If these muscles are weak, they cannot hold the kneecap in the correct position.
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Kneecap
//ˈniːˌkæp//
Synonyms for "kneecap" (7 found)
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2 entriesderived from
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6 entriesmanner of
1 entriesrelated to
9 entriesTranslations
112 translations across 74 languages.
Afrikaans
2 entries- knieknop noun (bone)
- knieskyf noun (bone)
Arabic
2 entries- رَضَفَة noun (bone)
- صبونة noun (bone)
Aramaic
1 entries- ܙܵܒ݂ܘܼܪܬܵܐ ܕܥܲܛܡܵܐ noun (bone)
Armenian
1 entries- ծնկոսկր noun (bone)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- diz qapağı noun (bone)
Bashkir
1 entries- тубыҡ ҡапҡасы noun (bone)
Basque
1 entries- belaunburu noun (bone)
Breton
1 entries- mell-glin noun (bone)
Brunei Malay
1 entries- kapala tuhut noun (bone)
Bulgarian
2 entries- капачка на коляното noun (bone)
- патела noun (bone)
Burmese
1 entries- ဒူးခေါင်း noun (bone)
Catalan
2 entries- patel·la noun (bone)
- ròtula noun (bone)
Cebuano
2 entries- tuwáytuway noun (bone)
- tuwáytuway noun (bone)
Central Melanau
1 entries- sulau bukou noun (bone)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 膝蓋骨 /膝盖骨 noun (bone)
Cornish
1 entries- penn glin noun (bone)
Czech
1 entries- čéška noun (bone)
Danish
1 entries- knæskal noun (bone)
Dhivehi
1 entries- ފިޔަން ކަށިގަނޑު noun (bone)
Dutch
2 entries- knieschijf noun (bone)
- patella noun (bone)
Esperanto
1 entries- patelo noun (bone)
Finnish
1 entries- polvilumpio noun (bone)
French
1 entries- rotule noun (bone)
Galician
2 entries- rodela noun (bone)
- rótula noun (bone)
Georgian
2 entries- კვირისთავი noun (bone)
- სამუხლე noun (bone)
German
2 entries- Kniescheibe noun (bone)
- Patella noun (bone)
Greek
1 entries- επιγονατίδα noun (bone)
Hebrew
1 entries- פיקה noun (bone)
Hungarian
1 entries- térdkalács noun (bone)
Icelandic
1 entries- hnéskel noun (bone)
Indonesian
4 entries- cencawan noun (bone)
- kunci-kunci lutut noun (bone)
- patela noun (bone)
- tempurung lutut noun (bone)
Ingrian
2 entries- polvenkakku noun (bone)
- polvensilmä noun (bone)
Irish
3 entries- caipín glúine noun (bone)
- gealacán noun (bone)
- gealacán glúine noun (bone)
Italian
4 entries- patella noun (bone)
- rotula noun (bone)
- azzoppare verb (to destroy the knees)
- gambizzare verb (to destroy the knees)
Japanese
1 entries- 膝蓋骨 noun (bone)
Kannada
1 entries- ಮಂಡಿಚಿಪ್ಪು noun (bone)
Kapampangan
1 entries- bulakus noun (bone)
Khiamniungan Naga
1 entries- shīekāuh khǜvīe noun (bone)
Khmer
1 entries- ក្បាលជង្គង់ noun (bone)
Korean
2 entries- 무릎뼈 noun (bone)
- 슬개골 noun (bone)
Lao
3 entries- ຊານຸມົນທົນ noun (bone)
- ສະບັງ noun (bone)
- ຫມາກບ້າຫົວເຂົ່າ noun (bone)
Latin
1 entries- patella noun (bone)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Knéischeif noun (bone)
Malay
4 entries- cencawan noun (bone)
- kunci-kunci lutut noun (bone)
- patela noun (bone)
- tempurung lutut noun (bone)
Malayalam
1 entries- മുട്ടിൻചിരട്ട noun (bone)
Mongolian
1 entries- тойг noun (bone)
Māori
1 entries- popoki noun (bone)
Navajo
1 entries- agod distʼání noun (bone)
Newar
1 entries- पुलिक्वँय् noun (bone)
Norman
1 entries- palette du g'nou noun (bone)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- kulavê çokê noun (bone)
Northern Sami
1 entries- čibbeskálžu noun (bone)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- دیز قپاغی noun (bone)
Persian
1 entries- کشکک noun (bone)
Polish
2 entries- rzepka noun (bone)
- przestrzelić kolana verb (to destroy the knees)
Portuguese
2 entries- patela noun (bone)
- rótula noun (bone)
Romanian
2 entries- patelă noun (bone)
- rotulă noun (bone)
Russian
3 entries- коле́нная ча́шечка noun (bone)
- надколе́нная ча́шка noun (bone)
- надколе́нник noun (bone)
Sanskrit
1 entries- कपोल noun (bone)
Saraiki
1 entries- چُھوݨی noun (bone)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- failmean noun (bone)
Slovene
1 entries- pogačica noun (bone)
Spanish
2 entries- choquezuela noun (bone)
- rótula noun (bone)
Swedish
1 entries- knäskål noun (bone)
Tagalog
3 entries- bayugo noun (bone)
- suklob ng tuhod noun (bone)
- suklob-tuhod noun (bone)
Telugu
1 entries- మోకాటి చిప్ప noun (bone)
Thai
1 entries- สะบ้า noun (bone)
Tibetan
1 entries- པུས་མོའི་ལྷ་ང noun (bone)
Turkish
2 entries- diz kapağı noun (bone)
- patella noun (bone)
Ukrainian
4 entries- колі́нна ча́шечка noun (bone)
- надколі́нник noun (bone)
- надколі́нок noun (bone)
- наколі́нник noun (bone)
Vietnamese
1 entries- xương bánh chè noun (bone)
Volapük
1 entries- patel noun (bone)
Welsh
2 entries- padell pen-glin noun (bone)
- pellen pen-glin noun (bone)
White Hmong
1 entries- pob hauv caug noun (bone)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
I'm worried your carelessness will kneecap our chances of success.
Source: tatoeba (10522560)
The Sinn Féin press officer Richard McAuley freely admitted, “Back four or five years ago, people were getting kneecapped who should not have been kneecapped.”
Source: wiktionary
This story of how American originality lost its way is arresting and well told. On an alternate timeline without Donald Trump in office dismantling the American scientific establishment and Elon Musk kneecapping the American state, it might have been the manifesto of a new politics.
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