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A doorknob.

• door knob, door-knob

From door +‎ knob.

• (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdɔː.nɒb/
• (US) IPA(key): /ˈdɔɹ.nɑb/

doorknob (plural doorknobs)

1. A circular device attached to a door, the rotation of which permits the unlatching of the door.
   • 2012 March, Henry Petroski, “Opening Doors”, in American Scientist‎[1], volume 100, number 2, pages 112–3:
     A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place.
2. (informal, derogatory) A stupid person.

• dead as a doorknob
• deaf as a doorknob
• doorknobbed
• doorknob complaint
• doorknoblike
• doorknob phenomenon
• doorknob question
• doorknob statement
• dumb as a doorknob

circular device attached to a door, the rotation of which permits the unlatching of a door — see also door handle

• Arabic: مِقْبَض اَلْبَاب m (miqbaḍ al-bāb)
  Egyptian Arabic: أكرة الباب f (ʔukrat el-bāb)

• Breton: dornell (br) f

• Burmese: please add this translation if you can

• Catalan: pom (ca) m

• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 門把手 / 门把手 (zh) (mén bǎshǒu), 門把 / 门把 (ménbà)

• Czech: klika (cs) f

• Danish: dørhåndtag n, dørgreb n

• Dutch: deurknop (nl) m

• Esperanto: pordanso, pordobutono, butono

• Finnish: ovennuppi, ovenkahva (fi)

• French: bouton de porte m, clenche (fr) f, poignée de porte (fr) f

• Galician: pomo (gl) m

• Gallo: tianche m

• Georgian: კარის სახელური (ka) (ḳaris saxeluri)

• German: Türknauf (de) m, Türknopf m

• Greek: πόμολο (el) n (pómolo), χερούλι (el) n (cheroúli)

• Hungarian: kilincs (hu)

• Icelandic: húnn (is) m

• Ido: pordo-butono

• Indonesian: please add this translation if you can

• Irish: murlán dorais m, úll dorais m

• Italian: pomello (it) m

• Japanese: ドアノブ (doanobu), ドアハンドル (doahandoru)

• Khakas: ізік тудазы (ìzìk tudazı)

• Khmer: please add this translation if you can

• Korean: 문손잡이 (ko) (munsonjabi), 손잡이 (ko) (sonjabi)

• Lao: please add this translation if you can

• Macedonian: квака f (kvaka)

• Malay: please add this translation if you can

• Māori: pōrori

• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can

• Nepali: please add this translation if you can

• Norwegian:
  Bokmål: dørhåndtak, dørvrider m

• Ossetian: дуары хӕцӕн (dwary xæcæn)

• Plautdietsch: Däarenknoop m

• Polish: klamka (pl) f

• Portuguese: maçaneta (pt) f

• Russian: дверна́я ру́чка (ru) f (dvernája rúčka), ру́чка две́ри f (rúčka dvéri)

• Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: квака f
  Latin: kvaka (sh) f

• Spanish: perilla (es) f, pomo (es) m, pomo de la puerta m, picaporte m

• Swedish: dörrhandtag (sv) n

• Tagalog: tumbol

• Thai: ลูกบิด (th) (lûuk-bìt)

• Tibetan: སྒོའི་ལག་འཇུ (sgo'i lag 'ju)

• Turkish: tokmak (tr)

• Vietnamese: tay nắm cửa, nắm đấm cửa

• Welsh: bwlyn drws m, dwrn drws m

• door handle

doorknob (third-person singular simple present doorknobs, present participle doorknobbing, simple past and past participle doorknobbed)

1. (intransitive) (especially psychiatry) To suddenly bring up a time-consuming topic when very little time remains to discuss it, often as a tactic to avoid conversation.