anvil

Etymology
From, , , from late , , , from earlier , from (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬), compound of  +  (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 dialectal ), from  (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), enlargement of. More at.

Noun

 * 1) A heavy iron block used in the blacksmithing trade as a surface upon which metal can be struck and shaped.
 * 2) * 1794, William Blake, “The Tyger,” lines 15-16,
 * What the anvil? what dread grasp / Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
 * 1)  The incus bone in the middle ear.
 * 2) A stone or other hard surface used by a bird for breaking the shells of snails.
 * 3) The non-moving surface of a micrometer against which the item to be measured is placed.
 * 4)  A horizontal-topped mass of cloud, shaped like a blacksmith's anvil, that forms before a thunderstorm.
 * 1)  The incus bone in the middle ear.
 * 2) A stone or other hard surface used by a bird for breaking the shells of snails.
 * 3) The non-moving surface of a micrometer against which the item to be measured is placed.
 * 4)  A horizontal-topped mass of cloud, shaped like a blacksmith's anvil, that forms before a thunderstorm.

Translations

 * Abkhaz: аԥсангьари́
 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: سَنْدان, سِنْدَان
 * Armenian: ,
 * Asturian: xunque
 * Azerbaijani: zindan, dəmirçi zindanı
 * Bashkir: һандал, түш
 * Basque: ingude
 * Belarusian: кава́дла
 * Bengali:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian: накова́лня
 * Buryat: дүшэ
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: yungki
 * Chechen: нуьйжа
 * Cherokee: ᎠᏐᏗᏔᎷᎩᏍᎩᎤᎵᎩ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 鐵砧
 * Mandarin:
 * Chuvash: сунтал
 * Cornish: anwan
 * Crimean Tatar: gürsü
 * Czech:
 * Dalmatian: ancusene
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: amboso
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: stiði, steðji, amboltur
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: incuin, lincuin
 * Galician:, , incle, ingre, zafra
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἄκμων, μύδρος
 * Gujarati:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: steðji, ambolti
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Ingrian: alaisin, alain
 * Irish: inneoin
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 金床
 * Javanese: landesan, paron
 * Kalmyk: дәш
 * Kazakh: төс
 * Korean: 모루
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latin: incūs
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: priekalas
 * Macedonian: накова́лна
 * Malay:, , paron
 * Maori: paekuru
 * Marathi: ऐरण
 * Middle English: anvelt, stith, stithy
 * Mongolian:
 * Nogai: сандал
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Occitan:
 * Old East Slavic: ковальнꙗ
 * Old Norse: steði
 * Ottoman Turkish: اورس, سندان
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: Aumbolt
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਅਹਰਣ
 * Romanian: ,
 * Romansch: mazza, mass, massa, inchüna, anchüna
 * Russian:
 * Sardinian: incódina, incódine, incúdina, incúdine, incútine, alcútina, ancódina
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: наковањ
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian:
 * Sindhi:
 * Slovak: nákova
 * Slovene: nakovalo
 * Sorbian:
 * Upper Sorbian: ambos, nakowa
 * Spanish: ,
 * Sudovian: preikalis
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: palihan
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu: దాగిలి
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: sandal
 * Tuvan: дөжү
 * Ukrainian:
 * Uzbek:
 * Venetian:, encuzen, incuzene, incuxene, ancuzen
 * Vietnamese:
 * Walloon: ,
 * Welsh: einion
 * Yakut: кыстык
 * Yiddish: קאָוואַדלע


 * Afrikaans:, incus, inkus
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: zindan sümükcüyü
 * Basque: ingude
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian: наковалня
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 砧骨
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, , , aanbeeldsbeentje
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: გრდემლის ძვალი
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Gujarati:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: steðji
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kachchi: એણ
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Latin: incūs
 * Macedonian: накова́лна
 * Malay:
 * Maori: kurutangi
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Slovak: nákovka
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: กระดูกทั่ง
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: кова́делко
 * Vietnamese: xương đe

Verb

 * 1)  To fashion on, or as if on, an anvil.