hand fan

English

A folding hand fan.

A rigid hand fan.

Noun

hand fan (plural hand fans)

A hand-held device designed to be waved back and forth in order to induce airflow for the purpose of cooling the user.

Synonyms

fan

Translations

hand-held device

Armenian: հովհար (hy) (hovhar)
Assamese: বিচনী (bisoni)
Belarusian: ве́ер m (vjéjer)
Bulgarian: ветри́ло (bg) n (vetrílo)
Catalan: ventall (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 扇子 (zh) (shànzi)
Chittagonian: বিচৈন (bisoin), বিচেইন (bisein)
Czech: vějíř (cs) m
Finnish: viuhka (fi)
French: éventail (fr) m
Hungarian: legyező (hu)
Japanese: 扇子 (ja) (sensu) (folding), うちわ (ja) (uchiwa) (rigid)
Korean: 부채 (ko) (buchae)
Latin: flābellum n
Latvian: vēdeklis m
Macedonian: ладало n (ladalo), лепе́за f (lepéza)
Malayalam: വിശറി (ml) (viśaṟi)
Ottoman Turkish: یلپازه (yelpaze)
Polish: wachlarz (pl) m
Portuguese: leque (pt) m
Russian: ве́ер (ru) m (véjer)
Slovak: vejár m
Slovene: pahljača (sl) f
Spanish: abanico (es) m, pantalla (es) f (rigid, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay)
Sylheti: ꠛꠤꠌꠂꠘ (bisoin), ꠛꠤꠌꠥꠁꠘ (bisuin), ꠙꠣꠈꠣ (faxá)
Thai: พัด (th) (pát) (typically rigid)
Turkish: yelpaze (tr)
Ukrainian: ві́яло n (víjalo), вахля́р (uk) m (vaxljár)
Vietnamese: quạt (vi)

Further reading

hand fan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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