English [ edit ] Wooden hourglass Etymology [ edit ] hour glass
Pronunciation [ edit ] IPA (key ) : /ˈaʊəɡlɑːs/ Audio (Southern England) (file )
hourglass (plural hourglasses
A clock made of two glass vessels connected by a narrow passage through which sand flows.
Synonyms: sandglass sand timer watch glass Hyponym: egg timer Meronym: pinch After each game turn, invert the hourglass to reset the time limit for the next player.
1819 John Keats , “Canto I ”, in The Fall of Hyperion The sands of thy short life are spent this hour, / And no hand in the universe can turn / Thy hourglass , if these gummed leaves be burnt / Ere thou canst mount up these immortal steps.
( graphical user interface ) cursor , often shaped like an hourglass, indicating that the computer is busy.
Synonym: egg timer Coordinate term: ( Apple ) beach ball 2002 , Maximum PC (Winter 2002, page 16)
When I right click the desktop display to check Display Properties, it hangs and shows me only the hourglass instead of the display menu. Derived terms [ edit ] Translations [ edit ] clock
Arabic: سَاعَة رَمْلِيَّة f ( sāʕa ramliyya )
Armenian: ավազի ժամացույց ( avazi žamacʻuycʻ )
Asturian: reló d'arena m
Azerbaijani: qum saatı
Belarusian: пясо́чны гадзі́ннік m ( pjasóčny hadzínnik )
Breton: eurier-traezh m
Bulgarian: пя́съчен часо́вник m ( pjásǎčen časóvnik )
Burmese: သဲနာရီ (my) ( sai:nari )
Catalan: rellotge de sorra m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 沙漏 ( saa1 lau6 )
Hokkien: 沙漏 ( soa-lāu )
Mandarin: 沙漏 (zh) ( shālòu ) , 沙鐘 ／ 沙钟 ( shāzhōng ) , 沙壺 ／ 沙壶 ( shāhú )
Czech: přesýpací hodiny (cs) f pl
Danish: timeglas (da) n
Dutch: zandloper (nl) m
Esperanto: sablohorloĝo
Estonian: liivakell
Finnish: tiimalasi (fi)
French: sablier (fr) m
Galician: reloxo de area (gl)
Georgian: ქვიშის საათი ( kvišis saati )
German: Sanduhr (de) f
Greek: κλεψύδρα (el) f ( klepsýdra )
Gujarati: રેતઘડી f ( retaghḍī )
Hindi: रेतघड़ी f ( retghaṛī ) , बालू घड़ी f ( bālū ghaṛī )
Hungarian: homokóra (hu)
Icelandic: tímaglas n stundaglas n
Ido: sablo-horlojo (io)
Indonesian: jam pasir (id)
Italian: clessidra (it) f
Japanese: 砂時計 (ja) ( すなどけい, sunadokei ) , 砂漏 ( さろう, sarō )
Kazakh: құм сағат ( qūm sağat )
Khmer: នាឡិកាខ្សាច់ ( niəlekaa khsac )
Korean: 모래시계 ( moraesigye ) , 사루(沙漏) ( saru ) , 사루계(沙漏計) ( sarugye )
Kumyk: хум сагьат ( xum sahat )
Kyrgyz: кум саат ( kum saat )
Lao: ນາລິກາຊາຍ ( nā li kā sāi )
Latvian: smilšu pulkstenis m
Lithuanian: smėlio laikrodis m
Macedonian: пе́сочен ча́совник m ( pésočen čásovnik ) , пе́сочник m ( pésočnik )
Malay: jam pasir
Norman: hôlouoge à sablion f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: timeglass n
Nynorsk: timeglas n
Ottoman Turkish: قوم ساعتی ( kum saʾatı )
Persian: ساعت شنی ( sâ'at-e šeni )
Polish: klepsydra (pl) f zegar piaskowy m inan
Portuguese: ampulheta (pt) f
Romanian: nisiparniță (ro) f clepsidră (ro) f
Russian: песо́чные часы́ (ru) m pl ( pesóčnyje časý )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: пешча̀нӣк m пјешча̀нӣк m пешчани сат m пјешчани сат m пешчани часовник m пјешчани часовник m
Roman: peščànīk m pješčànīk (sh) m peščani sat m pješčani sat m peščani časovnik m pješčani časovnik m
Slovak: presýpacie hodiny f pl
Slovene: peščena ura f
Spanish: reloj de arena m ampolleta (es) f
Swedish: timglas (sv) n
Tajik: соати регӣ ( soati regī )
Thai: นาฬิกาทราย (th) ( naa-lí-gaa-saai )
Turkish: kum saati (tr)
Ukrainian: піскови́й годи́нник m ( piskovýj hodýnnyk )
Urdu: ریت گھڑی f ( ret ghaṛī )
Uzbek: qum soat
Vietnamese: đồng hồ cát
Welsh: awrwydr (cy) m
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