wrist

See also: Wrist

English

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palm

wrist

thumb

index finger

middle finger

ring finger

pinky

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hand

Etymology

From Middle English wrist, from Old English wrist, from Proto-Germanic *wristuz (compare Old Frisian wrist, Low German Wrist, German Rist 'back of hand, instep, withers', Swedish vrist), from *wrīþaną 'to twist, turn'. More at writhe.

Pronunciation

• enPR: rĭst, IPA^(key): /ɹɪst/

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• Rhymes: -ɪst

Noun

wrist (plural wrists)

1. (anatomy) The complex joint between forearm bones, carpus, and metacarpals where the hand is attached to the arm; the carpus in a narrow sense.
2. (engineering) A stud or pin which forms a journal.

Derived terms

• wristwatch, wrist watch
• limp-wristed
• wrist-action

Translations

wrist

• Afrikaans: puls
• Albanian: dore
• Arabic: مِعْصَم‎ m (miʿṣam), رُسْغ‎ (ar) m (rusḡ)

  Egyptian Arabic: رست‎ m (rest), رسغ‎ m (rusğ)

• Armenian: դաստակ (hy) (dastak)
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Bau Bidayuh: angam
• Belarusian: запя́сце n (zapjáscje)
• Bulgarian: ки́тка (bg) f (kítka)
• Catalan: canell (ca) m
• Central Melanau: ligok
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 手腕 (zh) (shǒuwàn), 腕子 (zh) (wànzi)

• Classical Nahuatl: māquechtli
• Coptic: ⲓⲛⲓ f (ini), ϣⲙⲟⲩ m (šmou)
• Czech: zápěstí (cs) n
• Danish: håndled (da) n
• Daur: bageljaar
• Dupaningan Agta: pongotan
• Dutch: pols (nl) m
• Esperanto: pojno (eo)
• Estonian: ranne (et)
• Finnish: ranne (fi)
• French: poignet (fr) m
• Friulian: pols m
• Galician: pulso (gl) m
• Georgian: მაჯა (maǯa)
• German: Handgelenk (de) n
• Greek: καρπός (el) m (karpós)

  Ancient: καρπός m (karpós)

• Haitian Creole: ponyèt
• Hebrew: פרק‎ (he)
• Hindi: कलाई (hi) f (kalāī)
• Hungarian: csukló (hu)
• Icelandic: úlnliður m
• Ido: karpo (io)
• Indonesian: pergelangan tangan (id)
• Italian: polso (it) m
• Japanese: 手首 (ja) (てくび, tekubi)
• Khmer: កដៃ (km) (kɑɑ day)
• Korean: 손목 (ko) (sonmok), 팔목 (palmok)
• Kurdish: zend (ku) m, meçek (ku) m, bask (ku) m
• Latin: carpus
• Latvian: plaukstas locītava f
• Lithuanian: riešas
• Malay: pergelangan tangan, karpus

• Marathi: मनगट n (mangaṭ)
• Mongolian: бугуй (mn) (buguj)
• Nepali: please add this translation if you can
• Ngazidja Comorian: nkundrwe class 9/10
• Norman: pouogniet m (Guernsey), pouongnet m (Jersey), pwẽ m (Sark)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: håndledd (no) n

  Nynorsk: handledd n

• Old English: wríst f
• Ottoman Turkish: بیلك‎ (bilek), معصم‎ (mısam)
• Pashto: مړوند‎ (ps) (maṛwánd), مچ‎ (ps) (moc)
• Persian: مچ‎ (fa) (moč), مچ دست‎ (fa) (moč-e dast), خرده‎ (fa) (xorde), خردگاه‎ (xordgāh)
• Polish: nadgarstek (pl) m
• Portuguese: punho (pt) m, pulso (pt) m
• Quechua: maki muqu
• Romanian: încheietura mâinii n
• Russian: запя́стье (ru) n (zapjástʹje)
• Scots: shackle-bane
• Scottish Gaelic: caol-dùirn m
• Sebop: penguwan
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: zapestje n, doručje n, zapešćaj m, zapešće (sh) n, zglavak (sh) m, bilo (sh)

• Sicilian: pusu (scn) m
• Slovak: zápestie n
• Slovene: zapestje (sl) n
• Spanish: muñeca (es) f
• Swedish: handled (sv) c
• Tagalog: galanggalangan
• Tamil: மணிக்கட்டு (ta) (maṇikkaṭṭu)
• Telugu: మణికట్టు (te) (maṇikaṭṭu)
• Thai: ข้อมือ (kɔ̂ɔ-mʉʉ)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: bilek (tr)
• Turkmen: goşar, bilek (tk)
• Ukrainian: зап'я́стя (uk) n (zapʺjástja)
• Urdu: کلایٔ‎ f (kalā'ī)
• Venetian: polso m, pols
• Vietnamese: cổ tay
• Volapük: riet
• West Frisian: pols
• White Hmong: please add this translation if you can
• Xhosa: isihlahla
• Zhuang: gengoenh

Verb

wrist (third-person singular simple present wrists, present participle wristing, simple past and past participle wristed)

1. (ice hockey) to hit a wrist shot

See also

• wrist on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• writs

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• wrest, wryst, virste, wryste, wriste, wyrste, wirste

Etymology

From Old English wrist, from Proto-Germanic *wristuz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wrist/, /wirst/

Noun

wrist (plural wrystes)

1. wrist (joint attaching the arm to the hand)
2. (rare) The joint at the ankle.

Descendants

• English: wrist
• Scots: wrist
• Yola: wrasth, wraste

References

• “wrist (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-15.

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Old English

Alternative forms

• wyrst
• ƿrist – wynn spelling

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *wristuz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wrist/

Noun

wrist f

1. wrist

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Middle English: wrist, wrest, wryst, virste, wryste, wriste, wyrste, wirste
  • English: wrist
  • Scots: wrist
  • Yola: wrasth, wraste