wrist

See also: Wrist

Contents

EnglishEdit

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palm

wrist

thumb

index finger

middle finger

ring finger

pinky

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hand

EtymologyEdit

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.

PronunciationEdit

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• (UK, US) enPR: rĭst, IPA^(key): /ɹɪst/
• Rhymes: -ɪst

NounEdit

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 termsEdit

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

TranslationsEdit

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: запясце n (zapjascje)
• Bulgarian: китка (bg) f (kitka)
• Catalan: canell (ca) m
• Central Melanau: ligok
• Chinese:

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

• 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)

• Hebrew: פרק‎‎ (he)
• Hindi: कलाई (hi) f (kalā'ī)
• 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 (man'gaT)
• Mongolian: бугуй (mn) (buguj)
• 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: بيلك‎‎ (bilek), معصم‎‎ (my'sam)
• Pashto: مړوند‎‎ (ps) (maṛwánd), مچ‎‎ (ps) (moc)
• Persian: مچ‎‎ (fa) (moč), مچ دست‎‎ (fa) (moč-e dast)
• 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)
• Turkish: bilek (tr)
• Turkmen: goşar, bilek (tk)
• Ukrainian: зап'ястя (uk) n (zapʺjastja)
• Urdu: کلایٔ‎‎ f (kalā'ī)
• Venetian: polso m, pols
• Vietnamese: cổ tay
• Volapük: riet
• Xhosa: isihlahla

VerbEdit

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 alsoEdit

• wrist on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

AnagramsEdit

• writs

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Old EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Germanic *wristiz, whence also Old High German *rist, Old Norse rist.

NounEdit

wrist f

1. wrist

DeclensionEdit

This noun needs an inflection-table template.