English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English handsawe, handsagh, equivalent to hand + saw. Cognate with West Frisian hânseage (“handsaw”), Dutch handzaag (“handsaw”),
German Handsäge (“handsaw”), Danish håndsav (“handsaw”), Swedish handsåg (“handsaw”), Icelandic handsög (“handsaw”).
Noun
handsaw (plural handsaws)
- A saw small enough to be used by one hand.
Coordinate terms
Translations
saw small enough to be used by one hand
- Afrikaans: handsaag
- Albanian: sharrë dore
- Azerbaijani: əl bıçqısı, əl mişarı, xırxı
- Belarusian: нажо́ўка f (nažóŭka)
- Bulgarian: ръчен трион (rǎčen trion)
- Catalan: xerrac (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 手鋸 / 手锯 (zh) (shǒujù)
- Czech: viděl (cs) f, ruční pila f
- Dutch: handzaag (nl) f
- Estonian: käsisaag, vukssaag
- Finnish: käsisaha (fi)
- French: égoïne (fr) f, scie à main f, scie égoïne (fr) f
- Galician: serrón m
- Georgian: ხელის ხერხი (xelis xerxi)
- German: Fuchsschwanz (de) m, Handsäge (de) f
- Hindi: देखा (dekhā)
- Hungarian: fűrész (hu)
- Indonesian: gergaji (id)
- Irish: sábh láimhe m
- Italian: saracco m
- Japanese: 手びきのこ (てびきのこ, tebikinoko), 手のこぎり (てのこぎり, tenokogiri)
- Malay: gergaji (ms)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: håndsag m or f, handsag m or f
- Nynorsk: handsag f
- Ottoman Turkish: دستره (destere)
- Persian: دستره (fa) (dastare), دست اره (dast-arre)
- Polish: piła (pl) f
- Portuguese: serrote (pt) m
- Romanian: fierăstrău de mână n
- Russian: ножо́вка (ru) f (nožóvka), ручна́я пила́ f (ručnája pilá)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: тестера f
- Roman: testera (sh) f
- Spanish: serrucho (es) m
- Swedish: fogsvans (sv) c, handsåg (sv) c
- Tagalog: nakakita, nakita
- Thai: ปื้น (bpeuun)
- Turkish: testere (tr), destere
- Ukrainian: ножі́вка (uk) f (nožívka)
- Uzbek: qoʻllarra
- Vietnamese: cưa tay
- Welsh: llawlif f
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Etymology 2
Corruption of heronshaw.
Noun
handsaw (plural handsaws)
- (obsolete) A heron.
c. 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act II, scene II:When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.
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