Self-retracting metal tape measure (US customary)
tape measure plural tape measures
A graduated flexible ribbon used for measuring lengths .
1907 Barbara Baynton , edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980 , page 126 :Reappearing, tape-measure in hand, he went into the bedroom and took slow and accurate measurements, whistling delightedly to find that his pre-mortem theoretical calculations and post-mortem practical measurements hardly varied.
graduated ribbon for length measurement
Arabic: شَرْيِط قِيَاس m ( šaryiṭ qiyās )
Egyptian Arabic: مازورة f ( mazura )
Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Bulgarian: шивашки метър m ( šivaški metǎr ) , рулетка (bg) f ( ruletka )
Chinese:
Mandarin: ( made of metal or steel, retractable ) 捲尺 ／ 卷尺 (zh) ( juǎnchǐ ) , ( made of linen or cloth, usually non-retractable ) 皮尺 (zh) ( píchǐ )
Czech: metr (cs) m pásmo (cs) n
Danish: målebånd n
Dutch: meetlint (nl) , centimeter (nl)
Esperanto: mezurbendo
Estonian: mõõdulint (et)
Finnish: mittanauha (fi)
French: mètre ruban (fr) m ruban à mesurer m
Georgian: საზომი ლენტი ( sazomi lenṭi ) , ხვეულა ( xveula ) , რულეტი ( ruleṭi )
German: Maßband (de) n
Greek: μεζούρα (el) f ( mezoúra ) , μετροταινία (el) f ( metrotainía )
Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
Hebrew: סרט מידה (he)
Hindi: मापक फीता ( māpak phītā )
Hungarian: mérőszalag (hu) , centiméter (hu) ( colloquial ) , centi (hu) ( colloquial )
Icelandic: málband n
Indonesian: pita ukur
Irish: miosúr m
Italian: metro a nastro m
Japanese: メジャー (ja) ( mejā ) , 巻き尺 ( まきじゃく, makijaku )
Kannada: ಅಳತೆ ಪಟ್ಟಿ (kn) ( aḷate paṭṭi )
Khmer: ម៉ែត្រមូរ ( maet muu ) , ម៉ែត្រសំពត់ ( maet sɑmpʊət )
Korean: please add this translation if you can
Macedonian: метро n ( metro )
Malay: pita ukur
Maltese: please add this translation if you can
Maori: taura ine rūri tākai
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: метр (mn) ( metr ) ( pronounced 'metr'; general term ) , эвхдэг метр ( evxdeg metr ) ( retractable ) , ороомол тохой ( oroomol toxoj ) ( retractable; Inner Mongolia )
Navajo: bee ídaʼneelʼąąhí
Norwegian:
Bokmål: målebånd n
Ottoman Turkish: مساحه شریدی ( mesaha şeridi )
Persian: please add this translation if you can
Plautdietsch: Motbaunt m
Polish: taśma miernicza (pl) f metrówka (pl) f miarka (pl) f
Portuguese: fita métrica f trena (pt) f
Romanian: ruletă (ro)
Russian: метр (ru) m ( metr ) , сантиме́тр (ru) m ( santimétr ) , ме́рная ле́нта f ( mérnaja lénta ) , руле́тка (ru) f ( rulétka )
Scottish Gaelic: ribean-tomhais m
Serbo-Croatian: метални метар m ( metalni metar )
Spanish: metro (es) m cinta métrica (es) f
Swedish: måttband (sv) n
Tagalog: medida
Tamil: அளக்கும் நாடா ( aḷakkum nāṭā )
Telugu: టేప్ కొలత ( ṭēp kolata )
Thai: สายวัด ( soft strip ) , ตลับเมตร ( cased metal strip )
Tibetan: ཁྲེ་རྩེ་སྒྲིལ་མ ( khre rtse sgril ma ) , སྒྲིལ་ཁྲེ ( sgril khre ) , དྲིལ་ཁྲུ ( dril khru )
Turkish: şerit metre (tr)
Vietnamese: thước dây (vi)
Welsh: tâp mesur m
Translations to be checked
