matchbox

English

From match +‎ box.

matchbox (plural matchboxes)

small cardboard box in which matches are kept

Armenian: լուցկու տուփ (lucʿku tupʿ)
Bulgarian: кутия кибрит (kutija kibrit)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 火柴盒 (zh) (huǒcháihé)
Danish: tændstikæske (da) c
Dutch: luciferdoosje (nl) n
Esperanto: alumetskatolo, alumetujo
Finnish: tulitikkurasia (fi)
French: boîte d'allumettes (fr) f
German: Streichholzschachtel (de) f
Greek: σπιρτόκουτο (el) n (spirtókouto)
Hungarian: gyufásdoboz (hu), gyufásskatulya (hu), gyufaskatulya
Irish: bosca cipíní m
Japanese: マッチ箱 (matchi-bako)
Malay: kotak mancis
Malayalam: തീപ്പെട്ടി (ml) (tīppeṭṭi), തീപ്പെട്ടിക്കൂട് (tīppeṭṭikkūṭŭ)
Manx: kishtey foaddan m
Maori: pāki māti
Norwegian:
Bokmål: fyrstikkeske m or f
Nynorsk: fyrstikkeske f
Persian: قوطی کبریت‎ (quti kebrit)
Portuguese: caixa de fósforo/fósforos f
Punjabi: ਡੱਬੀ f (ḍabbī)
Russian: спи́чечный коробо́к m (spíčečnyj korobók), спи́чечная коро́бка f (spíčečnaja koróbka)
Spanish: fosforera f, cerillero (es) m, caja de fósforos f, caja de cerillas f
Swedish: tändsticksask (sv) c
Thai: กล่องไม้ขีด
Tibetan: ཙག་སྒྲ་སྒམ་ཆུང (tsag sgra sgam chung), མུ་ཟི་སྒམ་ཆུང (mu zi sgam chung)

From the die-cast toy car brand Matchbox owned by Mattel, so-called due to the size of the toys to fix in matchboxes.

matchbox (plural matchboxes)