malleus

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From Latin malleus (“hammer, mallet”). Doublet of maul.

40 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: hamer — the small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear
• Afrikaans: hamerbeentjie — the small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear
• Arabic: عُظيمة المطرقة — the small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear
• Bulgarian: чукче (čukče) — the small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear
• Catalan: martell — the small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear
• Chinese Mandarin: 錘骨 /锤骨 (chuígǔ) — the small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear
• Czech: kladívko — the small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear
• Esperanto: maleo — the small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear
• Estonian: vasar — the small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear
• Finnish: vasara — the small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear
• Finnish: vasaraluu — the small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear
• French: malléus — the small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear
• French: marteau — the small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear
• German: Hammer — the small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear
• German: Malleus — the small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear
• Greek: σφύρα (sfýra) — the small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear
• Hungarian: kalapács — the small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear
• Ido: marteleto — the small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear
• Irish: casúirín — the small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear
• Irish: mailléas — the small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear
• Japanese: 槌骨 (tsuchikotsu) — the small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear
• Korean: 추골 (chugol) — the small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear
• Northern Kurdish: çekûç — the small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear
• Latin: malleus — the small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear
• Macedonian: че́канче (čékanče) — the small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear
• Māori: hama — the small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear
• Norwegian: Hammer — the small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear
• Polish: młoteczek — the small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear
• Portuguese: martelo — the small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear
• Romanian: ciocan — the small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear
• Russian: молото́чек (molotóček) — the small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear
• Slovene: kladivce — the small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear
• Spanish: malleus — the small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear
• Spanish: martillo — the small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear
• Thai: กระดูกค้อน (grà-dùuk-kɔ́ɔn) — the small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear
• Turkish: çekiç — the small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear
• Vietnamese: xương búa — the small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear
• Polish: ząb — part of the mastax of rotifers
• Polish: chitynowa płytka — part of the mastax of rotifers
• Polish: młoteczek — part of the mastax of rotifers