footwear

English

Etymology

From foot +‎ -wear.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfʊtwɛə(ɹ)/
• Hyphenation: foot‧wear

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

A variety of different types of footwear.

footwear (usually uncountable, plural footwears)

1. Items or an item of clothing that is worn on the foot; a shoe, sandal, etc.
   • 2002 January 29, Suzy Menkes, “PARIS FASHION : Wind of Change:New Formality With a Rugged Edge”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Yohji Yamamoto's strength was to stick with the sportswear that has inspired him since he teamed up with Adidas to create the imaginative pin-striped or painted-denim footwear that walked his grass-turf runway.

Synonyms

• feetwear
• footgear

Derived terms

• nonfootwear

Translations

item of clothing that is worn on the foot

• Albanian: këpucë (sq) f
• Arabic: حِذَاء (ar) f pl (ḥiḏāʔ), مَشَّايَة f (maššāya)
• Armenian: կոշկեղեն (hy) (koškeġen) (collective), կոշիկ (hy) (košik)
• Azerbaijani: ayaqqabılar (az) pl
• Bashkir: аяҡ кейеме (ayaq keyeme)
• Basque: oinetako
• Belarusian: абу́так m (abútak)
• Bulgarian: обу́вки (bg) pl (obúvki), обу́вка (bg) f (obúvka)
• Catalan: calçat (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鞋類 / 鞋类 (zh) (xiélèi), 鞋子 (zh) (xiézi), 鞋襪 / 鞋袜 (zh) (xiéwà), 鞋履 (zh) (xiélǚ)

• Czech: obuv (cs) f
• Danish: fodtøj (da) n, skotøj n
• Dutch: schoeisel (nl) n
• Estonian: jalats, jalanõu
• Finnish: jalkine (fi)
• French: souliers (fr) m pl, chaussures (fr) f pl
• Georgian: ფეხსაცმელი (ka) (pexsacmeli)
• German: Schuhwerk (de) n
• Greek:

  Ancient: ὑπόδημα n (hupódēma)

• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: lábbeli (hu)
• Icelandic: skófatnaður
• Indonesian: alas kaki (id)
• Irish: coisbheart m
• Italian: calzatura (it)
• Japanese: 履物 (ja) (はきもの, hakimono), 履き物 (ja) (はきもの, hakimono)
• Kazakh: аяқ киім (kk) (aäq kiım)
• Kyrgyz: бут кийим (but kiyim)
• Latgalian: apave
• Latvian: apavs m, apavi m pl
• Lithuanian: avalynė f
• Macedonian: о́бувки pl (óbuvki), о́бувка f (óbuvka)
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Malayalam: പാദരക്ഷ (ml) (pādarakṣa)
• Mongolian: гутал (mn) (gutal)
• Norman: caûchement m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fottøy (no) n, skotøy n

  Nynorsk: fottøy n, skotøy n

• Occitan: cauçadura (oc) f
• Persian: پاافزار (fa) (pâ-afzâr)
• Polish: obuwie (pl) n
• Portuguese: calçado (pt) m
• Romanian: încălțăminte (ro) f
• Russian: о́бувь (ru) f (óbuvʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: о̀бућа f

  Roman: òbuća f

• Shor: азақ кеби (azaq kebi)
• Slovak: obuv f
• Slovene: obutev f
• Southern Altai: ӧдӱк (ödük), айак кийим (ayak kiyim), бут кийим (but kiyim)
• Spanish: calzado (es) m
• Swedish: skodon (sv) n
• Tajik: пойафзол (poyafzol)
• Tamil: காலணி (ta) (kālaṇi)
• Telugu: పాదరక్షలు (te) (pādarakṣalu)
• Turkish: ayakkabılar (tr) pl
• Turkmen: aýakgap (tk)
• Ukrainian: взуття́ n (vzuttjá)
• Uzbek: oyoq kiyim, poyafzal (uz)
• Vietnamese: giày dép (vi)
• Volapük: jukem (vo) (collective)