English [ edit ] Etymology [ edit ] Abbreviation of "binocular glass".
Pronunciation [ edit ] ( UK ) IPA (key ) : /ˈbɪnˌɒk.jʊ.lə(ɹ)z/ , /ˈbənˌɒk.jə.lə(ɹ)z/ binoculars pl normally plural , singular binocular
A hand-held device consisting of a series of lenses and prisms , used to magnify objects so that they can be better seen from a distance , and looked at through both eyes.
1956 , Delano Ames , chapter 14, in Crime out of Mind [1] He gazed around until on the lid of a spinet he spotted a promising collection of bottles, gin, whiskey, vermouth and sherry, mixed with violin bows, a flute, a toppling pile of books, six volumes of Grove's Dictionary mingled with paperback thrillers, a guitar without any strings, a pair of binoculars , a meerschaum pipe and a jar half-full of wasps and apricot jam.
Usage notes [ edit ] A single device is called a pair of binoculars, and the plural "pairs of binoculars" is used for more than one device. Synonyms [ edit ] Translations [ edit ]
hand-held device for looking at a distance
Afrikaans: verkyker
Albanian: dylbi (sq) f
Arabic: مِنْظَار (ar) m ( minẓār )
Armenian: հեռադիտակ (hy) ( heṙaditak )
Azerbaijani: binokl durbin
Bashkir: бинокль ( binokl’ )
Basque: prismatikoak pl
Belarusian: біно́кль m ( binóklʹ )
Bengali: দূরবীন ( durbin )
Breton: gevellunedenn f
Bulgarian: бино́къл ( binókǎl )
Burmese: မှန်ပြောင်း (my) ( hmanpraung: )
Buryat: дурам ( duram )
Catalan: binocles m pl
Chinese:
Mandarin: 望遠鏡 (zh) , 望远镜 (zh) ( wàngyuǎnjìng ) , 雙筒望遠鏡 (zh) , 双筒望远镜 (zh) ( shuāngtǒng wàngyuǎnjìng )
Crimean Tatar: dürbin
Czech: dalekohled (cs) m
Danish: kikkert (da) c
Dutch: verrekijker (nl) m
Estonian: binokkel binoklid
Faroese: kikari m
Finnish: kiikari (fi)
French: jumelles (fr) f pl jumelle (fr) f
Galician: prismáticos m pl binóculos m pl
Georgian: ბინოკლი ( binoḳli ) , დურბინდი ( durbindi )
German: Fernglas (de) n Feldstecher (de) m
Greek: διόπτρες (el) f pl ( dióptres ) , κιάλια (el) n pl ( kiália )
Haitian Creole: longvi
Hebrew: מִשְׁקֶפֶת (he) ( mishkefet )
Hindi: दूरबीन f ( dūrbīn )
Hungarian: távcső (hu) , látcső (hu) , messzelátó (hu)
Icelandic: sjónauki (is) , kíkir (is) m
Ido: bilorno (io)
Indonesian: teropong (id)
Irish: gloiní f pl déshúiligh m pl
Italian: binocolo (it) m
Japanese: 双眼鏡 ( そうがんきょう, sōgankyō )
Kazakh: дүрбі ( dürbi ) , бинокль ( bïnoklʹ )
Khmer: កែវយឹត ( kaev yɨt ) , យឹតយឺត ( yɨt yɨɨt )
Korean: 쌍안경 (ko) ( ssang'an'gyeong )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: دووربین(ی) ( dûrbîn(î) ) , دووچاوی ( dûçawî )
Northern Kurdish: dûrbîn (ku)
Kyrgyz: дүрбү (ky) ( dürbü ) , бинокль (ky) ( binoklʹ )
Lao: ກ້ອງ ( kǭng ) , ກ້ອງສ່ອງ (lo) ( kǭng sǭng )
Latvian: binoklis m tālskatis m
Lithuanian: binoklis m
Macedonian: двоглед m ( dvogled )
Malay: teropong keker
Maltese: tromba f
Maori: karu whakatata
Mongolian: дуран (mn) ( duran )
Norman: longues-veues f pl
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kikkert m
Nynorsk: kikert m kikkert m
Ossetian: кӕсӕнцӕст ( kæsæncæst ) , бинокль ( binoklʹ )
Persian: دوربین (fa) ( durbin ) , دوچشمی (fa) ( dočešmī )
Polish: lorneta f lornetka (pl) f
Portuguese: binóculo m binóculos m pl
Romanian: binoclu (ro) m
Russian: бино́кль (ru) m ( binóklʹ )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: двоглед m доглед m дурбин m далекозор m далекоглед m
Roman: dvogled (sh) m dogled (sh) m durbin (sh) m dalekozor (sh) m dalekogled m
Slovak: ďalekohľad m
Slovene: daljnogled (sl) m
Spanish: prismáticos (es) m pl binoculares m pl gemelos (es) m pl
Swedish: kikare (sv) c
Tagalog: duhansipat
Tajik: дурбин ( durbin )
Tatar: бинокль ( binoql’ )
Tausug: talumpung
Thai: กล้องสองตา ( glɔ̂ng-sɔ̌ɔng-dtaa ) , กล้องสนาม ( glɔ̂ng-sà-nǎam )
Tibetan: རྒྱང་ཤེལ ( rgyang shel )
Turkish: dürbün (tr) , bakaç (tr)
Turkmen: dürbi binokl
Ukrainian: біно́кль (uk) m ( binóklʹ )
Urdu: دوربین f ( dūrbīn )
Uzbek: durbin (uz) , binokl (uz)
Vietnamese: ống nhòm (vi)
Volapük: fagiologöm (vo)
Welsh: ysbienddrych m sbenglas m
Yagnobi: дурбен ( durben )
See also [ edit ] 
binoculars on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 