pencil

Etymology
From and  (see the variant, which gave rise to Modern French ), from , diminutive of , itself a diminutive of. Not related to pen.

Noun

 * 1)  A paintbrush.
 * 2) A writing utensil with a graphite (commonly referred to as lead) shaft, usually blended with clay, clad in wood, and sharpened to a taper.
 * 3)  An aggregate or collection of rays of light, especially when diverging from, or converging to, a point.
 * 4)  A family of geometric objects with a common property, such as the set of lines that pass through a given point in a projective plane.
 * 5)  A small medicated bougie.
 * 1)  An aggregate or collection of rays of light, especially when diverging from, or converging to, a point.
 * 2)  A family of geometric objects with a common property, such as the set of lines that pass through a given point in a projective plane.
 * 3)  A small medicated bougie.
 * 1)  A small medicated bougie.
 * 1)  A small medicated bougie.

Translations

 * Adyghe: къэлэм
 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian: ,
 * Amharic: እርሳስ
 * Arabic: قَلَم رَصَاص,
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: কাঠ-পেঞ্চিল, পেঞ্চিল
 * Asturian: ,
 * Avar: къалам
 * Aymara: lapisa
 * Azerbaijani: ,
 * Bashkir: ҡәләм
 * Basque: arkatz, lapitz
 * Belarusian: ало́вак, каранда́ш
 * Bengali:, অঙ্কনী
 * Bole: pensur
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese:
 * Carpathian Rusyn: церуза, клайбас
 * Catalan:
 * Central Dusun: pinsil
 * Central Melanau: pisil
 * Central Sierra Miwok: sykýˀ-ja-
 * Chechen: къолам
 * Cherokee: ᏗᎪᏪᎶᏗ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:
 * Dungan: гәран, гэран, галан
 * Eastern Min: 鉛筆
 * Gan: 鉛筆
 * Hakka: 鉛筆
 * Hokkien:
 * Jin: 鉛筆
 * Mandarin:
 * Northern Min: 鉛筆, 洋筆
 * Taishanese: 鉛筆
 * Teochew: 鉛筆
 * Wu: 鉛筆
 * Xiang: 鉛筆
 * Chuvash: кӑранташ
 * Cornish: pluven-blomm
 * Crimean Tatar: qarandaş
 * Czech:, olůvko
 * Danish:
 * Dhivehi:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ფანქარი
 * German: non-colored, colored
 * Greek:
 * Greenlandic: aqerluusaq
 * Guaraní:
 * Gujarati: સીસાપેન
 * Haitian Creole: kreyon
 * Hausa:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: अंकनी,
 * Hungarian:
 * Hunsrik: Bleistift, Lappis
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Interlingua: stilo, stilo de graphite
 * Inuktitut: ᐊᓪᓛᑦ
 * Irish: peann luaidhe
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese:
 * Javanese: potlot
 * Kabardian:
 * Kalmyk: харанда
 * Kannada: ಪೆನ್ಸಿಲ್
 * Karelian: kynä
 * Kashubian: òłówk
 * Kazakh:, қарындаш
 * Khmer: ខ្មៅដៃ
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: ,
 * Lao:, ສໍດຳ
 * Latin: praeductal, graphis,
 * Latvian:
 * Limburgish: blieèrsstek
 * Lithuanian:
 * Livonian: bleifēdõr
 * Lü: ᦔᦲᧉᦎᦱᧃᧈ
 * Luganda: ekalamu
 * Luxembourgish:, Kräijong
 * Macedonian: молив
 * Malagasy:
 * Malay:
 * Jawi: ڤينسيل
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: lapes
 * Manx: penn leoaie, pensyl
 * Maori: pene rākau
 * Marathi: पेन्सिल
 * Marshallese: pinjeļ
 * Mirandese: lhápeç
 * Mokilese: pinjel
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠬᠠᠷᠠᠨᠳᠠ
 * Navajo: bee akʼeʼelchíhí
 * Nepali: सिसाकलम
 * Norman: crèyon
 * Northern Sami: liánta
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: blyant
 * Occitan:
 * Odia:
 * Oromo: qubeessaa
 * Ossetian: кърандас
 * Ottoman Turkish: قلم, خامه
 * Pashto: پنسل
 * Persian:
 * Dari: پِنْسِل
 * Iranian Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਪੈਨਸਿਲ
 * Romani:
 * Kalo Finnish Romani: blyijako ranniboskero
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Samoan: penitala
 * Scots: pincil
 * Scottish Gaelic: peansail
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: о̀ло̄вка, пи́са̄љка
 * Roman: ,
 * Sicilian: lapis
 * Silesian: blajsztyft
 * Sinhalese:
 * Slovak: ceruza, ceruzka
 * Slovene:
 * Somali: qalin qori
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: wołojnik
 * Upper Sorbian: wołojnik
 * Spanish:
 * Sundanese: potlot
 * Swahili: penseli
 * Swedish: ,
 * Sylheti: ꠇꠣꠉ꠆ꠎꠤ
 * Tagalog:, pensil
 * Tajik: ,
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu:
 * Tetum: lapis
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: ཞ་སྨྱུག
 * Tigrinya: ርሳስ
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: galam
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: پینْسِل, پِنْسِل
 * Uyghur:
 * Uzbek:, karandash
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Vilamovian: błajśtift
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:
 * Xhosa: ípénsile
 * Yakut: харандаас
 * Yiddish: בלײַער, בלײַשטיפֿט
 * Yoruba: pẹ́ńsù
 * Yup'ik: kalantaassaaq
 * Zazaki: qelem
 * Zhuang: yienzbit, yenzbiz


 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: krihvel
 * German:, Tafelstift
 * Greek:
 * Romanian:
 * Volapük:

Verb

 * 1)  To write (something) using a pencil.
 * 2)  To mark with, or as if with, a pencil.
 * 1)  To mark with, or as if with, a pencil.
 * 1)  To mark with, or as if with, a pencil.

Translations

 * Finnish: kirjoittaa lyijykynällä


 * Finnish: merkitä lyijykynällä

Adjective

 * 1) to be isolated, separated