awl

See also: AWL and -awl

English

Etymology

From Middle English aul, alle, al, from Old English æl, from Proto-Germanic *ēlō (compare Middle Low German āl, Dutch aal, German Ahle), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ólos (compare Khotanese [script needed] (aiysna), Sanskrit आरा (ā́rā)),

Alternatively, possibly from *ēl- (“awl, prong”).

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɔːl/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ɔl/
(cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /ɑl/
Rhymes: -ɔːl
Homophone: all

Noun

Stitching awls

awl (plural awls)

A pointed instrument for piercing small holes, as in leather or wood; used by shoemakers, saddlers, cabinetmakers, etc. The blade is differently shaped and pointed for different uses, as in the brad awl, saddler's awl, shoemaker's awl, etc.
(entomology) Any of various hesperiid butterflies.

Translations

pointed instrument

Albanian: fëndyell (sq) n
Arabic: مِخْرَز‎ m (miḵraz)
Armenian: բիզ (hy) (biz), հերյուն (hy) (heryun)
Bashkir: беҙ (beð)
Belarusian: шы́ла n (šýla)
Bulgarian: ши́ло (bg) n (šílo)
Catalan: alena (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 錐子 (zh), 锥子 (zh) (zhuīzi)
Czech: šídlo (cs) n
Danish: syl c
Daur: sheugw
Dutch: els (nl) m, priem (nl)
Esperanto: aleno
Evenki: силгивӯн (silgiwūn)
Faroese: sýl f, sýlur m
Finnish: purasin
French: alène (fr) f, alêne (fr) f
Galician: subela (gl) f
Georgian: სადგისი (sadgisi)
German: Ahle (de) f
Greek: σουβλί (el) n (souvlí)
Ancient: τέρετρον n (téretron)
Hebrew: מַרְצֵעַ‎ (he) m (martzéa')
Hungarian: ár (hu)
Icelandic: alur (is) m
Interlingue: alen
Italian: punteruolo (it) m, lesina (it) f
Japanese: 突きぎり (つきぎり, tsukigiri), 錐 (ja) (きり, kiri)
Korean: 송곳 (ko) (songgot)
Latgalian: eilyns m
Latin: subula f
Latvian: īlens m
Lithuanian: yla (lt) f

Macedonian: шило n (šilo)
Maltese: timplor m
Mangghuer: shubige
Mongghul: shuuga
Mongolian: шөвөг (šövög), шивүүр (mn) (šivüür)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: syl (no) m

Nynorsk: syl m
Novial: alene
Occitan: alzena (oc) f
Old English: æl m or f
Old High German: ala f
Old Norse: alr m
Polish: szydło (pl) n
Portuguese: furador m
Romanian: sulă (ro) f
Russian: ши́ло (ru) n (šílo)
Sanskrit: आरा (sa) f (ārā)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: шило n

Roman: šilo (sh) n
Slovak: šidlo n
Slovene: šilo n
Spanish: lezna (es) f, lesna (es) f, alesna (es) f, punzón (es) m
Sudovian: īla f
Swahili: maharazi
Swedish: syl (sv) c, pryl (sv) c
Tagalog: punson
Telugu: ఆరె (te) (āre)
Ukrainian: ши́ло n (šýlo)
Uzbek: bigiz (uz)
Vietnamese: giùi (vi)
Yup'ik: ukicissuun

Further reading

awl on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

Law, WAL, Wal., law, lwa

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