penknife

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From Middle English penne knyfe; equivalent to pen + knife. In the original sense, named for its purpose: aiding the use of a (traditional) ink pen through the following tasks: trimming the tip of a quill pen, trimming a reed for a nib, and (in some cases) allowing erasure by scraping away some ink.

54 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Hindi: क़लमतराश (qalmatrāś) — knife for cutting the points of quill feathers or reeds
• Polish: nożyk do pióra — knife for cutting the points of quill feathers or reeds
• Ottoman Turkish: قلمتراش (kalemtıraş, kalemtraş) — knife for cutting the points of quill feathers or reeds
• Ottoman Turkish: گزلك (gizlik) — knife for cutting the points of quill feathers or reeds
• Arabic: مِطْواة (miṭwāh) — small pocketknife
• Armenian: զմելին (zmelin) — small pocketknife
• Armenian: գրչահատ (grčʻahat) — small pocketknife
• Bashkir: бәке (bəke) — small pocketknife
• Bulgarian: джобно ножче (džobno nožče) — small pocketknife
• Chinese Mandarin: 小刀 (xiǎodāo) — small pocketknife
• Ngazidja Comorian: djemɓe — small pocketknife
• Czech: kapesní nůž — small pocketknife
• Dutch: pennenmes — small pocketknife
• Finnish: linkkuveitsi — small pocketknife
• French: canif — small pocketknife
• West-Frisian: knyft — small pocketknife
• Friulian: britulin — small pocketknife
• Galician: canivete — small pocketknife
• Galician: navalla — small pocketknife
• Georgian: ჯაყვა (ǯaq̇va) — small pocketknife
• German: Taschenmesser — small pocketknife
• German: Sackmesser — small pocketknife
• Greek: σουγιαδάκι (sougiadáki) — small pocketknife
• Hungarian: zsebkés — small pocketknife
• Hungarian: bicska — small pocketknife
• Hungarian: rugós kés — small pocketknife
• Hungarian: tollkés — small pocketknife
• Hungarian: vakarókés — small pocketknife
• Hungarian: penicilus — small pocketknife
• Icelandic: pennahnífur — small pocketknife
• Ido: posh-kulteleto — small pocketknife
• Irish: scian phóca — small pocketknife
• Japanese: ポケットナイフ (pokettonaifu) — small pocketknife
• Luxembourgish: Täschemesser — small pocketknife
• Nogai: беки (beki) — small pocketknife
• Persian: قلمتراش (qalam-tarâš) — small pocketknife
• Polish: scyzoryk — small pocketknife
• Portuguese: canivete suíço — small pocketknife
• Portuguese: canivete — small pocketknife
• Russian: перочи́нный нож (peročínnyj nož) — small pocketknife
• Spanish: navaja — small pocketknife
• Spanish: cortaplumas — small pocketknife
• Swedish: pennkniv — small pocketknife
• Swedish: fickkniv — small pocketknife
• Swedish: fällkniv — small pocketknife
• Telugu: చాకు (cāku) — small pocketknife
• Tibetan: ལྟེབས་གྲི (ltebs gri) — small pocketknife
• Turkish: çakı — small pocketknife
• Turkish: soya — small pocketknife
• Ottoman Turkish: چاقی (çakı) — small pocketknife
• Ottoman Turkish: صویا (soya) — small pocketknife
• Welsh: cyllell boced — small pocketknife
• Welsh: pengneth — small pocketknife
• Welsh: pencnath — small pocketknife