pencil sharpener (plural pencil sharpeners)
- A device used to sharpen pencils by shaving the wood at one end.
- Synonyms: sharpener, pencil pointer, pencil parer, (Ireland) pencil topper, (Ireland) topper, (Ireland) parer
device used to sharpen pencils
- Albanian: mprehës lapsash m
- Arabic: بَرَّايَة f (barrāya), مِبْرَاة f (mibrāh)
- Armenian: սրիչ (hy) (sričʻ)
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܲܚܪܸܦܵܢܝܼܬܵܐ f (maḥrippānītā)
- Azerbaijani: karandaşyonan
- Catalan: maquineta de fer punta (ca)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 鉛筆刨/铅笔刨 (jyun4 bat1 paau4-2), 筆刨/笔刨 (bat1 paau2)
- Hokkien: 鉛筆剾/铅笔𠛅 (zh-min-nan) (iân-pit-khau), 鉛筆絞仔/铅笔绞仔 (zh-min-nan) (iân-pit-ká-á)
- Mandarin: 鉛筆刀/铅笔刀 (zh) (qiānbǐdāo), 轉筆刀/转笔刀 (zh) (zhuànbǐdāo), 削筆刀/削笔刀 (xiāobǐdāo), (technical) 筆刨/笔刨 (zh) (bǐpáo), (technical) 鉛筆刨/铅笔刨 (zh) (qiānbǐpáo), 削鉛筆機/削铅笔机 (zh) (xiāoqiānbǐjī), 卷筆刀/卷笔刀 (zh) (juǎnbǐdāo)
- Czech: ořezávátko (cs) n
- Danish: blyantspidser (da) c
- Dutch: slijper (nl), puntenslijper (nl), potloodslijper (nl)
- Esperanto: krajonpintigilo
- Finnish: kynänteroitin (fi)
- French: taille-crayon (fr) m, aiguisoir (fr) m (Canada, Louisiana, Missouri, New England)
- German: Anspitzer (de) m, Bleistiftspitzer (de) m, (slate pencil) Griffelspitzer (de) m
- Greek: ξύστρα (el) f (xýstra)
- Haitian Creole: kreyon tay
- Hindi: पेंसिल चोखा (pensil cokhā)
- Hungarian: ceruzahegyező (hu), hegyező (hu), (rare) ceruzafaragó
- Icelandic: yddari (is) m
- Italian: temperamatite (it) m
- Japanese: 鉛筆削り (ja) (えんぴつけずり, enpitsukezuri)
- Kannada: ಪೆನ್ಸಿಲ್ ಸಾಣೆ (pensil sāṇe)
- Khmer: ប្រដាប់ឃួងខ្មៅដៃ (prɑɑdap-khuə-ngɔɔ-khmaw day)
- Korean: 연필깎이 (ko) (yeonpilkkakki)
- Kyrgyz: калем учтагыч (kalem uctagıc), точилка (tocilka)
- Macedonian: острилка f (ostrilka)
- Mongolian: харандаа үзүүрлэгч (xarandaa üzüürlegč)
- Norman: appointcheux m
- Norwegian: blyantspisser (no) m
- Persian: مداد تراش (fa) (medâd-tarâš), تراش (fa) (tarâš)
- Polish: temperówka (pl) f
- Portuguese: apontador (pt) m, apontador de lápis m
- Romanian: ascuțitoare (ro) f
- Russian: точи́лка (ru) f (točílka)
- Sassarese: temperarapis m, temperaràpisi m
- Serbo-Croatian: šiljilo (sh)
- Spanish: sacapuntas (es) m, afila (es) m (Northwestern Spain), afilador (es) m (Canary Islands), maquineta f (Northeastern Spain), tajador m (Bolivia, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Aragon, Navarre, Peru, Southeastern Mexico), sacaminas m (Aragon), tajalápiz m (Colombian standard usage), sacapuntas (es) (Asturias, Colombian Atlantic Coast), maquinilla f (Costa Rica)
- Swedish: pennvässare (sv) c
- Tagalog: pantasa
- Thai: กบเหลาดินสอ (th) (gòp-lǎo-din-sɔ̌ɔ), กบ (th) (gòp)
- Turkish: açacak (tr), kalem açacağı (tr), kalemtıraş (tr)
- Uzbek: qalam charx
- Vietnamese: cái gọt bút chì, đồ chuốt viết chì
- Volapük: stibijapüköm, (slate pencil) glivijapüköm
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