun
• Macedonian: за́творач (zátvorač) — firing mechanism of a gun
• Polish: zamek — firing mechanism of a gun
• Portuguese: trava — firing mechanism of a gun
• Russian: замо́к (zamók) — firing mechanism of a gun
• Slovak: zámok — firing mechanism of a gun
• Spanish: llave — firing mechanism of a gun
• Swedish: lås — firing mechanism of a gun
• Welsh: clo — firing mechanism of a gun
• Zazaki: qesa — firing mechanism of a gun
• Zazaki: merfeze — complete control
• Zazaki: raciye — something sure to be a success
• Afrikaans: slot — a player in the second row of the scrum in Rugby
• Czech: druhořadník — a player in the second row of the scrum in Rugby
• Czech: hráč druhé řady — a player in the second row of the scrum in Rugby
• Māori: kaiwhītiki — a player in the second row of the scrum in Rugby
• Welsh: clo — a player in the second row of the scrum in Rugby
• Afrikaans: lok — length of hair
• Arabic: ذُؤَابَة (ḏuʔāba) — length of hair
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܥܲܪܩܵܐ (ˁarqā) — length of hair
• Bashkir: бөҙрә (böźrə) — length of hair
• Bulgarian: кичур (kičur) — length of hair
• Burmese: ဆံခွေ (hcamhkwe) — length of hair
• Catalan: floc — length of hair
• Catalan: ble — length of hair
• Chinese Mandarin: 綹 /绺 (liǔ) — length of hair
• Czech: lokna — length of hair
• Czech: kadeř — length of hair
• Danish: lok — length of hair
• Dutch: lok — length of hair
• Egyptian: i-A-r:D3 (jꜣr) — length of hair
• Esperanto: buklo — length of hair
• Finnish: kiehkura — length of hair
• French: mèche — length of hair
• Galician: bucre — length of hair
• Galician: crecha — length of hair
• Galician: guedella — length of hair
• Galician: repincho — length of hair
• Galician: penecho — length of hair
• Galician: grifo — length of hair
• Galician: frechón — length of hair
• Galician: reguñido — length of hair
• Galician: carrapizo — length of hair
• German: Locke — length of hair
• Greek: μπούκλα (boúkla) — length of hair
• Hungarian: fürt — length of hair
• Hungarian: hajfürt — length of hair
• Icelandic: lokkur — length of hair
• Ido: loklo — length of hair
• Ingrian: leve — length of hair
• Irish: ciabhóg — length of hair
• Irish: dlaíóg ghruaige — length of hair
• Irish: dlaoi ghruaige — length of hair
• Irish: duailín gruaige — length of hair
• Irish: dual gruaige — length of hair
• Irish: gibne — length of hair
• Irish: loca gruaige — length of hair
• Irish: táth gruaige — length of hair
• Irish: urla — length of hair
• Italian: ricciolo — length of hair
• Italian: ciocca — length of hair
• Italian: ciuffo — length of hair
• Japanese: 巻き毛 (makige) — length of hair
• Khmer: ផ្នត់សក់ (pnɑt sɑk) — length of hair
• Korean: 타래 (tarae) — length of hair
• Latin: crīnis — length of hair
• Macedonian: прамен (pramen) — length of hair
• Māori: taio makawe — length of hair
• Māori: kaio — length of hair
• Māori: hukahuka — length of hair
• Māori: iho — length of hair
• Ossetian: стыг (styg) — length of hair
• Polish: kędzior — length of hair
• Portuguese: cacho — length of hair
• Portuguese: mecha — length of hair
• Romanian: buclă — length of hair
• Russian: ло́кон (lókon) — length of hair
• Russian: прядь (prjadʹ) — length of hair
• Slovak: kader — length of hair
• Lower Sorbian: kuźera — length of hair
• Spanish: mechón — length of hair
• Spanish: mecha — length of hair
• Spanish: rizo — length of hair
• Spanish: rulo — length of hair
• Spanish: bucle — length of hair
• Spanish: hopo — length of hair
• Spanish: pelluzgón — length of hair
• Spanish: cadejo — length of hair
• Spanish: tufo — length of hair
• Swedish: lock — length of hair
• Tamil: கொத்து (kottu) — length of hair
• Tamil: சுருள் (curuḷ) — length of hair
• Tamil: குலை (kulai) — length of hair
• Telugu: కురులు (kurulu) — length of hair
• Thai: ปอย (bpɔɔi) — length of hair
• Tocharian B: letse — length of hair
• Turkish: zülüf — length of hair
• Turkish: sümbül — length of hair
• Walloon: lotchet — length of hair
• Welsh: cudyn — length of hair
• Albanian: lidh — to become fastened in place
• Albanian: mbërthe — to become fastened in place
• Arabic: أَقْفَلَ (ʔaqfala) — to become fastened in place
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܩܵܦܹܠ (qāpēl) — to become fastened in place
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܕܵܒ݂ܹܪ (dāḇēr) — to become fastened in place
• Bulgarian: затва́рям се (zatvárjam se) — to become fastened in place
• Dutch: blokkeren — to become fastened in place
• Dutch: vastlopen — to become fastened in place
• Finnish: lukittua — to become fastened in place
• Finnish: lukkiutua — to become fastened in place
• French: se bloquer — to become fastened in place
• French: se verrouiller — to become fastened in place
• German: blockieren — to become fastened in place
• Hungarian: bezáródik — to become fastened in place
• Hungarian: lezáródik — to become fastened in place
• Hungarian: blokkol — to become fastened in place
• Hungarian: blokkolódik — to become fastened in place
• Hungarian: beszorul — to become fastened in place
• Hungarian: elakad — to become fastened in place
• Hungarian: megakad — to become fastened in place
• Italian: bloccarsi — to become fastened in place
• Italian: incepparsi — to become fastened in place
• Latin: claudor — to become fastened in place
• Romanian: bloca — to become fastened in place
• Romanian: închide — to become fastened in place
• Russian: блоки́роваться (blokírovatʹsja) — to become fastened in place
• Salar: beklengüsi — to become fastened in place
• Spanish: bloquearse — to become fastened in place
• Spanish: trabarse — to become fastened in place
• Spanish: candarse — to become fastened in place
• Spanish: cerrarse — to become fastened in place
• Swedish: låsa sig — to become fastened in place
• Swedish: fastna — to become fastened in place
• Turkmen: beklenmek — to become fastened in place
• Turkmen: gulplanmak — to become fastened in place
• Afrikaans: sluit — to fasten with a lock
• Southern Altai: бектеер (bekteer) — to fasten with a lock
• Southern Altai: бӧктӧӧр (böktöör) — to fasten with a lock
• Arabic: أَقْفَلَ (ʔaqfala) — to fasten with a lock
• Arabic: قَفَل (gafal) — to fasten with a lock
• Arabic: قَفَّل (gaffal) — to fasten with a lock
• Arabic: صَكّ (ṣakk) — to fasten with a lock
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܩܵܦܹܠ (qāpēl) — to fasten with a lock
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܕܵܒ݂ܹܪ (dāḇēr) — to fasten with a lock
• Armenian: կողպել (koġpel) — to fasten with a lock
• Asturian: pesllar — to fasten with a lock
• Azerbaijani: qıfıllamaq — to fasten with a lock
• Azerbaijani: kilidləmək — to fasten with a lock
• Bashkir: бикләү (bikləw) — to fasten with a lock
• Bashkir: биктәү (biktəw) — to fasten with a lock
• Belarusian: запіра́ць (zapirácʹ) — to fasten with a lock
• Belarusian: запе́рці (zapjérci) — to fasten with a lock
• Belarusian: замыка́ць (zamykácʹ) — to fasten with a lock
• Belarusian: замкну́ць (zamknúcʹ) — to fasten with a lock
• Bulgarian: заклю́чвам (zakljúčvam) — to fasten with a lock
• Bulgarian: заклю́ча (zakljúča) — to fasten with a lock
• Burmese: သော့ခတ် (sau.hkat) — to fasten with a lock
• Catalan: tancar amb cadenat — to fasten with a lock
• Chinese Cantonese: 鎖 /锁 (so2) — to fasten with a lock
• Chinese Mandarin: 鎖 /锁 (suǒ) — to fasten with a lock
• Chinese Mandarin: 鎖上 /锁上 (suǒshàng) — to fasten with a lock
• Czech: zamykat — to fasten with a lock
• Czech: zamknout — to fasten with a lock
• Danish: låse — to fasten with a lock
• Dutch: afsluiten — to fasten with a lock
• Dutch: op slot doen — to fasten with a lock
• Esperanto: ŝlosi — to fasten with a lock
• Estonian: lukustama — to fasten with a lock
• Finnish: lukita — to fasten with a lock
• French: verrouiller — to fasten with a lock
• French: barrer — to fasten with a lock
• German: abschließen — to fasten with a lock
• German: verschließen — to fasten with a lock
• Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌻𐌿𐌺𐌰𐌽 (galukan) — to fasten with a lock
• Greek: κλειδώνω (kleidóno) — to fasten with a lock
• Hebrew: נָעַל (na'ál) — to fasten with a lock
• Hindi: ताला लगाना (tālā lagānā) — to fasten with a lock
• Hungarian: zár — to fasten with a lock
• Hungarian: bezár — to fasten with a lock
• Hunsrik: schliese — to fasten with a lock
• Icelandic: læsa — to fasten with a lock
• Ido: klefagar — to fasten with a lock
• Irish: glasáil — to fasten with a lock
• Italian: chiudere a chiave — to fasten with a lock
• Italian: chiudere — to fasten with a lock
• Italian: serrare — to fasten with a lock
• Japanese: 鍵を掛ける (kagi o kakeru) — to fasten with a lock
• Japanese: 閉める (shimeru) — to fasten with a lock
• Japanese: 鎖す (sasu) — to fasten with a lock
• Jarai: khuă — to fasten with a lock
• Khmer: ចាក់សោ (caksao) — to fasten with a lock
• Korean: 잠그다 (jamgeuda) — to fasten with a lock
• Latvian: aizslēgt — to fasten with a lock
• Lithuanian: užrakinti — to fasten with a lock
• Macedonian: заклучува (zaklučuva) — to fasten with a lock
• Macedonian: заклучи (zakluči) — to fasten with a lock
• Māori: raka — to fasten with a lock
• Māori: tāmau — to fasten with a lock
• Māori: maukati — to fasten with a lock
• Mongolian: цоожлох (coožlox) — to fasten with a lock
• Mongolian: түгжих (tügžix) — to fasten with a lock
• Norwegian Bokmål: låse — to fasten with a lock
• Norwegian Nynorsk: låsa — to fasten with a lock
• Old English: lūcan — to fasten with a lock
• Oromo: qollofuu — to fasten with a lock
• Persian: قفل کردن (qofl kardan) — to fasten with a lock
• Polish: zamykać na klucz — to fasten with a lock
• Polish: zamknąć — to fasten with a lock
• Polish: zakluczyć — to fasten with a lock
• Portuguese: trancar — to fasten with a lock
• Romanian: încuia — to fasten with a lock
• Russian: запира́ть (zapirátʹ) — to fasten with a lock
• Russian: запере́ть (zaperétʹ) — to fasten with a lock
• Russian: замыка́ть (zamykátʹ) — to fasten with a lock
• Russian: замкну́ть (zamknútʹ) — to fasten with a lock
• Salar: beklegüsi — to fasten with a lock
• Scottish Gaelic: glais — to fasten with a lock
• Scottish Gaelic: glas — to fasten with a lock
• Serbo-Croatian: закљу̀чати — to fasten with a lock
• Serbo-Croatian: zakljùčati — to fasten with a lock
• Slovak: zamykať — to fasten with a lock
• Slovak: zamknúť — to fasten with a lock
• Slovene: zakleniti — to fasten with a lock
• Spanish: cerrar con llave — to fasten with a lock
• Spanish: cerrar con seguro — to fasten with a lock
• Spanish: cerrar con llavín — to fasten with a lock
• Spanish: acerrojar — to fasten with a lock
• Spanish: candar — to fasten with a lock
• Spanish: trancar — to fasten with a lock
• Spanish: atrancar — to fasten with a lock
• Spanish: trabar — to fasten with a lock
• Spanish: poner seguro — to fasten with a lock
• Spanish: enllavar — to fasten with a lock
• Spanish: llavear — to fasten with a lock
• Spanish: llavir — to fasten with a lock
• Spanish: apestillar — to fasten with a lock
• Swedish: låsa — to fasten with a lock
• Tamil: பூட்டு (pūṭṭu) — to fasten with a lock
• Thai: ล็อก (lɔ́k) — to fasten with a lock
• Thai: ใส่กุญแจ — to fasten with a lock
• Tibetan: སྒོ་ལྕགས་བརྒྱབ (sgo lcags brgyab) — to fasten with a lock
• Turkish: kilitlemek — to fasten with a lock
• Ottoman Turkish: كلیدلمك (kilidlemek) — to fasten with a lock
• Turkmen: beklemek — to fasten with a lock
• Turkmen: gulplamak — to fasten with a lock
• Ukrainian: запира́ти (zapyráty) — to fasten with a lock
• Ukrainian: запе́рти (zapérty) — to fasten with a lock
• Ukrainian: замика́ти (zamykáty) — to fasten with a lock
• Ukrainian: замкну́ти (zamknúty) — to fasten with a lock
• Ukrainian: зачиня́ти (začynjáty) — to fasten with a lock
• Ukrainian: зачини́ти (začynýty) — to fasten with a lock
• Vietnamese: khoá — to fasten with a lock
• Yiddish: שליסן (shlisn) — to fasten with a lock
• Yiddish: פֿאַרשפּאַרן (farshparn) — to fasten with a lock
• Zazaki: qefılnayış — to fasten with a lock
• Finnish: lukita — to be capable of becoming fastened in place
• Finnish: lukittua — to be capable of becoming fastened in place
• Finnish: lukkiutua — to be capable of becoming fastened in place
• Hungarian: záródik — to be capable of becoming fastened in place
• Romanian: blocabil — to be capable of becoming fastened in place
• Romanian: blocabilă — to be capable of becoming fastened in place
• Hungarian: összezár — to intertwine or dovetail
• Hungarian: összefon — to intertwine or dovetail
• Hungarian: összeszorít — to intertwine or dovetail
• Hungarian: összekulcsol — to intertwine or dovetail
• Māori: tapiki — to intertwine or dovetail
• Tamil: கோர் (kōr) — to intertwine or dovetail
• Tamil: பின்னு (piṉṉu) — to intertwine or dovetail
• Zazaki: vawyaye — to intertwine or dovetail
• Finnish: lukita — break dancing: to freeze one's body or a part thereof in place
• Italian: restare immobile — break dancing: to freeze one's body or a part thereof in place
• Italian: congelarsi — break dancing: to freeze one's body or a part thereof in place
• Italian: bloccarsi — break dancing: to freeze one's body or a part thereof in place
• Italian: restare impalato — break dancing: to freeze one's body or a part thereof in place
• Finnish: varustaa suluilla — to furnish with locks
• Hungarian: zsilippel elzár — to furnish with locks
• Italian: munire di chiuse — to furnish with locks
• Zazaki: macelığ — to furnish with locks
• Bulgarian: минавам през шлюз (minavam prez šljuz) — to raise or lower (a boat) in a lock
• Finnish: kulkea sulussa — to raise or lower (a boat) in a lock
• Hungarian: zsilipel — to raise or lower (a boat) in a lock
• Bulgarian: заключвам (zaključvam) — (internet) to stop others contributing to a thread, etc.
• Hungarian: lezár — (internet) to stop others contributing to a thread, etc.
• Māori: maukati — (internet) to stop others contributing to a thread, etc.
• Māori: raka — (internet) to stop others contributing to a thread, etc.