wrist

English

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palm wrist thumb index finger middle finger ring finger pinky

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hand

Pronunciation

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• (UK, US) enPR: rĭst, IPA: /ɹɪst/, SAMPA: /rIst/
• Rhymes: -ɪst

Etymology

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

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 narrow sense.

Derived terms

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

Translations

wrist

Afrikaans: puls (af) Albanian: dore (sq) Arabic: معصم (ar) (mí3Sam) m., رسغ (ar) (risgh) m. Armenian: դաստակ (hy) (dastak) Belarusian: запясце (be) (zapjásce) n. Bulgarian: китка (bg) (kitka) f. Catalan: canell (ca) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 手腕 (cmn) (shǒuwàn), 腕子 (cmn) (wànzi) Croatian: zglavak m., bilo Czech: zápěstí (cs) n. Danish: håndled (da) n. Dutch: pols (nl) m. Esperanto: pojno Estonian: ranne (et) Finnish: ranne (fi) French: poignet (fr) m. Georgian: მაჯა (ka) (madža) German: Handgelenk (de) n. Greek: καρπός (el) (karpós) m. Hebrew: פרק (he) Hindi: कलाई (hi) (kalā'ī) f. Hungarian: csukló (hu) Icelandic: úlnliður (is) m. Italian: polso (it) m. Japanese: 手首 (ja) (てくび, tekubi) Korean: 손목 (ko) (sonmok), 팔목 (ko) (palmok)

Kurdish: zend m., meçek m., bask m. Latin: carpus (la) Latvian: rokas (lv) f. Lithuanian: riešas Norwegian: håndledd (no) n. Old English: wríst f. Persian: مچ (fa) (moč), مچ دست (fa) (moč-e dast) Polish: nadgarstek (pl) m. Portuguese: pulso (pt) m. Romanian: încheetura mânecii n. Russian: запястье (ru) (zapjást'je) n. Scottish Gaelic: caol-dùirn (gd) m. Serbo-Croatian: zapestje n., doručje n., zapešćaj m., zapešće n. Sicilian: pusu (scn) m. Slovak: zápestie n. Slovene: zapestje (sl) n. Spanish: muñeca (es) f. Swedish: handled (sv) c. Tagalog: galanggalangan Telugu: మణికట్టు (maNikaTTu) Thai: ข้อมือ (th) (kôr meu) Turkish: bilek (tr) Turkmen: goşar (tk), bilek (tk) Ukrainian: зап'ястя (uk) (zap'jástja) n. Urdu: کلایٔ (ur) (kalā'ī) f. Vietnamese: cổ tay (vi) Volapük: riet (vo)

Anagrams

• writs

See also

• Wrist on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Old English

Etymology

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

Noun

wrist f.

1. wrist