lens

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• /lɛnz/
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Etymology tree Latin lēns Arabic عَدَسَة (ʕadasa)sl. Medieval Latin lēnsbor. English lens Borrowed from Latin lēns (“lentil”), with Medieval Latin later taking on the sense of “lens”, a semantic loan from Arabic عَدَسَة (ʕadasa, “lentil; optic lens”); the similar shape is the common factor.

162 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: lente — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Arabic: عَدَسَة (ʕadasa) — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Armenian: ոսպնյակ (ospnyak) — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Azerbaijani: linza — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Basque: leiar — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Belarusian: лі́нза (línza) — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Belarusian: аб'екты́ў (abʺjektýw) — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Bengali: লেন্স (lenśo) — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Bulgarian: ле́ща (léšta) — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Bulgarian: обекти́в (obektív) — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Burmese: မှန်ဘီလူး (hmanbhilu:) — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Catalan: lent — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Chinese Mandarin: 透鏡 /透镜 (tòujìng) — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Chinese Mandarin: 鏡片 /镜片 (jìngpiàn) — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Chinese Mandarin: 鏡頭 /镜头 (jìngtóu) — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Czech: čočka — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Danish: linse — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Dutch: lens — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Esperanto: lenso — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Estonian: lääts — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Finnish: linssi — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• French: lentille — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Galician: lente — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Georgian: ლინზა (linza) — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• German: Linse — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Greek: φακός (fakós) — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Hebrew: עֲדָשָׁה (adashá) — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Hindi: लेंस (lens) — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Hungarian: lencse — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Hungarian: objektív — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Icelandic: linsa — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Indonesian: lensa — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Indonesian: kanta — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Irish: lionsa — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Italian: lentille — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Italian: lente — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Japanese: レンズ (renzu) — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Kazakh: линза (linza) — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Khmer: កែវ (kaew) — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Korean: 렌즈 (renjeu) — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Kyrgyz: линза (linza) — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Lao: ເລັນ (len) — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Lao: ແວ່ນ (wǣn) — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Latvian: lēca — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Lithuanian: lęšis — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Macedonian: ле́ќа (léḱa) — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Macedonian: објектив (objektiv) — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Malay: kanta — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Malay: lensa — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Mongolian: линз (linz) — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Norwegian Bokmål: linse — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Norwegian Bokmål: objektiv — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Norwegian Nynorsk: linse — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Norwegian Nynorsk: objektiv — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Pannonian Rusyn: лєнча (ljenča) — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Persian: عدسی ('adasi) — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Plautdietsch: Brellenglauss — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Polish: soczewka — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Portuguese: lente — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Romanian: lentilă — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Russian: ли́нза (línza) — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Russian: объекти́в (obʺjektív) — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Serbo-Croatian: со̏чӣво — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Serbo-Croatian: објѐктӣв — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Serbo-Croatian: sȍčīvo — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Serbo-Croatian: objèktīv — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Serbo-Croatian: leća — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Slovak: šošovka — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Slovene: leča — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Spanish: lente — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Spanish: luneta — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Spanish: cristal — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Spanish: luna — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Swahili: lensi — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Swedish: lins — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Swedish: objektiv — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Tagalog: paningob — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Tagalog: lente — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Tajik: линза (linza) — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Thai: เลนส์ (len) — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Thai: แว่น (wɛ̂n) — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Turkish: mercek — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Turkish: adese — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Turkish: lens — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Turkmen: linza — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Ukrainian: лі́нза (línza) — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Ukrainian: об'єкти́в (obʺjektýv) — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Ukrainian: сочка (sočka) — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Urdu: مَنْظُور (manzūr) — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Urdu: عَدْسَہ ('adsa) — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Uzbek: linza — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Venetan: lente — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Venetan: lenta — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Venetan: lent — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Vietnamese: thấu kính — object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
• Basque: leiar — device which focuses or defocuses electron beams
• Bulgarian: леща (lešta) — device which focuses or defocuses electron beams
• Czech: čočka — device which focuses or defocuses electron beams
• Dutch: lens — device which focuses or defocuses electron beams
• Finnish: poikkeutuskela — device which focuses or defocuses electron beams
• French: lentille — device which focuses or defocuses electron beams
• German: Linse — device which focuses or defocuses electron beams
• Greek: φακός (fakós) — device which focuses or defocuses electron beams
• Latvian: lēca — device which focuses or defocuses electron beams
• Polish: soczewka — device which focuses or defocuses electron beams
• Portuguese: lente — device which focuses or defocuses electron beams
• Ukrainian: со́чка (sóčka) — device which focuses or defocuses electron beams
• Dutch: lens — geometry: convex shape bounded by two circular arcs
• Finnish: linssi — geometry: convex shape bounded by two circular arcs
• French: lentille — geometry: convex shape bounded by two circular arcs
• Russian: ли́нза (línza) — geometry: convex shape bounded by two circular arcs
• Dutch: linze — biology: genus of the legume family; its bean
• Finnish: linssi — biology: genus of the legume family; its bean
• French: lentille — biology: genus of the legume family; its bean
• Georgian: ოსპი (osṗi) — biology: genus of the legume family; its bean
• German: Linse — biology: genus of the legume family; its bean
• Greek: φακή (fakí) — biology: genus of the legume family; its bean
• Hebrew: עֲדָשָׁה (adashá) — biology: genus of the legume family; its bean
• Hungarian: lencse — biology: genus of the legume family; its bean
• Italian: lenticchia — biology: genus of the legume family; its bean
• Khmer: មសូរ (mĕəʼsou) — biology: genus of the legume family; its bean
• Latvian: lēcas — biology: genus of the legume family; its bean
• Macedonian: леќа (leḱa) — biology: genus of the legume family; its bean
• Norwegian: linse — biology: genus of the legume family; its bean
• Polish: soczewica — biology: genus of the legume family; its bean
• Portuguese: lentilha — biology: genus of the legume family; its bean
• Romanian: linte — biology: genus of the legume family; its bean
• Russian: чечеви́ца (čečevíca) — biology: genus of the legume family; its bean
• Swedish: lins — biology: genus of the legume family; its bean
• Arabic: عَدَسَة اَلْعَيْن (ʕadasat al-ʕayn) — anatomy: transparent crystalline structure in the eye
• Belarusian: хруста́лік (xrustálik) — anatomy: transparent crystalline structure in the eye
• Bulgarian: кристалин (kristalin) — anatomy: transparent crystalline structure in the eye
• Chinese Mandarin: 晶狀體 /晶状体 (jīngzhuàngtǐ) — anatomy: transparent crystalline structure in the eye
• Chinese Mandarin: 水晶體 /水晶体 (shuǐjīngtǐ) — anatomy: transparent crystalline structure in the eye
• Czech: čočka — anatomy: transparent crystalline structure in the eye
• Dutch: lens — anatomy: transparent crystalline structure in the eye
• Dutch: kristallens — anatomy: transparent crystalline structure in the eye
• Esperanto: kristalino — anatomy: transparent crystalline structure in the eye
• Finnish: mykiö — anatomy: transparent crystalline structure in the eye
• Finnish: linssi — anatomy: transparent crystalline structure in the eye
• French: cristallin — anatomy: transparent crystalline structure in the eye
• Georgian: ლინზა (linza) — anatomy: transparent crystalline structure in the eye
• German: Linse — anatomy: transparent crystalline structure in the eye
• Greek: φακός (fakós) — anatomy: transparent crystalline structure in the eye
• Hungarian: szemlencse — anatomy: transparent crystalline structure in the eye
• Japanese: 水晶体 (suishōtai) — anatomy: transparent crystalline structure in the eye
• Khmer: កែវ (kaew) — anatomy: transparent crystalline structure in the eye
• Korean: 수정체 (sujeongche) — anatomy: transparent crystalline structure in the eye
• Northern Kurdish: hawêne — anatomy: transparent crystalline structure in the eye
• Latvian: lēca — anatomy: transparent crystalline structure in the eye
• Norwegian Bokmål: linse — anatomy: transparent crystalline structure in the eye
• Norwegian Nynorsk: linse — anatomy: transparent crystalline structure in the eye
• Polish: soczewka — anatomy: transparent crystalline structure in the eye
• Portuguese: cristalino — anatomy: transparent crystalline structure in the eye
• Romanian: cristalin — anatomy: transparent crystalline structure in the eye
• Russian: хруста́лик (xrustálik) — anatomy: transparent crystalline structure in the eye
• Spanish: cristalino — anatomy: transparent crystalline structure in the eye
• Swedish: lins — anatomy: transparent crystalline structure in the eye
• Thai: แก้วตา (gɛ̂ɛo-dtaa) — anatomy: transparent crystalline structure in the eye
• Ukrainian: кришта́лик (kryštályk) — anatomy: transparent crystalline structure in the eye
• French: filmer — to film
• Romanian: filma — to film