English
Etymology
From hair + pin, 1788 (as hair pin). Adjective sense 1906 in hairpin turn etc.[1]
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈhɛə.pɪn/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈhɛɚ.pɪn/
Noun
hairpin (plural hairpins)
- A pin or fastener for the hair.
- Coordinate terms: hair stick; hairnet
- (biology) A kind of ribozyme; hairpin ribozyme.
- (chiefly attributive) A very tight bend in a road; a hairpin bend.
2009, Bob Sehlinger, Grant Rafter, Beyond Disney, page 280:The variety of angles in the course, from slow bends to hairpins, will both test your skill as a driver and allow you the opportunity to pass other carts.
- (music) An elongated horizontal v-shaped sign placed underneath a staff to indicate a crescendo or decrescendo.
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Translations
pin or fastener for the hair
- Afrikaans: haarnaald
- Arabic: دبوس (شعر) m (dabbūs šaʕr)
- Gulf Arabic: ماشة f (māša)
- Moroccan Arabic: فنتة f (fanta)
- Azerbaijani: sancaq (az), sıxac
- Belarusian: шпі́лька f (špílʹka)
- Bulgarian: фиба (bg) f (fiba), фуркет (bg) m (furket)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 釵 / 钗 (zh) (chāi), 簪 (zh) (zān), 髮夾 / 发夹 (zh) (fàjiā (chiefly Taiwan), fǎjiā (chiefly China)), 髮卡 / 发卡 (zh) (fàqiǎ, fǎqiǎ)
- Dutch: haarspeld (nl) f, haarnaald f
- Finnish: hiusneula (fi)
- French: épingle à cheveux (fr) f, épingle (fr) f
- German: Haarnadel (de) f
- Greek: φουρκέτα (el) f (fourkéta)
- Irish: pionna gruaige m, biorán gruaige m
- Italian: forcina (it) f
- Japanese: ヘアピン (ja) (heapin)
- Korean: 머리핀 (meoripin)
- Latin: crīnāle n, discerniculum n
- Macedonian: шно́ла f (šnóla)
- Manipuri: ꯁꯝꯐꯥꯕꯤ (samphābi)
- Mbyá Guaraní: 'a regua
- Navajo: tsiighá bił dah sitání, tsiighá bił dah nátį́hí
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: hårnål m or f
- Nynorsk: hårnål f
- Ottoman Turkish: فوركته (furketa)
- Plautdietsch: Spald f
- Polish: szpilka do włosów f, spinka (pl) f
- Portuguese: grampo (pt) m, gancho (pt) m (Portugal)
- Russian: шпи́лька (ru) f (špílʹka), шпи́лька для воло́с f (špílʹka dlja volós), зако́лка (ru) f (zakólka) (для воло́с)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: укосница f
- Roman: ùkosnica (sh) f
- Slovene: lasnica f
- Spanish: horquilla (es) f, gancho (es), pinche (es) m, ondulín m, rascamoño m (long), pincho (es) m (Dominican Republic), pin (es) m (United States)
- Swedish: hårnål (sv)
- Tagalog: aguhilya
- Thai: ปิ่น (th) (bpìn)
- Ukrainian: шпи́лька для воло́сся f (špýlʹka dlja volóssja), шпи́лька f (špýlʹka)
- Vietnamese: trâm (vi), thoa (vi)
- West Frisian: hierspjelde c
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