English
Etymology
From parking + meter (“one who measures”), modelled after coal-meter, etc.
Pronunciation
Noun
parking meter (plural parking meters)
- A device, located by a parking space, that collects payment in exchange for the right to park a vehicle for a specified time.
Translations
device for collecting parking fees
- Arabic: عداد انتظار السيارات
- Basque: parkimetro
- Bulgarian: паркометър m (parkometǎr)
- Catalan: parquímetre m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 泊車咪錶 / 泊车咪表
- Mandarin: 收費咪錶 / 收费咪表 (shōufèi mībiǎo), 停車計時器 / 停车计时器 (zh) (tíngchē jìshíqì)
- Czech: parkovací hodiny, parkovné n
- Danish: parkometer c
- Dutch: (mechanical only) parkeermeter (nl) m; (modern computerised also) parkeerautomaat (nl) m
- Esperanto: parkhorloĝo
- Faroese: støðumálari m, parkometur
- Finnish: pysäköintimittari (fi)
- French: parcmètre (fr) m, parcomètre (fr) m
- Galician: parquímetro m
- German: (mechanical only) Parkuhr (de) f; (modern computerised also) Parkautomat m
- Greek: παρκόμετρο (el) n (parkómetro)
- Hebrew: מדחן (he)
- Hungarian: parkolóóra (hu)
- Icelandic: stöðumælir m
- Irish: méadar páirceála m
- Italian: parchimetro (it) m
- Japanese: パーキングメーター (ja) (pākingumētā), 駐車メーター (chūsha-mētā)
- Maori: ine tūnga waka
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: parkometer n, parkeringsautomat
- Nynorsk: parkometer n, parkeringsautomat
- Persian: پارکومتر (fa)
- Polish: parkometr m
- Portuguese: parquímetro (pt) m, parcômetro m
- Romanian: parcometru (ro) n
- Russian: парко́вочные часы́ (ru) m pl (parkóvočnyje časý), парко́метр (ru) m (parkómetr)
- Spanish: parquímetro (es) m, míter m (United States)
- Swedish: parkeringsmätare c, parkeringsautomat (sv) c
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