spinning wheel

See also: spinning-wheel

English

Alternative forms

• spinning-wheel (dated)

Pronunciation

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Noun

spinning wheel (plural spinning wheels)

an Irish woman at a spinning wheel

1. A domestic device for making yarn or thread; having a single spindle and a wheel driven by hand or foot.
   • 1919, Parker Hoysted Fillmore, Czechoslovak fairy tales, page 179:

     Dobrunka always began the day by feeding the goats, then she prepared the breakfast, swept the kitchen, and when everything else was done she sat down at her spinning wheel and spun.

Hyponyms

• charkha
• great wheel

Related terms

• spindle

Translations

device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle

• Arabic: عَجَلَة الْمِغْزَل f (ʕajala(t) al-miḡzal)
• Armenian: ճախարակ (hy) (čaxarak)
• Assamese: যঁতৰ (zõtor)
• Breton: karr-nezañ (br) m, rod-nezañ f
• Bulgarian: чекрък (bg) m (čekrǎk)
• Catalan: roda (ca) f, roda de filar f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 紡車 / 纺车 (zh) (fǎngchē)

• Czech: kolovrat (cs) m
• Danish: spinderok (da) c, hjulrok c, rok (da) c
• Dutch: spinnewiel (nl) n
• Esperanto: radŝpinilo
• Estonian: vokk
• Faroese: rokkur m
• Finnish: rukki (fi)
• French: rouet (fr) m
• Galician: roca (gl) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Spinnrad (de) n
• Greek: ροδάνι (el) n (rodáni)
• Gujarati: ચરખો (gu) (carkho)
• Hebrew: גלגל טוויה m (galgal tviyah)
• Hungarian: rokka (hu)
• Icelandic: rokkur (is) m
• Ido: filiforoteto (io)
• Irish: tuirne (ga) m
• Italian: filatoio (it) m
• Japanese: 糸車 (ja) (いとぐるま, itoguruma)
• Korean: 물레 (ko) (mulle)
• Lao: ຫຼາ (lo) (lā)
• Latgalian: spriežamais rateņš m, rateņš m
• Latvian: vērpjamais ratiņš m, ratiņš m
• Lü: ᦷᦅᧂᦔᧃᧈᦚᦻᧉ (kongṗan¹ḟaay²)
• Luxembourgish: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: мотовило n (motovilo), родан m (rodan)
• Manx: queeyl sneeuee f
• Norwegian: rokk m, spinnerokk m, spinnrokk m, hjulrokk m
• Ottoman Turkish: چقرق (çıkrık)
• Pennsylvania German: Schpinnraad
• Persian: چرخه (fa) (čarxe)
• Plautdietsch: Spennraut n
• Polish: kołowrotek (pl) m
• Portuguese: roda de fiar f
• Romanian: roată de tors f
• Russian: пря́лка (ru) f (prjálka)
• Scottish Gaelic: cuidheall-shnìomha f
• Slovene: kolovrat (sl) m
• Spanish: rueca (es) f, torno de hilar m, hiladora (es) f
• Swedish: spinnrock (sv) c
• Tagalog: gantala
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: çıkrık (tr)
• Ukrainian: пря́дка f (prjádka)
• Vietnamese: guồng quay tơ
• Walloon: molén a fiyî (wa) m, cariot (wa) m
• Welsh: troell f, troell nyddu f
• White Hmong: tshuab ntuag