The formal name for a dashboard is לוח בקרה. The root ב.ק.ר is common in Hebrew: it appears in the פיעל verb לבקר – to visit, also meaning to criticize, giving us ביקורת – criticism, and inspection/monitoring – בקרה.
The dashboard is literally a “control board” where you monitor the car’s vitals. Of course, most Israelis just call it a דשבורד. We usually only look at the לוח בקרה when a scary red light starts לבקר (visiting) us, telling us we should have gone to the garage a month ago.
In context:
נדלקה לי מנורה מוזרה בלוח הבקרה, זה נראה רציני?
A strange light turned on (for me) in the dashboard, does it look serious?
