English
A thimble.
Etymology
From Middle English thymbyll, thymbyl, thymle, thymle, thümle, from Old English þȳmel (“thumbstall; fingerstall; thimble”), from Proto-Germanic *þūmilaz, corresponding to thumb + -le. Cognate with Scots thummle, thumble (“thimble”), Saterland Frisian Düümelke (“thumbstall”), Dutch duimeling, German Low German Dümelke (“thumbstall”), German Däumling (“thumbstall”).
Pronunciation
Noun
thimble (plural thimbles)
- (sewing) A pitted, now usually metal, cap for the fingers, used in sewing to push the needle.
- Synonym: thumbstall
- A similarly shaped socket in machinery.
- A thimbleful.
- (nautical) A ring of metal or rope used in a ship's rigging; it is a protection against chafing.
Translations
a protective cap for the finger
- Afrikaans: vingerhoed
- Albanian: gishtëz (sq) m
- Arabic: كُشْتُبَان m (kuštubān)
- Armenian: մատնոց (hy) (matnocʻ)
- Aromanian: dzidzitar
- Assamese: আঙঠা (aṅotha)
- Azerbaijani: oymaq, üskük
- Bashkir: уймаҡ (uymaq)
- Belarusian: напа́рстак m (napárstak)
- Bengali: অঙ্গুষ্ঠানা (bn) (ôṅguṣţhana)
- Bulgarian: напръстник m (naprǎstnik)
- Burmese: အပ်ထောက် (my) (aphtauk)
- Catalan: didal (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 頂針／顶针 (zh) (dǐngzhēn), 顶针 (zh) (dǐngzhēn)
- Crimean Tatar: oymaq
- Czech: náprstek m
- Dalmatian: ziziul m
- Danish: fingerbøl (da) n
- Dolgan: һүүтүк (hüütük)
- Dutch: vingerhoed (nl)
- Esperanto: fingringo
- Estonian: sõrmkübar
- Finnish: sormustin (fi)
- French: dé à coudre (fr) m
- Friulian: vignarûl, dedâl
- Galician: dédalo m
- Georgian: სათითე (satite), სათითური (satituri)
- German: Fingerhut (de) m, Fingerhütchen (de) n, Schneiderfingerhut m, Nähring m, Fingerschutz m
- Greek: δαχτυλίθρα f (dachtylíthra)
- Haitian Creole: de
- Hebrew: אֶצְבָּעוֹן (he) m (etsbaon)
- Hindi: टोप (hi) m (ṭop), नोक (hi) m (nok), अंगुश्ताना m (aṅguśtānā)
- Hungarian: gyűszű (hu)
- Icelandic: fingurbjörg (is) f
- Indonesian: bidal (id)
- Irish: méaracán m
- Italian: ditale (it) m
- Japanese: 指ぬき (ゆびぬき, yubinuki), シンブル (shinburu)
- Kazakh: оймақ (oimaq)
- Khmer: ស្នាប់ដេរ (snap deɛ), ស្នាមដេរ (snam deɛ)
- Korean: 골무 (golmu)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: قووچەکە (qûçeke), کلکەوانە (kilkewane)
- Kyrgyz: оймок (ky) (oymok)
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- Lao: ປອກມື (pǭk mư̄), ສນັບ (sa nap)
- Latvian: uzgalis (lv) m
- Lithuanian: antpirštis m
- Macedonian: напрсток m (naprstok)
- Malay: bidal
- Maltese: vajlora m
- Manx: mairane m
- Maori: temara
- Mongolian: хуруувч (mn) (xuruuvč)
- Norman: dée m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: fingerbøl (no) n
- Nynorsk: fingerbjørg f
- Occitan: dedal (oc) m
- Persian: انگشتانه (fa) (angoštâne)
- Polish: naparstek (pl) m
- Portuguese: dedal (pt) m
- Romanian: degetar (ro) m
- Russian: напёрсток (ru) m (napjórstok)
- Sardinian: deidale, didale
- Scottish Gaelic: meuran m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: напрстак m
- Roman: naprstak (sh) m
- Slovak: náprstok m
- Slovene: naprstnik m
- Spanish: dedal (es) m, dedo (es) m
- Swahili: kastabini, kustabani
- Swedish: fingerborg (sv) c
- Tagalog: dedal, didal (tl)
- Tajik: ангуштпона (tg) (anguštpona)
- Tamil: விரல் கவசம் (viral kavacam)
- Tatar: уймак (tt) (uymaq)
- Telugu: అంగులి త్రానము (aṅguli trānamu)
- Thai: ปลอกนิ้ว (bplɔ̀ɔk-níu), สนับ (sà-nàp)
- Turkish: yüksük (tr)
- Turkmen: oýmak, ýüwse
- Tuvan: чүскүк (çüskük)
- Ukrainian: напе́рсток m (napérstok)
- Urdu: انگشتانہ m (anguśtānā), ٹوپ (ur) m (ṭop)
- Uzbek: angishvona (uz)
- Vietnamese: đê (vi)
- Volapük: doatahät (vo), doatahätil
- Welsh: gwniadur m
- Yakut: сүүтүк (süütük)
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a socket used in machinery
a thimbleful of something
rings used in a ship's rigging
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