jigsaw puzzle

jigsaw puzzle

English

Etymology

jigsaw + puzzle

Single piece of a puzzle

Noun

jigsaw puzzle (plural jigsaw puzzles)

1. A type of puzzle in which the aim is to reconstruct a picture that has been cut (originally, with a jigsaw) into many small interlocking pieces.

Synonyms

• jigsaw
• zigsaw
• zigsaw puzzle

Translations

type of puzzle

Afrikaans: legkaart Catalan: trencaclosques (ca) m, puzle m Chinese: Mandarin: 拼圖 (zh), 拼图 (zh) (pīntú) Czech: puzzle (cs) n Danish: puslespil (da) n Dutch: puzzel (nl) m, legpuzzel (nl) m Esperanto: kunmetenigmo, puzlo Finnish: palapeli (fi) French: puzzle (fr) m Georgian: პაზლი (ṗazli), თავსატეხი (tavsaṭexi) German: Puzzle (de) n, Puzzlespiel n Greek: παζλ n (pazl) Icelandic: púsluspil n Italian: puzzle (it) m, mosaico (it) m, gioco ad incastro m Japanese: ジグソーパズル (ja) (jigusōpazuru), ジグソー (jigusō) Macedonian: сложувалка f (složúvalka) Malay: susun suai Maori: panga hono

Norwegian: Bokmål: puslespill n Nynorsk: puslespel n Persian: پازل‎ (fa) (pâzel) Polish: puzzle (pl) n, układanka (pl) f Portuguese: quebra-cabeça (pt) m Romanian: puzzle (ro) n Russian: пазл (ru) m (pazl), головоло́мка (ru) f (golovolómka), складна́я карти́нка f (skladnája kartínka), (складная) моза́ика (ru) f (mozáika) Scottish Gaelic: mìrean-measgaichte m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: слагарица f, слагалица f, pazl (sh) f Roman: slagarica f, слагалица f, пазл f Spanish: rompecabezas (es) m, puzle (es) m Swedish: pussel (sv) Thai: ตัวต่อ (th), จิ๊กซอว์ (jík-sɔɔ) Turkish: yapboz (tr) Volapük: koboyümükarät Welsh: jig-so m