anklet

English

This person is wearing an anklet on each ankle.

Etymology

From ankle +‎ -et, based on bracelet.

Pronunciation

• (without æ-raising) IPA^(key): /ˈæŋklət/

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    • (æ-raising) IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ̯ŋklət/, /ˈɛ̃ŋklət/
• Hyphenation: ank‧let

Noun

anklet (plural anklets)

1. A piece of jewelry/jewellery, resembling a bracelet but worn around the ankle.
   • 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 79:

     The men wear their frizzly hair gathered into a flat circular knot over the left temple, which has a very knowing look, and in their ears cylinders of wood as thick as one's finger, and coloured red at the ends. Armlets and anklets of woven grass or of silver, with necklaces of beads or of small fruits, complete their attire.

2. An ankle sock.
   • 1959, Chain Store Age for Supermarket-Grocery Executives, page 237:

     Stretch socks are made in infant sizes, girls' and ladies' anklets […]

Coordinate terms

• armlet
• kneelet
• leglet
• necklet
• wristlet

Derived terms

• ankleted

Translations

a bracelet at the ankle

• Arabic: خَلْخَال m (ḵalḵāl)
• Bikol:

  Central Bikol: baksal

• Catalan: turmellera f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 腳鐲 / 脚镯 (jiǎozhuó), 腳鏈 / 脚链 (jiǎoliàn)

• Czech: nákotník m, řetízek na kotník
• Danish: ankelkæde c
• Dutch: enkelband (nl) m
• Esperanto: krurringo
• Finnish: nilkkakoru (fi), nilkkarengas
• French: jambelet (fr) m, bracelet de cheville (fr) m, chaîne de cheville f
• German: Fußkette f, Fußband n
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: περισφύριον n (perisphúrion)

• Hindi: पायल (hi) f (pāyal)
• Hungarian: bokalánc (hu)
• Irish: bráisléad murnáin m
• Italian: cavigliera (it) f
• Japanese: アンクレット (ankuretto)
• Kannada: ತಂಡೆ (kn) (taṇḍe)
• Korean: 발찌 (baljji)
• Lü: ᦶᦛᧃᦎᦲᧃ (v̇aenṫiin), ᦷᦂᧂᧈᦃᦱ (k̇ong¹ẋaa)
• Malay: gelang kaki
• Malayalam: പാദസരം (ml) (pādasaraṁ), കൊലുസ് (kolusŭ)
• Marathi: पैंजण (mr) m (paiñjaṇ)
• Māori: kōmore
• Persian: پای‌ابرنجن (pây-abranjan)
• Polish: łańcuszek na nogę m
• Portuguese: tornozeleira (pt) f
• Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi: ਝਾਂਜਰ f (jhāñjar)

  Shahmukhi: جھان٘جَر f (jhāṉjar)

• Russian: ножно́й брасле́т m (nožnój braslét), цепо́чка на ноге́ f (cepóčka na nogé)
• Spanish: ajorca de tobillo f, tobillera (es) f, carcax (es) m (karkash)
• Swedish: vristlänk c
• Tamil: கொலுசு (ta) (kolucu)
• Telugu: అందె (te) (ande)
• Turkish: ayak bilekliği, ayak bileziği, ayak zinciri, halhal (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: خلخال (halhal)