ganivet

Inherited from Old Catalan canivet (compare Old French cnivet, canivet), originally with diminutive meaning. Itself from Frankish *knīf, from Proto-Germanic *knībaz (“knife”).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ɡə.niˈβɛt]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ɡə.niˈvət]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ɡa.niˈvet]

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ganivet m (plural ganivets)

1. knife

   Synonym: coltell

• cullera
• forquilla

• “ganivet”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “ganivet”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “ganivet” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “ganivet” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.