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English
Etymology 1
From match + box.
Noun
matchbox (plural matchboxes)
- A small cardboard box in which matches are kept.
Derived terms
Translations
small cardboard box in which matches are kept
- Afrikaans: vuurhoutjiedosie, vuurhoutjieboksie
- Armenian: լուցկու տուփ (lucʻku tupʻ)
- Bulgarian: кутия кибрит (kutija kibrit)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 火柴盒 (zh) (huǒcháihé)
- Danish: tændstikæske (da) c
- Dutch: luciferdoosje (nl) n, luciferdoos (nl) f
- Esperanto: alumetskatolo, alumetujo
- Faroese: svávuldós (fo) f
- Finnish: tulitikkurasia (fi)
- French: boîte d’allumettes (fr) f
- German: Streichholzschachtel (de) f
- Greek: σπιρτόκουτο (el) n (spirtókouto)
- Hungarian: gyufásdoboz (hu), gyufásskatulya (hu), gyufaskatulya (hu)
- Ingrian: pickapacka
- Irish: bosca cipíní m
- Italian: scatola di fiammiferi f
- Japanese: マッチ箱 (matchi-bako)
- Malay: kotak mancis
- Malayalam: തീപ്പെട്ടി (ml) (tīppeṭṭi), തീപ്പെട്ടിക്കൂട് (tīppeṭṭikkūṭŭ)
- Manx: kishtey foaddan m
- Maori: pāki māti
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: fyrstikkeske m or f
- Nynorsk: fyrstikkeske f
- Persian: قوطی کبریت (quti kebrit)
- Polish: pudełko od zapałek n
- Portuguese: caixa de fósforo/fósforos f
- Punjabi: ਡੱਬੀ f (ḍabbī)
- Russian: спи́чечный коробо́к m (spíčečnyj korobók), спи́чечная коро́бка f (spíčečnaja koróbka)
- Spanish: fosforera f, cerillero (es) m, caja de fósforos f, caja de cerillas f
- Swedish: tändsticksask (sv) c
- Thai: กล่องไม้ขีด
- Tibetan: ཙག་སྒྲ་སྒམ་ཆུང (tsag sgra sgam chung), མུ་ཟི་སྒམ་ཆུང (mu zi sgam chung)
- Turkish: kibrit kutusu (tr)
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Etymology 2
From the die-cast toy car brand Matchbox owned by Mattel, so-called due to the size of the toys to fix in matchboxes.
Noun
matchbox (plural matchboxes)
- Any small die-cast toy car, usually collectible.