spool

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From Middle English spole (possibly via Old Northern French spole, espole), from Middle Dutch spoele, from Old Dutch *spōla, *spuola, from Proto-Germanic *spōlǭ (“spool”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pel- (“to cleave, split”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Spoule (“spool”), Dutch spoel (“spool”), German Spule (“spool”), Swedish spole (“spool”), Icelandic spóla (“spool; reel”). The aviation usage is based on the visual similarity of one of the spools of a turbine engine to a spool used for thread (especially in cross-section). See also spill.

From blend of spa + pool.

119 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abkhaz: акәанҷ (akwʼančʼ) — spindle
• Afrikaans: spoel — spindle
• Albanian: shtjellë — spindle
• Arabic: بَكَرَة (bakara) — spindle
• Arabic: بكرة (bakara) — spindle
• Armenian: կոճ (koč) — spindle
• Azerbaijani: makara — spindle
• Belarusian: кату́шка (katúška) — spindle
• Belarusian: шпу́лька (špúlʹka) — spindle
• Breton: kanell — spindle
• Bulgarian: макара́ (makará) — spindle
• Bulgarian: шпу́ла (špúla) — spindle
• Burmese: တညင်းလုံး (ta.nyang:lum:) — spindle
• Burmese: ဘီးလုံး (bhi:lum:) — spindle
• Catalan: rodet — spindle
• Catalan: carret — spindle
• Catalan: bobina — spindle
• Chinese Mandarin: 捲筒 /卷筒 (juǎntǒng) — spindle
• Czech: naviják — spindle
• Czech: cívka — spindle
• Czech: špulka — spindle
• Danish: spole — spindle
• Dutch: bobijn — spindle
• Dutch: spoel — spindle
• Esperanto: bobeno — spindle
• Estonian: pool — spindle
• Finnish: hylsy — spindle
• Finnish: rulla — spindle
• Finnish: puola — spindle
• French: bobine — spindle
• Friulian: spuele — spindle
• Georgian: კოჭა (ḳoč̣a) — spindle
• German: Spule — spindle
• Greek: καρούλι (karoúli) — spindle
• Greek: πηνίο (pinío) — spindle
• Greek: κουβαρίστρα (kouvarístra) — spindle
• Ancient Greek: πήνη (pḗnē) — spindle
• Ancient Greek: πηνίον (pēníon) — spindle
• Haitian Creole: bobin — spindle
• Hawaiian: pōkaʻa — spindle
• Hebrew: סְלִיל (slil) — spindle
• Hindi: अटेरन (aṭeran) — spindle
• Hungarian: tekercs — spindle
• Icelandic: spóla — spindle
• Icelandic: kefli — spindle
• Indonesian: kumparan — spindle
• Ingrian: katuška — spindle
• Irish: roithleán — spindle
• Irish: spól — spindle
• Italian: bobina — spindle
• Italian: rocchetto — spindle
• Italian: spagnoletta — spindle
• Italian: spoletta — spindle
• Italian: fuso — spindle
• Italian: spola — spindle
• Italian: navicella — spindle
• Japanese: スプール (supūru) — spindle
• Kazakh: катушка (katuşka) — spindle
• Kazakh: шарғы (şarğy) — spindle
• Kazakh: орауыш (orauyş) — spindle
• Khmer: ត្រសាល់ (trɑɑsal) — spindle
• Korean: 스풀 (seupul) — spindle
• Korean: 실패 (silpae) — spindle
• Kyrgyz: катушка (katuşka) — spindle
• Kyrgyz: түрмөк (türmök) — spindle
• Kyrgyz: түргүч (türgüc) — spindle
• Lao: ກະສວຍ (ka suāi) — spindle
• Latin: alabrum — spindle
• Latvian: spole — spindle
• Ligurian: bobìnn-a — spindle
• Lithuanian: ritė — spindle
• Macedonian: ма́кара (mákara) — spindle
• Malay: kekili — spindle
• Māori: takatakai — spindle
• Māori: pōkaimiro — spindle
• Mongolian: дамар (damar) — spindle
• Norwegian Bokmål: spole — spindle
• Dari: قَرْقَرَه (qarqara) — spindle
• Iranian Persian: قِرْقِرِه (ġerġere) — spindle
• Plautdietsch: Spool — spindle
• Polish: szpula — spindle
• Polish: szpulka — spindle
• Portuguese: carretel — spindle
• Portuguese: bobina — spindle
• Romanian: mosor — spindle
• Romanian: bobină — spindle
• Russian: кату́шка (katúška) — spindle
• Russian: шпу́лька (špúlʹka) — spindle
• Russian: боби́на (bobína) — spindle
• Serbo-Croatian: шпу̏ла — spindle
• Serbo-Croatian: špȕla — spindle
• Slovak: cievka — spindle
• Slovene: vreteno — spindle
• Spanish: carrete — spindle
• Spanish: bobina — spindle
• Swedish: spole — spindle
• Tagalog: ulak — spindle
• Tagalog: mag-ikid — spindle
• Tagalog: kidkiran — spindle
• Tajik: ғалтак (ġaltak) — spindle
• Tatar: кәтүк (kätük) — spindle
• Thai: ม้วน (múuan) — spindle
• Thai: กระสวย (grà-sǔai) — spindle
• Turkish: makara — spindle
• Turkish: masura — spindle
• Ottoman Turkish: ماسوره (masura) — spindle
• Ottoman Turkish: استاج (istac) — spindle
• Ottoman Turkish: مقره (makara) — spindle
• Ottoman Turkish: بوبین (bobin) — spindle
• Ukrainian: коту́шка (kotúška) — spindle
• Ukrainian: шпу́лька (špúlʹka) — spindle
• Uzbek: gʻaltak — spindle
• Uzbek: naycha — spindle
• Vietnamese: suốt — spindle
• Welsh: sbŵl — spindle
• Yiddish: שפּול (shpul) — spindle
• Finnish: lähettää jonoon — to send files to some device or program that puts them in a queue for later processing of some kind
• French: bobiner — to send files to some device or program that puts them in a queue for later processing of some kind
• Icelandic: biðfæra — to send files to some device or program that puts them in a queue for later processing of some kind