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• /ˈθʌm.neɪl/
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• CMU ARPABET: TH AH1 M N EY2 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From thumb + nail. Compare West Frisian tommeneil (“thumbnail”), Dutch duimnagel (“thumbnail”), German Daumennagel (“thumbnail”). The phrase thumbnail sketch was first attested 1852. Verb sense attested 1930s.

99 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: нокът на палеца (nokǎt na paleca) — fingernail on the thumb
• Chinese Mandarin: 拇指指甲 (mǔzhǐzhǐjiǎ) — fingernail on the thumb
• Czech: nehet na palci — fingernail on the thumb
• Danish: tommelfingernegl — fingernail on the thumb
• Dutch: duimnagel — fingernail on the thumb
• Finnish: peukalonkynsi — fingernail on the thumb
• French: ongle du pouce — fingernail on the thumb
• German: Daumennagel — fingernail on the thumb
• Irish: ionga ordóige — fingernail on the thumb
• Japanese: 親指の爪 (oyayubi no tsume) — fingernail on the thumb
• Korean: 엄지손톱 (eomjisontop) — fingernail on the thumb
• Macedonian: палчен нокт (palčen nokt) — fingernail on the thumb
• Polish: paznokieć kciuka — fingernail on the thumb
• Portuguese: unha do polegar — fingernail on the thumb
• Russian: но́готь большо́го па́льца (nógotʹ bolʹšóvo pálʹca) — fingernail on the thumb
• Spanish: uña del pulgar — fingernail on the thumb
• Spanish: uña de pólice — fingernail on the thumb
• Swedish: tumnagel — fingernail on the thumb
• Vietnamese: móng ngón tay cái — fingernail on the thumb
• Volapük: dömanuel — fingernail on the thumb
• Chinese Mandarin: 粗略草圖 /粗略草图 — rough sketch
• Danish: skitse — rough sketch
• Estonian: visand — rough sketch
• Finnish: raakaluonnos — rough sketch
• French: croquis — rough sketch
• Polish: szkic — rough sketch
• Portuguese: esboço — rough sketch
• Russian: набро́сок (nabrósok) — rough sketch
• Russian: эски́з (eskíz) — rough sketch
• Welsh: byrgofiant — rough sketch
• Belarusian: мініяцю́ра (minijacjúra) — chiefly computing: small picture
• Belarusian: карці́нка (karcínka) — chiefly computing: small picture
• Chinese Mandarin: 縮略圖 /缩略图 (suōlüètú) — chiefly computing: small picture
• Czech: miniatura — chiefly computing: small picture
• Czech: náhled — chiefly computing: small picture
• Danish: frimærke — chiefly computing: small picture
• Danish: miniaturebillede — chiefly computing: small picture
• Erzya: пелькенже (peľkenže) — chiefly computing: small picture
• Esperanto: bildeto — chiefly computing: small picture
• Esperanto: miniaturo — chiefly computing: small picture
• Estonian: pisipilt — chiefly computing: small picture
• Finnish: pienoiskuva — chiefly computing: small picture
• Finnish: pikkukuva — chiefly computing: small picture
• Finnish: esikatselukuva — chiefly computing: small picture
• Finnish: selailukuva — chiefly computing: small picture
• French: aperçu — chiefly computing: small picture
• French: vignette — chiefly computing: small picture
• French: miniature — chiefly computing: small picture
• Galician: miniatura — chiefly computing: small picture
• German: Vorschaubild — chiefly computing: small picture
• German: Thumbnail — chiefly computing: small picture
• German: Bildvorschau — chiefly computing: small picture
• German: Miniaturbild — chiefly computing: small picture
• Hungarian: indexkép — chiefly computing: small picture
• Hungarian: nézőkép — chiefly computing: small picture
• Hungarian: miniatűr — chiefly computing: small picture
• Hungarian: miniatűrkép — chiefly computing: small picture
• Hungarian: bélyegkép — chiefly computing: small picture
• Indonesian: miniatur — chiefly computing: small picture
• Indonesian: gambar kecil — chiefly computing: small picture
• Indonesian: gambar mini — chiefly computing: small picture
• Indonesian: keluku — chiefly computing: small picture
• Italian: anteprima — chiefly computing: small picture
• Italian: miniatura — chiefly computing: small picture
• Japanese: サムネイル (samuneiru) — chiefly computing: small picture
• Korean: 섬네일 (seomneil) — chiefly computing: small picture
• Latvian: sīktēls — chiefly computing: small picture
• Latvian: miniatūra — chiefly computing: small picture
• Macedonian: сликичка (slikička) — chiefly computing: small picture
• Marathi: थंबनेल (thambnel) — chiefly computing: small picture
• Norwegian: miniatyrbilde — chiefly computing: small picture
• Norwegian Nynorsk: miniatyrbilete — chiefly computing: small picture
• Polish: miniatura — chiefly computing: small picture
• Portuguese: miniatura — chiefly computing: small picture
• Portuguese: thumbnail — chiefly computing: small picture
• Romanian: miniatură — chiefly computing: small picture
• Russian: миниатю́ра (miniatjúra) — chiefly computing: small picture
• Russian: карти́нка (kartínka) — chiefly computing: small picture
• Russian: превью (prevʹju) — chiefly computing: small picture
• Serbo-Croatian: минијату́ра — chiefly computing: small picture
• Serbo-Croatian: minijatúra — chiefly computing: small picture
• Slovak: miniatúra — chiefly computing: small picture
• Slovak: náhľad — chiefly computing: small picture
• Spanish: miniatura — chiefly computing: small picture
• Tagalog: panhinlalaki — chiefly computing: small picture
• Thai: ภาพขนาดย่อ — chiefly computing: small picture
• Thai: รูปขนาดย่อ — chiefly computing: small picture
• Ukrainian: мініатю́ра (miniatjúra) — chiefly computing: small picture
• Ukrainian: карти́нка (kartýnka) — chiefly computing: small picture
• Vietnamese: hình nhỏ — chiefly computing: small picture
• Welsh: mân-lun — chiefly computing: small picture
• Chinese Mandarin: 簡要描述 /简要描述 — describe concisely
• Finnish: kuvata lyhyesti — describe concisely
• Polish: opisywać zwięźle — describe concisely
• Polish: opisać zwięźle — describe concisely
• Portuguese: bosquejar — describe concisely
• Portuguese: esboçar — describe concisely
• Portuguese: esquissar — describe concisely
• Spanish: pormenorizar — describe concisely