quill

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Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Cuill (“descendant of Coll”), a byname from coll (“hazel tree”).

From late Middle English quyl, which is first attested in the early 15th century with the meanings "fragment of reed" and "shaft of a feather", probably from Low German and Middle Low German quiele, possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gwelH- (“to pierce, stick”). Compare Middle High German kil (“large feather, quill”), which is derived from the Low German term.

134 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: therrë — lower shaft of a feather
• Catalan: canó — lower shaft of a feather
• Czech: brk — lower shaft of a feather
• Erzya: толга (tolga) — lower shaft of a feather
• Esperanto: plumo — lower shaft of a feather
• Esperanto: kalamo — lower shaft of a feather
• Finnish: kynä — lower shaft of a feather
• French: plume — lower shaft of a feather
• Galician: cálamo — lower shaft of a feather
• Georgian: ღეპეპი (ɣeṗeṗi) — lower shaft of a feather
• Georgian: ფრთის ღერო (prtis ɣero) — lower shaft of a feather
• German: Kiel — lower shaft of a feather
• White Hmong: koob — lower shaft of a feather
• Icelandic: fjaðurstafur — lower shaft of a feather
• Ido: plumo — lower shaft of a feather
• Italian: calamo — lower shaft of a feather
• Māori: tuaka — lower shaft of a feather
• Māori: tā — lower shaft of a feather
• Navajo: atʼákaz — lower shaft of a feather
• Plautdietsch: Poos — lower shaft of a feather
• Polish: dudka — lower shaft of a feather
• Polish: dutka — lower shaft of a feather
• Russian: ство́л пера́ (stvól perá) — lower shaft of a feather
• Serbo-Croatian: kalem — lower shaft of a feather
• Serbo-Croatian: batrljica — lower shaft of a feather
• Serbo-Croatian: калем — lower shaft of a feather
• Serbo-Croatian: батрљица — lower shaft of a feather
• Spanish: cálamo — lower shaft of a feather
• Thai: ปากกาขนนก — lower shaft of a feather
• ǃXóõ: gǃqhàẽ — lower shaft of a feather
• Albanian: therrë — pen made of feather
• Azerbaijani: pero — pen made of feather
• Belarusian: пяро́ (pjaró) — pen made of feather
• Bulgarian: перо́ (peró) — pen made of feather
• Catalan: càlam — pen made of feather
• Catalan: ploma — pen made of feather
• Chinese Mandarin: 鵝毛筆 /鹅毛笔 (émáobǐ) — pen made of feather
• Chinese Mandarin: 羽毛筆 /羽毛笔 (yǔmáobǐ) — pen made of feather
• Czech: pero — pen made of feather
• Danish: fjerpen — pen made of feather
• Dutch: ganzenveer — pen made of feather
• Dutch: ganzeveer — pen made of feather
• Esperanto: anserplumo — pen made of feather
• Faroese: fjøður — pen made of feather
• Faroese: fjøðurpennur — pen made of feather
• Faroese: fjaðurpennur — pen made of feather
• Finnish: sulkakynä — pen made of feather
• French: plume — pen made of feather
• Galician: pluma — pen made of feather
• Galician: péndola — pen made of feather
• Georgian: ბატის ფრთა (baṭis prta) — pen made of feather
• German: Schreibfeder — pen made of feather
• German: Federkiel — pen made of feather
• German: Feder — pen made of feather
• Greek: πέννα (pénna) — pen made of feather
• Hebrew: קולמוס — pen made of feather
• Hungarian: penna — pen made of feather
• Icelandic: fjaðurpenni — pen made of feather
• Ido: plumo — pen made of feather
• Ingrian: pero — pen made of feather
• Italian: calamo — pen made of feather
• Italian: penna d'oca — pen made of feather
• Japanese: 羽根ペン (hanepen) — pen made of feather
• Japanese: 羽ペン (hapen) — pen made of feather
• Kalmyk: өдн (ödn) — pen made of feather
• Korean: 깃털펜 (git'teolpen) — pen made of feather
• Korean: 깃펜 (gitpen) — pen made of feather
• Latin: calamus — pen made of feather
• Macedonian: перо (pero) — pen made of feather
• Norwegian Bokmål: fjærpenn — pen made of feather
• Polish: pióro — pen made of feather
• Polish: gęsie pióro — pen made of feather
• Portuguese: pena — pen made of feather
• Russian: перо́ (peró) — pen made of feather
• Russian: гуси́ное перо́ (gusínoje peró) — pen made of feather
• Serbo-Croatian: перо — pen made of feather
• Serbo-Croatian: pero — pen made of feather
• Slovak: pero — pen made of feather
• Slovak: brko — pen made of feather
• Slovene: pero — pen made of feather
• Spanish: pluma — pen made of feather
• Spanish: péndola — pen made of feather
• Swedish: gåspenna — pen made of feather
• Swedish: fjäderpenna — pen made of feather
• Swedish: vingpenna — pen made of feather
• Thai: ปากกา (bpàak-gaa) — pen made of feather
• Ukrainian: перо́ (peró) — pen made of feather
• Volapük: penamaleplüm — pen made of feather
• Esperanto: plumo — any pen
• Esperanto: inkoskribilo — any pen
• Finnish: kynä — any pen
• German: Stift — any pen
• Hungarian: plajbász — any pen
• Ido: plumo — any pen
• Italian: penna — any pen
• Spanish: pluma — any pen
• Swedish: bläckpenna — any pen
• Arabic: إِبْرَة (ʔibra) — needle-like structure that grows on the skin
• Arabic: شَوْكَة (šawka) — needle-like structure that grows on the skin
• Belarusian: калю́чка (kaljúčka) — needle-like structure that grows on the skin
• Bulgarian: бодил (bodil) — needle-like structure that grows on the skin
• Burmese: ဖြူဆူး (hpruhcu:) — needle-like structure that grows on the skin
• Catalan: pua — needle-like structure that grows on the skin
• Chinese Mandarin: 刺 (cì) — needle-like structure that grows on the skin
• Finnish: piikki — needle-like structure that grows on the skin
• French: piquant — needle-like structure that grows on the skin
• French: épine — needle-like structure that grows on the skin
• German: Stachel — needle-like structure that grows on the skin
• Greek: αγκάθι (agkáthi) — needle-like structure that grows on the skin
• Icelandic: broddur — needle-like structure that grows on the skin
• Italian: aculeo — needle-like structure that grows on the skin
• Japanese: 棘 (toge) — needle-like structure that grows on the skin
• Korean: 가시 (gasi) — needle-like structure that grows on the skin
• Macedonian: боцка (bocka) — needle-like structure that grows on the skin
• Punjabi: ਤੱਕਲ਼ਾ (takkaḷā) — needle-like structure that grows on the skin
• Russian: иго́лка (igólka) — needle-like structure that grows on the skin
• Russian: игла́ (iglá) — needle-like structure that grows on the skin
• Serbo-Croatian: bodlja — needle-like structure that grows on the skin
• Serbo-Croatian: bodljika — needle-like structure that grows on the skin
• Serbo-Croatian: бодља — needle-like structure that grows on the skin
• Serbo-Croatian: бодљика — needle-like structure that grows on the skin
• Slovak: pichliač — needle-like structure that grows on the skin
• Spanish: púa — needle-like structure that grows on the skin
• Swedish: pigg — needle-like structure that grows on the skin
• Turkish: diken — needle-like structure that grows on the skin
• Turkish: ok — needle-like structure that grows on the skin
• Ottoman Turkish: اوق (ok) — needle-like structure that grows on the skin
• Ukrainian: го́лка (hólka) — needle-like structure that grows on the skin
• Finnish: kanelitanko — thin piece of bark, curled into a roll
• Finnish: selkäkilpi — pen of a squid
• Finnish: putki — music: tube of a musical instrument
• Finnish: piikki — something having the form of a quill
• Bulgarian: пиша (piša) — to write
• Bulgarian: надиплям (nadipljam) — to form fabric into folds