wrist

English

Picture dictionary

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/, X-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) (míʕṣam) m, رسغ (ar) (rusğ) m

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

• Coptic: ⲓⲛⲓ (ʔini) f, ϣⲙⲟⲩ (ʔšmu) m
• 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: plaukstas locītava (lv) f
• Lithuanian: riešas
• Malay: pergelangan tangan (ms)
• Marathi: मनगट (mr) (man'gaT) n
• Norwegian: håndledd (no) n
• Old English: wríst f
• Ottoman Turkish: بيلك (bilek), معصم (my'sam)
• Persian: مچ (fa) (moč), مچ دست (fa) (moč-e dast)
• Polish: nadgarstek (pl) m
• Portuguese: punho (pt) m, pulso (pt) m,
• Romanian: încheietura mâinii 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