magnifying glass

English

A magnifying glass

Noun

magnifying glass (plural magnifying glasses)

1. An instrument made of convex glass, used to magnify.
   • 2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:

     The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight.

Translations

instrument

• Albanian: lupë f
• Armenian: խոշորացույց (hy) (xošoracʻuycʻ)
• Azerbaijani: lupa
• Belarusian: лу́па f (lúpa), павеліча́льнае шкло n (pavjeličálʹnaje šklo)
• Bulgarian: лу́па (bg) f (lúpa)
• Burmese: မှန်ဘီလူး (my) (hmanbhilu:), သူရကန် (my) (sura.kan)
• Catalan: lupa f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 放大鏡／放大镜 (fong³ daai⁶ geng³), 放大镜 (fong³ daai⁶ geng³)

  Mandarin: 放大鏡／放大镜 (zh) (fàngdàjìng), 放大镜 (zh) (fàngdàjìng)

  Min Dong: 大頭鏡／大头镜 (duâi-tàu-giáng), 大头镜 (duâi-tàu-giáng)

  Min Nan: 譀鏡／𰶆镜 (zh-min-nan), 譀镜 (hàm-kiàⁿ)

• Czech: lupa (cs) f
• Danish: lup, forstørrelsesglas
• Dutch: vergrootglas (nl) n, loep (nl) f
• Esperanto: lupeo, grandiga vitro
• Estonian: suurendusklaas, luup (et)
• Finnish: suurennuslasi (fi)
• French: loupe (fr) f
• Galician: lupa f
• Georgian: ლუპა (luṗa), გამადიდებელი მინა (gamadidebeli mina)
• German: Lupe (de) f, Vergrößerungsglas n
• Hebrew: זְכוּכִית מַגְדֶּלֶת (he) f (zchuchít magdélet)
• Hindi: आवर्धक लेन्स m (āvardhak lens)
• Hungarian: nagyító (hu)
• Icelandic: stækkunargler n
• Ido: lupo (io)
• Indonesian: lup (id)
• Irish: gloine mhéadaithe f
• Italian: lente d'ingrandimento
• Japanese: 虫眼鏡 (ja) (むしめがね, mushimegane), 拡大鏡 (かくだいきょう, kakudaikyō), ルーペ (rūpe)
• Kalmyk: һал шил (ğal şil)
• Kazakh: лупа (lupa)
• Korean: 돋보기 (ko) (dotbogi), 확대경 (ko) (hwakdaegyeong), 루페 (rupe)
• Kyrgyz: лупа (lupa)
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• Lao: ຊີ້ນປົງ (sīn pong), ແວ່ນຂະຫຍາຍ (wǣn kha nyāi)
• Latvian: palielināmais stikls m, lupa f
• Lithuanian: didinamasis stiklas m, lupa (lt) f
• Luxembourgish: Lupp f
• Macedonian: лупа f (lupa)
• Malay: suryakanta, kanta pembesar
• Maori: karaihe whakanui
• Mongolian: томруулагч шил (tomruulagč šil)
• Navajo: tózis yéego bee hootʼíní, tsésǫʼ áhánídę́ę́ʼ niiniłígíí, tózis ntsaago ádaʼaleʼé
• Norman: vèrre d'approche m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lupe (no) m or f, forstørrelsesglass n

  Nynorsk: lupe f

• Persian: ذره‌بین (fa) (zarre-bin)
• Polish: lupa (pl) f, szkło powiększające (pl) n
• Portuguese: lupa (pt) f
• Romanian: lupă (ro) f
• Russian: лу́па (ru) f (lúpa), увеличи́тельное стекло́ n (uveličítelʹnoje stekló)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: лупа f, увеличавајуће стакло n

  Roman: lupa (sh) f, uveličavajuće staklo n

• Slovak: lupa f
• Slovene: lupa f, povečevalno steklo (sl) n
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: lupa f

• Spanish: lupa (es) f
• Swedish: förstoringsglas (sv) n, lupp (sv) c
• Tagalog: pandako
• Tajik: заррабин (zarrabin), пурбин (purbin)
• Thai: แว่นขยาย (wɛ̂n-kà-yǎai)
• Tibetan: ཆེ་ཤེལ (che shel)
• Turkish: büyüteç (tr), pertavsız (tr)
• Turkmen: lupa
• Ukrainian: лу́па f (lúpa), збі́льшувальне скло n (zbílʹšuvalʹne sklo)
• Uzbek: lupa (uz)
• Vietnamese: kính lúp (vi), kiếng lúp
• Welsh: chwyddwydr m

See also

• loupe