forefinger

Etymology
Mid-15th century, from ; equivalent to.

Noun

 * 1)  The index finger: the first finger next to the thumb.

Synonyms

 * See Thesaurus:index finger

Translations

 * Albanian: gisht tregues
 * Arabic: سَبَّابَة
 * Egyptian Arabic: سبابة
 * Aramaic: ܡܛܘܚܬܐ
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: hatz erakusle
 * Belarusian: паказа́льны па́лец
 * Bengali:
 * Bikol Central:
 * Breton:
 * Brunei Malay: jari talunjuk
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: tudlo
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 食指
 * Hakka: 蛇頭指, 指人指, 拈食指
 * Hokkien:, , 食指, 報路
 * Mandarin:, , , ,
 * Coptic: ⲧⲏⲃ ⲛⲡⲛⲓ
 * Cornish: bys rag
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dolgan: ыйар чөмүйэ, иистэнэр чөмүйэ
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: montra fingro,
 * Estonian: nimetissõrm
 * Faroese: fremstifingur
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: ,
 * Georgian: სალოკი თითი, საჩვენებელი თითი
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew: אצבע מורה
 * Hindi:, तर्जनी अँगुली,
 * Hungarian:
 * Hunsrik: Zeichefinger
 * Icelandic: vísifingur, sleikifingur, bendifingur, vísiputti
 * Ilocano: tammudo
 * Indonesian:, tarjani
 * Ingrian: ensimäin sormi, reunimain sormi
 * Interlingua: digito indice, indice
 * Italian:, dito indice
 * Japanese: ,
 * Javanese: driji panuduh, driji panuding
 * Kannada:
 * Kapampangan: panuldu
 * Korean:, 검지
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Latin: index, digitus salūtāris
 * Latvian: rādītājpirksts
 * Lotud: gontuduk
 * Lule Sami: tjutjuk
 * Macedonian: показа́лец
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: saba’ l-werrej
 * Manchu: ᡩ᠋ᡝ᠋ᡵᡤᡝ ᠰᡳᠮᡥᡠᠨ, ᠮᠣᠴᠣ ᠰᡳᠮᡥᡠᠨ, ᠵᠣᡵᡳᡵᡝ ᠰᡳᠮᡥᡠᠨ
 * Maori: kōroa, takoroa, takonui
 * Mokilese: jaidsomw
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: долоовор хуруу
 * Mongolian: ᠳᠣᠯᠤᠭᠤᠪᠤᠷ ᠬᠤᠷᠤᠭᠤ
 * Navajo: álaʼ tsostsʼidí
 * Ngazidja Comorian: sha shahada
 * Nias:
 * Norman: preunmié dé, arideigt
 * Northern Sami: čuvdi
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: pekefinger
 * Nynorsk: peikefinger
 * Old English: sċytefinger
 * Ottoman Turkish: سبابه, شهادت پرمغی
 * Pangasinan: tamuro
 * Plautdietsch: Wiesfinja
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, , índice , dedo índex  , índex
 * Romanian: deget arătător,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: corrag, sgealbag, sgealb, colgag, meurag, meur-meomhair, sgolgag
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ка̀жипрст
 * Roman:
 * Sindhi: ڏسڻي
 * Skolt Sami: čuõjjiǩ
 * Slovak: ukazovák
 * Slovene:
 * Southern Kalinga: pattuchu
 * Spanish:, dedo índice
 * Sundanese:
 * Swahili: kidole cha shahada
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: hintuturo
 * Telugu: చూపుడువేలు,
 * Tetum: liman fuan hatudu
 * Thai:
 * Tigrinya: ኣመልካቲቶ
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: süýem barmak
 * Ukrainian: вказі́вний па́лець
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:
 * West Coast Bajau: temboro'
 * West Frisian: foarste finger, wiisfinger
 * Yakut: сөмүйэ
 * Yup'ik: keniun, tekeq, tengayuq
 * Zhuang: lwgfwngzyinx, fwngzyinx