English
Capillaries
Etymology
From Latin capillāris ( “ pertaining to the hair ” ) , from capillus ( “ the hair, properly of the head ” ) , from caput ( “ head ” ) .
Pronunciation
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Adjective
capillary (comparative more capillary , superlative most capillary )
of or pertaining to hair .
pertaining to a narrow tube.
of, relating to, or caused by surface tension .
Derived terms
Noun
capillary (plural capillaries
A narrow tube.
( anatomy ) blood vessels that connect arteries to veins .
Derived terms
Translations
any of small blood vessels that connect arteries to veins
Albanian: kapilar m
Arabic: شَعِيرَة دَمَوِيَّة f ( šaʿīra damawiyya )
Armenian: մազանոթ (hy) ( mazanotʻ )
Azerbaijani: kapilyar
Belarusian: капіля́р m ( kapiljár )
Bengali: কৈশিক ( kōiśik )
Bulgarian: капиля́ра (bg) f ( kapiljára )
Burmese: သွေးကြောမျှင် (my) ( swe:krau:hmyang ) , အကြောမျှင် (my) ( a.krau:hmyang )
Catalan: capil·lar (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 毛細管 ／ 毛细管 (zh) ( máoxìguǎn ) , 毛细管 (zh) ( máoxìguǎn ) , 微血管 (zh) ( wēixuèguǎn, wēixiěguǎn ) , 毛細血管 ／ 毛细血管 (zh) ( máoxì xuèguǎn ) , 毛细血管 (zh) ( máoxìxuèguǎn, máoxìxiěguǎn )
Czech: vlásečnice (cs) f kapilára (cs) f
Danish: kapillær c
Dutch: haarvat n capillair (nl)
Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
Estonian: kapillaar
Finnish: hiussuoni (fi)
French: capillaire (fr) m
Georgian: კაპილარი ( ḳaṗilari )
German: Kapillare (de) f
Greek: τριχοειδές αγγείο n ( trichoeidés angeío )
Gujarati: કેશવાહિની ( keśvāhinī )
Hebrew: נִים (he) m ( nim )
Hindi: केशिका (hi) f ( keśikā )
Hungarian: kapilláris (hu) , hajszálér (hu)
Icelandic: háræð (is) f
Indonesian: kapiler (id)
Italian: capillare (it) m vaso capillare m
Japanese: 毛細血管 ( もうさいけっかん, mōsaikekkan ) , 毛管 ( もうかん, mōkan )
Kazakh: капилляр ( kapillär ) , қылтамыр ( qyltamyr )
Khmer: កេសនា ( keesa’naa ) , កេសរ (km) ( keesɑɑ )
Korean: 모세관 (ko) ( mosegwan ) , 모세혈관 (ko) ( mosehyeolgwan )
Kurdish: Lua error in Module:parameters at line 370 : Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "ku" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E .
(deprecated template usage ) {{trans-mid }}Kyrgyz: капилляр ( kapillyar )
Lao: ເສັ້ນເລືອດຝອຍ ( sen lư̄at fǭi )
Latvian: kapilārs (lv) m
Lithuanian: kapiliaras m
Macedonian: капилар m ( kapilar )
Malay: kapilari
Mongolian: хялгасан хоолой ( xjalgasan xooloj ) , хялгасан судас ( xjalgasan sudas )
Navajo: atsʼoostsʼóóz
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kapillar (no) n
Nynorsk: kapillar n
Persian: مویرگ (fa) ( muyrag )
Polish: kapilara f
Portuguese: capilar (pt) m
Romanian: vas capilar
Russian: капилля́р (ru) m ( kapilljár )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: капилар m
Roman: kapilar m
Slovak: vlásočnica f kapilára f
Slovene: kapilara f
Spanish: capilar (es) m tubo capilar m
Swedish: kapillär (sv) c
Tagalog: lamuymoy
Tajik: капилляр ( kapillyar )
Thai: หลอดเลือดฝอย ( lɔ̀ɔt-lʉ̂ʉat-fɔ̌i ) , เส้นเลือดฝอย ( sêen-lʉ̂ʉat-fɔ̌i )
Turkish: kılcal damar (tr) , kapiler
Turkmen: kapillýar
Ukrainian: капіля́р m ( kapiljár )
Urdu: کیشکا f ( keśikā )
Uzbek: kapillyar (uz)
Vietnamese: mao mạch (vi)
Yiddish: אָדערל n ( oderl )
See also
Further reading
“capillary ”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary G. & C. Merriam , 1913 , →OCLC “capillary ”, in The Century Dictionary [ … ] The Century Co. , 1911 , →OCLC 
