Tom kept a penknife in his pocket.
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Penknife
Synonyms for "penknife" (7 found)
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4 entriesTranslations
54 translations across 35 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- مِطْواة noun (small pocketknife)
Armenian
2 entries- գրչահատ noun (small pocketknife)
- զմելին noun (small pocketknife)
Bashkir
1 entries- бәке noun (small pocketknife)
Bulgarian
1 entries- джобно ножче noun (small pocketknife)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 小刀 noun (small pocketknife)
Czech
1 entries- kapesní nůž noun (small pocketknife)
Dutch
1 entries- pennenmes noun (small pocketknife)
Finnish
1 entries- linkkuveitsi noun (small pocketknife)
French
1 entries- canif noun (small pocketknife)
Friulian
1 entries- britulin noun (small pocketknife)
Galician
2 entries- canivete noun (small pocketknife)
- navalla noun (small pocketknife)
Georgian
1 entries- ჯაყვა noun (small pocketknife)
German
2 entries- Sackmesser noun (small pocketknife)
- Taschenmesser noun (small pocketknife)
Greek
1 entries- σουγιαδάκι noun (small pocketknife)
Hindi
1 entries- क़लमतराश noun (knife for cutting the points of quill feathers or reeds)
Hungarian
4 entries- bicska noun (small pocketknife)
- penicilus noun (small pocketknife)
- rugós kés noun (small pocketknife)
- tollkés noun (small pocketknife)
Icelandic
1 entries- pennahnífur noun (small pocketknife)
Ido
1 entries- posh-kulteleto noun (small pocketknife)
Irish
1 entries- scian phóca noun (small pocketknife)
Japanese
1 entries- ポケットナイフ noun (small pocketknife)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Täschemesser noun (small pocketknife)
Ngazidja Comorian
1 entries- djemɓe noun (small pocketknife)
Nogai
1 entries- беки noun (small pocketknife)
Ottoman Turkish
4 entries- صویا noun (small pocketknife)
- قلمتراش noun (knife for cutting the points of quill feathers or reeds)
- چاقی noun (small pocketknife)
- گزلك noun (knife for cutting the points of quill feathers or reeds)
Persian
1 entries- قلمتراش noun (small pocketknife)
Polish
2 entries- nożyk do pióra noun (knife for cutting the points of quill feathers or reeds)
- scyzoryk noun (small pocketknife)
Portuguese
2 entries- canivete noun (small pocketknife)
- canivete suíço noun (small pocketknife)
Russian
1 entries- перочи́нный нож noun (small pocketknife)
Spanish
2 entries- cortaplumas noun (small pocketknife)
- navaja noun (small pocketknife)
Swedish
3 entries- fickkniv noun (small pocketknife)
- fällkniv noun (small pocketknife)
- pennkniv noun (small pocketknife)
Telugu
1 entries- చాకు noun (small pocketknife)
Tibetan
1 entries- ལྟེབས་གྲི noun (small pocketknife)
Turkish
2 entries- soya noun (small pocketknife)
- çakı noun (small pocketknife)
Welsh
3 entries- cyllell boced noun (small pocketknife)
- pencnath noun (small pocketknife)
- pengneth noun (small pocketknife)
West-Frisian
1 entries- knyft noun (small pocketknife)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
He cut off a branch of the tree with his penknife.
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Sami was arrested for carrying a penknife.
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My new penknife has many useful functions.
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