butterfly knife

English

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Etymology

butterfly + knife

Noun

butterfly knife (plural butterfly knives)

1. a folding pocket knife with two handles counter-rotating around the tang such that, when closed, the blade is concealed within grooves in the handles.

Synonyms

• balisong
• Batangas knife

Translations

folding pocket knife

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蝴蝶刀 (cmn) (húdiédāo)

• Czech: motýlek (cs) m
• Finnish: perhosveitsi (fi)
• French: balisong (fr) m

• German: Butterflymesser (de) n
• Greek: πεταλούδα (el) (petaloúda) f
• Japanese: バタフライナイフ (ja) (batafurainaifu)
• Russian: нож-бабочка (ru) (nož-bábočka) m, балисонг (ru) (balisóng) m