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Ultimately derived from Proto-Brythonic *Uɨsk, a river name perhaps originally meaning "abundant in fish". Cognate with the river names Esk, Exe, and Usk.

From Middle English ax, axe, ex, from Old English æx (“axe”), from Proto-West Germanic *akusi (“axe”), from Proto-Germanic *akwisī (“axe”), probably from a Proto-Indo-European *h2egwsih2 (“axe”), from *h2eḱ- (“sharp, pointed”). Cognate with Scots aix (“axe”), Dutch aks (“axe”), German Axt (“axe”), Danish økse (“axe”), Faroese, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk øks (“axe”), Icelandic öxi (“axe”), Swedish yxa (“axe”), Latin ascia (“axe, mason's trowel”).

Derived from French axe, from Latin axis.

From Old English axian (“ask”); see ax for more.

457 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Aari: wókka — tool
• Abaza: кӏвагъа (kwʼaɣa) — tool
• Abkhaz: аиха (ajxa) — tool
• Afrikaans: byl — tool
• Ahom: 𑜁𑜃𑜫 (khan) — tool
• Ahtna: dagoli — tool
• Akkadian: 𒍏𒄩𒍣𒅔 (ḫaṣṣinnu) — tool
• Albanian: sëpatë — tool
• Albanian: latë — tool
• Southern Altai: малта (malta) — tool
• Amharic: ፋስ (fas) — tool
• Chungli Ao: pu — tool
• Arabic: فَأْس (faʔs) — tool
• Aragonese: estral — tool
• Armenian: կացին (kacʻin) — tool
• Assamese: কুঠাৰ (kuthar) — tool
• Asturian: hacha — tool
• Asturian: hachu — tool
• Asturian: azáu — tool
• Asturian: azada — tool
• Asturian: macháu — tool
• Asturian: machada — tool
• Avar: гӏащтӏи (ʻašštʼi) — tool
• Azerbaijani: balta — tool
• Bashkir: балта (balta) — tool
• Basque: aizkora — tool
• Belarusian: сяке́ра (sjakjéra) — tool
• Belarusian: тапо́р (tapór) — tool
• Bengali: কুঠার (kuṭhar) — tool
• Bengali: কুড়াল (kuṛal) — tool
• Bhojpuri: कुल्हाड़ी (kulhāṛī) — tool
• Central Bikol: parakol — tool
• Bonan: ge — tool
• Breton: bouc'hal — tool
• Bulgarian: бра́два (brádva) — tool
• Bulgarian: секи́ра (sekíra) — tool
• Bulgarian: топо́р (topór) — tool
• Burmese: ပုဆိန် (pu.hcin) — tool
• Carpathian Rusyn: топі́р (topír) — tool
• Carpathian Rusyn: балта (balta) — tool
• Carpathian Rusyn: фи́йса (fýjsa) — tool
• Catalan: destral — tool
• Catalan: atxa — tool
• Cebuano: wasay — tool
• Chamicuro: ame — tool
• Chechen: диг (dig) — tool
• Cheyenne: hohkȯxe — tool
• Chichewa: nkhwangwa — tool
• Chinese Cantonese: 斧頭 /斧头 — tool
• Chinese: футу (futu) — tool
• Hakka Chinese: 斧頭 /斧头 (pú-thèu) — tool
• Chinese: 斧頭 /斧头 (pó͘-thâu / pú-thâu) — tool
• Chinese Mandarin: 斧頭 /斧头 (fǔtóu) — tool
• Chinese Mandarin: 斧 (fǔ) — tool
• Chinese Mandarin: 斧子 (fǔzi) — tool
• Northern Min Chinese: 斧頭 /斧头 (bŭ-tê) — tool
• Wu Chinese: 斧頭 /斧头 — tool
• Xiang Chinese: 斧頭 /斧头 (fu3 dou) — tool
• Chinook Jargon: lahash — tool
• Chuukese: kouk — tool
• Chuvash: пуртӑ (purt̬ă) — tool
• East Circassian: джыдэ (džədɛ) — tool
• West Circassian: отыч (wotəč) — tool
• West Circassian: обзэгъу (wobzɛğwu) — tool
• West Circassian: майтэ (majtɛ) — tool
• West Circassian: ощы (wośə) — tool
• Ngazidja Comorian: soha — tool
• Cornish: bolik — tool
• Cornish: bool — tool
• Crimean Tatar: balta — tool
• Czech: sekera — tool
• Dalmatian: sčor — tool
• Danish: økse — tool
• Dargwa: барда (barda) — tool
• Daur: sugw — tool
• Daur: topoor — tool
• Dhivehi: ކޯރާޑި (kōrāḍi) — tool
• Dolgan: һүгэ (hüge) — tool
• Dongxiang: sugie — tool
• Dutch: bijl — tool
• Dutch: hakbijl — tool
• East Yugur: süke — tool
• Elfdalian: ökse — tool
• Erzya: узере (uzere) — tool
• Esperanto: hakilo — tool
• Esperanto: toporo — tool
• Estonian: kirves — tool
• Evenki: сукэ (sukə) — tool
• Fala: malleta — tool
• Farefare: lɩ-kãtɛ — tool
• Faroese: øks — tool
• Finnish: kirves — tool
• French: hache — tool
• French: cognée — tool
• Saterland Frisian: Äkse — tool
• West-Frisian: bile — tool
• Friulian: manarie — tool
• Galician: machado — tool
• Galician: machada — tool
• Galician: brosa — tool
• Garo: ru-a — tool
• Georgian: ცული (culi) — tool
• Georgian: ნაჯახი (naǯaxi) — tool
• German: Axt — tool
• German: Beil — tool
• Bavarian German: Ax — tool
• Bavarian German: Axt — tool
• Gothic: 𐌰𐌵𐌹𐌶𐌹 (aqizi) — tool
• Greek: τσεκούρι (tsekoúri) — tool
• Ancient Greek: ἀξίνη (axínē) — tool
• Pontic Greek: αξινάρ (axinár) — tool
• Pontic Greek: παλτά (paltá) — tool
• Gujarati: કુહાડી (kuhāḍī) — tool
• Hausa: gā̀tarī — tool
• Hebrew: גַּרְזֶן (garzen) — tool
• Hiligaynon: wasay — tool
• Hindi: कुल्हाड़ी (kulhāṛī) — tool
• White Hmong: taus — tool
• Hungarian: fejsze — tool
• Hungarian: balta — tool
• Hungarian: szekerce — tool
• Icelandic: öxi — tool
• Icelandic: exi — tool
• Ido: hakilo — tool
• Indonesian: kapak — tool
• Ingush: диг (dig) — tool
• Interlingua: hacha — tool
• Irish: tua — tool
• Old Irish: biáil — tool
• Italian: ascia — tool
• Italian: accetta — tool
• Italian: scure — tool
• Italian: mannaia — tool
• Japanese: 斧 (ono) — tool
• Japanese: アックス (akkusu) — tool
• Kaitag: бере́тта (berétta) — tool
• Kalmyk: сүк (sük) — tool
• Kalmyk: балт (balt) — tool
• Kambaata: misaanita — tool
• Kanakanabu: kakaamarʉ — tool
• Kannada: ಕೊಡ್ಲಿ (koḍli) — tool
• Kannada: ಕುಠಾರ (kuṭhāra) — tool
• Kapampangan: palakul — tool
• Karachay-Balkar: балта (balta) — tool
• Karelian: kirves — tool
• Kazakh: балта (balta) — tool
• Khmer: ពូថៅ — tool
• Kikuyu: ithanwa — tool
• Kitembo: mbaha — tool
• Kituba: soka — tool
• Komi-Permyak: чер (ćer) — tool
• Komi-Zyrian: чер (ćer) — tool
• Kongo: soka — tool
• Korean: 도끼 (dokki) — tool
• Kumyk: балта (balta) — tool
• Central Kurdish: تەور (tewr) — tool
• Northern Kurdish: balte — tool
• Northern Kurdish: bivir — tool
• Kyrgyz: балта (balta) — tool
• Ladino: באלטה — tool
• Ladino: balta — tool
• Lak: рикӏ (rikʼ) — tool
• Lao: ຂວານ (khuān) — tool
• Latgalian: ciervs — tool
• Latin: ascia — tool
• Latin: secūris — tool
• Latvian: cirvis — tool
• Lezgi: якӏв (äḳv) — tool
• Lingala: soka — tool
• Lingala: epondo — tool
• Lithuanian: kirvis — tool
• Low German: Ax — tool
• Low German: Äx — tool
• Low German: Ex — tool
• Lü: ᦧᦱᧃ (ẋwaan) — tool
• Lü: ᦃᦱᧃ (ẋaan) — tool
• Macedonian: секира (sekira) — tool
• Malay: kapak — tool
• Malayalam: കോടാലി (kōṭāli) — tool
• Malayalam: മഴു (maḻu) — tool
• Maltese: mannara — tool
• Manchu: ᠰᡠᡥᡝ (suhe) — tool
• Mangghuer: suguo — tool
• Northern Mansi: са̄грап (sāgrap) — tool
• Manx: teigh — tool
• Māori: toki — tool
• Mapudungun: toki — tool
• Maranao: wasay — tool
• Marathi: कुऱ्हाड (kurhāḍ) — tool
• Eastern Mari: товар (tovar) — tool
• Western Mari: тавар (tavar) — tool
• Middle English: ax — tool
• Moksha: узерь (uzeŕ) — tool
• Mongghul: sgo — tool
• Mongolian: сүх (süx) — tool
• Mongolian: балт (balt) — tool
• Khiamniungan Naga: ōu — tool
• Navajo: tsénił — tool
• Tundra Nenets: тубка (tubka) — tool
• Nepali: बन्चरो (bancaro) — tool
• Nganasan: тобәкәә (tobĕkĕĕ) — tool
• Ngombe (Congo): epondo — tool
• Ngunawal: umbagong — tool
• Norman: hache — tool
• Norwegian Bokmål: øks — tool
• Norwegian Nynorsk: øks — tool
• Nuosu: ꃤꃀ (vi mop) — tool
• Occitan: pigassa — tool
• Occitan: manaira — tool
• Occitan: destral — tool
• Odia: କୁରାଢୀ (kurāḍhi) — tool
• Church Slavic: секꙑра (sekyra) — tool
• Church Slavic: брадꙑ (brady) — tool
• Old East Slavic: секꙑра (sekyra) — tool
• Old East Slavic: сокꙑра (sokyra) — tool
• Old East Slavic: топоръ (toporŭ) — tool
• Old English: æx — tool
• Old Norse: øx — tool
• Old Tupi: îy — tool
• Oromo: qottoo — tool
• Osage: 𐓨𐓘̋͘𐓡𐓣͘𐓮𐓭𐓟 (mą̄́hįspe) — tool
• Ossetian: фӕрӕт (færæt) — tool
• Pali: kuṭhārī — tool
• Pashto: تبرګۍ (tabargəy) — tool
• Dari: تَبَر (tabar) — tool
• Iranian Persian: تَبَر (tabar) — tool
• Plautdietsch: Biel (nds) — tool
• Plautdietsch: Akjs — tool
• Polabian: seťaŕă — tool
• Polabian: bordåińă — tool
• Polish: siekiera — tool
• Portuguese: machado — tool
• Quechua: k'acha — tool
• Romanian: topor — tool
• Romanian: secure — tool
• Romansh: sigir — tool
• Romansh: siir — tool
• Romansh: sagir — tool
• Romansh: sieir — tool
• Romansh: sgür — tool
• Romansh: manera — tool
• Russian: топо́р (topór) — tool
• Russian: колу́н (kolún) — tool
• Russian: секи́ра (sekíra) — tool
• Inari-Sami: ákšu — tool
• Kildin-Sami: оа̄ккш (ååkkš) — tool
• Kildin-Sami: оа̄ккшэ (ååkkše) — tool
• Northern Sami: ákšu — tool
• Skolt-Sami: ähšš — tool
• Ter Sami: а̄ккша (ākkša) — tool
• Sanskrit: परशु (paraśu) — tool
• Sanskrit: कुठार (kuṭhāra) — tool
• Sardinian: destrale — tool
• Sardinian: bestrale — tool
• Sardinian: segura — tool
• Sardinian: segure — tool
• Sardinian: seguri — tool
• Scottish Gaelic: tuagh — tool
• Serbo-Croatian: сѐкира — tool
• Serbo-Croatian: сјѐкира — tool
• Serbo-Croatian: sèkira — tool
• Serbo-Croatian: sjèkira — tool
• Shan: ၵႂၢၼ် (kwǎan) — tool
• Sicilian: sciunetta — tool
• Sicilian: ascia — tool
• Sicilian: cugnata — tool
• Sidamo: meesane — tool
• Sinhalese: පොරොව (porowa) — tool
• Slovak: sekera — tool
• Slovene: sekira — tool
• Lower Sorbian: sekera — tool
• Upper Sorbian: sekera — tool
• Spanish: hacha — tool
• Spanish: facha — tool
• Spanish: machado — tool
• Spanish: segur — tool
• Sranan Tongo: beiri — tool
• Sudovian: bīla — tool
• Svan: კა̄და (ḳāda) — tool
• Swahili: shoka — tool
• Swedish: yxa — tool
• Tabasaran: екӏв — tool
• Tagalog: palakol — tool
• Tai Dam: ꪄꪫꪱꪙ — tool
• Tajik: табар (tabar) — tool
• Tamil: கோடரி (kōṭari) — tool
• Taos: kwóna — tool
• Tat: тэвэр — tool
• Tatar: балта (balta) — tool
• Telugu: గొడ్డలి (goḍḍali) — tool
• Teribe: ä — tool
• Thai: ขวาน (kwǎan) — tool
• Tibetan: སྟ་རེ (sta re) — tool
• Tigrinya: ፋስ (fas) — tool
• Tocharian B: peret — tool
• Tok Pisin: akis — tool
• Tok Pisin: tamiok — tool
• Turkish: balta — tool
• Ottoman Turkish: بالطه (balta) — tool
• Ottoman Turkish: تبر (teber) — tool
• Ottoman Turkish: مكشاح (mikşah) — tool
• Ottoman Turkish: فاس (fas) — tool
• Turkmen: palta — tool
• Udmurt: тӥр (tir) — tool
• Ukrainian: соки́ра (sokýra) — tool
• Ukrainian: колу́н (kolún) — tool
• Ukrainian: топі́р (topír) — tool
• Unami: tëmahikàn — tool
• Urdu: کُلْہاڑی (kulhāṛī) — tool
• Uyghur: پالتا (palta) — tool
• Uzbek: bolta — tool
• Venetan: sigureto — tool
• Venetan: daldoro — tool
• Venetan: asa — tool
• Venetan: daldora — tool
• Venetan: manara — tool
• Venetan: manera — tool
• Vietnamese: rìu — tool
• Vilamovian: ba̐jł — tool
• Wauja: e'pi — tool
• Welsh: bwyell — tool
• Wolaytta: paasiya — tool
• Wolaytta: kalttaa — tool
• Xhosa: izembe — tool
• Yakut: сүгэ (süge) — tool
• Yiddish: האַק (hak) — tool
• Zazaki: torzin (diq) — tool
• Zazaki: tewerzin — tool
• Zhuang: fouj — tool
• Zulu: imbazo — tool
• Albanian: thadër — weapon
• Albanian: sëpatë — weapon
• Armenian: կացին (kacʻin) — weapon
• Bashkir: балта (balta) — weapon
• Bulgarian: бра́два (brádva) — weapon
• Bulgarian: секи́ра (sekíra) — weapon
• Bulgarian: топо́р (topór) — weapon
• Catalan: destral — weapon
• Catalan: atxa — weapon
• Chinese Mandarin: 斧頭 /斧头 (fǔtóu) — weapon
• Chinese Mandarin: 斧 (fǔ) — weapon
• Chinese Mandarin: 斧子 (fǔzi) — weapon
• Czech: sekera — weapon
• Danish: økse — weapon
• Danish: stridsøkse — weapon
• Dutch: bijl — weapon
• Dutch: strijdbijl — weapon
• Estonian: kirves — weapon
• Estonian: sõjakirves — weapon
• Finnish: tappara — weapon
• Finnish: kirves — weapon
• French: hache — weapon
• Galician: machado — weapon
• Georgian: ცული (culi) — weapon
• Georgian: ნაჯახი (naǯaxi) — weapon
• German: Streitaxt — weapon
• Greek: πέλεκυς (pélekys) — weapon
• Ancient Greek: πέλεκυς (pélekus) — weapon
• Hindi: कुल्हाड़ी (kulhāṛī) — weapon
• Hungarian: csatabárd — weapon
• Icelandic: stríðsöxi — weapon
• Ido: hakilo — weapon
• Indonesian: kapak — weapon
• Irish: tua — weapon
• Old Irish: biáil — weapon
• Italian: ascia — weapon
• Japanese: 斧 (ono) — weapon
• Japanese: アックス (akkusu) — weapon
• Korean: 도끼 (dokki) — weapon
• Latin: secūris — weapon
• Latin: ascia — weapon
• Latvian: cirvis — weapon
• Maltese: mannara — weapon
• Ngarrindjeri: drekurmi — weapon
• Ngunawal: umbagong — weapon
• Norman: hache — weapon
• Norwegian Bokmål: øks — weapon
• Norwegian Bokmål: stridsøks — weapon
• Occitan: destral — weapon
• Iranian Persian: تَبَرْزین (tabarzin) — weapon
• Polabian: seťaŕă — weapon
• Polabian: bordåińă — weapon
• Polish: topór — weapon
• Portuguese: machado — weapon
• Romanian: secure — weapon
• Romanian: topor — weapon
• Russian: топо́р (topór) — weapon
• Russian: секи́ра (sekíra) — weapon
• Scottish Gaelic: tuagh — weapon
• Serbo-Croatian: сјѐкира — weapon
• Serbo-Croatian: сѐкира — weapon
• Serbo-Croatian: sjèkira — weapon
• Serbo-Croatian: sèkira — weapon
• Slovene: sekira — weapon
• Spanish: hacha — weapon
• Sranan Tongo: beiri — weapon
• Sudovian: romestuve — weapon
• Sudovian: kersle — weapon
• Swahili: shoka — weapon
• Swedish: yxa — weapon
• Swedish: stridsyxa — weapon
• Ottoman Turkish: بالطه (balta) — weapon
• Ottoman Turkish: تبر (teber) — weapon
• Ottoman Turkish: فاس (fas) — weapon
• Ukrainian: топі́р (topír) — weapon
• Ukrainian: берди́ш (berdýš) — weapon
• Urdu: تَبَر (tabar) — weapon
• Uyghur: پالتا (palta) — weapon
• Uyghur: ئايپالتا (aypalta) — weapon
• Welsh: bwyell — weapon
• Zazaki: tewerzin — weapon
• Belarusian: адмо́ва (admóva) — rejection
• Bulgarian: о́тказ (ótkaz) — rejection
• Finnish: potkut — rejection
• Finnish: kenkää — rejection
• Finnish: rukkaset — rejection
• French: couperet — rejection
• German: Korb — rejection
• German: Laufpass — rejection
• Italian: taglio — rejection
• Italian: scarto — rejection
• Russian: отка́з (otkáz) — rejection
• Swahili: shoka — rejection
• Ukrainian: відмо́ва (vidmóva) — rejection
• Uyghur: رەت قىلىش (ret qilish) — rejection
• French: gratte — instrument
• Finnish: myynti-intressi — finance: interest in buying or selling
• Finnish: ostointressi — finance: interest in buying or selling
• Azerbaijani: baltalamaq — fell or chop
• Bulgarian: отсичам с брадва (otsičam s bradva) — fell or chop
• Czech: porazit — fell or chop
• Czech: osekávat — fell or chop
• Czech: otesávat — fell or chop
• Estonian: raiuma — fell or chop
• German: abhacken — fell or chop
• German: fällen — fell or chop
• Greek: τσεκουρώνω (tsekouróno) — fell or chop
• Greek: πελεκώ (pelekó) — fell or chop
• Greek: κόβω (kóvo) — fell or chop
• Latvian: cirst — fell or chop
• Mongolian: сүхдэх (süxdex) — fell or chop
• Russian: руби́ть (rubítʹ) — fell or chop
• Russian: поруби́ть (porubítʹ) — fell or chop
• Swahili: shoka — fell or chop
• Swedish: fälla — fell or chop
• Swedish: hugga — fell or chop
• Swedish: yxa — fell or chop
• Turkish: baltalamak — fell or chop
• Ottoman Turkish: بالطهلامق (baltalamak) — fell or chop
• Chinese Mandarin: 腰斩 (yāozhǎn) — terminate or reduce tremendously in a rough or ruthless manner
• German: streichen — terminate or reduce tremendously in a rough or ruthless manner
• German: beseitigen — terminate or reduce tremendously in a rough or ruthless manner
• Greek: περικόπτω (perikópto) — terminate or reduce tremendously in a rough or ruthless manner
• Greek: τσεκουρώνω (tsekouróno) — terminate or reduce tremendously in a rough or ruthless manner
• Japanese: 打ち切る (uchikiru) — terminate or reduce tremendously in a rough or ruthless manner
• Swahili: shoka — terminate or reduce tremendously in a rough or ruthless manner
• Yiddish: אונטערהאַקן (unterhakn) — terminate or reduce tremendously in a rough or ruthless manner