scissors

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈsɪzəz/
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• Canada, General-American: /ˈsɪzɚz/
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• Australian: /ˈsɪzəz/
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• New-Zealand: /ˈsəzəz/
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From Middle English sisours (attested since 1350–1400), from Old French cisoirs, from Late Latin cīsōria, plural of cīsōrium (“cutting tool”); from Latin word root -cīsus (compare excise) or caesus, past participle of caedō (“to cut”). Partially displaced native Old English sċēara (“scissors, shears”), whence shears. Doublet of chisel. The current spelling, from the 16th century, is due to association with Medieval Latin scissor (“tailor”), from Latin carrying the meaning “carver, cutter”, from scindō (“to split”).

268 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abkhaz: амаркаты́л (amarkʼatʼə́l) — tool used for cutting
• Afrikaans: skêr — tool used for cutting
• Dupaningan Agta: garasib — tool used for cutting
• Ahtna: łindeldotsʼi — tool used for cutting
• Albanian: gërshërë f] — tool used for cutting
• Aleut: nu-shu-shuk — tool used for cutting
• Southern Altai: кайчы (kayčï) — tool used for cutting
• Amharic: ሳረቶች (sarätoč) — tool used for cutting
• Arabic: مِقَصّ (miqaṣṣ) — tool used for cutting
• Arabic: مِقْرَاض (miqrāḍ) — tool used for cutting
• Arabic: مقص (maʔaṣṣ) — tool used for cutting
• Arabic: مقص (magaṣṣ) — tool used for cutting
• Arabic: مقص (mqaṣṣ) — tool used for cutting
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܩܵܪܘܿܛܵܐ (qaroṭa) — tool used for cutting
• Armenian: մկրատ (mkrat) — tool used for cutting
• Aromanian: foarficã — tool used for cutting
• Aromanian: foarticã — tool used for cutting
• Assamese: কেঁচি (kẽsi) — tool used for cutting
• Asturian: tixeres — tool used for cutting
• Aymara: khuchuña — tool used for cutting
• Azerbaijani: qayçı — tool used for cutting
• Bashkir: ҡайсы (qaysı) — tool used for cutting
• Basque: guraize — tool used for cutting
• Bats: მაკარტა (maḳarṭa) — tool used for cutting
• Belarusian: нажні́цы (nažnícy) — tool used for cutting
• Belarusian: нажні́чкі (nažníčki) — tool used for cutting
• Bemba: sisasi — tool used for cutting
• Bengali: কাঁচি (kãci) — tool used for cutting
• Biatah Bidayuh: gutin — tool used for cutting
• Bulgarian: но́жица (nóžica) — tool used for cutting
• Bulgarian: но́жици (nóžici) — tool used for cutting
• Burmese: ကတ်ကြေး (katkre:) — tool used for cutting
• Buryat: хайша (xajša) — tool used for cutting
• Catalan: tisores — tool used for cutting
• Cebuano: gunting — tool used for cutting
• Chechen: тукар (tukar) — tool used for cutting
• Cherokee: ᏗᎳᏍᏙᏯᏗ (dilasdoyadi) — tool used for cutting
• Chinese Cantonese: 鉸剪 /铰剪 (gaau3 zin2) — tool used for cutting
• Chinese: җянзы (jianzɨ) — tool used for cutting
• Eastern Min Chinese: 鉸刀 /铰刀 (gă-dŏ̤) — tool used for cutting
• Hakka Chinese: 剪刀 (chién-tô) — tool used for cutting
• Hakka Chinese: 鉸刀 /铰刀 (kau-tô) — tool used for cutting
• Chinese: 鉸刀 /铰刀 (zh-min-nan) — tool used for cutting
• Chinese Mandarin: 剪刀 (jiǎndāo) — tool used for cutting
• Chinese Mandarin: 剪子 (jiǎnzi) — tool used for cutting
• Wu Chinese: 剪刀 — tool used for cutting
• Chuvash: хачӑ (hač̬ă) — tool used for cutting
• Ngazidja Comorian: mkasi — tool used for cutting
• Crimean Tatar: maqas — tool used for cutting
• Czech: nůžky — tool used for cutting
• Danish: saks — tool used for cutting
• Dolgan: кыптый (kıptıy) — tool used for cutting
• Drung: cvte — tool used for cutting
• Central Dusun: gunting — tool used for cutting
• Dutch: schaar — tool used for cutting
• Elfdalian: saks — tool used for cutting
• Erzya: васоньпеельть (vasońpejelť) — tool used for cutting
• Esperanto: tondilo — tool used for cutting
• Estonian: käärid — tool used for cutting
• Farefare: pasʋa — tool used for cutting
• Faroese: saksur — tool used for cutting
• Finnish: sakset — tool used for cutting
• French: ciseaux — tool used for cutting
• West-Frisian: skjirre — tool used for cutting
• Friulian: fuarpis — tool used for cutting
• Fula: mekesje — tool used for cutting
• Gagauz: makaz — tool used for cutting
• Galician: tesoiras — tool used for cutting
• Galician: tesoira — tool used for cutting
• Galician: tallantas — tool used for cutting
• Georgian: მაკრატელი (maḳraṭeli) — tool used for cutting
• German: Schere — tool used for cutting
• Greek: ψαλίδι (psalídi) — tool used for cutting
• Ancient Greek: ψαλίς (psalís) — tool used for cutting
• Greenlandic: qiuutit — tool used for cutting
• Mbya Guarani: jetapa — tool used for cutting
• Gujarati: કાતર (kātar) — tool used for cutting
• Gujarati: કેંચી (keñcī) — tool used for cutting
• Haitian Creole: sizo — tool used for cutting
• Hausa: almakashi — tool used for cutting
• Hawaiian: ʻūpā — tool used for cutting
• Hebrew: מִסְפָּרַיִם — tool used for cutting
• Hebrew: מספריים (misparáim) — tool used for cutting
• Higaonon: gunting — tool used for cutting
• Hindi: कैंची (ka͠icī) — tool used for cutting
• Hindi: क़ैंची (qa͠icī) — tool used for cutting
• Hinukh: мокӏортӏи (mok’ort’i) — tool used for cutting
• Hungarian: olló — tool used for cutting
• Icelandic: skæri — tool used for cutting
• Ido: cizo — tool used for cutting
• Igbo: mma-mkpa — tool used for cutting
• Indonesian: gunting — tool used for cutting
• Ingush: тукар (tukar) — tool used for cutting
• Irish: siosúr — tool used for cutting
• Isan: กระไต (kra tị) — tool used for cutting
• Isan: เซีย (seīy) — tool used for cutting
• Italian: forbici — tool used for cutting
• Iu Mien: njiuv — tool used for cutting
• Japanese: 鋏 (hasami) — tool used for cutting
• Javanese: ꦒꦸꦤ꧀ꦠꦶꦁ (gunting) — tool used for cutting
• Kalmyk: хәәч (xääç) — tool used for cutting
• Kankanaey: kantib — tool used for cutting
• Kankanaey: kaltib — tool used for cutting
• Kannada: ಕತ್ತರಿ (kattari) — tool used for cutting
• Kashmiri: دُکٲرؠ (dukạ̄r') — tool used for cutting
• Kapampangan: gunting — tool used for cutting
• Karachay-Balkar: kıptı — tool used for cutting
• Karakalpak: qayshı — tool used for cutting
• Kazakh: қайшы (qaişy) — tool used for cutting
• Khmer: កន្ត្រៃ (kɑntray) — tool used for cutting
• Komi-Zyrian: шыран (šyran) — tool used for cutting
• Kongo: sizo — tool used for cutting
• Kongo: luziolo — tool used for cutting
• Korean: 가위 (gawi) — tool used for cutting
• Central Kurdish: قەیچی (qeyçî) — tool used for cutting
• Central Kurdish: مەقەس (meqes) — tool used for cutting
• Northern Kurdish: meqes — tool used for cutting
• Northern Kurdish: cawbir — tool used for cutting
• Kyrgyz: кайчы (kaycı) — tool used for cutting
• Laboya: gutti — tool used for cutting
• Lao: ມີດຕັດ (mīt tat) — tool used for cutting
• Lao: ມີດຕະໄກ (mīt ta kai) — tool used for cutting
• Latin: forfex — tool used for cutting
• Latin: axicia — tool used for cutting
• Latvian: šķēres — tool used for cutting
• Latvian: grieznes — tool used for cutting
• Lezgi: мукӏратӏ (muḳraṭ) — tool used for cutting
• Limburgish: sjier — tool used for cutting
• Lingala: makasi — tool used for cutting
• Lingala: sizo — tool used for cutting
• Lithuanian: žirklės — tool used for cutting
• Livonian: škērõd — tool used for cutting
• Lombard: forbes — tool used for cutting
• Lombard: fòrbes — tool used for cutting
• Luganda: makansi — tool used for cutting
• Luxembourgish: Schéier — tool used for cutting
• Macedonian: ножици (nožici) — tool used for cutting
• Malagasy: hety — tool used for cutting
• Malay: gunting — tool used for cutting
• Brunei Malay: gunting — tool used for cutting
• Malayalam: കത്രിക (katrika) — tool used for cutting
• Maltese: mqass — tool used for cutting
• Manchu: ᡥᠠᠰᠠᡥᠠ (hasaha) — tool used for cutting
• Māori: kutikuti — tool used for cutting
• Māori: katikati — tool used for cutting
• Eastern Mari: вашкӱзӧ (vašküzö) — tool used for cutting
• Middle English: sisours — tool used for cutting
• Minangkabau: guntiang — tool used for cutting
• Mingrelian: მარგატელი (margaṭeli) — tool used for cutting
• Mirandese: tejeiras — tool used for cutting
• Moksha: васоньпеельхть (vasońpejelxť) — tool used for cutting
• Mongolian: хайч (xajč) — tool used for cutting
• Mongolian: ᠬᠠᠶ᠋ᠢᠴᠢ (qayiči) — tool used for cutting
• Neapolitan: fròbbece — tool used for cutting
• Nepali: कैँची (kãichi) — tool used for cutting
• Nogai: канышы (kanışı) — tool used for cutting
• Northern Sotho: sekero — tool used for cutting
• Norwegian Bokmål: saks — tool used for cutting
• Norwegian Nynorsk: saks — tool used for cutting
• Nuosu: ꑐꄉ (nyie da) — tool used for cutting
• Occitan: cisèls — tool used for cutting
• Okinawan: 鋏 (hasan) — tool used for cutting
• Old English: sċēar — tool used for cutting
• Old English: sċēara — tool used for cutting
• Ossetian: хӕсгард (xæsgard) — tool used for cutting
• Pacoh: tarcâuq — tool used for cutting
• Pacoh: tacâuq — tool used for cutting
• Dari: قَیْچِی (qayčī) — tool used for cutting
• Iranian Persian: قِیْچی (ġeyči) — tool used for cutting
• Piedmontese: tisòire — tool used for cutting
• Plautdietsch: Schea — tool used for cutting
• Polish: nożyce — tool used for cutting
• Polish: nożyczki — tool used for cutting
• Portuguese: tesoura — tool used for cutting
• Pukapukan: pākoti — tool used for cutting
• Punjabi: ਕੈਂਚੀ (kaiñcī) — tool used for cutting
• Quechua: qhachuti — tool used for cutting
• Quechua: k'utuna — tool used for cutting
• Rohingya: kesi — tool used for cutting
• Romani: kat — tool used for cutting
• Romanian: foarfece — tool used for cutting
• Romanian: foarfecă — tool used for cutting
• Romansh: forsch — tool used for cutting
• Romansh: forbesch — tool used for cutting
• Russian: но́жницы (nóžnicy) — tool used for cutting
• Northern Sami: skárrit — tool used for cutting
• Northern Sami: skierat — tool used for cutting
• Skolt-Sami: ska ́rri — tool used for cutting
• Sardinian: fóltighe — tool used for cutting
• Sardinian: fórfiga — tool used for cutting
• Sardinian: fórfighe — tool used for cutting
• Scottish Gaelic: siosar — tool used for cutting
• Serbo-Croatian: ма̀казе — tool used for cutting
• Serbo-Croatian: шка̏ре — tool used for cutting
• Serbo-Croatian: но̏жице — tool used for cutting
• Serbo-Croatian: màkaze — tool used for cutting
• Serbo-Croatian: škȁre — tool used for cutting
• Serbo-Croatian: nȍžice — tool used for cutting
• Shan: ၵိမ်း (kím) — tool used for cutting
• Shona: chigero — tool used for cutting
• Sicilian: fòrficia — tool used for cutting
• Sinhalese: කතුර (katura) — tool used for cutting
• Slovak: nožnice — tool used for cutting
• Slovene: škarje — tool used for cutting
• Somali: maqas — tool used for cutting
• Lower Sorbian: nožyce — tool used for cutting
• Upper Sorbian: nožicy — tool used for cutting
• Spanish: tijeras — tool used for cutting
• Sranan Tongo: sesey — tool used for cutting
• Sranan Tongo: sisey — tool used for cutting
• Sundanese: ᮌᮥᮔ᮪ᮒᮤᮀ (gunting) — tool used for cutting
• Swahili: mkasi — tool used for cutting
• Swahili: mikasi — tool used for cutting
• Swedish: sax — tool used for cutting
• Sylheti: ꠇꠦꠘ꠆ꠌꠤ (xensi) — tool used for cutting
• Tagalog: gunting — tool used for cutting
• Tajik: қайчӣ (qayči) — tool used for cutting
• Tajik: миқроз (miqroz) — tool used for cutting
• Tamil: கத்திரி (kattiri) — tool used for cutting
• Tamil: கத்தரிக்கோல் (kattarikkōl) — tool used for cutting
• Tarifit: timešraḍ — tool used for cutting
• Tatar: кайчы (qayçı) — tool used for cutting
• Telugu: కత్తెర (kattera) — tool used for cutting
• Tetum: kateri — tool used for cutting
• Thai: กรรไกร (gan-grai) — tool used for cutting
• Tibetan: ཇེམ་ཙེ (jem tse) — tool used for cutting
• Tibetan: ཅེམ་ཙེ (cem tse) — tool used for cutting
• Tibetan: ཁེ་གྲི (khe gri) — tool used for cutting
• Tigrinya: መቐዝ (mäx̣äz) — tool used for cutting
• Tlingit: khaashaxáshaa — tool used for cutting
• Tofa: һэйчы — tool used for cutting
• Turkish: kıptı — tool used for cutting
• Turkish: sındı — tool used for cutting
• Turkish: makas — tool used for cutting
• Ottoman Turkish: مقص (makas) — tool used for cutting
• Ottoman Turkish: صیندی (sındı) — tool used for cutting
• Turkmen: gaýçy — tool used for cutting
• Tuvan: хачы (xaçı) — tool used for cutting
• Ukrainian: но́жиці (nóžyci) — tool used for cutting
• Unami: tàhkònshikàn — tool used for cutting
• Urdu: قَین٘چی (qa͠icī) — tool used for cutting
• Urdu: کَین٘چی (ka͠icī) — tool used for cutting
• Urdu: قَیچی (qaicī) — tool used for cutting
• Uyghur: قايچا (qaycha) — tool used for cutting
• Uzbek: qaychi — tool used for cutting
• Venetan: forfe — tool used for cutting
• Veps: raudad — tool used for cutting
• Vietnamese: kéo — tool used for cutting
• Võro: kääriq — tool used for cutting
• Waray-Waray: gunting — tool used for cutting
• Welsh: siswrn — tool used for cutting
• Wolof: siso — tool used for cutting
• Yakut: кыптыый (kïptïïy) — tool used for cutting
• Yakut: тимир кыптыыйа (timir kïptïïya) — tool used for cutting
• Yiddish: שער (sher) — tool used for cutting
• Zhuang: geuz — tool used for cutting
• Zhuang: gauqcienj — tool used for cutting
• Chinese Cantonese: 剪 (zin2) — hand with the index and middle fingers open in the game of rock paper scissors
• Chinese Mandarin: 剪子 (jiǎnzi) — hand with the index and middle fingers open in the game of rock paper scissors
• Chinese Mandarin: 剪刀 (jiǎndāo) — hand with the index and middle fingers open in the game of rock paper scissors
• Dutch: schaar — hand with the index and middle fingers open in the game of rock paper scissors
• Estonian: käärid — hand with the index and middle fingers open in the game of rock paper scissors
• French: ciseaux — hand with the index and middle fingers open in the game of rock paper scissors
• Japanese: チョキ (choki) — hand with the index and middle fingers open in the game of rock paper scissors
• Korean: 가위 (gawi) — hand with the index and middle fingers open in the game of rock paper scissors
• Polish: nożyce — hand with the index and middle fingers open in the game of rock paper scissors
• Portuguese: tesoura — hand with the index and middle fingers open in the game of rock paper scissors
• Turkish: makas — hand with the index and middle fingers open in the game of rock paper scissors