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English
Noun
minute hand (plural minute hands)
- The hand of a clock or watch face that revolves once each hour and indicates the minutes.
- Synonym: big hand
- Coordinate terms: hour hand, second hand
Translations
the hand on a watch or clock which indicates minutes
- Arabic: عَقْرَب دَقَائِق m (ʕaqrab daqāʔiq)
- Armenian: րոպեի սլաք (ropei slakʿ)
- Belarusian: хвілі́нная стрэ́лка f (xvilínnaja strélka)
- Bulgarian: мину́тна стрелка́ f (minútna strelká)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 分針/分针 (zh) (fēnzhēn), 大針/大针 (zh) (dàzhēn), 長針/长针 (zh) (chángzhēn)
- Czech: minutová ručička f
- Dutch: minutenwijzer (nl) m
- Finnish: minuuttiosoitin (fi), minuuttiviisari (fi)
- French: grande aiguille (fr) f, aiguille des minutes (fr) f
- German: Minutenzeiger (de) m
- Greek: λεπτοδείκτης (el) (leptodeíktis), λεπτοδείχτης (el) m (leptodeíchtis)
- Hungarian: percmutató (hu), nagymutató (hu)
- Indonesian: jarum panjang (id)
- Irish: snáthaid mhór f
- Japanese: 分針 (ja) (ふんしん, funshin), 長針 (ja) (ちょうしん, chōshin)
- Korean: 분침(分針) (ko) (bunchim), 장침(長針) (jangchim)
- Maltese: minutiera f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: minuttviser (no) m
- Nynorsk: minuttvisar m
- Plautdietsch: Minnutenwiesa m
- Polish: wskazówka minutowa f
- Portuguese: ponteiro dos minutos m
- Russian: мину́тная стре́лка f (minútnaja strélka), больша́я стре́лка f (bolʹšája strélka)
- Slovak: minútová ručička f
- Spanish: minutero (es) m
- Swedish: minutvisare (sv) c
- Turkish: yelkovan (tr)
- Ukrainian: хвили́нна стрі́лка f (xvylýnna strílka)
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