curly bracket

English

Noun

curly bracket (plural curly brackets)

1. Either { or }, having various uses in math, music, computer programming and chemistry.

Synonyms

• accolade, brace, curly brace, hooked bracket, mustache, squiggly, pregnant parentheses

Hypernyms

• bracket

Derived terms

• curly-bracket language

Translations

either of the two characters: “{” and “}”

• Albanian: kllapa gjarpërore f
• Assamese: মাজু বন্ধনী (mazu bondhoni)
• Belarusian: фігу́рная ду́жка f (fihúrnaja dúžka)
• Bulgarian: голя́ма ско́ба f (goljáma skóba)
• Catalan: clau (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 波形括號／波形括号 (bōxíng kuòhào)

• Czech: složená závorka f
• Danish: tuborgklamme c, tuborgparentes c, krøllet parentes c, akkolade c, tuborg c
• Dutch: accolade (nl)
• Esperanto: kuniga krampo, kurba krampo, vinkulo
• Finnish: aaltosulje (fi), aaltosulku (fi), aaltosulkumerkki
• French: accolade (fr) f
• German: geschweifte Klammer f, Schweifklammer f
• Greek: μύστακας (el) m (mýstakas), άγκιστρο (el) n (ágkistro)
• Hungarian: kapcsos zárójel (hu)
• Indonesian: kurawal (id), kurung kurawal (id)
• Irish: lúibín slabhrach m
• Italian: parentesi graffa, graffa (it)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: голема заграда f (golema zagrada)
• Malay: tanda kurung dakap
• Polish: klamra (pl) f, nawias klamrowy m
• Portuguese: chave (pt) f, chaveta (pt) f (mathematics), colchete (pt) m
• Romanian: acoladă (ro) f
• Russian: фигу́рная ско́бка f (figúrnaja skóbka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: vitičasta zagrada f

• Slovak: zložená zátvorka f
• Spanish: llave (es) f
• Swedish: klammerparentes (sv) c, måsvingeparentes c, krullparentes (sv) c, måsvinge (sv) c
• Thai: ปีกกา (th) (bpìik-gaa)
• Turkish: küme parantezi
• Ukrainian: фігу́рна ду́жка f (fihúrna dúžka)
• Vietnamese: dấu ngoặc nhọn (vi)
• Welsh: bach cyrliog m

Further reading

• curly bracket on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “curly bracket”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.