jigsaw puzzle

English

Etymology

jigsaw + puzzle

Single piece of a puzzle

Noun

jigsaw puzzle (plural jigsaw puzzles)

1. A type of puzzle in which the aim is to reconstruct a picture that has been cut (originally, with a jigsaw) into many small interlocking pieces.

Synonyms

• jigsaw
• zigsaw
• zigsaw puzzle

Derived terms

• jigsaw puzzler

 

Descendants

• → Japanese: ジグソーパズル (jigusō pazuru)

Translations

type of puzzle

• Afrikaans: legkaart
• Arabic: أُحْجِيَة f (ʔuḥjiya)
• Armenian: փազլ (hy) (pʻazl)
• Basque: buruhausgarri
• Catalan: trencaclosques (ca) m, puzle (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 砌圖／砌图 (cai³ tou⁴)

  Mandarin: 拼圖／拼图 (zh) (pīntú)

• Czech: puzzle (cs) n
• Danish: puslespil (da) n
• Dutch: puzzel (nl) m, legpuzzel (nl) m
• Esperanto: kunmetenigmo, puzlo
• Estonian: pusle
• Finnish: palapeli (fi)
• French: puzzle (fr) m
• Georgian: პაზლი (ṗazli), თავსატეხი (tavsaṭexi)
• German: Puzzle (de) n, Puzzlespiel n
• Greek: παζλ (el) n (pazl)
• Hebrew: תצרף (he) m (tatsréf), פאזל (he) m (pázel)
• Hungarian: kirakós (hu), puzzle (hu), kirakó (hu)
• Icelandic: púsluspil n
• Italian: puzzle (it) m, mosaico (it) m, gioco ad incastro m
• Japanese: ジグソーパズル (ja) (jigusōpazuru), ジグソー (jigusō)
• Kazakh: пазл (pazl)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: dėlionė f
• Macedonian: сложувалка f (složuvalka)
• Malay: susun suai
• Maori: panga hono, tāpaepae
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: эвлүүлдэг зураг (evlüüldeg zurag), угсруулах зураг (ugsruulax zurag) (China)

  Mongolian: ᠡᠪᠯᠡᠭᠦᠯᠳᠡᠭ
  ᠵᠢᠷᠤᠭ (eblegüldeg ǰirug), ᠤᠭᠰᠠᠷᠠᠭᠤᠯᠬᠤ
  ᠵᠢᠷᠤᠭ (uɣsaraɣulqu ǰirug)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: puslespill n

  Nynorsk: puslespel n

• Persian: پازل (fa) (pâzel)
• Polish: puzzle (pl) nvir
• Portuguese: puzzle (pt) m, quebra-cabeça (pt) m, quebra-cabeças (pt) m
• Romanian: puzzle (ro) n
• Russian: пазл (ru) m (pazl), головоло́мка (ru) f (golovolómka), складна́я карти́нка f (skladnája kartínka), (складная) моза́ика (ru) f (mozáika)
• Scottish Gaelic: mìrean-measgaichte m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: слагарица f, слагалица f, pazl (sh) f

  Roman: slagarica f, слагалица f, пазл f

• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: puzzle m

  Upper Sorbian: puzzle m

• Spanish: rompecabezas (es) m, puzle (es) m
• Swedish: pussel (sv)
• Thai: ตัวต่อ (th) (dtuua-dtɔ̀ɔ), จิ๊กซอว์ (jík-sɔɔ)
• Turkish: yapboz (tr), puzzle (tr), pazıl
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• Volapük: koboyümükarät
• Welsh: jig-so m