anvil

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• US: /ˈæn.vəl/
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• US: /ˈæn.vɪl/
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• UK: /ˈæn.vɪl/
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• CMU ARPABET: AE1 N V AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English anfilt, anvelt, anfelt, from late Old English anfilt, anfilte, anfealt, from earlier onfilti (“anvil”), from Proto-West Germanic *anafalt (compare Middle Dutch anvilte, Low German Anfilts, Anefilt, Old High German anafalz), compound of *ana (“on”) + *falt (“beaten”) (compare German falzen (“to groove, fold, welt”), Swedish dialectal filta (“to beat”)), from Proto-Indo-European *pelh2-t- (“shaken, beaten”) (compare Middle Irish lethar (“leather”), Latin pellō (“to beat, strike”), Ancient Greek πάλλω (pállō, “to toss, brandish”)), enlargement of Proto-Indo-European *pelh2- (“to stir, move”). More at felon.

205 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abkhaz: аԥсангьари́ (apsangjarí) — block used in blacksmithing
• Afrikaans: aambeeld — block used in blacksmithing
• Ahtna: ukʼecʼetsedi — block used in blacksmithing
• Albanian: kudhër — block used in blacksmithing
• Southern Altai: тӧжи (töži) — block used in blacksmithing
• Southern Altai: тӧжӱ (töžü) — block used in blacksmithing
• Arabic: سَنْدان (sandān) — block used in blacksmithing
• Arabic: سِنْدَان (sindān) — block used in blacksmithing
• Arabic: عَلَاة (ʕalāh) — block used in blacksmithing
• Armenian: զնդան (zndan) — block used in blacksmithing
• Armenian: սալ (sal) — block used in blacksmithing
• Asturian: xunque — block used in blacksmithing
• Azerbaijani: zindan — block used in blacksmithing
• Azerbaijani: dəmirçi zindanı — block used in blacksmithing
• Bashkir: һандал (handal) — block used in blacksmithing
• Bashkir: түш (tüş) — block used in blacksmithing
• Basque: ingude — block used in blacksmithing
• Belarusian: кава́дла (kavádla) — block used in blacksmithing
• Bengali: নিহাই (nihai) — block used in blacksmithing
• Breton: annev — block used in blacksmithing
• Bulgarian: накова́лня (nakoválnja) — block used in blacksmithing
• Buryat: дүшэ (düše) — block used in blacksmithing
• Catalan: enclusa — block used in blacksmithing
• Cebuano: yungki — block used in blacksmithing
• Chechen: нуьйжа (nüüža) — block used in blacksmithing
• Cherokee: ᎠᏐᏗᏔᎷᎩᏍᎩᎤᎵᎩ (asoditalugisgiuligi) — block used in blacksmithing
• Chinese Cantonese: 鐵砧 /铁砧 (tit3 zam1) — block used in blacksmithing
• Chinese Mandarin: 鐵砧 /铁砧 (tiězhēn) — block used in blacksmithing
• Chuvash: сунтал (sunt̬al) — block used in blacksmithing
• Cornish: anwan — block used in blacksmithing
• Crimean Tatar: gürsü — block used in blacksmithing
• Czech: kovadlina — block used in blacksmithing
• Dalmatian: ancusene — block used in blacksmithing
• Danish: ambolt — block used in blacksmithing
• Danish: sted — block used in blacksmithing
• Dutch: aambeeld — block used in blacksmithing
• Dutch: aanbeeld — block used in blacksmithing
• Esperanto: amboso — block used in blacksmithing
• Estonian: alasi — block used in blacksmithing
• Faroese: stiði — block used in blacksmithing
• Faroese: steðji — block used in blacksmithing
• Faroese: amboltur — block used in blacksmithing
• Finnish: alasin — block used in blacksmithing
• French: enclume — block used in blacksmithing
• Friulian: incuin — block used in blacksmithing
• Friulian: lincuin — block used in blacksmithing
• Galician: bigornia — block used in blacksmithing
• Galician: engra — block used in blacksmithing
• Galician: incle — block used in blacksmithing
• Galician: ingre — block used in blacksmithing
• Galician: zafra — block used in blacksmithing
• Georgian: გრდემლი (grdemli) — block used in blacksmithing
• German: Amboss — block used in blacksmithing
• Greek: αμόνι (amóni) — block used in blacksmithing
• Ancient Greek: ἄκμων (ákmōn) — block used in blacksmithing
• Ancient Greek: μύδρος (múdros) — block used in blacksmithing
• Gujarati: એરણ (eraṇ) — block used in blacksmithing
• Hawaiian: kuahao — block used in blacksmithing
• Hebrew: סַדָּן (sadán) — block used in blacksmithing
• Hindi: निहाई (nihāī) — block used in blacksmithing
• Hungarian: üllő — block used in blacksmithing
• Icelandic: steðji — block used in blacksmithing
• Icelandic: ambolti — block used in blacksmithing
• Indonesian: tulang landasan — block used in blacksmithing
• Indonesian: paron — block used in blacksmithing
• Ingrian: alaisin — block used in blacksmithing
• Ingrian: alain — block used in blacksmithing
• Irish: inneoin — block used in blacksmithing
• Italian: incudine — block used in blacksmithing
• Japanese: 金床 (kanatoko) — block used in blacksmithing
• Javanese: landesan — block used in blacksmithing
• Javanese: paron — block used in blacksmithing
• Kalmyk: дәш (däş) — block used in blacksmithing
• Kazakh: төс (tös) — block used in blacksmithing
• Korean: 모루 (moru) — block used in blacksmithing
• Kyrgyz: дөшү (döşü) — block used in blacksmithing
• Latin: incūs — block used in blacksmithing
• Latvian: lakta — block used in blacksmithing
• Lithuanian: priekalas — block used in blacksmithing
• Macedonian: накова́лна (nakoválna) — block used in blacksmithing
• Malay: andas — block used in blacksmithing
• Malay: landasan — block used in blacksmithing
• Malay: paron — block used in blacksmithing
• Māori: paekuru — block used in blacksmithing
• Marathi: ऐरण (airaṇ) — block used in blacksmithing
• Middle English: anvelt — block used in blacksmithing
• Middle English: stith — block used in blacksmithing
• Middle English: stithy — block used in blacksmithing
• Mongolian: дөш (döš) — block used in blacksmithing
• Nogai: сандал (sandal) — block used in blacksmithing
• Norwegian: ambolt — block used in blacksmithing
• Norwegian: ste — block used in blacksmithing
• Occitan: enclutge — block used in blacksmithing
• Old Church Slavonic: наковало (nakovalo) — block used in blacksmithing
• Old East Slavic: ковальнꙗ (kovalĭnja) — block used in blacksmithing
• Old Norse: steði — block used in blacksmithing
• Persian: سندان (sendân) — block used in blacksmithing
• Plautdietsch: Aumbolt — block used in blacksmithing
• Polish: kowadło — block used in blacksmithing
• Portuguese: bigorna — block used in blacksmithing
• Punjabi: ਅਹਰਣ (aharaṇ) — block used in blacksmithing
• Romanian: nicovală — block used in blacksmithing
• Romanian: ilău — block used in blacksmithing
• Romansh: mazza — block used in blacksmithing
• Romansh: mass — block used in blacksmithing
• Romansh: massa — block used in blacksmithing
• Romansh: inchüna — block used in blacksmithing
• Romansh: anchüna — block used in blacksmithing
• Russian: накова́льня (nakoválʹnja) — block used in blacksmithing
• Sardinian: incódina — block used in blacksmithing
• Sardinian: incódine — block used in blacksmithing
• Sardinian: incúdina — block used in blacksmithing
• Sardinian: incúdine — block used in blacksmithing
• Sardinian: incútine — block used in blacksmithing
• Sardinian: alcútina — block used in blacksmithing
• Sardinian: ancódina — block used in blacksmithing
• Scots: studdy — block used in blacksmithing
• Serbo-Croatian: наковањ — block used in blacksmithing
• Serbo-Croatian: nakovanj — block used in blacksmithing
• Sicilian: ncùnia — block used in blacksmithing
• Sindhi: سَنداڻُ (sandāṇ) — block used in blacksmithing
• Slovak: nákova — block used in blacksmithing
• Slovene: nakovalo — block used in blacksmithing
• Upper Sorbian: ambos — block used in blacksmithing
• Upper Sorbian: nakowa — block used in blacksmithing
• Spanish: yunque — block used in blacksmithing
• Spanish: bigornia — block used in blacksmithing
• Spanish: tas — block used in blacksmithing
• Sudovian: preikalis — block used in blacksmithing
• Swahili: fuawe — block used in blacksmithing
• Swedish: städ — block used in blacksmithing
• Tagalog: palihan — block used in blacksmithing
• Tamil: பட்டடை (paṭṭaṭai) — block used in blacksmithing
• Tatar: сандал (sandal) — block used in blacksmithing
• Telugu: దాగిలి (dāgili) — block used in blacksmithing
• Thai: ทั่ง (tâng) — block used in blacksmithing
• Turkish: örs — block used in blacksmithing
• Ottoman Turkish: اورس (örs) — block used in blacksmithing
• Ottoman Turkish: سندان (sindân) — block used in blacksmithing
• Turkmen: sandal — block used in blacksmithing
• Tuvan: дөжү (döjü) — block used in blacksmithing
• Ukrainian: кова́дло (kovádlo) — block used in blacksmithing
• Uzbek: sandon — block used in blacksmithing
• Venetan: ancùxene — block used in blacksmithing
• Venetan: encuzen — block used in blacksmithing
• Venetan: incuzene — block used in blacksmithing
• Venetan: incuxene — block used in blacksmithing
• Venetan: ancuzen — block used in blacksmithing
• Vietnamese: (cái) đe — block used in blacksmithing
• Welsh: einion — block used in blacksmithing
• Yakut: кыстык (kïstïk) — block used in blacksmithing
• Yiddish: קאָוואַדלע (kovadle) — block used in blacksmithing
• Afrikaans: aambeeld — bone in inner ear
• Afrikaans: incus — bone in inner ear
• Afrikaans: inkus — bone in inner ear
• Armenian: սալ (sal) — bone in inner ear
• Azerbaijani: zindan sümükcüyü — bone in inner ear
• Basque: ingude — bone in inner ear
• Breton: annev — bone in inner ear
• Bulgarian: наковалня (nakovalnja) — bone in inner ear
• Catalan: enclusa — bone in inner ear
• Chinese Cantonese: 砧骨 (zam1 gwat1) — bone in inner ear
• Chinese Mandarin: 砧骨 (zhēngǔ) — bone in inner ear
• Czech: kovadlina — bone in inner ear
• Danish: ambolt — bone in inner ear
• Dutch: aambeeld — bone in inner ear
• Dutch: aanbeeld — bone in inner ear
• Dutch: aambeeldsbeentje — bone in inner ear
• Dutch: aanbeeldsbeentje — bone in inner ear
• Estonian: alasi — bone in inner ear
• Finnish: alasin — bone in inner ear
• Finnish: alasinluu — bone in inner ear
• French: enclume — bone in inner ear
• French: incus — bone in inner ear
• Galician: bigornia — bone in inner ear
• Georgian: გრდემლის ძვალი (grdemlis ʒvali) — bone in inner ear
• German: Amboss — bone in inner ear
• Greek: αμόνι (amóni) — bone in inner ear
• Greek: άκμονας (ákmonas) — bone in inner ear
• Gujarati: એરણ (eraṇ) — bone in inner ear
• Hungarian: üllő — bone in inner ear
• Icelandic: steðji — bone in inner ear
• Indonesian: tulang landasan — bone in inner ear
• Italian: incudine — bone in inner ear
• Japanese: 砧骨 (kinutakotsu) — bone in inner ear
• Kachchi: એણ (eṇa) — bone in inner ear
• Northern Kurdish: dezge — bone in inner ear
• Latin: incūs — bone in inner ear
• Macedonian: накова́лна (nakoválna) — bone in inner ear
• Malay: andas — bone in inner ear
• Māori: kurutangi — bone in inner ear
• Norwegian: ambolt — bone in inner ear
• Polish: kowadełko — bone in inner ear
• Portuguese: bigorna — bone in inner ear
• Romanian: nicovală — bone in inner ear
• Russian: накова́льня (nakoválʹnja) — bone in inner ear
• Serbo-Croatian: nakovanj — bone in inner ear
• Slovak: nákovka — bone in inner ear
• Slovene: nakovalce — bone in inner ear
• Spanish: yunque — bone in inner ear
• Swedish: städ — bone in inner ear
• Thai: กระดูกทั่ง (grà-dùuk-tâng) — bone in inner ear
• Turkish: örs — bone in inner ear
• Ukrainian: кова́делко (kovádelko) — bone in inner ear
• Vietnamese: xương đe — bone in inner ear