Each time you step on the pedal, the wheel turns once.
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Pedal
//ˈpɛdəl//
Synonyms for "pedal" (93 found)
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Closest matches (19)
Strong matches (28)
Related words (46)
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7 entriesSynonyms
2 entriescoordinate
2 entriesderived
64 entriesShowing 16 of 64 words.
entails
1 entrieshas context
4 entriesis a
2 entriesmanner of
1 entriespart of
3 entriesrelated to
14 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
129 translations across 75 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- pedaal noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
Albanian
1 entries- pedal noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
Arabic
2 entries- قَدَمِيّ adj (of or relating to the foot)
- دَوَّاسَة noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
Armenian
2 entries- ոտնակ noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
- պեդալ noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
1 entries- ܕܵܘܣܵܐ noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- pedal noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
Belarusian
3 entries- нажны́ adj (of or relating to the foot)
- педа́ль noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
- пэда́ль noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
Bengali
1 entries- প্যাডেল noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
Bulgarian
2 entries- но́жен adj (of or relating to the foot)
- педа́л noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
Burmese
1 entries- ခြေနင်း noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
Catalan
3 entries- pedal noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
- pedalar verb (to operate a pedal)
- pedalejar verb (to operate a pedal)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 腳蹬 /脚蹬 noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
- 腳蹬子 /脚蹬子 noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
- 踏板 noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
Czech
2 entries- nožní adj (of or relating to the foot)
- pedál noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
Danish
1 entries- pedal noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
Dutch
2 entries- pedaal noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
- trappen verb (to operate a pedal)
Esperanto
2 entries- pedalo noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
- pedali verb (to operate a pedal)
Estonian
1 entries- pedaal noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
Finnish
3 entries- pedaali noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
- poljin noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
- polkea verb (to operate a pedal)
French
3 entries- pédal adj (of or relating to the foot)
- pédale noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
- pédaler verb (to operate a pedal)
Galician
2 entries- pedal noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
- pedalear verb (to operate a pedal)
Georgian
1 entries- პედალი noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
German
4 entries- Fuß adj (of or relating to the foot)
- Fußhebel noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
- Pedal noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
- in die Pedale treten verb (to operate a pedal)
Hebrew
1 entries- פֵּדָל noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
Hindi
1 entries- पेडल noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
Hungarian
1 entries- pedál noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
Icelandic
1 entries- fótstig noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
Ido
2 entries- pedalo noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
- pedalagar verb (to operate a pedal)
Indonesian
1 entries- pedal noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
Irish
2 entries- troitheán noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
- troitheánaigh verb (to operate a pedal)
Italian
2 entries- pedale noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
- pedalare verb (to operate a pedal)
Japanese
1 entries- ペダル noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
Kazakh
1 entries- педаль noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
Khmer
1 entries- ឈ្នាន់ noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
Korean
1 entries- 페달 noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- педаль noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
Lao
1 entries- ເຄື່ອງຖີບ noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
Latin
1 entries- insilia noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
Latvian
1 entries- pedālis noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
Lithuanian
1 entries- pedalas noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
Macedonian
3 entries- ножен adj (of or relating to the foot)
- педа́л noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
- педали́ра verb (to operate a pedal)
Malay
3 entries- injak noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
- pedal noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
- rakap noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
Manx
1 entries- coshal noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
Mongolian
2 entries- гишгүүр noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
- дөрөө noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
Māori
2 entries- takahi noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
- taumanu noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
Norman
1 entries- pédale noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- pedal noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- pedal noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- pedal noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- پهدال noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
Pashto
2 entries- پایډل noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
- پيډل noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
Persian
2 entries- رکاب noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
- پدال noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
Polish
3 entries- nożny adj (of or relating to the foot)
- pedał noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
- pedałować verb (to operate a pedal)
Portuguese
4 entries- pedal adj (of or relating to the foot)
- podal adj (of or relating to the foot)
- pedal noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
- pedalar verb (to operate a pedal)
Romanian
2 entries- pedală noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
- pedala verb (to operate a pedal)
Russian
3 entries- ножно́й adj (of or relating to the foot)
- педа́ль noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
- педали́ровать verb (to operate a pedal)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- casachan noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
- troighean noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- pedála noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
- педа́ла noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
Slovak
1 entries- pedál noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
Slovene
1 entries- pedal noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
Spanish
3 entries- podal adj (of or relating to the foot)
- pedal noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
- pedalear verb (to operate a pedal)
Swahili
2 entries- kanyagio noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
- pedeli noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
Swedish
3 entries- pedal noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
- trampa noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
- trampa verb (to operate a pedal)
Tajik
1 entries- педал noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
Tamil
3 entries- மிதி adj (of or relating to the foot)
- மிதி noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
- மிதி verb (to operate a pedal)
Thai
1 entries- คันเหยียบ noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
Tibetan
1 entries- རྐང་རྟེན noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
Tooro
1 entries- ekigere class 7 noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
Turkish
2 entries- ayaklık noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
- pedal noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
Turkmen
1 entries- pedal noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
Ukrainian
4 entries- но́жний adj (of or relating to the foot)
- педа́ль noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
- педалюва́ти verb (to operate a pedal)
- педалізува́ти verb (to operate a pedal)
Urdu
1 entries- پیڈل noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
Uzbek
1 entries- pedal noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
Vietnamese
2 entries- bàn đạp noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
- đạp verb (to operate a pedal)
Vilamovian
1 entries- pedaoł noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
Welsh
1 entries- pedal noun (lever operated by one’s foot)
Sample sentences
21 total sentences available.
Press the brake pedal to turn on your brake lights.
Source: tatoeba (34104)
He pressed the brake pedal.
Source: tatoeba (292645)
Repeatedly slamming the clutch pedal, I somehow managed to get the clutch disengaged so I could just about drive for the time being.
Source: tatoeba (326938)
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