Blade in Different Languages
Discover 'Blade' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Blade
Afrikaans lem | ||
Albanian teh | ||
Amharic ቢላዋ | ||
Arabic شفرة | ||
Armenian շեղբ | ||
Assamese ব্লেড | ||
Aymara kuchilla | ||
Azerbaijani bıçaq | ||
Bambara murukisɛ | ||
Basque pala | ||
Belarusian лязо | ||
Bengali ব্লেড | ||
Bhojpuri ब्लेड | ||
Bosnian oštrica | ||
Bulgarian острие | ||
Catalan fulla | ||
Cebuano sulab | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 刀 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 刀 | ||
Corsican lama | ||
Croatian oštrica | ||
Czech čepel | ||
Danish klinge | ||
Dhivehi ތިލަ | ||
Dogri ब्लेड | ||
Dutch blad | ||
English blade | ||
Esperanto klingo | ||
Estonian tera | ||
Ewe nulãnu | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) talim | ||
Finnish terä | ||
French lame | ||
Frisian blêd | ||
Galician folla | ||
Georgian დანა | ||
German klinge | ||
Greek λεπίδα | ||
Guarani kysepuku | ||
Gujarati બ્લેડ | ||
Haitian Creole lam | ||
Hausa ruwa | ||
Hawaiian pahi | ||
Hebrew להב | ||
Hindi ब्लेड | ||
Hmong hniav | ||
Hungarian penge | ||
Icelandic blað | ||
Igbo agụba | ||
Ilocano tadem | ||
Indonesian pedang | ||
Irish lann | ||
Italian lama | ||
Japanese 刃 | ||
Javanese agul-agul | ||
Kannada ಬ್ಲೇಡ್ | ||
Kazakh пышақ | ||
Khmer blade | ||
Kinyarwanda icyuma | ||
Konkani ब्लेड | ||
Korean 잎 | ||
Krio nɛf | ||
Kurdish zîl | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) نووک | ||
Kyrgyz бычак | ||
Lao ໃບມີດ | ||
Latin ferrum | ||
Latvian asmens | ||
Lingala mbeli | ||
Lithuanian ašmenys | ||
Luganda omusa | ||
Luxembourgish blat | ||
Macedonian нож | ||
Maithili पत्ती | ||
Malagasy lelan | ||
Malay bilah | ||
Malayalam ബ്ലേഡ് | ||
Maltese xafra | ||
Maori mata | ||
Marathi ब्लेड | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯃꯌꯥ ꯄꯥꯟꯕ ꯊꯥꯡ | ||
Mizo chem | ||
Mongolian ир | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ဓါး | ||
Nepali ब्लेड | ||
Norwegian blad | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) tsamba | ||
Odia (Oriya) ବ୍ଲେଡ୍ | ||
Oromo qara | ||
Pashto تیغ | ||
Persian تیغه | ||
Polish nóż | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) lâmina | ||
Punjabi ਬਲੇਡ | ||
Quechua kuchuna | ||
Romanian lamă | ||
Russian лезвие | ||
Samoan lau | ||
Sanskrit क्षुरपत्र | ||
Scots Gaelic lann | ||
Sepedi legare | ||
Serbian сечиво | ||
Sesotho lehare | ||
Shona blade | ||
Sindhi بليڊ | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) තලය | ||
Slovak čepeľ | ||
Slovenian rezilo | ||
Somali daab | ||
Spanish espada | ||
Sundanese sabeulah | ||
Swahili blade | ||
Swedish blad | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) talim | ||
Tajik корд | ||
Tamil கத்தி | ||
Tatar пычак | ||
Telugu బ్లేడ్ | ||
Thai ใบมีด | ||
Tigrinya በሊሕ | ||
Tsonga banga | ||
Turkish bıçak ağzı | ||
Turkmen pyçak | ||
Twi (Akan) bleedi | ||
Ukrainian лезо | ||
Urdu بلیڈ | ||
Uyghur تىغ | ||
Uzbek pichoq | ||
Vietnamese lưỡi | ||
Welsh llafn | ||
Xhosa incakuba | ||
Yiddish בלייד | ||
Yoruba abẹfẹlẹ | ||
Zulu insingo |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "lem" in Afrikaans can also refer to a sail, a wing, or a rudder. |
| Albanian | 'Teh' in Albanian may derive from the Illyrian language or an unknown pre-Indo-European substratum. |
| Amharic | The word "ቢላዋ" ("blade") in Amharic derives from the verb "በላ" ("to cut" or "to shave"). |
| Arabic | The word "شفرة" is also used in Arabic to refer to "code" or "cipher". |
| Armenian | The word "շեղբ" can also mean "knife" or "sword" in Armenian. |
| Azerbaijani | "Bıçaq" also means "pen" in Ottoman Turkish. |
| Basque | The Basque word "pala" also means "shovel", likely derived from the Latin "pala" for "stake" or "pole". |
| Belarusian | In some contexts, the word "лязо" also translates to "leg" or "thigh". |
| Bengali | "ব্লেড" can also mean 'hero' in the context of a drama or play. |
| Bosnian | The word "oštrica” derives from the Proto-Slavic word *ostrъ, meaning "sharp". It also shares a root with the word "oštar” ("sharp") and the name of the city of Ostrog in Montenegro. |
| Bulgarian | The word "острие" also means "point" or "edge". |
| Catalan | The word "fulla" in Catalan not only means "blade" but also "leaf" or "sheet" of paper or metal. |
| Cebuano | The word "sulab" can also refer to a kind of grass cutter, or a knife used to cut fish into fillets. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The character "刀" (blade) was originally a pictogram of a metal blade with a wooden handle. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The Chinese character 刀 (blade) is also used to represent the concept of 'cut' or 'divide'. |
| Corsican | The word “lama” can also refer to the metal piece that connects two oxen during ploughing. |
| Croatian | The word "oštrica" also means "edge" and "crest" in Croatian. |
| Czech | The word "čepel" in Czech is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *čeplъ, meaning "handle" or "shaft". |
| Danish | In Danish, 'klinge' can also refer to the ringing sound of a glass or bell, as well as the blade of a sword or knife. |
| Dutch | In Dutch the word "blad" not only means "blade", but also "leaf". The word "blad" is likely derived from the Proto-Germanic word "*bladaz", which meant "leaf" or "blade". |
| Esperanto | Klingo is also used figuratively to mean "sharp wit" or "clever remark." |
| Estonian | In Finnish, the word "tera" also means "sharp" or "edge". |
| Finnish | "Terä" also means sharp in Finnish |
| French | In French, "lame" is commonly used to refer to both a tool (like a razor) and a physical disability. |
| Frisian | Frisian “blêd” can refer to leaves of grass as well as a blade or knife and might be related to English “blade” but also to “bleed.” |
| Galician | "Folla" is also used to refer to a large group of people in Galician, similar to the English "crowd". |
| Georgian | The word "დანა" is borrowed from the Mongolian word "дах" (knife). |
| German | The word “Klinge” is derived from the Old High German word “klinga”, meaning “something that cuts”. |
| Greek | The word "λεπίδα" can also refer to the skin of a fruit or vegetable, or to the peel of a tree. |
| Gujarati | The word 'blade' comes from the Old English word 'blæd', which means a 'leaf' or 'broad piece of wood' |
| Haitian Creole | In Haitian Creole, "lam" (blade) is derived from the French word "lame" and also refers to a thin, flat piece of metal used as a cutting tool |
| Hausa | The word "ruwa" is the result of a split form from the base term "uwa," which denotes cutting and dividing in the Hausa language. |
| Hawaiian | Hawaiian word "pahi" may also mean "sharp edge" or "to cut". |
| Hebrew | "להב" in Hebrew can also mean "a flame" or "a flash of light". |
| Hindi | The Hindi word "ब्लेड" (blade) can also refer to a person with exceptional skill or sharpness. |
| Hmong | Hniav can also be used as a metaphorical reference to something that is sharp or cutting in a non-physical sense. |
| Hungarian | It is cognate with its Finnish equivalent "penki", but also means "money" in Hungarian, so it may come from the German "Pfennig" |
| Icelandic | The Icelandic word "blað" can also mean "leaf" or "page", and is related to the English word "blade". |
| Igbo | Igbo nouns often have different prefixes and suffixes to specify their use; |
| Indonesian | The word 'pedang' also refers to a type of traditional sword in Indonesia. |
| Irish | Lann also means "inclosure" and "church." |
| Italian | Italian "lama" derives from the Greek word "láma" meaning "plate; blade of a knife, sword, razor." In modern Italian, "lama" commonly refers to single-edged blades, such as those found on knives, swords, or razors. |
| Japanese | The character 刃 (ha) can also refer to the cutting edge of a sword, knife, or other sharp object. |
| Javanese | The word "agul-agul" in Javanese can also refer to a kind of traditional Javanese knife used for cooking or harvesting rice. |
| Kannada | The word "ಬ್ಲೇಡ್" (blade) can also refer to a type of sword called a "katti" in Kannada. |
| Kazakh | "Пышақ" also means "knife" in Kazakh, sharing a common origin with the English word "pike", likely descending from an ancient Proto-Indo-European root. |
| Khmer | In Khmer "blade" refers to the blade part of many tools, weapons or body parts of animals. |
| Korean | "잎" in Korean has homophones meaning "leave" and is also used to describe the blade of a knife or sword. |
| Kurdish | The word "zîl" may originally be of Sumerian origin and is cognate with the Akkadian word "zulālu" for "sword" |
| Kyrgyz | The name of a city in the south of the Kyrgyz Republic |
| Lao | Another meaning of "ໃບມີດ" is a piece of paper inserted in a book to mark a place. |
| Latin | The Latin word "ferrum" originally referred to iron, but later came to mean "blade" in the context of weapons. |
| Latvian | The word "asmens" in Latvian also refers to a razor, a sharp edge, or a sword. |
| Lithuanian | "Ašmenys" shares etymology with "aštrus" which means "sharp" in Lithuanian, hence the translation. |
| Luxembourgish | The word "Blat" can also refer to a type of playing card or a flat, broad object that is sharpened for cutting. |
| Macedonian | The word "нож" in Macedonian is also an archaic term for a small boat. |
| Malagasy | The word "lelan" can also mean "a sharp edge" or "a cutting tool". |
| Malay | The Malay word "bilah" can also refer to a type of sword or knife used in traditional Malay martial arts |
| Malayalam | The word 'blade' in Malayalam also means 'grass' or 'leaf'. |
| Maltese | The word 'xafra' is derived from the Arabic 'safar,' meaning 'traveler' or 'warrior,' suggesting its historical association with weapons |
| Maori | In Maori, "mata" can also refer to an eye or face, reflecting the significance of eyesight in this culture.} |
| Marathi | In Marathi, "ब्लेड" (blade) also refers to a "sharp edge" or "cutting surface". |
| Mongolian | "Ир" can also refer to a horse's tail or a small stream, and its verb form means "to cut." |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The word "ဓါး" can also refer to a type of traditional Burmese dance. |
| Nepali | Blade (ब्लेड) is also the name of a town in Nepal, in the Kaski District of Gandaki Province, on the way to Pokhara by Prithvi Highway. |
| Norwegian | The Norwegian word "blad" is cognate with the English word "blade" and also means "leaf" or "page". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "tsamba" can also refer to a type of grass or reed in Nyanja (Chichewa). |
| Pashto | "تیغ" not only means "blade" in Pashto but also refers to "a small, sharp knife" or "a razor blade." |
| Persian | In Persian, "تیغه" refers to both the sharp edge of a weapon or tool and a type of traditional Iranian knife. |
| Polish | "Nóż" comes from Proto-Slavic *nozь, a cognate of Russian "нож" (nož) and likely also of German "Messer". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese “lâmina” can also refer to a slide or microscope slide. |
| Punjabi | In Punjabi, the word "ਬਲੇਡ" (blade) can also refer to a sharp or cutting edge or surface. |
| Romanian | In Romanian, "lamă" also refers to the cutting edge of a knife or sword. |
| Russian | The word "лезвие" is cognate with the word "леза" meaning "edge", and is also related to the word "лес" meaning "forest", possibly due to the fact that knives and swords were originally made from wood. |
| Samoan | The word 'lau' in Samoan can also refer to a leaf or a chapter in a book. |
| Scots Gaelic | 'Lann' also refers to a church or ecclesiastical settlement |
| Serbian | In Serbian, "сечиво" also means cutting tool and instrument, or a set of instruments. |
| Sesotho | The Sesotho word "lehare" can also refer to a kind of wild spinach or to a small, pointed animal horn. |
| Shona | In Shona, the word 'blade' can also refer to a sharp ridge on a hill or mountain. |
| Sindhi | Sindhi word "بليڊ" ("blade") also means "a sharp edge of a weapon, knife, or sword". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | In Sinhalese, the word 'තලය' (blade) originates from the Dravidian root 'tal', and is cognate with the Tamil word 'taḷai', both meaning 'blade' or 'sword'. |
| Slovak | There is also a small Hungarian town named Cepeľ located near Budapest on the Danube river. |
| Slovenian | 'Rezilo' is a cognate of the Serbo-Croatian 'rezilo' and the Old Church Slavonic 'razilo', all of which go back to the Proto-Slavic '*orьzьlь' meaning 'knife'. |
| Somali | The term derives from the verb `daab` meaning to |
| Spanish | The term espada in Spanish can also refer to a bullfighting matador with seniority. |
| Sundanese | The word "sabeulah" can also refer to a type of traditional Sundanese knife used for cutting or shaving. |
| Swahili | In Swahili, the word “blade” is also used to describe a “leaf”. |
| Swedish | The Swedish word "blad" can also refer to a leaf, a page of a book, or a sheet of paper. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "talim" is also used figuratively to refer to a sharp or piercing remark or criticism. |
| Tajik | The word "корд" "корд" is borrowed from Greek "χορδή" via Persian and Uzbek, where it originally meant "bowstring" but changed its meaning in Tajik to "blade". |
| Tamil | The etymology is not definitively established. It has been compared with Sanskrit "kartri". The word "katthi" is mentioned by 3rd Century BCE Buddhist work Manimegalai. |
| Telugu | The word "blade" derives from the Old English word "blaed", which originally meant "leaf" or "green shoot". |
| Thai | The Thai word "ใบมีด" (blade) can also refer to a razor blade, a knife blade, or a sword blade. |
| Turkish | The word "bıçak ağzı" literally means "knife's mouth" in Turkish. |
| Ukrainian | The word "лезо" is related to the Latin word "lamina", meaning "thin sheet" or "leaf." |
| Urdu | The term "blade" can also refer to a type of grass in Urdu. |
| Uzbek | The word is possibly descended from Persian "pichaq", a long knife which was used by nomads and merchants. |
| Vietnamese | In Vietnamese, "lưỡi" can refer to animal tongues, the teeth of a saw, or the blade of a knife. |
| Welsh | The word 'llafn' has an alternative root meaning 'wide', related to words such as 'llafnog' ('meadow') and 'afon' ('river'). |
| Xhosa | In Zulu, Xhosa and Nguni the word 'incakuba' is also used to describe the sun and light. |
| Yiddish | In Yiddish, the word "בלייד" ("blade") has both its literal meaning as well as an alternative meaning of "a rascal" or "a wicked person." |
| Zulu | The Zulu word for "blade", "in.si.ŋo", also translates to "the cutting edge of a sword". |
| English | The word 'blade' can also refer to a slim, flat surface, such as the blade of a knife or sword. |