awl

See also: AWL and -awl

English

Etymology

From Middle English aul, alle, al, from Old English æl, from Proto-Germanic *ēlō (compare Middle Low German āl, Dutch aal, German Ahle), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ólos (compare Khotanese [script needed] (aiysna), Sanskrit आरा (ā́rā)),

Alternatively, possibly from *ēl- (“awl, prong”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɔːl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɔl/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /ɑl/
• Rhymes: -ɔːl
• Homophone: all

Noun

Stitching awls

awl (plural awls)

1. A pointed instrument for piercing small holes, as in leather or wood; used by shoemakers, saddlers, cabinetmakers, etc. The blade is differently shaped and pointed for different uses, as in the brad awl, saddler's awl, shoemaker's awl, etc.
2. (entomology) Any of various hesperiid butterflies.

Translations

pointed instrument

• Albanian: fëndyell (sq) n
• Arabic: مِخْرَز m (miḵraz)

  North Levantine Arabic: مسَلّة f (msalle)

• Armenian: բիզ (hy) (biz), հերյուն (hy) (heryun)
• Bashkir: беҙ (beź)
• Belarusian: шы́ла n (šýla)
• Bulgarian: ши́ло (bg) n (šílo)
• Catalan: alena (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 錐子／锥子 (zh) (zhuīzi), 锥子 (zh) (zhuīzi)

• Czech: šídlo (cs) n
• Danish: syl c
• Daur: sheugw
• Dutch: els (nl) m, priem (nl)
• Esperanto: aleno
• Evenki: силгивӯн (silgiwūn)
• Faroese: sýl f, sýlur m
• Finnish: purasin
• French: alène (fr) f, alêne (fr) f
• Galician: subela (gl) f
• Georgian: სადგისი (sadgisi)
• German: Ahle (de) f
• Greek: σουβλί (el) n (souvlí)

  Ancient: ὄπεας n (ópeas)

• Hebrew: מַרְצֵעַ (he) m (martzéa')
• Hungarian: ár (hu)
• Icelandic: alur (is) m
• Interlingue:
• Italian: punteruolo (it) m, lesina (it) f
• Japanese: 突きぎり (つきぎり, tsukigiri), 錐 (ja) (きり, kiri)
• Korean: 송곳 (ko) (songgot)
• Latgalian: eilyns m
• Latin: subula f
• Latvian: īlens m
• Lithuanian: yla (lt) f
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• Macedonian: шило n (šilo)
• Maltese: timplor m
• Mangghuer: shubige
• Mongghul: shuuga
• Mongolian: шөвөг (šövög), шивүүр (mn) (šivüür)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: syl (no) m

  Nynorsk: syl m

• Novial:
• Occitan: alzena (oc) f
• Old English: æl m or f
• Old High German: ala f
• Old Norse: alr m
• Polish: szydło (pl) n
• Portuguese: furador m
• Romanian: sulă (ro) f
• Russian: ши́ло (ru) n (šílo)
• Sanskrit: आरा (sa) f (ārā)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: шило n

  Roman: šilo (sh) n

• Slovak: šidlo n
• Slovene: šilo n
• Spanish: lezna (es) f, lesna (es) f, alesna (es) f, punzón (es) m
• Sudovian: īla f
• Swahili: maharazi
• Swedish: syl (sv) c, pryl (sv) c
• Tagalog: punson
• Telugu: ఆరె (te) (āre)
• Ukrainian: ши́ло n (šýlo)
• Uzbek: bigiz (uz)
• Vietnamese: giùi (vi)
• Welsh: mynawyd m
• Yup'ik: ukicissuun

Further reading

• awl on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Law, WAL, Wal., law, lwa