keychain

See also: key chain

English

Etymology

key +‎ chain

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkiːˌt͡ʃeɪn/

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Noun

keychain (plural keychains)

A keychain with a leather key fob.

1. A chain or ring to which a key may be attached.
2. An ornamental piece holding such a chain or ring.
3. (cryptography) A digital repository for the storage of cryptographic keys.

Hypernyms

• chain

Translations

chain or ring

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic:

  Egyptian Arabic: سلسلة مفاتيح f (selsélet mafatīḥ)

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: ключодържа́тел m (ključodǎržátel)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: clauer (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鑰匙扣／钥匙扣 (zh) (yàoshikòu), 鑰匙鏈／钥匙链 (zh) (yàoshiliàn)

• Danish: nøglering c
• Dutch: sleutelhanger (nl) m
• Esperanto: ŝlosilingo, ŝlosilfasko, ŝlosilringo
• Estonian: võtmehoidja
• Faroese: lyklaringur m
• Finnish: avainketju (chain), avainrengas (ring)
• French: porte-clef (fr) m, porte-clé (fr) m
• Galician: chaveiro m
• German: Schlüsselring (de) m
• Greek: κλειδοθήκη (el) f (kleidothíki)
• Hebrew: מחזיק מפתחות m (maḥzík mafteḥót)
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Indonesian: gantungan kunci (id)
• Italian: portachiavi (it) m or m pl
• Japanese: キーホルダー (kī horudā), キーチェーン (kī chēn)
• Kazakh: салпыншақ (salpynşaq)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 키 체인 (ki chein)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: raktų pakabukas m
• Macedonian: при́врзок m (prívrzok)
• Malay: rantai kunci
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nøkkelring m

  Nynorsk: nøkkelring m

• Polish: brelok (pl) m, breloczek (pl) m
• Portuguese: chaveiro (pt) m, porta-chaves (pt) m
• Romanian: portchei (ro) n
• Russian: брело́к (ru) m (brelók) (для ключе́й), цепо́чка (ru) f (cepóčka) (для ключе́й)
• Spanish: llavero (es) m
• Swedish: nyckelring (sv) c
• Tagalog: palasusian
• Thai: พวงกุญแจ (puang gun-jae)
• Turkish: anahtarlık (tr)
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: cylch allweddi
• Yiddish: שליסל־קייטל (shlisl-keytl)

ornamental piece holding such a chain or ring — see fob