plowshare

English

Alternative forms

ploughshare

Etymology

plow +‎ share

Noun

plowshare (plural plowshares)

(American spelling) The cutting edge of a plow, typically a metal blade.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 2:4:
  And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

Related terms

Translations

cutting edge of a plow

Albanian: plor (sq) m
Arabic: مِيكَعَة (mīkaʕa)
Armenian: խոփ (hy) (xopʻ)
Aromanian: vomirã f
Bulgarian: лемеж m (lemež), палешник (bg) m (palešnik)
Catalan: rella (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 耜 (zh) (sì)
Czech: radlice (cs) f
Danish: plovskær n
Dutch: ploegschaar (nl) f, ploegijzer n
Estonian: adratera
Finnish: vannas (fi), auranvannas
French: soc (fr) m
Galician: rella (gl) f, palmela (gl) f, ferro (gl) m
German: Schar (de) f, Pflugeisen n, Pflugschar (de) f
Greek: αλετροπόδα (el) f (aletropóda)
Hungarian: ekevas (hu)
Icelandic: plógjárn n
Irish: iarnach m
Italian: vomere (it) m
Japanese: 刃先 (ja) (hasaki)
Korean: 가래 (ko) (garae), 보습 (boseup) (for plough)
Latin: vomer m
Latvian: lemesis m
Lithuanian: žãgrė
Low German: Ploogschoor f
Macedonian: ра́лник m (rálnik), ле́меш m (lémeš), па́личник m (páličnik)
Maori: mata parau
Norwegian:
Bokmål: plogskjær n

Nynorsk: plogskjer n
Old English: scear n
Ottoman Turkish: صبان دمیری (saban demiri)
Plautdietsch: Pluachschoa f
Polish: lemiesz (pl) m
Portuguese: relha (pt) f
Romanian: brăzdar (ro) n
Russian: ле́мех (ru) m (lémex), со́шник (ru) m (sóšnik)
Serbo-Croatian: lemeš (sh) m, raonik (sh) m
Slovak: radlica f
Slovene: lemež m
Spanish: reja (es) f
Sundanese: lanjam
Swedish: skär (sv) n, bill (sv) c, plogbill (sv) c
Tagalog: palinta, lipya
Turkish: saban demiri (tr)
Walloon: schî (wa) m
Welsh: swch f
Yiddish: אַקער־אײַזן m (aker-ayzn)

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