barbed wire

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1 English
- 1.1 Noun
  - 1.1.1 Synonyms
  - 1.1.2 Translations
- 1.2 See also

[edit] English

Barbed wire.

[edit] Noun

barbed wire (countable and uncountable; plural barbed wires)

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

[edit] Synonyms

barbwire

[edit] Translations

twisted strands of steel wire

Armenian: փշալար (hy) (pʿšalar)
Azerbaijani: tikanlı məftil
Bosnian: bodljikava žica f.
Bulgarian: бодлива тел (bg) (bodlíva tel) f.
Croatian: bodljikava žica f.
Czech: ostnatý drát (cs) m.
Danish: pigtråd (da) c.
Dutch: prikkeldraad
Esperanto: pikdrato (eo)
Finnish: piikkilanka (fi)
French: fil de fer barbelé m., fil barbelé m., barbelé (fr)
German: Stacheldraht (de) m.
Greek: αγκαθωτό συρματόπλεγμα (el) (agkathotó syrmatóplegma) n.

Hungarian: szögesdrót (hu)
Indonesian: kawat berduri
Italian: filo spinato (it) m.
Russian: колючая проволока (ru) (kol'účaja próvoloka) f.
Scottish Gaelic: uèir bhiorach (gd) f.
Serbian:

Cyrillic: бодљикава жица f.

Roman: bodljikava žica f.
Slovak: ostnatý drôt (sk) m.
Spanish: alambre de púas (es) m., alambre de espino (es) m., (Spain) alambre de espinas (es) m.
Swedish: taggtråd c.
Telugu: ముళ్ళ తీగ (muLLa teega)

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