English
Etymology
From dumb + bell. Originally an apparatus used to strike a bell, yet without the bell, hence the term dumb.
Pronunciation
Noun
dumbbell (plural dumbbells)
- A weight training implement consisting of a short bar with weight counterpoised on each end.
- (derogatory) A stupid person.
Derived terms
Translations
a weight with two disks attached to a short bar
- Albanian: dorak (sq) m
- Arabic: دُمْبِل m (dumbil)
- Assamese: please add this translation if you can
- Azerbaijani: hantel
- Basque: jasotzeko pisu
- Belarusian: гантэ́ль f (hantélʹ)
- Bulgarian: ги́ра (bg) f (gíra)
- Catalan: manuella (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 啞鈴/哑铃 (zh) (yǎlíng), 哑铃 (zh) (yǎlíng)
- Czech: činka (cs) f
- Danish: håndvægt c
- Dutch: halter (nl) m
- Esperanto: haltero
- Estonian: hantel
- Finnish: käsipaino (fi)
- French: haltère (fr) m
- German: Kurzhantel f, Hantel (de) f
- Greek: αλτήρας (el) m (altíras)
- Ancient: ἁλτῆρες m pl (haltêres)
- Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
- Hindi: please add this translation if you can
- Hungarian: kézi súlyzó (hu), súlyzó (hu)
- Icelandic: handlóð (is) n
- Italian: manubrio (it) m
- Japanese: ダンベル (danberu), 唖鈴 (ja) (あれい, arei), 鉄アレイ (tetsu arei)
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- Korean: 아령 (ko) (aryeong), 덤벨 (deombel)
- Latvian: hantele f
- Lithuanian: svarmenys m
- Macedonian: тег m (teg)
- Malay: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: manual (no) m
- Nynorsk: manual m
- Persian: دمبل (fa) (dambel)
- Polish: hantel (pl) m, ciężarek (pl) m
- Portuguese: haltere (pt) m, halter m
- Russian: ганте́ль (ru) f (gantɛ́lʹ), (colloquial) ганте́ля f (gantɛ́lja)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: бу̏чица f
- Latin: bȕčica (sh) f
- Slovak: činka (sk) f
- Spanish: pesas (es) f pl, mancuerna (es) f
- Swedish: hantel (sv) c
- Tagalog: pesas
- Turkish: hanter, halter (tr), dambıl
- Ukrainian: ганте́ль f (hantélʹ)
- Uyghur: گانتېل (gantël)
- Vietnamese: quả tạ
- Welsh: dymbel (cy) m
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a stupid person
- Bulgarian: тъпак (bg) m (tǎpak)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 蠢人 (zh) (chǔnrén)
- Estonian: tola (et), puupea
- Finnish: tollo (fi), typerys (fi)
- French: balourd (fr) m, imbécile (fr) m
- Greek: βλακέντιος (el) m (vlakéntios)
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- Hebrew: טמבל (he) m (témbel)
- Hungarian: idióta (hu), ostoba/hülye alak, barom (hu)
- Italian: cretino (it) m, deficiente (it) m or f, idiota (it) m or f, imbecille (it) m or f, scemo (it) m, stupido (it) m
- Polish: głupek (pl) m, tuman (pl) m
- Portuguese: idiota (pt) m or f, imbecil (pt) m or f
- Russian: болва́н (ru) m (bolván), тупи́ца (ru) m or f (tupíca)
- Spanish: estúpido (es) m, imbécil (es) m or f, pendejo (es) m, tonto (es) m
- Swedish: dumsnut (sv), dumbom (sv) c
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See also