Phrase guide

clothes iron

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • General-American: /ˈklɔʊːðz aiːɚn/
  • General-American: [ˈkhlɔʊːz.aiːɚn]
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noun

Meaning 1

A hand-held device with a heated flat metal base used to smooth out wrinkles in clothes.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: clothing iron, flatiron, iron, smoothing iron

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

No etymology was provided for this word.

Across languages

Translations

170 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: strykyster — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Albanian: hekur — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Albanian: ujti — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Southern Altai: утюг (utyug) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Arabic: مِكْوَاة (mikwāh) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Arabic: مِكْوَاة كَهْرَبَائِيَّة (mikwāh kahrabāʔiyya) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Arabic: مَكْوَة (makwa) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Arabic: اوتي (ūti) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Arabic: مَكْوَة (makwa) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Arabic: مصلوح (maṣlūḥ) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Arabic: حدادة (ḥaddāda) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܟ݂ܵܘܝܵܢܝܼܬܵܐ (mḵāwyānītā) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܘܼܬܝܼ (utī) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Armenian: արդուկ (arduk) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Armenian: հարթուկ (hartʻuk) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Asturian: plancha — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Avar: иту (itu) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Azerbaijani: ütü — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Bashkir: үтек (ütek) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Belarusian: прас (pras) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Belarusian: жаля́зка (žaljázka) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Bengali: ইস্ত্রি (istri) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Bulgarian: юти́я (jutíja) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Burmese: မီးပူ (mi:pu) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Burmese: ဓာတ်မီးပူ (dhatmi:pu) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Carpathian Rusyn: бі́ґляйз (bígljajz) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Catalan: planxa — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Cheyenne: hesó'xôhéó'o — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Cheyenne: hesó'xâho'hovahtôtse — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Chinese Cantonese: 燙斗 /烫斗 (tong3 dau2) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Chinese: йүнду (yündu) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Eastern Min Chinese: 熨斗 (ók-dāu) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Gan Chinese: 熨斗 (yn4 deu) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Hakka Chinese: 熨斗 (yun-téu) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Hakka Chinese: 燙斗 /烫斗 (tong4 dêu3) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Chinese: 熨斗 (ut-táu) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Jin Chinese: 熨斗 (yng3 dou2) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Chinese Mandarin: 熨斗 (yùndǒu) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Northern Min Chinese: 熨斗 (ṳ̆-dě) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Wu Chinese: 熨斗 — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Xiang Chinese: 熨斗 (yn4 dou3) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Choctaw: isht halʋsbichi — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Crimean Tatar: ütü — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Czech: žehlička — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Danish: strygejern — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Dutch: strijkijzer — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Esperanto: gladilo — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Estonian: triikraud — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Faroese: strúkijarn — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Finnish: silitysrauta — appliance for pressing clothes
  • French: fer à repasser — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Galician: ferro de pasar — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Georgian: უთო (uto) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • German: Bügeleisen — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Greek: σίδερο (sídero) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Gujarati: ઇસ્ત્રી (istrī) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Hebrew: מַגְהֵץ (maghéts) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Hindi: इस्त्री (istrī) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Hindi: इस्तरी (istarī) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Hungarian: vasaló — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Icelandic: straujárn — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Ido: repasilo — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Indonesian: setrika — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Ingrian: utjuga — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Interlingua: ferro — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Interlingua: ferro de repassar — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Italian: ferro da stiro — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Japanese: アイロン (airon) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Japanese: 火熨斗 (hinoshi) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Japanese: 熨斗 (noshi) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Jeju: 다리웨 (dariwe) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Kalmyk: илүр (ilür) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Kazakh: үтік (ütık) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Khmer: ឆ្នាំងអ៊ុត (chnang ʼut) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Korean: 다리미 (darimi) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Korean: 울두 (uldu) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Korean: 화두 (hwadu) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Kumyk: итив (itiw) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Northern Kurdish: ûte — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Northern Kurdish: ûtî — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Kyrgyz: үтүк (ütük) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Lao: ເຕົາຮີດ (tao hīt) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Latvian: gludeklis — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Lezgi: уьтуь (ütü) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Lingala: felo — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Lingala: engomeli — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Lithuanian: laidynė — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Lithuanian: lygintuvas — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Macanese: estrica — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Macanese: istrica — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Macedonian: пегла (pegla) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Malay: seterika — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Malayalam: തേപ്പുപെട്ടി (tēppupeṭṭi) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Malayalam: ഇസ്തിരിപ്പെട്ടി (istirippeṭṭi) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Malecite-Passamaquoddy: citonekisawakon — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Maltese: ħadida tal-mogħdija — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Māori: haeana — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Marshallese: aen — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Mauritian Creole: fer — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Mi'kmaq: jitnaqe'gnei — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Mongolian: индүү (indüü) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Navajo: béésh kʼééʼéldǫǫhí — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Neapolitan: fierro — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Norwegian Bokmål: strykejern — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: strykejarn — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Odia: ଇସ୍ତ୍ରୀ (istri) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Ojibwe: zhooshkwega'igan — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Ossetian: иту (itu) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Pannonian Rusyn: пейґла (pejgla) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Pashto: اوتو (otu) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Persian: درزمال (darzmāl) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Persian: تله (tale) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Persian: اوتی (ūti) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Iranian Persian: اُتو (otu) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Iranian Persian: اُطو (otu) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Polish: żelazko — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Portuguese: ferro — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Portuguese: ferro de passar — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Portuguese: ferro de passar roupa — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Portuguese: ferro de engomar — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Romanian: fier de călcat — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Russian: утю́г (utjúg) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Samogitian: pruosos — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Scottish Gaelic: iarann — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Serbo-Croatian: пе̑гла — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Serbo-Croatian: гла̀чало — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Serbo-Croatian: pȇgla — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Serbo-Croatian: glàčalo — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Slovak: žehlička — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Slovene: likalnik — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Lower Sorbian: zelezko — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Lower Sorbian: głaźidło — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Lower Sorbian: blatawa — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Upper Sorbian: žehlidło — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Spanish: plancha — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Spanish: hierro — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Spanish: planchatelas — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Spanish: plancharopa — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Spanish: planchadora — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Swahili: pasi — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Swedish: strykjärn — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Tabasaran: ути (uti) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Tagalog: plantsa — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Tajik: дарзмол (darzmol) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Tajik: уттӣ (utti) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Talysh: utu — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Tamil: அழுத்தி (aḻutti) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Tamil: இஸ்திரி (istiri) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Tatar: үтүк (ütük) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Telugu: ఇస్త్రీ (istrī) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Thai: เตารีด (dtao-rîit) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Turkish: ütü — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Ottoman Turkish: اوتو (ütü) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Turkmen: ütük — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Ukrainian: пра́ска (práska) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Ukrainian: залі́зко (zalízko) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Ulch: pəsku — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Unami: shinkaokhwikàn — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Urdu: اِسْتْری (istrī) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Urdu: اِسْتَری (istarī) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Uyghur: دەزمال (dezmal) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Uzbek: dazmol — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Vietnamese: bàn ủi — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Vietnamese: bàn là — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Welsh: haearn smwddio — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Yiddish: פּרעסאײַזן (presayzn) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Yiddish: פּרעסל (presl) — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Yiddish: ביגל־⁠אײַזן — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Yoruba: ẹ̀rọ ìlọṣọ — appliance for pressing clothes
  • Zhuang: dangqdaeuj — appliance for pressing clothes