spare tyre

English

spare tyre (plural spare tyres)

An extra tyre carried in case one of the vehicle's tyres is damaged or deflated.
Synonym: spare wheel
(idiomatic) A large paunch and rolls of fat around the waist.

Spare tyre is generally a misnomer, as almost all vehicles actually carry an entire wheel with a tyre mounted on it as a spare.

extra tyre

Arabic: العَجَلَة الاحْتِيَاطِيَّة f (al-ʕajala(t) al-āḥtiyāṭiyya)
Catalan: roda de recanvi f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 士啤呔 (si⁶ be¹ taai¹)

Mandarin: 備用輪胎／备用轮胎 (bèiyòng lúntāi), 備胎／备胎 (zh) (bèitāi)
Danish: reservehjul (da) n
Dutch: reservewiel (nl) n
Esperanto: anstataŭa rado
Finnish: vararengas (fi)
French: roue de secours (fr) f, pneu de secours m
Galician: roda de reposto f
German: Reserverad n, Ersatzrad n, Ersatzreifen (de) m, Reservereifen (de) m
Greek: ρεζέρβα (el) f (rezérva)
Hungarian: pótkerék (hu)
Icelandic: björgunarhringur (is)
Indonesian: ban cadangan (id), ban serep
Irish: roth breise m, bonn breise m
Italian: ruota di scorta f
Japanese: スペアタイヤ (supea taiya)
Korean: 스페어타이어 (seupeeotaieo)
Macedonian: ре́зервна гу́ма f (rézervna gúma)
Norman: reue d'êpaîngne f (Jersey)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: reservehjul (no) n
Polish: koło zapasowe n
Portuguese: estepe (pt) m
Russian: запасно́е колесо́ (ru) n (zapasnóje kolesó), запа́ска (ru) f (zapáska)
Spanish: rueda de repuesto f, rueda de recambio f
Swedish: reservhjul (sv) n
Tagalog: reserba
Turkish: stepne (tr)
Welsh: teiar sbâr m

fat around midsection

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