handy

Etymology 1
From, (attested in personal names), alteration of earlier , from  (attested in ), from , , , from , from , equivalent to. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Akin to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) Easy to use, useful.
 * 2) Nearby, within reach.
 * 3) Dexterous, skilful.
 * 4)  Physically violent; tending to use one's fists.
 * 5) Of a freight ship: having a small cargo capacity (less than 40,000 DWT); belonging to the handysize class.
 * 1) Dexterous, skilful.
 * 2)  Physically violent; tending to use one's fists.
 * 3) Of a freight ship: having a small cargo capacity (less than 40,000 DWT); belonging to the handysize class.
 * 1)  Physically violent; tending to use one's fists.
 * 2) Of a freight ship: having a small cargo capacity (less than 40,000 DWT); belonging to the handysize class.
 * 1) Of a freight ship: having a small cargo capacity (less than 40,000 DWT); belonging to the handysize class.
 * 1) Of a freight ship: having a small cargo capacity (less than 40,000 DWT); belonging to the handysize class.
 * 1) Of a freight ship: having a small cargo capacity (less than 40,000 DWT); belonging to the handysize class.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:, ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: utile, commode
 * Irish: sásta, acrach, áisiúil
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Latin:
 * Persian:, به‌دردبخور
 * Plautdietsch: hendich
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:,  ,  ,  ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: goireasach
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: надо̀мак, пра̀ктичан
 * Roman: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Venetian:


 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: под ръка
 * Catalan: a mà
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 近便,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: binnen handbereik, bij de hand
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: käden ulottuvilla
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German: in Reichweite,, zur Hand
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew: זמין
 * Hungarian: kéznél
 * Irish: sásta
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer: នៅ​ជិត​ដៃ
 * Korean:
 * Mongolian:
 * Persian:, دم دست
 * Plautdietsch: hendich
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: la îndemână
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: при́ручан
 * Roman:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Irish: sásta
 * Japanese:
 * Persian: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: tapaidh, deas
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: спре̏тан
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:, ,


 * French:
 * Norman:

Noun

 * 1)  The hand.

Etymology 3
and followed by

Noun

 * 1)  A handgun.
 * 2)  A hand job.
 * 1)  A hand job.

Etymology 4
Disputed; see : according to some commentators, this meaning is originally from German (a condensed form of Handfunktelefon), whereas others claim there was an early, but now neglected, antetype of it in English (from etymology 1).

Adjective

 * 1) handy
 * 2) dexterous, skilful
 * 3) amenable of an animal