left-handed

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• Canada, General-American: /lɛftˈhændɪd/
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• CMU ARPABET: L EH2 F T HH AE1 N D IH0 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English left handyd, lyfthonded, equivalent to left + handed.

81 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: أَيْسَر (ʔaysar) — preferring the left hand over the right
• Arabic: أَعْسَر (ʔaʕsar) — preferring the left hand over the right
• Arabic: أَشْوَل (ʔašwal) — preferring the left hand over the right
• Armenian: ձախլիկ (jaxlik) — preferring the left hand over the right
• Azerbaijani: solaxay — preferring the left hand over the right
• Bashkir: һулаҡай (hulaqay) — preferring the left hand over the right
• Basque: ezkerti — preferring the left hand over the right
• Bulgarian: левичар (levičar) — preferring the left hand over the right
• Catalan: esquerrà — preferring the left hand over the right
• Cherokee: ᎠᎦᏍᎦᏂᏓ (agasganida) — preferring the left hand over the right
• Chinese Mandarin: 左利手 (zuǒlìshǒu) — preferring the left hand over the right
• Chinese Mandarin: 左撇子 (zuǒpiězi) — preferring the left hand over the right
• Czech: levoruký — preferring the left hand over the right
• Czech: levácký — preferring the left hand over the right
• Danish: kejthåndet — preferring the left hand over the right
• Danish: venstrehåndet — preferring the left hand over the right
• Dutch: linkshandig — preferring the left hand over the right
• Faroese: lámur — preferring the left hand over the right
• Faroese: vinstrhentur — preferring the left hand over the right
• Finnish: vasenkätinen — preferring the left hand over the right
• French: gaucher — preferring the left hand over the right
• Galician: zurdo — preferring the left hand over the right
• Galician: manicho — preferring the left hand over the right
• Galician: xergo — preferring the left hand over the right
• Galician: cochaino — preferring the left hand over the right
• Galician: esquerdo — preferring the left hand over the right
• Galician: esquerdeiro — preferring the left hand over the right
• German: linkshändig — preferring the left hand over the right
• Greek: αριστερόχειρας (aristerócheiras) — preferring the left hand over the right
• Haitian Creole: goche — preferring the left hand over the right
• Hebrew: שמאלי (smalí) — preferring the left hand over the right
• Hebrew: אִטֵּר (itér) — preferring the left hand over the right
• Hindi: बाएँ हत्था (bāẽ hatthā) — preferring the left hand over the right
• Hungarian: balkezes — preferring the left hand over the right
• Icelandic: örvhentur — preferring the left hand over the right
• Indonesian: kidal — preferring the left hand over the right
• Irish: ciotach — preferring the left hand over the right
• Italian: mancino — preferring the left hand over the right
• Japanese: 左利き (hidarikiki) — preferring the left hand over the right
• Kapampangan: kinayli — preferring the left hand over the right
• Korean: 왼손잡이 (oensonjabi) — preferring the left hand over the right
• Ladin: ciancané — preferring the left hand over the right
• Lithuanian: kairiarankis — preferring the left hand over the right
• Macedonian: леворак (levorak) — preferring the left hand over the right
• Malay: kidal — preferring the left hand over the right
• Māori: hemarehe — preferring the left hand over the right
• Mongolian: солгой (solgoj) — preferring the left hand over the right
• Norwegian Bokmål: venstrehendt — preferring the left hand over the right
• Norwegian Bokmål: keivhendt — preferring the left hand over the right
• Norwegian Nynorsk: venstrehendt — preferring the left hand over the right
• Norwegian Nynorsk: keivhendt — preferring the left hand over the right
• Polish: leworęczny — preferring the left hand over the right
• Polish: leworęki — preferring the left hand over the right
• Portuguese: canhoto — preferring the left hand over the right
• Portuguese: sestro — preferring the left hand over the right
• Romanian: stângaci — preferring the left hand over the right
• Russian: левору́кий (levorúkij) — preferring the left hand over the right
• Scots: caur — preferring the left hand over the right
• Scots: caurie — preferring the left hand over the right
• Scots: caur-haundit — preferring the left hand over the right
• Scots: caurie-haundit — preferring the left hand over the right
• Scots: caurie-fistit — preferring the left hand over the right
• Scottish Gaelic: ceàrr-làmhach — preferring the left hand over the right
• Scottish Gaelic: clì-làmhach — preferring the left hand over the right
• Scottish Gaelic: leis a' chearrag — preferring the left hand over the right
• Scottish Gaelic: cearragach — preferring the left hand over the right
• Slovak: ľavoruký — preferring the left hand over the right
• Spanish: zurdo — preferring the left hand over the right
• Spanish: zoco — preferring the left hand over the right
• Spanish: zocato — preferring the left hand over the right
• Spanish: ñurdo — preferring the left hand over the right
• Swedish: vänsterhänt — preferring the left hand over the right
• Tagalog: kaliwete — preferring the left hand over the right
• Tarifit: aẓermaḍ — preferring the left hand over the right
• Turkish: solak — preferring the left hand over the right
• Ottoman Turkish: صولاق (solak) — preferring the left hand over the right
• Ukrainian: лівору́кий (livorúkyj) — preferring the left hand over the right
• Unami: mënànchi — preferring the left hand over the right
• Welsh: llawchwith — preferring the left hand over the right
• Yiddish: געלינקט (gelinkt) — preferring the left hand over the right
• Yoruba: ọlọ́wọ́ òsì — preferring the left hand over the right