awl

See also: -awl

English

Etymology

From Middle English aul, alle, al, from Old English æl, from Proto-Germanic *ēlō (compare Middle Low German āl, Dutch aal, German Ahle), from Proto-Indo-European *Hóleh₂ (compare Khotanese aiysna (aiysna), Sanskrit आरा (ā́rā)), however also see Proto-Indo-European *ēl- (“awl, prong”).

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɔːl/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ɔl/
(cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /ɑl/
Rhymes: -ɔːl
Homophone: all

Noun

Stitching awls

awl (plural awls)

A pointed instrument for piercing small holes, as in leather or wood; used by shoemakers, saddlers, cabinetmakers, etc. The blade is differently shaped and pointed for different uses, as in the brad awl, saddler's awl, shoemaker's awl, etc.

Translations

pointed instrument

Albanian: fëndyell (sq) n
Arabic: مِخْرَز‎‎ m (miḵraz)
Armenian: բիզ (hy) (biz), հերյուն (hy) (heryun)
Bashkir: беҙ (beð)
Belarusian: шы́ла n (šýla)
Bulgarian: ши́ло (bg) n (šílo)
Catalan: alena (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 錐子 (zh), 锥子 (zh) (zhuīzi)
Czech: šídlo (cs) n
Danish: syl c
Daur: sheugw
Dutch: els (nl) m, priem (nl)
Esperanto: aleno
Evenki: силгивӯн (silgiwūn)
Faroese: sýl f, sýlur m
Finnish: purasin
French: alène (fr) f, alêne (fr) f
Galician: subela (gl) f
Georgian: სადგისი (sadgisi)
German: Ahle (de) f
Greek: σουβλί (el) n (souvlí)
Ancient: τέρετρον n (téretron)
Hebrew: מַרְצֵעַ‎‎ (he) m (martzéa')
Hungarian: ár (hu)
Icelandic: alur (is) m
Italian: punteruolo (it) m, lesina (it) f
Japanese: 突きぎり (つきぎり, tsukigiri), 錐 (ja) (きり, kiri)
Korean: 송곳 (ko) (songgot)
Latgalian: eilyns m
Latin: subula f
Latvian: īlens m

Lithuanian: yla (lt) f
Macedonian: шило n (šilo)
Maltese: timplor m
Mangghuer: shubige
Mongghul: shuuga
Mongolian: шөвөг (šövög), шивүүр (mn) (šivüür)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: syl (no) m

Nynorsk: syl m
Novial: alene
Occitan: alzena f
Old English: æl m, f
Old High German: ala f
Old Norse: alr m
Polish: szydło (pl) n
Portuguese: furador m
Romanian: sulă (ro) f
Russian: ши́ло (ru) n (šílo)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: шило n

Roman: šilo (sh) n
Slovak: šidlo n
Slovene: šilo n
Spanish: lezna (es) f, lesna (es) f, alesna (es) f, punzón (es) m
Swahili: maharazi
Swedish: syl (sv) c, pryl (sv) c
Tagalog: punson
Telugu: ఆరె (te) (āre)
Ukrainian: ши́ло n (šýlo)
Uzbek: bigiz (uz)
Vietnamese: giùi (vi)
Yup'ik: ukicissuun

Further reading

awl on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

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