barbell

English

A barbell

Etymology

Blend of bar +‎ dumbbell. The piercing is named after the exercise equipment, because of the visual resemblance.

Noun

barbell (plural barbells)

A wide steel bar with premeasured weights affixed to either end, with the central span open for the hands of the weightlifter.
A piece of jewellery composed of a straight bar with a bead on each end, used as a piercing.

Derived terms

Translations

wide steel bar with premeasured weights

Arabic: بَرْبِل m (barbil)
Armenian: ծանրաձող (hy) (canrajoġ)
Azerbaijani: ştanq, ştanqa
Belarusian: шта́нга f (štánha)
Bulgarian: ща́нга (bg) f (štánga)
Catalan: barra (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 槓鈴／杠铃 (zh) (gànglíng)
Czech: činka (cs) f
Danish: please add this translation if you can
Esperanto: halterego sg
Finnish: levytanko (fi)
French: haltère (fr) m
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Langhantel f, Hantel (de) f
Hungarian: súlyzó (hosszú rúddal) (hu), súlyemelő rúd
Icelandic: please add this translation if you can
Indonesian: barbel (id)
Italian: bilanciere (it) m
Japanese: バーベル (bāberu)
Kazakh: зілтемір (zıltemır)
Korean: 역기 (ko) (yeokgi), 바벨 (ko) (babel)
Lithuanian: štanga f
Persian: هالتر (fa) (hâlter)
Polish: sztanga (pl) f
Portuguese: barra (pt) f
Romanian: halteră (ro) f
Russian: шта́нга (ru) f (štánga)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: шта́нга f

Roman: štánga (sh) f
Slovak: činka (sk) f
Spanish: barra con pesas f, barra (es) f, haltera f
Swedish: skivstång (sv) c
Tagalog: barbel, pesas
Ukrainian: шта́нга f (štánha)

See also

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