English
Noun
kneecap (plural kneecaps)
- The flat, roundish bone in the knee.
Synonyms
Translations
bone
- Arabic: رَضَفَة f (raḍafa)
- Egyptian Arabic: صبونة f (ṣabuna)
- Armenian: ծնկոսկր (hy) (cnkoskr)
- Burmese: ဒူးခေါင်း (my) (du:hkaung:)
- Catalan: ròtula f, patel·la f
- Central Melanau: sulau bukou
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 膝蓋骨 (zh), 膝盖骨 (zh) (xīgàigǔ)
- Czech: čéška (cs) f
- Danish: knæskal (da) c
- Dhivehi: ފިޔަން ކަށިގަނޑު (fiyan kashiganaḍu)
- Dutch: knieschijf (nl) f, m, patella f, m
- Esperanto: patelo
- Finnish: polvilumpio (fi)
- French: rotule (fr) f
- Georgian:
- German: Kniescheibe (de) f
- Greek: επιγονατίδα (el) f (epigonatída)
- Guaraní: penarã
- Hebrew:
- Hungarian: térdkalács (hu)
- Icelandic: hnéskel (is) f
- Indonesian: tempurung lutut (id), patela (id), cencawan (id), kunci-kunci lutut
- Irish: gealacán m, gealacán glúine m, caipín glúine m
- Italian: rotula (it) f, patella f
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- Japanese: 膝蓋骨 (ja) (しつがいこつ, shitsugaikotsu)
- Kannada: ಮಂಡಿಚಿಪ್ಪು (kn) (maṃḍicippu)
- Khmer:
- Korean: 슬개골 (ko) (seulgaegol) (膝蓋骨 (ko)), 무릎뼈 (ko) (mureupppyeo)
- Lao: ຫມາກບ້າຫົວເຂົ່າ (māk bā hūa khao), ສະບັງ (sa bang), ຊານຸມົນທົນ (sā nu mon thon)
- Malay: tempurung lutut, cencawan, kunci-kunci lutut, patela
- Maori: popoki
- Mongolian: тойг (mn)
- Newari: पुलिक्वँय् (pulikvãy)
- Norman: palette du g'nou f (Jersey)
- Northern Sami: čibbeskálžu
- Persian: کشکک (fa) (kaškak)
- Polish: rzepka f
- Portuguese: rótula (pt), patela (pt) f
- Russian: коле́нная ча́шечка f (kolénnaja čášečka), надколе́нник (ru) m (nadkolénnik), надколе́нная ча́шка f (nadkolénnaja čáška)
- Scottish Gaelic: failmean m
- Slovene: pogačica (sl) f
- Spanish: rótula (es) f
- Swedish: knäskål (sv) c
- Tagalog: suklob-tuhod, suklob ng tuhod, bayugo
- Telugu: మోకాటి చిప్ప (mōkāṭi cippa)
- Thai: สะบ้า (sà-bâa)
- Turkish: diz kapağı (tr)
- Ukrainian:
- Volapük: patel
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Verb
kneecap (third-person singular simple present kneecaps, present participle kneecapping, simple past and past participle kneecapped)
- (transitive) To destroy the kneecaps of (a person), usually by shooting at the knees, as a punishment carried out by criminals or terrorists.
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