needle

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from pre-Germanic , from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Further related with Welsh, Latin , Sanskrit. Related to.

Noun

 * 1) A long, thin, sharp implement usually for piercing as in sewing, embroidery, acupuncture, tattooing, body piercing, medical injections, sutures, etc; or a blunt but otherwise similar implement used for forming loops or knots in crafts such as darning, knitting, tatting, etc.
 * 2) Any slender, pointed object resembling a needle, such as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc.
 * 3) A fine measurement indicator on a dial or graph.
 * 4)  A sensor for playing phonograph records, a phonograph stylus.
 * 5) A needle-like leaf found on some conifers.
 * 6) A strong beam resting on props, used as a temporary support during building repairs.
 * 7)  The death penalty carried out by lethal injection.
 * 8)  A text string that is searched for within another string. (see: needle in a haystack)
 * 9)  Any of various species of damselfly of the genus, endemic to Australia.
 * 1)  A sensor for playing phonograph records, a phonograph stylus.
 * 2) A needle-like leaf found on some conifers.
 * 3) A strong beam resting on props, used as a temporary support during building repairs.
 * 4)  The death penalty carried out by lethal injection.
 * 5)  A text string that is searched for within another string. (see: needle in a haystack)
 * 6)  Any of various species of damselfly of the genus, endemic to Australia.
 * 1)  A text string that is searched for within another string. (see: needle in a haystack)
 * 2)  Any of various species of damselfly of the genus, endemic to Australia.
 * 1)  Any of various species of damselfly of the genus, endemic to Australia.

Translations

 * Albanian: ,
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: ibrə
 * Belarusian: стрэ́лка
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: nål
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:, nadlo
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish: snáthaid
 * Italian:
 * Latvian:
 * Macedonian: сказалка, стрелка, показалка
 * Occitan:
 * Old High German: nādala
 * Ottoman Turkish: ابره
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Saterland Frisian: Näddele
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ѝгла, ка̀за̄љка
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: ručička
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: wubijak
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: стрі́лка
 * West Frisian: nuddel


 * Albanian:, gjilpërë e gramafonit
 * Armenian:
 * Bashkir: энә
 * Bulgarian: игли́чка
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: nål
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: nadlo
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Latvian:
 * Macedonian: игла
 * Occitan:
 * Old High German: nādala
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Saterland Frisian: Näddele
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ѝгла
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: го́лка
 * West Frisian: nuddel


 * Alabama: choyyihissi
 * Albanian:
 * Armenian:
 * Bashkir: энә
 * Belarusian: іго́лка
 * Bulgarian: игли́чка
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: nål
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:, , ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: skujas
 * Lithuanian: spyglys
 * Macedonian: игла
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠰᠢᠯᠮᠦᠦᠰᠦ
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: barnål
 * Nynorsk: barnål
 * Occitan:
 * Old High German: nādala
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Saterland Frisian: Näddele
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ѝглица
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: ihlica
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: jeglicka, jeglina
 * Spanish: acícula,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: го́лка, хво́я
 * Welsh: nodwydd
 * West Frisian: nuddel


 * Alabama:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Breton:
 * Esperanto:
 * Georgian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Maltese:
 * Neapolitan: ,
 * Telugu: (1),  (2)

Verb

 * 1) To pierce with a needle, especially for sewing or acupuncture.
 * 2)  To tease in order to provoke; to poke fun at.
 * 3)  To form, or be formed, in the shape of a needle.
 * 1)  To tease in order to provoke; to poke fun at.
 * 2)  To form, or be formed, in the shape of a needle.
 * 1)  To form, or be formed, in the shape of a needle.
 * 1)  To form, or be formed, in the shape of a needle.
 * 1)  To form, or be formed, in the shape of a needle.
 * 1)  To form, or be formed, in the shape of a needle.
 * 1)  To form, or be formed, in the shape of a needle.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * Italian:
 * Malayalam:
 * Ottoman Turkish: ایكنه‌لمك
 * Persian: سوزن زدن
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Slovak: prepichnúť, vpichnúť, prepichovať, vpichovať


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:, ,
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Maori: hakirara, makitohene
 * Polish:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Slovak: podpichnúť, podpichovať
 * Swahili: