plowshare

English

Alternative forms

ploughshare

Etymology

plow +‎ share

Noun

plowshare (plural plowshares)

(American) The cutting edge of a plow, typically a metal blade.
And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. (Isaiah 2:4, KJV)

Related terms

Translations

cutting edge of a plow

Albanian: plor (sq) m
Armenian: խոփ (hy) (xopʿ)
Aromanian: vomirã f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 耜 (zh) (sì)
Czech: radlice (cs) f
Dutch: ploegschaar (nl) f, ploegijzer n
Estonian: adratera
Finnish: vannas (fi), auranvannas
French: soc (fr) m
German: Schar (de) f, Pflugeisen n, Pflugschar f
Greek: αλετροπόδα (el) f (aletropóda)
Hungarian: eke vas
Irish: iarnach m
Italian: vomere (it) m
Japanese: 刃先 (hasaki)
Korean: 가래 (ko) (garae), 보습 (boseup) (for plough)
Latin: vomer m
Latvian: lemesis m

Lithuanian: žãgrė
Low German: Ploogschoor f
Maori: mata parau
Norwegian:
Bokmål: plogskjær n

Nynorsk: plogskjer n
Polish: lemiesz (pl) m
Portuguese: relha f
Romanian: brăzdar (ro) n
Russian: ле́мех (ru) m (lémex), со́шник (ru) m (sóšnik)
Serbo-Croatian: lemeš (sh) m, raonik (sh) m
Slovak: radlica f
Slovene: lemež m
Spanish: reja (es) f
Sundanese: lanjam
Swedish: skär (sv) n, bill (sv) c, plogbill (sv) c
Tagalog: palinta, lipya
Walloon: schî (wa) m
Welsh: swch f
Yiddish: אַקער־אײַזן‎‎ m (aker-ayzn)

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