lubricate

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• /ˈluːbrɪkeɪt/
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Borrowed from Latin lūbricātus, perfect passive participle of lūbricō (“make slippery”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more), from lūbricus (“slippery”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *slewbh- (“slip, slide”).

39 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: смазвам (smazvam) — to make slippery or smooth
• Catalan: lubricar — to make slippery or smooth
• Catalan: lubrificar — to make slippery or smooth
• Chinese Mandarin: 潤滑 /润滑 (rùnhuá) — to make slippery or smooth
• Czech: mazat — to make slippery or smooth
• Dutch: smeren — to make slippery or smooth
• Esperanto: lubriki — to make slippery or smooth
• Estonian: määrima — to make slippery or smooth
• Finnish: voidella — to make slippery or smooth
• French: lubrifier — to make slippery or smooth
• German: schmieren — to make slippery or smooth
• Greek: λιπαίνω (lipaíno) — to make slippery or smooth
• Hungarian: ken — to make slippery or smooth
• Hungarian: síkosít — to make slippery or smooth
• Hungarian: olajoz — to make slippery or smooth
• Hungarian: beolajoz — to make slippery or smooth
• Hungarian: zsíroz — to make slippery or smooth
• Hungarian: bezsíroz — to make slippery or smooth
• Hungarian: megolajoz — to make slippery or smooth
• Ido: lubrifikar — to make slippery or smooth
• Italian: lubrificare — to make slippery or smooth
• Japanese: 注油する (chūyu-suru) — to make slippery or smooth
• Khmer: ដាក់ប្រេង (dakpreeng) — to make slippery or smooth
• Ladin: onjer — to make slippery or smooth
• Ladin: onje — to make slippery or smooth
• Latin: lūbricō — to make slippery or smooth
• Māori: whakamaene — to make slippery or smooth
• Piedmontese: lubrifiché — to make slippery or smooth
• Portuguese: lubrificar — to make slippery or smooth
• Romanian: lubrifia — to make slippery or smooth
• Russian: сма́зывать (smázyvatʹ) — to make slippery or smooth
• Russian: сма́зать (smázatʹ) — to make slippery or smooth
• Scottish Gaelic: lìomh — to make slippery or smooth
• Spanish: lubricar — to make slippery or smooth
• Spanish: lubrificar — to make slippery or smooth
• Swedish: smörja — to make slippery or smooth
• Tagalog: danlugan — to make slippery or smooth
• Turkish: yağlamak — to make slippery or smooth
• Ottoman Turkish: یاغلامق (yağlamak) — to make slippery or smooth