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pen

writing and drawing implement using liquid or paste ink

62 languages9 dialects🎙 2 real recordings

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pen, penna, ペン19 languages
kalem, qələm, qalem9 languages
pero, перо6 languages
ручка, ruçka, ruchka5 languages
stylo, stilolaps, στυλό5 languages
bolígrafu, bolígraf, bolígrafo3 languages
pluma, luma2 languages

Groups are automatic — by similar words, not from an etymological dictionary.

Spanish by region: lapicero (Central America, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador); birome (Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay); lápiz pasta (Chile); esfero (Colombia).

In other languages: ручка (Ukrainian), Kugelschreiber (German), stylo (French), pluma (Spanish), pióro (Polish).

Albanian
stilolaps
Arabic
قلم≈
Also: قَلَم
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Armenian
գրիչgričʻ
Asturian
bolígrafu
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Azerbaijani
qələm
Also: pero, ruçka
Basque
luma
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Belarusian
ручкаrúčka
Also: асадка, пяро
Bosnian
pero≈
Also: hemijska olovka, kemijska olovka
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Bulgarian
писалкаpisálka
Also: перо, химикалка
Catalan
bolígraf
Crimean Tatar
qalem≈
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Croatian
pero≈
Also: hemijska olovka, kemijska olovka
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Czech
pero
Danish
pen
Dutch
pen
English
pen
Estonian
sulepea
Also: pastapliiats, sulg
Finnish
kynä
French
stylo
Galician
bolígrafo
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Georgian
კალამიḳalami
Also: პასტა
German
Kugelschreiber
Also: Federhalter, Stift
Greek
στυλόstyló
Also: στιλό
Hebrew
עט
Hindi
लेखनीlekhnī
Also: क़लम, पेन
Hungarian
toll
Also: golyóstoll, irón
Icelandic
penni
Irish
peann
Italian
penna
Japanese
ペンpen
Also: ボールペン, 万年筆
Kazakh
қаламqalam
Also: қаламсап
Korean
펜pen
Also: 볼펜, 만년필
Kyrgyz
калемkalem
Also: жазгыч, калемсап
Latin
calamus
Also: hara
Latvian
pildspalva
Lithuanian
rašiklis
Also: plunksna
Luxembourgish
Stëft
Macedonian
пенкалоpenkalo
Maltese
pinna
Mongolian
үзэгüzeg
Also: ᠦᠵᠦᠭ
Norwegian Bokmål
penn/pɛn/
Occitan
estilograf≈
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Persian
قَلَمqalam
Also: خوَدْکَار, خْوَدْکَار
Polish
pióro
Also: długopis
Portuguese
caneta
Romanian
stilou
Also: pix
Russian
ручка
Scottish Gaelic
peann
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Serbian
перо
Also: пенкала, хемијска оловка
Slovak
pero
Slovene
pero
Spanish
pluma
Also: bolígrafo, lapicera
Spanish (Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay)
birome≈
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Spanish (Central America)
lapicero≈
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Spanish (Chile)
lápiz pasta≈
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Spanish (Colombia)
esfero≈
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Spanish (Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico)
bolígrafo≈
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Spanish (Mexico)
pluma≈
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Spanish (Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador)
lapicero≈
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Spanish (Spain)
bolígrafo≈
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Spanish (Venezuela)
bolígrafo≈
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Swedish
bläckpennabɽe̞kːpe̞nːu
Also: penna pe̞nːɔ
Tajik
қаламqalam
Also: ручка, хом
Turkish
kalem
Turkmen
ruçka
Also: agyl
Ukrainian
ручка≈
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Upper Sorbian
pisak≈
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Uzbek
ruchka
Also: qalam
Venetian
pena≈
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Walloon
pene
Also: bik
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Welsh
pìn
Also: ysgrifbin
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