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paper clips
paper clip (plural paper clips)
- A small, folded, wire or plastic device used to hold sheets of paper together.
- (US, humorous) Listed after an amount of money to emphasize a lack of resources.
1956 January, Gladys Prieur Thomas, “Too much month... not enough money”, in American Mercury, page 13:The rules of the game are to tap this fund only when you are down to ten cents and a paper clip.
paper clip
- Arabic: مِشْبَك وَرَق m (mišbak waraq)
- Armenian: ամրակ (hy) (amrak)
- Azerbaijani: kağız qısqacı
- Belarusian: канцыля́рская сашчэ́пка f (kancyljárskaja saščépka), сашчэ́пка f (saščépka)
- Bulgarian: кла́мер m (klámer)
- Catalan: clip (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 萬字夾 / 万字夹 (maan6 zi6 gaap3-2, maan6 zi6 gep6-2, maan6 zi6 gip6-2)
- Mandarin: 回形針 / 回形针 (zh) (huíxíngzhēn), 萬字夾 / 万字夹 (wànzìjiā), 迴紋針 / 回纹针 (huíwénzhēn), 回文針 / 回文针 (huíwénzhēn), 曲別針 / 曲别针 (zh) (qūbiézhēn), 紙夾 / 纸夹 (zh) (zhǐjiā)
- Czech: kancelářská sponka f, sponka f
- Danish: clips c, papirklips c
- Dutch: paperclip (nl) c
- Esperanto: paperklipo, paperfiksilo
- Estonian: kirjaklamber, klamber
- Faroese: pappírsklemma f
- Finnish: paperiliitin (fi), klemmari (fi) (colloquial)
- French: trombone (fr) m
- German: Büroklammer (de) f, Klammer (de) f
- Greek: συνδετήρας (el) m (syndetíras)
- Hausa: kìlîf m
- Hebrew: מְהַדֵּק (he) m (mehadéq)
- Hungarian: gemkapocs (hu)
- Icelandic: bréfaklemma (is)
- Indonesian: penjepit kertas
- Irish: fáiscín páipéar m
- Italian: graffetta (it) f, fermaglio (it) m
- Japanese: クリップ (ja) (kurippu), 紙挟み (ja) (かみばさみ, kamibasami)
- Korean: 클립 (ko) (keullip)
- Lithuanian: sąvaržėlė f
- Luxembourgish: Klamer f
- Macedonian: споју́валка f (spojúvalka), спо́јница f (spójnica)
- Māori: pine pepa, kinipepa
- Mongolian: цаасны хавчаар (caasny xavčaar)
- Navajo: naaltsoos ahíyółtąʼígíí
- Norwegian: binders
- Persian: کلیپس (fa) (klips), گیرهٔ کاغذ
- Polish: spinacz (pl) m
- Portuguese: clipe (pt) m, clips (colloquial)
- Romanian: agrafă (ro) f, clemă (ro) f
- Russian: канцеля́рская скре́пка f (kanceljárskaja skrépka), скре́пка (ru) f (skrépka)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: спа́јалица f
- Latin: spájalica (sh) f
- Slovak: sponka f
- Slovene: spojka f
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: spinka (hsb) f
- Spanish: clip (es) m, sujetapapeles m, prendedor (es) m, bincha f
- Swedish: gem (sv) n
- Turkish: ataş (tr), tutturgaç (tr) (very rare)
- Ukrainian: канцеля́рська скрі́пка f (kanceljársʹka skrípka), скрі́пка f (skrípka)
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