That's just a yarn.
Source: tatoeba (42713)
Yarn
//jɑːn//
Synonyms for "yarn" (112 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (23)
Strong matches (33)
Related words (56)
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
7 entriesMore specific
1 entriesSynonyms
3 entriesRelated terms
3 entriesat location
1 entriesderived
18 entriesShowing 16 of 18 words.
etymologically related_to
1 entrieshas context
1 entriesis a
1 entriesmade of
1 entriesmanner of
1 entriesrelated to
15 entriesTranslations
162 translations across 82 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- garing noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Albanian
1 entries- fije noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Aleut
1 entries- chngax̂ noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἀρπεδόνη noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Arabic
4 entries- بكرة noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
- خيط noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
- خيط noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
- خَيْط noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Armenian
1 entries- մանվածք noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- ip noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
- iplik noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Belarusian
1 entries- пра́жа noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Bulgarian
3 entries- небивалица noun (story)
- пре́жда noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
- разказвам небивалици verb (To tell a story)
Burmese
1 entries- ချည် noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Catalan
2 entries- fil noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
- fil noun (story)
Chakma
1 entries- 𑄙𑄉 noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Chinese
2 entries- 毛線 /毛线 noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
- 膨紗 /膨纱 noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 冷 noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 毛線 /毛线 noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
- 紗 /纱 noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
- 紗線 /纱线 noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Church Slavic
1 entries- прѧжда noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Czech
4 entries- historka noun (story)
- nit noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
- příběh noun (story)
- příze noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Danish
2 entries- garn noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
- garn noun (nautical)
Dutch
1 entries- garen noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Esperanto
1 entries- fadeno noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Estonian
2 entries- kedrus noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
- lõng noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Faroese
1 entries- garn noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Finnish
4 entries- juttu noun (story)
- lanka noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
- lanka noun (nautical)
- rihma noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
French
2 entries- corde noun (nautical)
- fil noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Galician
2 entries- cerro noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
- fiado noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Georgian
4 entries- მოთხრობა noun (story)
- ნაამბობი noun (story)
- ნართი noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
- ძაფი noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
German
2 entries- Garn noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
- Tau noun (nautical)
Greek
1 entries- νήμα noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Hebrew
3 entries- חוּט noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
- חוּט חֶבֶל noun (nautical)
- מַעֲשִׂיָּה noun (story)
Hindi
3 entries- तागा noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
- धागा noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
- सूत noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Hungarian
2 entries- fonal noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
- fonál noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Icelandic
1 entries- garn noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Ingrian
1 entries- lanka noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Irish
2 entries- abhras noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
- snáth noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Italian
4 entries- cordaggio noun (nautical)
- cordame noun (nautical)
- fandonia noun (story)
- filato noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Japanese
3 entries- ほら話 noun (story)
- 毛糸 noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
- 糸 noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Kazakh
1 entries- жіп noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Khmer
1 entries- អំបោះ noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Komi-Zyrian
1 entries- шӧрт noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Korean
2 entries- 실 noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
- 털실 noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- жип noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Lao
2 entries- ດ້າຍ noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
- ເສັ້ນດ້າຍ noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Latin
2 entries- acia noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
- filum noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Latvian
1 entries- dzija noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Lithuanian
1 entries- verpalai noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Low German
1 entries- Goorn noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Macedonian
4 entries- предено noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
- предиво noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
- преѓа noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
- приказна noun (story)
Middle English
2 entries- garn noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
- yarn noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Mongolian
2 entries- утас noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
- ээрмэл noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Māori
3 entries- kōrero paki noun (story)
- kōrero whakakata noun (story)
- kōrero paki verb (To tell a story)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- garn noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- garn noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Occitan
1 entries- fil noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Ojibwe
1 entries- miskogaadeyaab noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Old English
1 entries- ġearn noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- ایپلك noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Persian
3 entries- خیط noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
- نخ noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
- کاموا noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Polish
4 entries- opowieść noun (story)
- przędza noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
- skrętka noun (nautical)
- włóczka noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Portuguese
2 entries- lã noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
- trama noun (story)
Quechua
1 entries- q'aytu noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Romanian
4 entries- ață noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
- basm noun (story)
- fir noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
- poveste noun (story)
Russian
4 entries- ба́йка noun (story)
- небыли́ца noun (story)
- пря́жа noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
- травим байки verb (To tell a story)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- prȅdīvo noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
- prȅđa noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
- пре̏дӣво noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
- пре̏ђа noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Slovak
3 entries- pradivo noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
- priadza noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
- príbeh noun (story)
Slovene
1 entries- preja noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Spanish
4 entries- cuento noun (story)
- estambre noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
- hilaza noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
- historia noun (story)
Swedish
1 entries- garn noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Tajik
3 entries- нах noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
- ресмон noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
- ришта noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Tashelhit
1 entries- ⵜⵉⵍⵎⵉ noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Thai
2 entries- ด้าย noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
- เส้นด้าย noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Turkish
1 entries- iplik noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Turkmen
1 entries- ýüplük noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Udmurt
1 entries- шорт noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Ukrainian
1 entries- пря́жа noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Urdu
1 entries- سوت noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Uzbek
1 entries- ip noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Vietnamese
1 entries- sợi noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Walloon
2 entries- fi noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
- fyi (whool) noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Welsh
2 entries- edafedd noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
- edau noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Yup'ik
1 entries- kistaq noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Zazaki
1 entries- layêk noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Zulu
1 entries- ntambo noun (fiber strand for knitting or weaving)
Sample sentences
17 total sentences available.
The baby tangled the ball of yarn.
Source: tatoeba (272364)
The kitten rolled the yarn across the floor.
Source: tatoeba (681965)
The best yarn is that spun by hand.
Source: tatoeba (3576320)
Showing 4 of 17 available sentences.
Keep exploring
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.