glove compartment

English

Noun

glove compartment (plural glove compartments)

1. (automotive) A compartment recessed in an automobile’s dashboard, that usually has a door and can be locked, intended to hold gloves, papers, etc.
   • 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 206:

     Such was my enthusiasm to get there, I probably went faster than was prudent over such a dodgy road, but by the time I arrived the only damage was that the glove compartment had rattled loose.

Synonyms

• glove box
• glovey (slang)
• jockey box (Northwestern US)

Translations

compartment recessed in an automobile’s dashboard

• Arabic: دُرْج أَمَامِيّ m (durj ʔamāmiyy)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܟ̰ܹܟܡܲܟ̰ܵܐ (čekmāča)
• Bulgarian: жабка f (žabka)
• Catalan: guantera (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 儲物箱／储物箱 (chǔwùxiāng)

• Danish: handskerum n
• Dutch: handschoenenkastje (nl), dashboardkastje (nl), handschoenenvak n
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: kindalaegas
• Faroese: handskarúm n
• Finnish: hansikaslokero (fi)
• French: boîte à gants (fr) f
• German: Handschuhfach (de) n, Handschuhkasten m
• Hungarian: kesztyűtartó (hu)
• Icelandic: hanskahólf (is) n
• Irish: póca lámhainní m, póca miotóg m
• Italian: cassetto portaoggetti m, vano portaoggetti m
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: cimdu kaste f
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: урд хайрцаг (urd xajrcag)

  Cyrillic: ᠤᠷᠳᠤ
  ᠬᠠᠢᠢᠷᠴᠠᠭ (urdu qaiirčag)

• Plautdietsch: Bielod f
• Polish: schowek (pl) m
• Portuguese: porta-luvas m
• Romanian: torpedou n
• Russian: бардачо́к (ru) m (bardačók)
• Spanish: guantera (es) f
• Swedish: handskfack (sv) n
• Turkish: torpido (tr), torpido gözü (tr)
• Welsh: silff fenig f, blwch menig m