pliers

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• UK: /ˈplaɪ.ə(ɹ)z/
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• rhymes with -aɪə(ɹ)z
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• CMU ARPABET: P L AY1 ER0 Z Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree English ply Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English -s English pliers From ply (“to bend”) + -er + -s.

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122 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: pincë — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Arabic: زَرَّادِيَّة (zarrādiyya) — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Arabic: بنسة (bénsa) — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Arabic: بنز (benz) — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Arabic: زَرَّادِيَّة (zarrādiyya) — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Armenian: տափակաշուրթ (tapʻakašurtʻ) — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Bashkir: ҡыпһыуыр (qıphıwır) — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Bashkir: ҡыпсыуыр (qıpsıwır) — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Belarusian: абцугі́ (abcuhí) — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Belarusian: шчыпцы́ (ščypcý) — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Bulgarian: пло́ски кле́щи (plóski kléšti) — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Bulgarian: кле́щи (kléšti) — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Catalan: alicates — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Cebuano: playis — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Cebuano: alikate — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Chechen: морзах (morzax) — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Chinese Mandarin: 鉗子 /钳子 (qiánzi) — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Chinese Mandarin: 鉗 /钳 (qián) — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Czech: kleště — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Danish: tang — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Dutch: tang — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Esperanto: pinĉilo — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Estonian: tangid — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Estonian: näpitsad (nippers, pinchers) — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Estonian: pihid — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Finnish: pihdit — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Finnish: tongit — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• French: pince — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• French: pinces — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• West-Frisian: tange — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Georgian: ბრტყელტუჩა (brṭq̇elṭuča) — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• German: Zange — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• German: Kneifzange — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Greek: πένσα (pénsa) — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Hebrew: מֶלְקַחַת (melkákhat) — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Hungarian: fogó — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Ido: pinco — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Ido: tenalio — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Indonesian: tang — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Ingrian: pihet — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Ingrian: pihtelet — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Irish: teanchair — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Italian: pinza — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Italian: pinze — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Japanese: プライヤー (puraiyā) — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Japanese: ペンチ (penchi) — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Kazakh: қысқыш (qysqyş) — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Kazakh: атауыз (atauyz) — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Khalaj: ambur — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Korean: 플라이어 (peullaieo) — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Korean: 펜치 (penchi) — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Kyrgyz: аттиш (attiş) — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Latvian: knaibles — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Lithuanian: replės — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Lithuanian: žnyplės — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Macedonian: клешти (klešti) — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Malay: tang — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Malayalam: ചവണ (cavaṇa) — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Maltese: tnalja — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Māori: kūmau — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Norwegian Bokmål: tang — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Norwegian Nynorsk: tong — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Occitan: pinça — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Occitan: pinças — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Occitan: mordassas — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Persian: انبردست (anbordast) — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Persian: انبر (anbor) — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Persian: انبرک (anborak) — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Plautdietsch: Pleia — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Pohnpeian: pwuraia — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Polish: cęgi — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Polish: cążki — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Polish: kombinerki — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Polish: szczypce — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Polish: kleszcze — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Portuguese: alicate — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Romanian: clește — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Russian: плоскогу́бцы (ploskogúbcy) — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Russian: пассати́жи (passatíži) — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Russian: щипцы́ (ščipcý) — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Russian: кле́щи (kléšči) — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Russian: куса́чки (kusáčki) — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Scottish Gaelic: greimire — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Serbo-Croatian: кле́ште — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Serbo-Croatian: клије́ште — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Serbo-Croatian: kléšte — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Serbo-Croatian: klijéšte — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Slovak: kliešte — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Slovene: klešče — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Lower Sorbian: klěšće — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Southern Altai: кыскаш (kïskaš) — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Spanish: alicates — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Spanish: alicate — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Sranan Tongo: tanga — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Swedish: tång — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Tagalog: plais — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Tagalog: sagam — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Tagalog: bokay-pato — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Tagalog: bokaypato — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Tagalog: alikate — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Tai Dam: ꪁꪲꪣ — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Tajik: анбӯр (anbür) — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Tamil: இடுக்கி (iṭukki) — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Tarifit: tiɣendin — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Tatar: үрдәкборын (ürdäkborın) — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Thai: คีม (kiim) — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Tok Pisin: plais — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Turkish: pense — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Turkish: kargaburun — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Ottoman Turkish: قارغه بورون (karga burun) — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Ottoman Turkish: قیصاج (kısac) — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Ukrainian: щи́пці (ščýpci) — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Ukrainian: клі́щі (klíšči) — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Ukrainian: плоскогу́бці (ploskohúbci) — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Uzbek: ombur — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Uzbek: qisqich — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Venetan: pensa — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Vietnamese: cái kìm — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Vietnamese: kềm — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Vietnamese: kìm — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Welsh: gefel blygu — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand
• Yiddish: קנײַפּער (knayper) — gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand