ballpoint pen

See also: ball-point pen

English

A ballpoint pen.

Alternative forms

• ball-point pen

Noun

ballpoint pen (plural ballpoint pens)

1. A pen, similar in size and shape to a pencil, having an internal chamber filled with a viscous, quick-drying ink that is dispensed at the tip during use by the rolling action of a metal sphere (around 0.7 mm to 1 mm in diameter).

   Synonyms: ball pen, ballpen, (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) biro

Translations

pen

• Afrikaans: balpuntpen
• Albanian: stilolaps (sq) f
• Arabic: قَلَم حِبْر m (qalam ḥibr)
• Armenian: գնդիկավոր գրիչ (gndikavor gričʻ)
• Azerbaijani: diyircəkli qələm
• Belarusian: ша́рыкавая ру́чка f (šárykavaja rúčka)
• Bengali: কলম (bn) (kolom)
• Bulgarian: химика́лка (bg) f (himikálka), писа́лка (bg) f (pisálka)
• Burmese: ဘောပင် (bhau:pang), ဘောပွိုင့်ပင် (bhau:pwuing.pang)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 原子筆／原子笔 (jyun⁴ zi² bat¹), 原子笔 (jyun⁴ zi² pat¹)

  Hakka: 原子筆／原子笔, 原子笔 (ngièn-chṳ́-pit)

  Mandarin: 圓珠筆／圆珠笔 (zh) (yuánzhūbǐ), 圆珠笔 (zh) (yuánzhūbǐ) (Mainland China), 原子筆／原子笔 (zh) (yuánzǐbǐ), 原子笔 (zh) (yuánzǐbǐ) (Taiwan)

  Min Nan: 原子筆／原子笔 (zh-min-nan), 原子笔 (goân-chú-pit)

• Czech: kuličkové pero n, propiska (cs) f, propisovací tužka f, propisovačka f
• Danish: kuglepen (da) c
• Dutch: balpen (nl) f
• Esperanto: globkrajono
• Estonian: pastapliiats (et)
• Faroese: kúlupennur m
• Finnish: kuulakärkikynä (fi)
• French: bic (fr) m, stylo à bille (fr) m
• Georgian: ბურთულიანი კალამი (burtuliani ḳalami)
• German: Kugelschreiber (de) m, Kuli (de) m
• Greek: στυλό διαρκείας n (styló diarkeías)
• Haitian Creole: plim biy f
• Hebrew: עט כדורי
• Hindi: बॉलपेन f (bŏlpen)
• Hungarian: golyóstoll (hu)
• Icelandic: kúlupenni (is) m
• Ido: please add this translation if you can
• Indonesian: bolpen
• Irish: peann gránbhiorach f, badhró
• Italian: penna a sfera (it) f, biro (it) f
• Japanese: ボールペン (ja) (bōrupen)
• Kazakh: қаламсап (qalamsap)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 볼펜 (ko) (bolpen), 원주필 (ko) (wonjupil) (rare, North Korea)
• Kyrgyz: калемсап (ky) (kalemsap)
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• Lao: ບິກ (lo) (bik)
• Latin: stilus sphaeratus m
• Latvian: lodīšu pildspalva f
• Lithuanian: tušinukas (lt) f
• Macedonian: хемиско пенкало n (hemisko penkalo)
• Malay: pen mata bulat
• Maori: penepura
• Mongolian: үзгэн бал (üzgen bal)
• Nepali: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kulepenn (no) m

  Nynorsk: kulepenn m

• Persian: خودکار (fa) (xod-kâr)
• Polish: pióro kulkowe n, długopis (pl) m
• Portuguese: caneta esferográfica (pt) f, esferográfica (pt) f
• Romanian: pix (ro) n
• Russian: ша́риковая ру́чка (ru) f (šárikovaja rúčka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хемијска оловка f, кемијска оловка f

  Roman: hemijska olovka f, kemijska olovka f

• Slovak: guľôčkové pero n
• Slovene: kemični svinčnik (sl) m
• Spanish: bolígrafo (es) m, (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay) birome (es) f, (Spain, colloquial) boli (es) m, (Colombia, Ecuador) esfero (es) m, (Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Peru, Venezuela) lapicero (es) m, (Chile) lápiz pasta m, (Eastern Bolivia) mango (es) m, (Mexico) pluma (es) m, (Colombian Atlantic Coast) plumero (es) m, (Bolivian standard usage) puntabola f
• Swahili: kalamu (sw)
• Swedish: kulspetspenna (sv) c, kulpenna c
• Tagalog: bolpoint, bolpen
• Tajik: ручка (tg) (ručka)
• Tamil: குமிழ்முனைப் பேனா (ta) (kumiḻmuṉaip pēṉā)
• Telugu: బాల్ పెన్ (bāl pen), బాల్ పాయింట్ పెన్ (bāl pāyiṇṭ pen)
• Thai: ปากกาลูกลื่น (bpàak-gaa-lûuk-lʉ̂ʉn), ปากกาหมึกแห้ง (bpàak-gaa-mʉ̀k-hɛ̂ɛng)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: tükenmez kalem (tr)
• Turkmen: ruçka
• Ukrainian: кулько́ва ру́чка f (kulʹkóva rúčka)
• Uzbek: ruchka (uz)
• Vietnamese: viết bi, bút bi (vi), bút nguyên tử
• Volapük: glöpapen
• Welsh: beiro (cy) m
• Zhuang: yenzcuhbit, yenzcuhbiz

Further reading

• ballpoint pen on Wikipedia.Wikipedia