ballpoint pen

See also: ball-point pen

English

A ballpoint pen.

Alternative forms

• ball-point pen

Noun

ballpoint pen (plural ballpoint pens)

1. A pen, similar in size and shape to a pencil, having an internal chamber filled with a viscous, quick-drying ink that is dispensed at the tip during use by the rolling action of a metal sphere (around 0.7 mm to 1 mm in diameter).

   Synonyms: ball pen, ballpen, (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) biro

Coordinate terms

• dip pen, nib pen; fountain pen; stylographic pen; gel pen

Translations

pen

• Afrikaans: balpuntpen
• Albanian: stilolaps (sq) f
• Arabic: قَلَم حِبْر m (qalam ḥibr)
• Armenian: գնդիկավոր գրիչ (gndikavor gričʻ)
• Azerbaijani: diyircəkli qələm
• Belarusian: ша́рыкавая ру́чка f (šárykavaja rúčka), ру́чка f (rúčka)
• Bengali: কলম (bn) (kolom)
• Bulgarian: химика́лка (bg) f (himikálka), писа́лка (bg) f (pisálka)
• Burmese: ဘောပင် (bhau:pang), ဘောပွိုင့်ပင် (bhau:pwuing.pang)
• Catalan: bolígraf (ca) m, (colloquial) boli (ca) m, (Algherese) ploma d'escriure f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 原子筆／原子笔 (jyun⁴ zi² pat¹)

  Hakka: 原子筆／原子笔 (ngièn-chṳ́-pit)

  Hokkien: 原子筆／原子笔 (zh-min-nan) (goân-chú-pit)

  Mandarin: 圓珠筆／圆珠笔 (zh) (yuánzhūbǐ) (Mainland China), 原子筆／原子笔 (zh) (yuánzǐbǐ) (Taiwan)

• Czech: kuličkové pero n, propiska (cs) f, propisovací tužka f, propisovačka f
• Danish: kuglepen (da) c
• Dutch: balpen (nl) f
• Esperanto: globkrajono
• Estonian: pastapliiats (et)
• Farefare: biki class 1/2
• Faroese: kúlupennur m
• Finnish: kuulakärkikynä (fi)
• French: bic (fr) m, stylo à bille (fr) m, crayon à bille (fr) m
• Georgian: ბურთულიანი კალამი (burtuliani ḳalami)
• German: Kugelschreiber (de) m, Kuli (de) m
• Greek: στυλό διαρκείας n (styló diarkeías)
• Haitian Creole: plim biy f
• Hebrew: עֵט כַּדּוּרִי m
• Hindi: बॉलपेन f (bŏlpen)
• Hungarian: golyóstoll (hu)
• Icelandic: kúlupenni (is) m
• Ido: please add this translation if you can
• Indonesian: bolpen
• Irish: peann gránbhiorach f, badhró
• Italian: penna a sfera (it) f, biro (it) f
• Japanese: ボールペン (ja) (bōrupen)
• Kazakh: қаламсап (qalamsap)
• Khmer: ដងប៉ាកកាគ្លី (dɑɑng paakkaa klii), ដងប៉ាកាឃ្លី (dɑɑng paakkaa khlii), ប៊ិច (bɨc)
• Korean: 볼펜 (ko) (bolpen) (South Korea), 원주필(圓珠筆) (ko) (wonjupil) (North Korea, Yanbian), 원자필(原子筆) (wonjapil) (Shenyang, Harbin)
• Kyrgyz: калемсап (ky) (kalemsap)
• Lao: ບິກ (lo) (bik), ສໍປາກກາ (sǭ pāk kā)
• Latin: stilus sphaeratus m
• Latvian: lodīšu pildspalva f
• Lithuanian: tušinukas (lt) f
• Macedonian: хемиско пенкало n (hemisko penkalo)
• Malay: pen mata bulat, pen mata bola, pen bebola
• Maori: penepura
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: үзгэн бал (üzgen bal)

• Nepali: बलपेन (balpen)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kulepenn (no) m

  Nynorsk: kulepenn m

• Persian: خودکار (fa) (xod-kâr)
• Polish: długopis (pl) m
• Portuguese: caneta esferográfica (pt) f, esferográfica (pt) f
• Romanian: pix (ro) n
• Russian: ша́риковая ру́чка (ru) f (šárikovaja rúčka), ру́чка (ru) f (rúčka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хе́мӣјска̄ о̀ло̄вка f, ке́мӣјска̄ о̀ло̄вка f

  Roman: hémījskā òlōvka f, kémījskā òlōvka f

• Slovak: guľôčkové pero n
• Slovene: kemični svinčnik (sl) m
• Spanish: bolígrafo (es) m, (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay) birome (es) f, (Spain, colloquial) boli (es) m, (Colombia, Ecuador) esfero (es) m, (Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Peru, Venezuela) lapicero (es) m, (Chile) lápiz pasta m, (Eastern Bolivia) mango (es) m, (Mexico) pluma (es) m, (Colombian Atlantic Coast) plumero (es) m, (Bolivian standard usage) puntabola f
• Swahili: kalamu (sw)
• Swedish: kulspetspenna (sv) c, kulpenna c
• Tagalog: bolpoint, bolpen
• Tajik: ручка (tg) (ručka)
• Tamil: குமிழ்முனைப் பேனா (ta) (kumiḻmuṉaip pēṉā)
• Telugu: బాల్ పెన్ (bāl pen), బాల్ పాయింట్ పెన్ (bāl pāyiṇṭ pen)
• Thai: ปากกาลูกลื่น (bpàak-gaa-lûuk-lʉ̂ʉn), ปากกาหมึกแห้ง (bpàak-gaa-mʉ̀k-hɛ̂ɛng)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: tükenmez kalem (tr)
• Turkmen: ruçka
• Ukrainian: кулько́ва ру́чка f (kulʹkóva rúčka), ру́чка f (rúčka)
• Uzbek: ruchka (uz)
• Vietnamese: viết bi, bút bi (vi), bút nguyên tử
• Volapük: glöpapen
• Welsh: beiro (cy) m
• Yoruba: báírò
• Zhuang: yenzcuhbit, yenzcuhbiz

Further reading

• ballpoint pen on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• List of pen types, brands and companies on Wikipedia.Wikipedia