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Etymology
From, , , from , from , from from.

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Noun

 * 1) The short thick digit of the hand that for humans has the most mobility and can be made to oppose (moved to touch) all of the other fingers.
 * 2)  The part of a slider that may be moved linearly along the slider.
 * 3)  A thumbnail picture.
 * 1)  A thumbnail picture.

Translations

 * Abkhaz: анацәаду
 * Afrikaans:
 * Alabama: ilbossiki
 * Albanian: gisht i madh, gisht i madh i dorës,
 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic: إبهام
 * Aragonese: pulgar
 * Aramaic: ܟܪܬܐ
 * Armenian: բութ մատ
 * Aromanian: pilicar, pulicar
 * Asturian:, , ,
 * Avar: буртӏинкилищ
 * Azerbaijani: baş barmaq
 * Baatonum: atankparu
 * Bashkir: баш бармаҡ
 * Basque: erpuru, hatz lodi
 * Belarusian: вялі́кі па́лец
 * Bengali: ,
 * Bikol Central: tanggugurang, ,
 * Bolinao: tangan
 * Breton:, ; ,
 * Brunei Malay: ibu jari
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: kumagko
 * Chechen:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 手指公
 * Hakka: 手指公, 手指頭
 * Hokkien:, , 大拇翁, 大捗拇, 大捗翁, 指頭拇, 大富翁, 大拇頭, 指頭公, 大拇公
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Classical Nahuatl: huēyi mahpilli
 * Coptic: ⲧⲏⲃ ⲛⲧⲓⲛⲓ
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, tommeltot
 * Daur: xereg
 * Dhivehi: ބޮޑުވައި އިގިލި
 * Dolgan: эрбэк, улакан чөмүйэ
 * Dupaningan Agta: agradis
 * Dutch:
 * Erzya: пелька
 * Esperanto:, dikfingro
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: tummil, tummilfingur
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Old French: polz, pouz
 * Friulian: poleâr
 * Galician:, escachapiollos,
 * Georgian: ცერი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἀντίχειρ
 * Greenlandic: kulloq
 * Gujarati:
 * Haitian Creole: pous
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: अंगूठा
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Ido:
 * Ilocano: tangan
 * Indonesian:, , , ,
 * Ingrian: peukalo, täintappaja
 * Interlingua: pollice
 * Inuktitut: ᑯᓪᓗ
 * Irish:
 * Old Irish: ordu
 * Italian:, dito grosso
 * Japanese:
 * Javanese:
 * Kabuverdianu: dedon, dedóna
 * Kalasha: ǰeṣṭ ạ́ŋgu
 * Kalmyk: эркә
 * Kapampangan: tindaragul
 * Karelian: peigalo
 * Kazakh: бас бармақ
 * Khmer: មេដៃ
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: баш бармак
 * Latgalian: eikss
 * Latin: pollex (manūs)
 * Latvian: īkšķis
 * Lithuanian: nykštys
 * Low German:, Duum
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Macedonian: палец
 * Malay:, jempol, empu jari, biang jari, induk jari
 * Maltese: saba’ l-kbir
 * Manchu: ᡶᡝᡵᡥᡝ, ᡶᡝᡵᡥᡝ ᠰᡳᠮᡥᡠᠨ
 * Maori: kōnui
 * Marathi: अंगठा
 * Megleno-Romanian: pulicar
 * Middle English: thombe
 * Mokilese: jaidlap
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠡᠷᠡᠬᠡᠢ
 * Navajo: álátsoh
 * Ngazidja Comorian: shaya sha koo
 * Nias:
 * Nogai: бас бармак
 * Norman: ponchet
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, tommelfinger
 * Nynorsk: tommel, tommelfinger
 * Occitan: ,
 * Ojibwe: midechininj
 * Old Church Slavonic: пальць
 * Old English: þūma
 * Oromo: abbuudduu
 * Ossetian: хистӕр ӕнгуылдз
 * Ottoman Turkish: باش پرمق
 * Pangasinan: tangan
 * Pennsylvania German: Daume
 * Persian: ,
 * Piedmontese: pòle
 * Pitjantjatjara: maṟa mama
 * Plautdietsch: Düme
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Punjabi:
 * Rajasthani: अंगुठौ
 * Romanian: deget mare,
 * Russian:
 * Sami:
 * Inari: pelgi
 * Northern: bealgi
 * Skolt: peä´lǧǧ
 * Southern: bielkie
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scots: thoum
 * Scottish Gaelic: òrdag
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: палац
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovak: palec
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: wjeliki palc
 * Southern Altai: эргек
 * Southern Kalinga: paama
 * Spanish:
 * Sundanese:
 * Swahili: kidole gumba
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: hinlalaki
 * Tarifit: ikmez, iymez
 * Telugu: బొటనవేలు
 * Thai: นิ้วโป้ง, หัวแม่มือ,
 * Tibetan: མཐེ་བོང, མཐེ་པོ
 * Tigrinya: ዓባይ ዓባይቶ
 * Tocharian B: mokoce
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen:
 * Tuvan: матпаадыр
 * Udmurt: пӧлы
 * Ukrainian: вели́кий па́лець
 * Venetian: masapeoci, dedón, deolón
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:
 * Waray-Waray: tamuragko
 * Welsh:
 * West Coast Bajau: indung
 * West Frisian: tomme
 * Winnebago: šaak hoxete
 * Yakut: эрбэх
 * Yiddish: גראָבער פֿינגער
 * Yoruba: àtàǹpàkò
 * Yup'ik: asaun, ayaun, kul'u


 * Finnish: liu’utin
 * Greek: εγκοπή ευρετηρίασης
 * Norwegian: tommeskrue

Verb

 * 1)  To touch or cover with the thumb.
 * 2)  To turn the pages of (a book) in order to read it cursorily.
 * 3)  To hitchhike
 * 4) To soil or wear with the thumb or the fingers; to soil, or wear out, by frequent handling.
 * 5) To manipulate (an object) with the thumb; especially, to pull back the hammer or open the cylinder of a revolver.
 * 6) To fire (a single action revolver) quickly by pulling the hammer while keeping the trigger depressed.
 * 1)  To hitchhike
 * 2) To soil or wear with the thumb or the fingers; to soil, or wear out, by frequent handling.
 * 3) To manipulate (an object) with the thumb; especially, to pull back the hammer or open the cylinder of a revolver.
 * 4) To fire (a single action revolver) quickly by pulling the hammer while keeping the trigger depressed.
 * 1) To soil or wear with the thumb or the fingers; to soil, or wear out, by frequent handling.
 * 2) To manipulate (an object) with the thumb; especially, to pull back the hammer or open the cylinder of a revolver.
 * 3) To fire (a single action revolver) quickly by pulling the hammer while keeping the trigger depressed.
 * 1) To manipulate (an object) with the thumb; especially, to pull back the hammer or open the cylinder of a revolver.
 * 2) To fire (a single action revolver) quickly by pulling the hammer while keeping the trigger depressed.
 * 1) To fire (a single action revolver) quickly by pulling the hammer while keeping the trigger depressed.
 * 1) To fire (a single action revolver) quickly by pulling the hammer while keeping the trigger depressed.
 * 1) To fire (a single action revolver) quickly by pulling the hammer while keeping the trigger depressed.
 * 1) To fire (a single action revolver) quickly by pulling the hammer while keeping the trigger depressed.

Related terms

 * fanning (using opposite hand instead of thumb)

Translations

 * Finnish: koskea peukalolla,
 * Russian:


 * Bulgarian: прелиствам
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Turkish:

Etymology
From (modern ). More at.

Noun

 * 1) stinger (of a bee)
 * 2) thorn, prick
 * 3) bell clapper, tongue (of bell)
 * 4) tack, thumbtack, shoe tack (spike)
 * 5) point of arrowhead, spiked tip of a goad or prod