wood carving

See also: woodcarving

English

Alternative forms

• woodcarving

Noun

wood carving (countable and uncountable, plural wood carvings)

1. (uncountable) The art of carving wood to make decorative objects.
2. (countable) A carved wooden object.
3. (countable) A decoration made on wood by carving.

   The chest was decorated with delicate wood carvings.

Related terms

• woodcarver

Translations

art

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 木雕 (muk⁶ diu¹)

  Mandarin: 木雕 (mùdiāo)

• Czech: řezbářství n
• Finnish: puunleikkaus
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• German: Holzschnitzerei f
• Irish: ceardaíocht adhmaid f
• Macedonian: резбарство n (rezbarstvo), копаничарство n (kopaničarstvo)
• Russian: резьба́ по де́реву f (rezʹbá po dérevu)

object

• Finnish: puuleikkaustyö
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• Ladin: chiena f pl

decoration

• Finnish: puuleikkaus
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