scalpel

scalpel

English

A scalpel

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin scalpellum, from scalprum (“knife”), from scalpere (“to cut”). Displaced native Old English lǣċeseax (literally “doctor knife”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈskælpəl/

Noun

scalpel (plural scalpels)

1. A small straight knife with a very sharp blade used for surgery, dissection and craftwork.

Translations

small straight knife

Arabic: مِشْرَط‎ m (mišraṭ) Armenian: հերձադանակ (hy) (herjadanak) Azerbaijani: neştər (az) Basque: bisturi Belarusian: скальпель (skalʹpjelʹ) Bulgarian: скалпел (bg) m (skalpel) Catalan: bisturí m Chinese: Mandarin: 解剖刀 (zh) (jiěpōudāo), 手術刀／手术刀 (zh) (shǒushùdāo) Czech: skalpel (cs) m Danish: operationskniv, skalpel (da) Dutch: scalpel (nl) n, scalpeermes n Esperanto: skalpelo Finnish: skalpelli (fi), leikkausveitsi (fi) French: scalpel (fr) m Georgian: სკალპელი (sḳalṗeli) German: Skalpell (de) n Greek: νυστέρι (el) n (nystéri), μαχαιρίδιο n (machairídio) Greenlandic: pilaanermut savik Hebrew: אזמל‎ (he) m (izmel) Hungarian: szike (hu) Icelandic: skurðarhnífur m Ido: skalpelo (io) Italian: bisturi (it), scalpello (it) Japanese: メス (ja) (mesu), 円刃刀 (えんじんとう, enjintō) Kapampangan: bisturí Kazakh: скальпель (skalpel) Korean: 메스 (meseu) Latin: scalpellum m Lithuanian: skalpelis m Norwegian: Bokmål: skalpell m Nynorsk: skalpell m Old English: lǣċeseax n Persian: اسکالپل‎ (eskâlpel) Polish: skalpel (pl) m Portuguese: bisturi (pt) Romanian: bisturiu (ro) m Russian: ска́льпель (ru) m (skálʹpelʹ) Serbo-Croatian: skalpel (sh) m Slovak: skalpel m Spanish: escalpelo (es) m, bisturí (es) Swedish: skalpell (sv) Tagalog: bisturi, pangadlit Tajik: сӯзанак (süzanak) Telugu: స్కాల్పెల్ (skālpel) Thai: มีดผ่าตัด Turkish: neşter (tr) Ukrainian: скальпель m (skalʹpelʹ) Vietnamese: dao mổ (vi) Yiddish: סקאַלפּעל‎ m (skalpel)

See also

• bistoury
• knife

Anagrams

• Capells, cell sap

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French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin scalpellum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skal.pɛl/

Noun

scalpel m (plural scalpels)

1. scalpel

Further reading

• “scalpel”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Romanian

Etymology

From French scalpel.

Noun

scalpel n (plural scalpele)

1. scalpel

Declension

Declension of scalpel

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) scalpel	scalpelul	(niște) scalpele	scalpelele
genitive/dative	(unui) scalpel	scalpelului	(unor) scalpele	scalpelelor
vocative	scalpelule		scalpelelor