pedal

Borrowed from French pédale, Latin pedālis.

• (noun, verb) enPR: pĕdʹəl, IPA^(key): /ˈpɛdəl/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• (adjective) enPR: pēdʹəl, IPA^(key): /ˈpiːdəl/ or as the noun

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛdəl, -iːdəl
• Homophones: peddle, petal (some dialects)

pedal (plural pedals)

1. A lever operated by one's foot that is used to control or power a machine or mechanism, such as a bicycle or piano

   There are three pedals on manual cars, two on automatics.

   A piano usually has two or three pedals.

   the pedal of a loom

2. (medicine) an orthopedic structure or a footlike part.
3. (music) An effects unit, especially one designed to be activated by being stepped on.
4. (equestrianism, humorous) A stirrup.
5. (music) The ranks of pipes played from the pedal-board of an organ.

   A small organ commonly has only one or two ranks on the pedal.

pedal (third-person singular simple present pedals, present participle (UK) pedalling or (US) pedaling, simple past and past participle (UK) pedalled or (US) pedaled)

1. To operate a pedal attached to a wheel in a continuous circular motion.

   to pedal one's loom

2. To operate a bicycle.

   He was out of breath from pedalling up the steep hill.

pedal (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to the foot.

• manual, relating to the hand

• “pedal”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “pedal”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

• padle, Delap, padel, plead, paled

Borrowed from Latin pedālis.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [pəˈðal]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [peˈðal]

pedal m (plural pedals)

1. pedal (lever operated by one’s foot)

• pedalar
• pedalejar

• “pedal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Inherited from Spanish pedal (“pedal”).

pedal

1. pedal

Learned borrowing from Latin pedalis.

• IPA^(key): [peˈðal]

pedal m (plural pedais)

1. pedal

   Synonym: pegueira

• “pedal” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “pedal” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “pedal” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Borrowed from Dutch pedaal, from French pédale, from Italian pedale, from Latin pedālis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpe.dal/
• Rhymes: -dal
• Hyphenation: pe‧dal

pedal (plural pedal-pedal, first-person possessive pedalku, second-person possessive pedalmu, third-person possessive pedalnya)

1. pedal: a lever operated by one's foot that is used to control or power a machine or mechanism, such as a bicycle or piano

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /pə.ˈdal/
• Rhymes: -dal
• Hyphenation: pê‧dal

pedal (plural pedal-pedal, first-person possessive pedalku, second-person possessive pedalmu, third-person possessive pedalnya)

1. Alternative spelling of empedal

• “pedal” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Latin pedalis.

pedal m (definite singular pedalen, indefinite plural pedaler, definite plural pedalene)

1. a pedal

• bremsepedal
• gasspedal

• “pedal” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin pedalis.

pedal m (definite singular pedalen, indefinite plural pedalar, definite plural pedalane)

1. a pedal

• bremsepedal
• gasspedal

• “pedal” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Learned borrowing from Latin pedālis.[1][2]

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: pe‧dal

pedal m (plural pedais)

1. pedal (lever operated by one’s foot)

• pedalar

• pé

pedal m or f (plural pedais, not comparable)

1. Synonym of podal

Borrowed from Latin pedālis.

• IPA^(key): /peˈdal/ [peˈð̞al]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: pe‧dal

pedal m (plural pedales)

1. pedal (lever operated by one’s foot)
2. (colloquial) drunkenness

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:borrachera

• “pedal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

pedal c

1. pedal; a lever operated by one's foot that is used to control a machine or mechanism, such as a bicycle or piano

• pidal — sense 1 only

Borrowed from Spanish pedal.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /peˈdal/ [pɛˈdal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: pe‧dal

pedál (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜇᜎ᜔)

1. pedal (foot lever)
2. (music) pedal; effects unit

• magpedal
• pumedal

• “pedal”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018