pocketknife

See also: pocket knife

English

an assortment of pocketknives

Etymology

From pocket + knife.

Noun

pocketknife (plural pocketknives)

1. A small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle, and thereby be safely stowed in one’s pocket.

Synonyms

• penknife

Translations

small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle

• Albanian: brisk (sq) m, biçak (sq) m
• Armenian: ծալովի դանակ (calovi danak)
• Azeri: cib bıçağı
• Bashkir: бәке (bäke)
• Basque: labana (eu)
• Belarusian: складаны нож (skladany nož)
• Breton: kanived f
• Catalan: navalla (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 刀仔 (dou¹ zai²)

  Mandarin: 小刀 (zh) (xiǎodāo)

• Czech: kapesní nůž m
• Dutch: zakmes (nl) n
• Finnish: taskuveitsi (fi), linkkuveitsi (fi)
• French: canif (fr) m
• Georgian: ჯიბის დანა (ǯibis dana)
• German: Taschenmesser (de) n, Klappmesser (de) n
• Greek: σουγιάς (el) m (sougiás)
• Hungarian: zsebkés (hu), bicska (hu)
• Icelandic: vasahnífur m
• Ido: kulteleto (io)
• Irish: scian phóca f

• Japanese: ポケットナイフ (pokettonaifu)
• Korean: 주머니칼 (jumeonikal)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: kêrika berîkê f

• Maltese: temprin tal-but m
• Maori: naihi whakakopa
• Mongolian: халаасны хутга (halaasny hutga)
• Polish: scyzoryk (pl) m
• Portuguese: canivete (pt) m
• Romanian: briceag (ro) n, cuțit de buzunar n
• Russian: карма́нный нож m (karmánnyj nož) (pocket knife), складно́й нож m (skladnój nož) (folding knife), перочи́нный нож m (peročínnyj nož) (penknife)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: џепни нож m, перорез m

  Roman: džepni nož m, perorez (sh) m

• Spanish: navaja (es) f
• Swedish: fickkniv (sv) c, fällkniv c, pennkniv c
• Tajik: корд ҷайб (kord jayb)
• Turkish: çakı (tr), cep bıçağı
• Ukrainian: складаний ніж m (skladanyj niž)
• Volapük: pokaneif (vo)
• Welsh: cyllell boced f

See also

• pocketknife on Wikipedia.Wikipedia