noun
Meaning 1
Either of the large flat bones at the back of the shoulder.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Phrase guide
shoulder blade
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noun
Meaning 2
either of two flat triangular bones one on each side of the shoulder in human beings
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: scapula, shoulder bone
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: bone, os
History
Etymology
From Middle English schuldre blad, from Old English *sċuldorblæd, from Proto-West Germanic *skuldrublad.
Across languages
Translations
130 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Abaza: жвгӏвымса́къьа (žwʻwəmsáqjʼa) — bone
- Abkhaz: а-жәҩашәа́ҟьа (a-ẑwjwaŝwáqjʼa) — bone
- Afrikaans: skouerblad — bone
- Arabic: لَوْح اَلْكَتِف (lawḥ al-katif) — bone
- Arabic: عَظْم كَتِفِيّ (ʕaẓm katifiyy) — bone
- Arabic: لوح (looḥ) — bone
- Armenian: թիակ (tʻiak) — bone
- Old Armenian: բէճ (bēč) — bone
- Aromanian: spalã — bone
- Aromanian: spatã — bone
- Aromanian: plãtari — bone
- Avar: бугьналага (buhnalaga) — bone
- Azerbaijani: kürək sümüyü — bone
- West Coast Bajau: busei — bone
- Bats: ფხანერ (pxaner) — bone
- Bulgarian: лопатка (lopatka) — bone
- Catalan: omòplat — bone
- Catalan: escàpula — bone
- Cebuano: payod — bone
- Cebuano: bulogsan — bone
- Chechen: пханар (pxanar) — bone
- Chinese Mandarin: 肩胛骨 (jiānjiǎgǔ) — bone
- East Circassian: блэгъу (blɛğwu) — bone
- West Circassian: блэбгъу (blɛbğwu) — bone
- Czech: lopatka — bone
- Danish: skulderblad — bone
- Dutch: schouderblad — bone
- Esperanto: skapolo — bone
- Faroese: herðablað — bone
- Finnish: lapaluu — bone
- French: omoplate — bone
- Galician: espádoa — bone
- Galician: omoplata — bone
- Georgian: ბეჭი (beč̣i) — bone
- German: Schulterblatt — bone
- Greek: ωμοπλάτη (omopláti) — bone
- Ancient Greek: ὠμοπλάτη (ōmoplátē) — bone
- Hanunoo: alip-ip — bone
- Hebrew: שֶׁכֶם (shéchem) — bone
- Hidatsa: áarábahxu — bone
- Hiligaynon: abá — bone
- Hungarian: lapocka — bone
- Hungarian: lapockacsont — bone
- Icelandic: herðablað — bone
- Ido: skapulo — bone
- Indonesian: tulang belikat — bone
- Ingush: пхандар (pxandar) — bone
- Interlingua: omoplate — bone
- Interlingua: scapula — bone
- Iranun: pakau — bone
- Irish: slinneán — bone
- Italian: scapola — bone
- Japanese: 肩胛骨 (kenkōkotsu) — bone
- Japanese: 肩甲骨 (kenkōkotsu) — bone
- Kalmyk: дал (dal) — bone
- Korean: 어깨뼈 (eokkaeppyeo) — bone
- Korean: 견갑골 (gyeon'gapgol) — bone
- Northern Kurdish: defe — bone
- Northern Kurdish: hestiyê bêrokê — bone
- Latin: scapula — bone
- Latvian: lāpstiņa — bone
- Lithuanian: mentikaulis — bone
- Lower Tanana: -gochena' — bone
- Macedonian: лопатка (lopatka) — bone
- Malay: tulang belikat — bone
- Malay: tulang kipas — bone
- Malay: tulang daun — bone
- Malay: tulang dayung — bone
- Malay: tulang tamparan nyamuk — bone
- Malay: skapula — bone
- Malayalam: അംസഫലകം (aṁsaphalakaṁ) — bone
- Manchu: ᡥᠠᠯᠪᠠ (halba) — bone
- Māori: pākoukou — bone
- Māori: koko o te pokohiwi — bone
- Māori: pākau — bone
- Maung: kalannyun — bone
- Mingrelian: აფხა (apxa) — bone
- Mingrelian: ბეჭი (beč̣i) — bone
- Mongolian: дал (dal) — bone
- Mongolian: далын яс (dalyn jas) — bone
- Khiamniungan Naga: tshīk — bone
- Navajo: agąąstsiin — bone
- Norman: palette dé l'êpaule — bone
- Norwegian: skapula — bone
- Norwegian Bokmål: skulderblad — bone
- Norwegian Nynorsk: skulderblad — bone
- Occitan: platèla — bone
- Occitan: omoplata — bone
- Occitan: paleta — bone
- Occitan: escapula — bone
- Ossetian: уӕн (wæn) — bone
- Ossetian: уӕныстӕг (wænystæg) — bone
- Persian: شانه (šāne) — bone
- Pitjantjatjara: aḻipiṟi — bone
- Plautdietsch: Schullablaut — bone
- Polabian: lüpotă — bone
- Polish: łopatka — bone
- Portuguese: omoplata — bone
- Portuguese: espádua — bone
- Portuguese: escápula — bone
- Romanian: omoplat — bone
- Romanian: scapulă — bone
- Romanian: spată — bone
- Russian: лопа́тка (lopátka) — bone
- Scots: spaul-bane — bone
- Scottish Gaelic: cnàimh-slinnein — bone
- Scottish Gaelic: slinnean — bone
- Serbo-Croatian: ло̀патица — bone
- Serbo-Croatian: lòpatica — bone
- Slovak: lopatka — bone
- Slovene: lopatica — bone
- Spanish: omóplato — bone
- Spanish: escápula — bone
- Svan: ბარჯ (barǯ) — bone
- Svan: ფხოტლა̈ნ (pxoṭlän) — bone
- Swedish: skulderblad — bone
- Tagalog: payumpong — bone
- Tagalog: paypay — bone
- Tamil: தோள்பட்டை (tōḷpaṭṭai) — bone
- Tarifit: taɣruṭṭ — bone
- Tày: cắp pai — bone
- Telugu: అంసఫలకము (aṁsaphalakamu) — bone
- Thai: กระดูกสะบัก (grà-dùuk-sà-bàk) — bone
- Turkish: kürek kemiği — bone
- Turkish: kebze — bone
- Ottoman Turkish: كبزه (kebze) — bone
- Ottoman Turkish: كورك كمیكی (kürek kemiği) — bone
- Vietnamese: xương bả vai — bone
- Volapük: skapular — bone
- Welsh: palfais — bone