hexagon

See also: Hexagon and hexàgon

English

A regular hexagon

Etymology

From Latin hexagonum, from Ancient Greek [Term?]; surface analysis hexa- +‎ -gon.

Pronunciation

• enPR: hĕk'səgən, IPA^(key): /ˈhɛk.sə.ɡən/
• enPR: hĕk'səgŏn, IPA^(key): /ˈhɛk.sə.ɡɑn/

• Audio (CA):

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Noun

hexagon (plural hexagons)

1. (geometry) A polygon with six sides and six angles.

Derived terms

• hexagonal
• Lemoine hexagon
• Tucker hexagon

Translations

A polygon with six sides and six angles

• Afrikaans: heksagoon, seshoek
• Albanian: gjashtëkëndësh (sq) m
• Arabic: مُسَدَّس (musadas)
• Armenian: վեցանկյուն (hy) (vecʻankyun)
• Asturian: hexágonu m
• Bengali: ষড়ভুজ (śoṛobhuj)
• Bulgarian: шестоъгълник (bg) m (šestoǎgǎlnik)
• Burmese: ဆက္ကဂံ (my) (hcakka.gam), ဆဌဂံ (hca.hta.gam)
• Catalan: hexàgon (ca) m
• Czech: šestiúhelník (cs) m
• Danish: sekskant c
• Dutch: zeshoek (nl) m
• Esperanto: seslatero, heksagono, sesangulo
• Faroese: sekshyrningur m
• Finnish: kuusikulmio (fi), heksagoni (fi)
• French: hexagone (fr) m
• Galician: hexágono (gl) m
• Georgian: ექვსკუთხედი (ekvsḳutxedi)
• German: Sechseck (de) n, Hexagon (de) n
• Greek: εξάγωνο (el) m (exágono)
• Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: מְשׁוּשֶּׁה (he) m (meshushé)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: hatszög (hu)
• Icelandic: sexhyrningur m
• Ido: hexagono (io)
• Irish: heicseagán m
• Italian: esagono (it) m
• Japanese: 六角形 (ja) (ろっかくけい, rokkakukei)
• Kannada: ಷಟ್ಕೋನ (kn) (ṣaṭkōna)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
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• Korean: 육각형 (ko) (yuggaghyeong)
• Latvian: sešstūris m
• Lithuanian: šešiakampis m
• Malay:

  Rumi: heksagon (ms)

• Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: tapaono
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Navajo: hastą́ągo bízniikʼą́, hastą́ą́góó adeezʼá
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: heksagon m, sekskant m

  Nynorsk: heksagon m, sekskant m

• Oriya: ଛକୋଣି (or) (chakoṇi)
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: sześciokąt (pl) m
• Portuguese: hexágono (pt) m
• Punjabi: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: шестиугольник (ru) m (šestiugolʹnik)
• Serbo-Croatian: šesterokut (sh)
• Slovak: šesťuholník m
• Slovene: šestkotnik m, šesterokotnik m
• Spanish: hexágono (es) m
• Swedish: hexagon (sv) c, sexhörning (sv) c
• Tagalog: heksagono, nimsiha
• Tamil: அறுகோணம் (ta) (aṟukōṇam)
• Telugu: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: หกเหลี่ยม (th) (hòk-lìiam)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: altıgen (tr)
• Vietnamese: lục giác (vi), hình sáu cạnh
• Welsh: chweongl m, hecsagon m
• Zulu: unxasithupha class 1a/2a