handshake

English

Etymology

hand +‎ shake. See the appendix for the history of the gesture itself.

Pronunciation

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Noun

Handshake 1.

handshake (plural handshakes)

1. The grasping of hands by two people when greeting, leave-taking, or making an agreement.
   • 1960, John Updike, 'Rabbit, Run', page 88:

     Eccles' handshake, eager and practiced and hard, seems to symbolize for him an embrace. For an instant Rabbit fears he will never let go.

2. (computing) An exchange of signals between two devices when communications begin in order to ensure synchronization.

Derived terms

• golden handshake
• green handshake
• handshake deal
• secret handshake

 

Translations

grasping of hands by two people

• Arabic: مُصَافَحَة f (muṣāfaḥa)
• Armenian: ձեռքսեղմում (hy) (jeṙkʻseġmum)
• Belarusian: по́ціск m (pócisk), по́ціск рукі́ m (pócisk rukí), по́ціск рук m (pócisk ruk)
• Bengali: মুসাফা (bn) (muśapha)
• Bulgarian: ръкости́скане (bg) n (rǎkostískane), ръку́ване (bg) n (rǎkúvane)
• Catalan: encaixada (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 握手 (zh) (wòshǒu)

• Czech: podání ruky n
• Danish: håndtryk n
• Dutch: handdruk (nl)
• Esperanto: manpremo
• Finnish: kättely (fi)
• French: poignée de main (fr) f, shake-hand (fr) m (uncommon)
• German: Händeschütteln (de) n, Handschlag (de) m, Händedruck (de) m
• Greek: χειραψία (el) f (cheirapsía)
• Hungarian: kézfogás (hu)
• Icelandic: handaband (is) n
• Indonesian: jabat tangan (id)
• Italian: stretta di mano f
• Japanese: 握手 (ja) (あくしゅ, akushu), ハンドシェーク (handoshēku)
• Korean: 악수(握手) (ko) (aksu), 핸드세이크 (haendeuseikeu), 핸드셰이크 (haendeusyeikeu)
• Latvian: rokasspiediens m
• Macedonian: ракување n (rakuvanje)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: håndtrykk

  Nynorsk: handtrykk

• Persian: مصافحه (fa) (mosâfahe), دست‌دادن (fa) (dast-dâdan)
• Polish: uścisk dłoni m, uścisk ręki m
• Portuguese: aperto de mão m, passou-bem m (Portugal, informal), bacalhau (pt) m (Portugal, colloquial)
• Romanian: strângere de mână f
• Russian: рукопожа́тие (ru) n (rukopožátije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: руковање n

  Roman: rukovanje (sh) n

• Slovak: podanie ruky n
• Spanish: apretón de manos (es) m
• Swedish: handskakning c, handslag (sv) n, handtryckning (sv) c
• Tajik: дастфушурӣ (dastfušurī)
• Telugu: కరచాలనం (te) (karacālanaṁ)
• Turkish: el sıkışma, el sıkma
• Ukrainian: рукостиска́ння n (rukostyskánnja), по́тиск m (pótysk)
• Urdu: مُصافَحَہ (musāfahā)
• Vietnamese: cái bắt tay (vi)

an exchange of signals between two devices

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 握手 (zh) (wòshǒu)

• French: établissement d’une liaison m, handshake (fr) m
• Japanese: ハンドシェイク (handosheiku)
• Korean: 핸드셰이킹 (haendeusyeiking)
• Swedish: handskakning c

Verb

handshake (third-person singular simple present handshakes, present participle handshaking, simple past and past participle handshaked or handshook)

1. (intransitive) To perform a handshake; to shake hands.
2. (computing, intransitive) To perform a handshake with another device.

Related terms

• shake on it

Anagrams

• shakehand