Pliers

Pli′ers

,

Noun.

pl.

[From

to bend, fold.]

A kind of small pinchers with long jaws, – used for bending or cutting metal rods or wire, for handling small objects such as the parts of a watch, etc.

Pliers

PLI'ERS

,

Noun.

plu.

An instrument by which any small thing is seized and bent.

pliers

English

A pair of jewellers pliers

Noun

pliers pl ‎(plural only)

A gripping tool that multiplies the strength of the user's hand
I need a pair of pliers to get a good grip on that broken ****.

Usage notes

To make clear the quantity under discussion clearer, the expressions "a pair of pliers" or "(however many) pairs of pliers" can be used.
"A pliers" is somewhat awkward, though accepted in American English.

Derived terms

needlenose pliers

Translations

gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand

Albanian: pincë (sq) f
Arabic: زَرَّادِيَّة f ‎(zarrādiyya)

Egyptian Arabic: بنسة f ‎(bénsa), بنز m ‎(benz)

Hijazi Arabic: زَرَّادِيَّة f ‎(zarrādiyya)
Armenian: տափակաշուրթ (hy) ‎(tapʿakašurtʿ)
Bashkir: ҡыпһыуыр ‎(qïphïwïr), (Eastern) ҡыпсыуыр ‎(qïpsïwïr)
Belarusian: абцугі m pl ‎(abcuhí)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 鉗子 (zh), 钳子 (zh) ‎(qiánzi), 鉗 (zh), 钳 (zh) ‎(qián)
Czech: kleště (cs)
Danish: tang
Dutch: tang (nl) m, f
Esperanto: pinĉilo
Finnish: pihdit (fi) pl, tongit (fi) pl
French: pince (fr) f, pinces (fr) f pl
Georgian: ბრტყელტუჩა ‎(brṭq̇elṭuča)
German: Zange (de) f
Greek: πένσα (el) f ‎(pénsa)
Hebrew: מלקחת f ‎(melkákhat)
Hungarian: fogó (hu)
Ido: pinco (io), tenalio (io)
Indonesian: tang (id)
Italian: pinza (it) f, pinze (it) f pl
Japanese: プライヤー ‎(paraiyā), ペンチ ‎(penchi)
Korean: 플라이어 ‎(peullaieo)

Malay: tang
Maltese: tnalja f
Maori: kūmau
Norwegian:

Bokmål: tang (no) m, f

Nynorsk: tong f
Polish: cęgi (pl) pl, kombinerki (pl) pl
Portuguese: alicates m pl
Romanian: clește (ro) m
Russian: плоскогу́бцы (ru) m pl ‎(ploskogúbcy), пассати́жи (ru) m pl ‎(passatíži), щипцы́ (ru) m pl ‎(ščipcý), кле́щи (ru) m pl ‎(kléšči), куса́чки (ru) f pl ‎(kusáčki)
Scottish Gaelic: greimire f
Slovene: klešče (sl) f pl
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: klěšće pl
Spanish: alicates (es) m pl
Sranan Tongo: tanga
Swedish: tång (sv) c
Tagalog: bokay-pato, bokaypato, sagam
Tai Dam: ʻkím
Turkish: pense (tr), kargaburun
Uzbek: ombur (uz)
Venetian: pensa
Vietnamese: cái kìm, kềm (vi)
West Frisian: tange c
Yiddish: קנײַפּער m ‎(knayper)

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