ploughshare

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈplaʊˌʃɛə/
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• General-American: /ˈplaʊˌʃɛɚ/
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From Middle English plowgh-schare, plowh schare, equivalent to plough + share. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Plouchskoar (“ploughshare”), West Frisian ploechskaar (“ploughshare”), Dutch ploegschaar (“ploughshare”), German Low German Ploogschoor (“ploughshare”), German Pflugschar (“ploughshare”), Danish plovskær (“ploughshare”), Norwegian plogskjær (“ploughshare”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English culter (“ploughshare”), from Old English culter (“ploughshare, coulter, dagger”), borrowed from Latin culter (“knife, razor”).

71 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: përdhec — cutting edge of a plow
• Albanian: pllaz — cutting edge of a plow
• Arabic: مِيكَعَة (mīkaʕa) — cutting edge of a plow
• Armenian: խոփ (xopʻ) — cutting edge of a plow
• Aromanian: vomirã — cutting edge of a plow
• Bulgarian: лемеж (lemež) — cutting edge of a plow
• Bulgarian: палешник (palešnik) — cutting edge of a plow
• Catalan: rella — cutting edge of a plow
• Chinese Mandarin: 耜 (sì) — cutting edge of a plow
• Czech: radlice — cutting edge of a plow
• Old Czech: črtadlo — cutting edge of a plow
• Danish: plovskær — cutting edge of a plow
• Dutch: ploegschaar — cutting edge of a plow
• Dutch: ploegijzer — cutting edge of a plow
• Estonian: adratera — cutting edge of a plow
• Finnish: vannas — cutting edge of a plow
• Finnish: auranvannas — cutting edge of a plow
• French: soc — cutting edge of a plow
• Gagauz: puluun demiri — cutting edge of a plow
• Galician: rella — cutting edge of a plow
• Galician: palmela — cutting edge of a plow
• Galician: ferro — cutting edge of a plow
• German: Schar — cutting edge of a plow
• German: Pflugeisen — cutting edge of a plow
• German: Pflugschar — cutting edge of a plow
• Greek: αλετροπόδα (aletropóda) — cutting edge of a plow
• Hungarian: ekevas — cutting edge of a plow
• Icelandic: plógjárn — cutting edge of a plow
• Irish: iarnach — cutting edge of a plow
• Italian: vomere — cutting edge of a plow
• Japanese: 刃先 (hasaki) — cutting edge of a plow
• Komi-Zyrian: амысь (amyś) — cutting edge of a plow
• Korean: 가래 (garae) — cutting edge of a plow
• Korean: 보습 (boseup) — cutting edge of a plow
• Latin: vomer — cutting edge of a plow
• Latvian: lemesis — cutting edge of a plow
• Lithuanian: žãgrė — cutting edge of a plow
• Low German: Ploogschoor — cutting edge of a plow
• Macedonian: ра́лник (rálnik) — cutting edge of a plow
• Macedonian: ле́меш (lémeš) — cutting edge of a plow
• Macedonian: па́личник (páličnik) — cutting edge of a plow
• Māori: mata parau — cutting edge of a plow
• Norwegian Bokmål: plogskjær — cutting edge of a plow
• Norwegian Nynorsk: plogskjer — cutting edge of a plow
• Old English: scear — cutting edge of a plow
• Plautdietsch: Pluachschoa — cutting edge of a plow
• Polish: lemiesz — cutting edge of a plow
• Portuguese: relha — cutting edge of a plow
• Romanian: brăzdar — cutting edge of a plow
• Russian: ле́мех (lémex) — cutting edge of a plow
• Russian: со́шник (sóšnik) — cutting edge of a plow
• Serbo-Croatian: lemeš — cutting edge of a plow
• Serbo-Croatian: raonik — cutting edge of a plow
• Slovak: radlica — cutting edge of a plow
• Slovene: lemež — cutting edge of a plow
• Spanish: reja — cutting edge of a plow
• Sundanese: lanjam — cutting edge of a plow
• Swedish: skär — cutting edge of a plow
• Swedish: bill — cutting edge of a plow
• Swedish: plogbill — cutting edge of a plow
• Tagalog: palinta — cutting edge of a plow
• Tagalog: lipya — cutting edge of a plow
• Tamil: கலப்பை (kalappai) — cutting edge of a plow
• Turkish: saban demiri — cutting edge of a plow
• Ottoman Turkish: صبان دمیری (saban demiri) — cutting edge of a plow
• Tuvan: андазын бизи (andazın bizi) — cutting edge of a plow
• Udmurt: амезь (ameź) — cutting edge of a plow
• Udmurt: сабан (saban) — cutting edge of a plow
• Walloon: schî — cutting edge of a plow
• Welsh: swch — cutting edge of a plow
• Yiddish: אַקער־אײַזן (aker-ayzn) — cutting edge of a plow