scalpel

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• /ˈskælpəl/
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Borrowed from Latin scalpellum, from scalprum (“knife”), from scalpere (“to cut”). Doublet of scalpellum.

62 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: مِشْرَط (mišraṭ) — small straight knife
• Armenian: հերձադանակ (herjadanak) — small straight knife
• Azerbaijani: neştər — small straight knife
• Basque: bisturi — small straight knife
• Belarusian: скальпель (skalʹpjelʹ) — small straight knife
• Bulgarian: скалпел (skalpel) — small straight knife
• Catalan: bisturí — small straight knife
• Chinese Mandarin: 解剖刀 (jiěpōudāo) — small straight knife
• Chinese Mandarin: 手術刀 /手术刀 (shǒushùdāo) — small straight knife
• Czech: skalpel — small straight knife
• Danish: operationskniv — small straight knife
• Danish: skalpel — small straight knife
• Dutch: scalpel — small straight knife
• Dutch: scalpeermes — small straight knife
• Esperanto: skalpelo — small straight knife
• Finnish: skalpelli — small straight knife
• Finnish: leikkausveitsi — small straight knife
• French: scalpel — small straight knife
• Georgian: სკალპელი (sḳalṗeli) — small straight knife
• German: Skalpell — small straight knife
• Greek: νυστέρι (nystéri) — small straight knife
• Greek: μαχαιρίδιο (machairídio) — small straight knife
• Greenlandic: pilaanermut savik — small straight knife
• Hebrew: אזמל (izmel) — small straight knife
• Hungarian: szike — small straight knife
• Icelandic: skurðarhnífur — small straight knife
• Ido: skalpelo — small straight knife
• Irish: sceanóg — small straight knife
• Italian: bisturi — small straight knife
• Italian: scalpello — small straight knife
• Japanese: メス (mesu) — small straight knife
• Japanese: 円刃刀 (enjintō) — small straight knife
• Kapampangan: bisturí — small straight knife
• Kazakh: скальпель (skalpel) — small straight knife
• Korean: 메스 (meseu) — small straight knife
• Latin: scalpellum — small straight knife
• Lithuanian: skalpelis — small straight knife
• Norwegian Bokmål: skalpell — small straight knife
• Norwegian Nynorsk: skalpell — small straight knife
• Old English: lǣċeseax — small straight knife
• Persian: اسکالپل (eskâlpel) — small straight knife
• Plautdietsch: Doktamassa — small straight knife
• Polish: skalpel — small straight knife
• Portuguese: bisturi — small straight knife
• Portuguese: escalpelo — small straight knife
• Romanian: bisturiu — small straight knife
• Russian: ска́льпель (skálʹpelʹ) — small straight knife
• Serbo-Croatian: skalpel — small straight knife
• Slovak: skalpel — small straight knife
• Spanish: escalpelo — small straight knife
• Spanish: bisturí — small straight knife
• Swedish: skalpell — small straight knife
• Tagalog: bisturi — small straight knife
• Tagalog: pangadlit — small straight knife
• Tajik: сӯзанак (süzanak) — small straight knife
• Telugu: స్కాల్పెల్ (skālpel) — small straight knife
• Thai: มีดผ่าตัด (mîit-pàa-dtàt) — small straight knife
• Turkish: neşter — small straight knife
• Ukrainian: скальпель (skalʹpelʹ) — small straight knife
• Vietnamese: dao mổ — small straight knife
• Welsh: fflaim — small straight knife
• Yiddish: סקאַלפּעל (skalpel) — small straight knife