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English
Pronunciation
Noun A two-hole pencil sharpener pencil sharpener plural pencil sharpeners
A device used to sharpen pencils by shaving the wood at one end.
Synonyms: sharpener pencil pointer pencil parer ( Ireland ) pencil topper ( Ireland ) topper ( Ireland ) parer
Translations device used to sharpen pencils
Albanian: mprehës lapsash m
Arabic: بَرَّايَة f ( barrāya ) , مِبْرَاة f ( mibrāh )
Armenian: սրիչ (hy) ( sričʻ )
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܲܚܪܸܦܵܢܝܼܬܵܐ f ( maḥrippānītā )
Azerbaijani: karandaşyonan
Catalan: maquineta de fer punta (ca)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 鉛筆刨 / 铅笔刨 ( jyun4 bat1 paau4-2 ) , 筆刨 / 笔刨 ( bat1 paau2 )
Hokkien: 鉛筆剾 / 铅笔𠛅 (zh-min-nan) ( iân-pit-khau ) , 鉛筆絞仔 / 铅笔绞仔 (zh-min-nan) ( iân-pit-ká-á )
Mandarin: 鉛筆刀 / 铅笔刀 (zh) ( qiānbǐdāo ) , 轉筆刀 / 转笔刀 (zh) ( zhuànbǐdāo ) , 削筆刀 / 削笔刀 ( xiāobǐdāo ) , ( technical ) 筆刨 / 笔刨 (zh) ( bǐpáo ) , ( technical ) 鉛筆刨 / 铅笔刨 (zh) ( qiānbǐpáo ) , 削鉛筆機 / 削铅笔机 (zh) ( xiāoqiānbǐjī ) , 卷筆刀 / 卷笔刀 (zh) ( juǎnbǐdāo )
Czech: ořezávátko (cs) n
Danish: blyantspidser (da) c
Dutch: slijper (nl) , puntenslijper (nl) , potloodslijper (nl)
Esperanto: krajonpintigilo
Finnish: kynänteroitin (fi)
French: taille-crayon (fr) m aiguisoir (fr) m ( Canada, Louisiana, Missouri, New England )
German: Anspitzer (de) m Spitzer (de) m Bleistiftspitzer (de) m ( slate pencil ) Griffelspitzer (de) m
Greek: ξύστρα (el) f ( xýstra )
Gujarati: સંચો m ( sañco )
Haitian Creole: kreyon tay
Hindi: पेंसिल चोखा ( pensil cokhā )
Hungarian: ceruzahegyező (hu) , hegyező (hu) , ( rare ) ceruzafaragó
Icelandic: yddari (is) m
Italian: temperamatite (it) m temperino (it) m temperalapis (it) m appuntalapis (it) m
Japanese: 鉛筆削り (ja) ( えんぴつけずり, enpitsukezuri )
Kannada: ಪೆನ್ಸಿಲ್ ಸಾಣೆ ( pensil sāṇe )
Khmer: ប្រដាប់ឃួងខ្មៅដៃ ( prɑɑdap-khuə-ngɔɔ-khmaw day )
Korean: 연필깎이 (ko) ( yeonpilkkakki )
Kyrgyz: калем учтагыч ( kalem uctagıc ) , точилка ( tocilka )
Macedonian: острилка f ( ostrilka )
Mongolian: харандаа үзүүрлэгч ( xarandaa üzüürlegč )
Norman: appointcheux m
Norwegian: blyantspisser (no) m
Persian: مداد تراش (fa) ( medâd-tarâš ) , تراش (fa) ( tarâš )
Polish: temperówka (pl) f
Portuguese: apontador (pt) m ( Brazil ) , apontador de lápis m ( Brazil ) , afia (pt) m ( Portugal ) , afia-lápis (pt) m ( Portugal )
Romanian: ascuțitoare (ro) f
Russian: точи́лка (ru) f ( točílka )
Sassarese: temperarapis m temperaràpisi m
Serbo-Croatian: šiljilo (sh)
Spanish: sacapuntas (es) m afila (es) m afilador (es) m maquineta f ( Spain ) , tajador m sacaminas m ( Spain ) , tajalápiz m maquinilla f afilalápices (es) m tajalápices (es) m
Swedish: pennvässare (sv) c
Tagalog: pantasa
Thai: กบเหลาดินสอ (th) ( gòp-lǎo-din-sɔ̌ɔ ) , กบ (th) ( gòp )
Turkish: açacak (tr) , kalem açacağı (tr) , kalemtıraş (tr)
Uzbek: qalam charx
Vietnamese: cái gọt bút chì đồ chuốt viết chì
Volapük: stibijapüköm ( slate pencil ) glivijapüköm
