latch

Etymology 1
From, from , from , , , from ,. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) To close or lock as if with a latch.
 * 2)  To catch; lay hold of.

Translations

 * Esperanto: rigli
 * Finnish:, panna säppiin
 * Galician:
 * German:, , , , , , zuklinken
 * Maori: whakarawa
 * Ottoman Turkish: مانداللامق
 * Portuguese:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:

Etymology 2
From, , from , from. See above for more.

Noun



 * 1) A fastening for a door that has a bar that fits into a notch or slot, and is lifted by a lever or string from either side.
 * 2)  An electronic circuit that is like a flip-flop, except that it is level triggered instead of edge triggered.
 * 3)  A latching.
 * 4)  A crossbow.
 * 5)  That which fastens or holds; a lace; a snare.
 * 6) A breastfeeding baby's connection to the breast.
 * 7)  A lightweight lock to protect internal structures from being modified by multiple concurrent accesses.
 * 1) A breastfeeding baby's connection to the breast.
 * 2)  A lightweight lock to protect internal structures from being modified by multiple concurrent accesses.

Translations

 * Albanian: ,
 * Arabic: زِلاَج, ضَبَّة, مِزْلاَج
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: qapı sürgüsü
 * Belarusian: клямка
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech: petlice
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: anso, klinko, riglilo
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:, caravilla, martabela
 * Georgian:
 * German:, , , , , Schnappverschluss, Schnappriegel, , , Verschlusshebel, , Schnäpper, Rastklinke,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: सिटकनी, ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, ラッチ
 * Khmer: គន្លឹះទ្វារ
 * Korean: 걸쇠
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese:
 * Maori: whakarawa
 * Mongolian: ,
 * Nepali:
 * Ottoman Turkish: ماندال, كلید, مغلاق
 * Persian:
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, zăvoare
 * Russian:, , , ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:, ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: hasp,
 * Tagalog: busulan
 * Tajik: лукидон
 * Thai:
 * Ukrainian: за́сув
 * Uzbek: gaʻlaqa,
 * Vietnamese: chốt cửa, then cửa
 * Welsh: clicied


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German: Klinkenschalter, Auffangregister, Signalschalter
 * Greek: ,
 * Polish: przerzutnik
 * Portuguese: flip-flop
 * Spanish: biestable
 * Swedish: låskrets


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Macedonian: самострел
 * Polish:
 * Serbo-Croatian: samostrel
 * Slovak:
 * Thai:


 * Spanish:
 * Telugu:

Etymology 3
Compare 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  To smear; to anoint.