awl

English

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Stitching awls

Etymology

Middle English aul, alle, al, from Old English æl, from Proto-Germanic *ēlō (compare East Frisian älst, Dutch aal, German Ahle), from Proto-Indo-European *Hóleh₂ (compare Khotanese aiysna, Sanskrit अरा (árā))

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɔːl/
• Rhymes: -ɔːl

Noun

awl (plural awls)

1. A pointed instrument for piercing small holes, as in leather or wood; used by shoemakers, saddlers, cabinetmakers, etc. The blade is differently shaped and pointed for different uses, as in the brad awl, saddler's awl, shoemaker's awl, etc.

Translations

a pointed instrument

• Albanian: fëndyell (sq) n
• Arabic: مخرز (ar) (míxraz) m
• Armenian: բիզ (hy) (biz), հերյուն (hy) (heryun)
• Belarusian: шыла (be) (šýla) n
• Bulgarian: шило (bg) (šílo) n
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 錐子 (cmn), 锥子 (cmn) (zhuīzi)

• Czech: šídlo (cs) n
• Dutch: els (nl) m
• Finnish: naskali (fi), purasin (fi)
• French: alêne (fr) f
• German: Ahle (de) f
• Greek: σουβλί (el) (souvlí) n
• Hungarian: ár (hu)
• Italian: punteruolo (it) m
• Japanese: 突きぎり (ja) (つきぎり, tsukigiri)
• Korean: 송곳 (ko) (songgot)
• Latgalian: eilyns m
• Latvian: īlens (lv) m
• Macedonian: шило (mk) (šílo) n

• Maltese: timplor m
• Norwegian: syl (no)
• Novial: alene
• Old English: æl (ang) m and f
• Old High German: ala f
• Old Norse: alr m
• Polish: szydło (pl) n
• Portuguese: furador m
• Romanian: sulă (ro) f
• Russian: шило (ru) (šílo) n
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: шило (sh) n

  Roman: šilo (sh) n

• Slovak: šidlo (sk) n
• Slovene: šilo (sl) n
• Spanish: lezna (es) f, lesna (es) f, alesna (es) f, punzón (es) m
• Swedish: syl (sv) c, pryl (sv) c
• Ukrainian: шило (uk) (šýlo) n
• Uzbek: bigiz (uz)
• Vietnamese: giùi (vi)

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