matchbox

English

Etymology 1

From match +‎ box.

Noun

matchbox (plural matchboxes)

1. A small cardboard box in which matches are kept.

Translations

small cardboard box in which matches are kept

• Armenian: լուցկու տուփ (lucʻku tupʻ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 火柴盒 (zh) (huǒcháihé)

• Danish: tændstikæske (da) c
• Dutch: luciferdoosje (nl) n
• Esperanto: alumetskatolo, alumetujo
• Finnish: tulitikkurasia (fi)
• French: boîte d’allumettes (fr) f
• German: Streichholzschachtel (de) f
• Greek: σπιρτόκουτο (el) n (spirtókouto)
• Hungarian: gyufásdoboz (hu), gyufásskatulya (hu), gyufaskatulya
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• Irish: bosca cipíní m
• Japanese: マッチ箱 (matchi-bako)
• Malay: kotak mancis
• Manx: kishtey foaddan m
• Persian: قوطی کبریت (quti kebrit)
• Portuguese: caixa de fósforo/fósforos f
• Russian: спи́чечный коробо́к m (spíčečnyj korobók), спи́чечная коро́бка f (spíčečnaja koróbka)
• Spanish: fosforera f, cerillero (es) m, caja de fósforos f, caja de cerillas f
• Swedish: tändsticksask (sv) c
• Thai: กล่องไม้ขีด
• Tibetan: ཙག་སྒྲ་སྒམ་ཆུང (tsag sgra sgam chung), མུ་ཟི་སྒམ་ཆུང (mu zi sgam chung)

Etymology 2

From the die-cast toy car brand Matchbox owned by Mattel, so-called due to the size of the toys to fix in matchboxes.

Noun

matchbox (plural matchboxes)

1. Any small die-cast toy car, usually collectible.