Chopsticks
From Chinese Pidgin English chop ( “ quick ” ) (compare chop-chop ) stick . The first element is a calque from Chinese 筷子 (kuàizi , “chopstick”), derived from 快 (kuài , “quick”).
chopstick (plural chopsticks )
( usually in the plural ) An East Asian eating utensil usually used as a pair and held in one hand to grip pieces of food or occasionally to mix liquids or scoop up small pieces of food. The utensil is a stick, usually made of wood and measuring approximately 23cm (10 inches) in length.
1906 January, R. T. Booth, “Medical and Surgical Notes”, in China Medical Missionary Journal [1] , volume XX, number 1, →ISSN , →OCLC , page 75 :It took three months’ massage twice a day for ten minutes to bring the muscles to a good condition, and the boy left the hospital able to lift weights as well as to use his chop-sticks .
( ethnic slur ) An Asian person.
single eating utensil
Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
Ainu: パスイ ( pasuy ) , イペパスイ ( ipepasuy )
Amis: alapit , alapi , alalpit
Arabic: أَعْوَاد الْأَكْل pl ( ʔaʕwād al-ʔakl ) , هَاشِي m ( hāšī ) ( from Japanese ) , عَصَا الْأَكْل m ( ʕaṣā l-ʔakl )
Armenian: փայտիկ (hy) ( pʻaytik ) , ուտելու փայտիկ ( utelu pʻaytik )
Asturian: paliyu m , paliellu m
Atayal: qqway
Bengali: হাশি (bn) ( haśi )
Bouyei: deh
Bulgarian: пръ́чка за хра́нене f ( prǎ́čka za hránene ) , кле́чка за хра́нене f ( kléčka za hránene )
Bunun: halcis
Burmese: တူ (my) ( tu )
Catalan: bastonet (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 筷子 ( faai3 zi2 )
Dungan: куэзы ( kuezɨ )
Eastern Min: 箸 ( dê̤ṳ )
Gan: 筷子 ( kuai3 zi )
Hakka: 筷仔 ( khoai-é )
Hokkien: 箸 (zh-min-nan) ( tī, tū )
Jin: 筷子 ( kuai3 zeh )
Mandarin: 筷子 (zh) ( kuàizi ) , 筷兒 / 筷儿 (zh) ( kuàir ) , 箸 (zh) ( zhù ) ( literary )
Wu: 筷 , 筷子
Xiang: 筷子 ( kuai4 zr )
Czech: jídelní hůlka f
Danish: spisepind c
Dutch: eetstokje (nl) n
Esperanto: haŝio , manĝbastoneto , kvajzo
Estonian: söögipulk
Faroese: etingarpinnur m , matpinnur m
Finnish: syömäpuikko (fi) , puikko (fi)
French: baguette (fr) f
Georgian: ჩხირები ( čxirebi )
German: Essstäbchen (de) n
Greek: ξυλάκι (el) n ( xyláki )
Gujarati: હાશી ( hāśī )
Hawaiian: lāʻau ʻai
Hebrew: מַקְּלוֹת אֲכִילָה m pl ( mak'lót akhilá )
Hindi: चीनी काँटा ( cīnī kā̃ṭā )
Hlai: tiep
Hungarian: evőpálcika (hu)
Icelandic: matarprjónn m , prjónn m
Indonesian: sumpit (id) , penyepit (id) , penjepit (id) , sepit (id)
Irish: cipín itheacháin m
Isan: please add this translation if you can
Italian: bacchetta (it) f
Japanese: 箸 (ja) ( はし, hashi ) , おはし (ja) ( o-hashi ) , 菜箸 ( さいばし, saibashi ) ( cooking/serving only ) , おてもと (ja) , お手許 , お手元 , 御手許 , 御手元 (ja) ( otemoto ) , 割り箸 (ja) ( わりばし, waribashi ) ( splittable )
Kanakanabu: 'arating
Kavalan: ipit
Kazakh: таяқша ( taäqşa )
Khmer: ចង្កឹះ (km) ( cɑngkəh ) , ថ្កៀប (km) ( thkiəp )
Korean: 젓가락 (ko) ( jeotgarak ) , 저가락 (ko) ( jeogarak ) ( North Korea )
Lao: ໄມ້ຖູ່ (lo) ( mai thū ) , ຖູ່ ( thū ) , ຕະຂຽບ ( ta khīap )
Lü: ᦏᦴᧈ ( ṫhuu¹ ) , ᦺᦙᧉᦏᦴᧈ ( may²ṫhuu¹ ) , ᦑᦰᦵᦆᧇ ( t!xeb )
Macanese: faichi
Macedonian: стапче за јадење n ( stapče za jadenje )
Malay: penyepit , sepit (ms)
Maltese: stikek tal-injam pl
Manchu: ᠰᠠᠪᡴᠠ ( sabka )
Maori: kapekape , kakape
Miyako: please add this translation if you can
Mon: သ္ကေပ်
Mongolian: савх (mn) ( savx ) , модон савх ( modon savx )
Nivkh: чафӄ ( ț’afq )
Norwegian: spisepinne m
Nuosu: ꎋ ( rrup )
Occitan: bròca (oc) f
Okinawan: メーシ ( meeshi ) , ウメーシ ( umeeshi )
Paiwan: qecap
Polish: pałeczka (pl) f
Portuguese: pauzinho (pt) m , hashi (pt) m
Puyuma: tratringal
Rukai: kacipi
Russian: па́лочка для еды́ f ( páločka dlja jedý ) , па́лочка (ru) f ( páločka ) , кита́йские па́лочки f pl ( kitájskije páločki ) ( in the plural only )
Saaroa: 'aratingi
Saisiyat: hahawar , hahowar , sasoway
Sakizaya: atip
Shan: ထူႇ (shn) ( thùu ) , မႆႉထူႇ ( mâ̰i thùu )
Slovak: palička f
Spanish: palillo (es) m
Swedish: ätpinne (sv) c , pinne (sv) c , kinapinne (sv) c
Tagalog: sipit-Intsik , sipit ng Intsik , ipit-ipit
Tajik: чӯбчаи хӯрока (tg) ( čübča-yi xüroka )
Taroko: atak
Thai: ตะเกียบ (th) ( dtà-gìiap )
Thao: kakthi
Tibetan: ཁོ་ཙེ ( kho tse )
Tsou: husu
Turkish: yemek çubuğu
Tuvan: сакпыт ( sakpıt )
Uyghur: چوكا ( choka )
Vietnamese: đũa (vi) (𥮊 ), đũa cả (vi) (𥮊 哿 ) ( for serving rice from a pot )
Volapük: fidastafil (vo)
Welsh: gweillen fwyta f
White Hmong: rab rawg tais , rawg
Yami: sosopit
Zhuang: dawh , guhduh
Zulu: please add this translation if you can
chopstick (third-person singular simple present chopsticks , present participle chopsticking , simple past and past participle chopsticked )
( transitive , intransitive , informal ) To pick up (food) using chopsticks.