mudguard

mudguard

English

Etymology

mud +‎ guard

Noun

mudguard (plural mudguards)

1. A cover over the wheels of a vehicle, or a flap behind that wheel, to prevent water and mud being projected.

Synonyms

• (a cover over, or a flap behind, the wheels of a vehicle): fender (US), wing (UK)

Translations

a cover over, or a flap behind, the wheels of a vehicle

Catalan: parafang (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 擋泥板 (zh), 挡泥板 (zh) (dǎngníbǎn) Czech: blatník (cs) m Danish: skærm Finnish: roiskeläppä (fi) (flap); lokasuoja (fi) (cover) French: garde-boue (fr) m, pare-boue (fr) m German: Schutzblech (de) n Greek: λασπωτήρας (el) m (laspotíras) Hungarian: sárvédő (hu) Indonesian: penahan lumpur

Italian: parafango (it) m Japanese: 泥よけ (どろよけ, doroyoke) Maori: pareparu Norman: garde-pité m Polish: błotnik (pl) m Portuguese: para-lama (pt) m Russian: крыло́ (ru) n (kryló) (cover over an open wheel), брызгови́к (ru) m (bryzgovík) (flap behind a wheel) Spanish: aleta (es), salvabarros m, parafango m Swahili: madigadi Swedish: framskärm c, stänkskärm (sv) c