pencil sharpener

English

Alternative forms

• pencil-sharpener

Pronunciation

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Noun

A two-hole pencil sharpener

pencil sharpener (plural pencil sharpeners)

1. 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

Translations

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 paau^4-2), 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: ប្រដាប់​ឃួ​ង​ខ្មៅដៃ (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 (Asturias, Colombian Atlantic Coast), 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), maquinilla f (Costa Rica), afilalápices (es) m, tajalápices (es) m
• 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