I burned my forefinger on fire tongs.
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Tongs
//tɒŋz//
Synonyms for "tongs" (23 found)
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8 entriesat location
1 entriesderived
9 entriesform of
1 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
16 entriesused for
1 entriesTranslations
85 translations across 56 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- darë noun (instrument)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- λαβίς noun (instrument)
Arabic
1 entries- كَلْبَتَان noun (instrument)
Armenian
1 entries- աքցան noun (instrument)
Aromanian
1 entries- cleashti noun (instrument)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- kəlbətin noun (instrument)
Bashkir
2 entries- ҡыпсыуыр noun (instrument)
- ҡыпһыуыр noun (instrument)
Bulgarian
1 entries- щипци noun (instrument)
Cappadocian Greek
1 entries- καϊζάρ noun (instrument)
Chinese
1 entries- 钳 noun (instrument)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 鉗子 /钳子 noun (instrument)
Czech
1 entries- kleště noun (instrument)
Danish
1 entries- tang noun (instrument)
Dari
1 entries- پلاس noun (instrument)
Dutch
1 entries- tang noun (instrument)
Finnish
1 entries- pihdit noun (instrument)
French
1 entries- pinces noun (instrument)
Georgian
2 entries- მარწუხი noun (instrument)
- მაშები noun (instrument)
German
4 entries- Greifer noun (instrument)
- Greifzange noun (instrument)
- Grillzange noun (instrument)
- Küchenzange noun (instrument)
Greek
1 entries- λαβίδες noun (instrument)
Hebrew
1 entries- מלקחת noun (instrument)
Hindi
1 entries- चिमटा noun (instrument)
Icelandic
1 entries- töng noun (instrument)
Interlingua
1 entries- tenalia noun (instrument)
Iranian Persian
1 entries- کلبتین noun (instrument)
Irish
2 entries- teanchair noun (instrument)
- tlú noun (instrument)
Italian
2 entries- pinzetta noun (instrument)
- tenaglie noun (instrument)
Japanese
4 entries- e.g. noun (instrument)
- トング noun (instrument)
- パンばさみ noun (instrument)
- 挟み noun (instrument)
Kazakh
1 entries- қысқаш noun (instrument)
Khalaj
1 entries- ambur noun (instrument)
Korean
1 entries- 집게 noun (instrument)
Kumyk
1 entries- маша noun (instrument)
Latin
1 entries- forceps noun (instrument)
Lithuanian
1 entries- žnyplės noun (instrument)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- klěšće noun (instrument)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Zaang noun (instrument)
Macedonian
1 entries- клешти noun (instrument)
Māori
2 entries- kape noun (instrument)
- pīnohi noun (instrument)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- kêlbetan noun (instrument)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- قیصاج noun (instrument)
- ماشه noun (instrument)
Polish
1 entries- szczypce noun (instrument)
Portuguese
3 entries- pegador noun (instrument)
- pinça noun (instrument)
- tenaz noun (instrument)
Rarotongan
1 entries- pīngo‘i noun (instrument)
Romanian
1 entries- clește noun (instrument)
Russian
2 entries- схва́ты noun (instrument)
- щипцы́ noun (instrument)
Samoan
1 entries- iʻofi noun (instrument)
Slovak
1 entries- kliešte noun (instrument)
Southern Altai
1 entries- кыскаш noun (instrument)
Spanish
2 entries- pinzas noun (instrument)
- tenaza noun (instrument)
Swahili
2 entries- koleo noun (instrument)
- makoleo noun (instrument)
Swedish
2 entries- griptång noun (instrument)
- tång noun (instrument)
Tamil
1 entries- இடுக்கி noun (instrument)
Thai
2 entries- คีม noun (instrument)
- แหนบ noun (instrument)
Turkish
3 entries- kısaç noun (instrument)
- kıskaç noun (instrument)
- maşa noun (instrument)
Vietnamese
1 entries- cái gắp đá noun (instrument)
Volapük
2 entries- filazäp noun (instrument)
- zäp noun (instrument)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
The smith used the tongs to pick up the horseshoe.
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I saw a video of a man who can fry chicken without using tongs.
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The doctor pulled his tooth out with a pair of tongs.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.