barbed wire

English

Barbed wire.

Alternative forms

• barb wire, barb-wire, barbwire, barbed-wire
• bob wire, bobbed wire (nonstandard, dialectal)

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /bɑɹbd waɪəɹ/, [ˈbɑɹbd ˈwa.jɚ]

Noun

barbed wire (usually uncountable, plural barbed wires)

1. Twisted strands of steel wire, often coated with zinc, having barbs evenly spaced along them; used to construct agricultural and military fences.

Translations

twisted strands of steel wire

• Arabic: سِلْك شَائِك m (silk šāʔik)
• Armenian: փշալար (hy) (pʻšalar)
• Azerbaijani: tikanlı məftil
• Bulgarian: бодли́ва тел f (bodlíva tel)
• Catalan: filferro espinós m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鐵絲網／铁丝网 (zh) (tiěsīwǎng), 有刺的鐵絲網／有刺的铁丝网 (yǒu cì de tiěsīwǎng), 鐵刺絲／铁刺丝 (tiěcìsī)

• Czech: ostnatý drát (cs) m
• Danish: pigtråd (da) c
• Dutch: prikkeldraad (nl) m
• Esperanto: pikdrato (eo)
• Estonian: okastraat
• Faroese: píkatráður m
• Finnish: piikkilanka (fi)
• French: fil de fer barbelé (fr) m, fil barbelé m, barbelé (fr) m
• Georgian: ეკლიანი მავთული (eḳliani mavtuli)
• German: Stacheldraht (de) m
• Greek: αγκαθωτό σύρμα n (agkathotó sýrma)
• Hebrew: גדר תיל
• Hungarian: szögesdrót (hu)
• Indonesian: kawat berduri (id)
• Irish: sreang dheilgneach f, sreang dhealgach f
• Italian: filo spinato m
• Japanese: 有刺鉄線 (ja) (ゆうしてっせん, yūshitessen)
• Kazakh: тікенді сым (tıkendı sym)
• Khmer: លួសបន្លា (luǝh bɑnlaa)
• Korean: 가시철사 (gasicheolsa)
• Latvian: dzeloņstieple f
• Macedonian: бодли́кава жи́ца f (bodlíkava žíca)
• Navajo: béésh adishahí
• Norwegian: piggtråd m
• Persian: سیم خاردار (sim-e xârdâr)
• Plautdietsch: Spekjadrot n, Hacheldrot n
• Polish: drut kolczasty (pl) m
• Portuguese: arame farpado (pt) m
• Romanian: sârmă ghimpată (ro) f
• Russian: колю́чая про́волока (ru) f (koljúčaja próvoloka)
• Scottish Gaelic: uèir bhiorach f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бодљикава жица f

  Roman: bodljikava žica f

• Sicilian: ritticulatu m, filu spinatu m
• Slovak: ostnatý drôt m
• Slovene: bodeča žica f
• Spanish: alambre de púas m, alambre de espino m, (Spain) alambre de espinas m
• Swahili: seng'enge
• Swedish: taggtråd (sv) c
• Telugu: ముళ్ళ తీగ (muḷḷa tīga)
• Thai: ลวดหนาม (th) (lûuat-nǎam)
• Turkish: dikenli tel (tr)
• Turkmen: tikenli sim
• Ukrainian: колю́чий дріт m (koljúčyj drit)
• Uzbek: tikanli sim
• Vietnamese: dây kẽm gai (vi)
• Welsh: weiren bigog f

See also

• concertina wire
• razor wire
• wire entanglement
• wire obstacle
• page wire

Further reading

• barbed wire on Wikipedia.Wikipedia