dumbbell

English

two dumbbells

Alternative forms

• dumb-bell, dumbell (rare)

Etymology

From dumb (“silent”) +‎ bell.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʌm.bɛl/

• Audio (Canada):

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Noun

dumbbell (plural dumbbells)

1. A weight training implement consisting of a short bar with weight counterpoised on each end.
   • 1997, Pete McDonald, Climbing Lessons: Inside Outdoor Education, page 40:

     He also had a room strewn with the toys of the trade and what-have-you: ropes and ironmongery, buoyancy aid and bagpipes, fetid socks and half-eaten haggises, dumbbells and ski-instructor sweaters.

   • 2007, “The Years before the End of the War”, in A Girl From Shanghai: The Story of Lillian Hsu, a Medical Geneticist, a NTU Medical College Alumna‎^[1], →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 35–36:

     On the map Gansu is shaped like a dumbbell lying obliquely from east to west. Its best known city is Lanjhou, the capital, and also the gateway to the Silk Road. But we did not go there; we were heading for a relatively unknown city a few hundred miles away from Lanjhou, called Tianshuei.

2. (obsolete) A bell with no clapper, used as bell-striking practice or to strike as a form of physical exercise
3. (derogatory) A stupid person.

Derived terms

• dumbbell curve
• nanodumbbell

Translations

a weight with two disks attached to a short bar

• Albanian: dorak (sq) m
• Arabic: دُمْبِل m (dumbil)
• Assamese: please add this translation if you can
• Azerbaijani: hantel
• Basque: jasotzeko pisu
• Belarusian: гантэ́ль f (hantélʹ)
• Bulgarian: ги́ра (bg) f (gíra)
• Catalan: manuella (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 啞鈴 / 哑铃 (zh) (yǎlíng)

• Czech: činka (cs) f
• Danish: håndvægt c
• Dutch: halter (nl) m
• Esperanto: haltero
• Estonian: hantel
• Finnish: käsipaino (fi)
• French: haltère (fr) m
• German: Kurzhantel f, Hantel (de) f
• Greek: αλτήρας (el) m (altíras)

  Ancient: ἁλτῆρες m pl (haltêres)

• Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: טֶמְבֶּל (he) m (témbel)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: kézi súlyzó (hu), súlyzó (hu)
• Icelandic: handlóð (is) n
• Irish: tromán lúith m
• Italian: manubrio (it) m
• Japanese: ダンベル (ja) (danberu), 唖鈴 (ja) (あれい, arei), 鉄アレイ (てつアレイ, tetsu arei)
• Korean: 아령(啞鈴) (ko) (aryeong), 덤벨 (deombel)
• Latvian: hantele (lv) f
• Lithuanian: svarmenys m
• Macedonian: тег m (teg)
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: manual (no) m

  Nynorsk: manual m

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: دَمْبِل (dambel)

• Polish: hantel (pl) m, ciężarek (pl) m
• Portuguese: haltere (pt) m, halter m
• Romanian: ganteră f
• Russian: ганте́ль (ru) f (gantɛ́lʹ), (colloquial) ганте́ля f (gantɛ́lja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бу̏чица f

  Latin: bȕčica (sh) f

• Slovak: činka (sk) f
• Spanish: pesas (es) f pl, mancuerna (es) f
• Swedish: hantel (sv) c
• Tagalog: pesas
• Turkish: hanter, halter (tr), dambıl
• Ukrainian: ганте́ль f (hantélʹ)
• Uyghur: گانتېل (gantël)
• Vietnamese: quả tạ
• Welsh: dymbel (cy) m

a stupid person

• Bulgarian: тъпа́к (bg) m (tǎpák)
• Catalan: estúpid (ca) m, estúpida (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蠢人 (zh) (chǔnrén)

• Estonian: tola (et), puupea
• Finnish: tollo (fi), typerys (fi)
• French: balourd (fr) m, imbécile (fr) m, idiot (fr) m, idiote (fr) f
• Greek: βλακέντιος (el) m (vlakéntios)
• Hungarian: idióta (hu), ostoba/hülye alak, barom (hu)
• Italian: cretino (it) m, deficiente (it) m or f, idiota (it) m or f, imbecille (it) m or f, scemo (it) m, stupido (it) m, stupida (it) f
• Latin: stultus (la) m, stulta (la) f, stultum (la) n
• Polish: głupek (pl) m, tuman (pl) m
• Portuguese: idiota (pt) m or f, imbecil (pt) m or f, estúpido (pt) m, estúpida (pt) f
• Russian: болва́н (ru) m (bolván), тупи́ца (ru) m or f (tupíca)
• Spanish: estúpido (es) m, imbécil (es) m or f, pendejo (es) m, tonto (es) m, estúpida (es) f
• Swedish: dumsnut (sv), dumbom (sv) c

See also

• barbell
• kettlebell