From match + stick.
matchstick (plural matchsticks)
- A small, slender piece of wood or cardboard serving as a component of a match.
A piece of wood or cardboard becomes a matchstick once the end has been dipped in a sulfurous compound to turn it into a complete match.
- (chiefly in the plural) Any similarly small and thin piece.
The explosion blew the powder shed to matchsticks.
piece of wood
- Arabic: شَحّاطَة f (šaḥḥāṭa), شَخَّاطَة f (šaḵḵāṭa), كِبْرِيت m (kibrīt), كِبْرِيتَة f (kibrīta), ثِقَاب m (ṯiqāb), عُود ثِقَاب m (ʕūd ṯiqāb), عُود كِبْرِيت m (ʕūd kibrīt) , وَقِيد m (waqīd) (collective), وَقِيدة f (waqīda) (singulative)
- Armenian: լուցկի (hy) (lucʻki)
- Belarusian: запа́лка f (zapálka)
- Bulgarian: кибри́т m (kibrít)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 火柴 (fo2 caai4 / fo2 caai4-2)
- Hokkien: 番仔火 (zh-min-nan) (hoan-á-hé / hoan-á-hóe)
- Mandarin: 火柴 (zh) (huǒchái)
- Puxian Min: 火挩枝／火捝枝, 火拭枝
- Danish: tændstik (da) c
- Dutch: lucifer (nl) m
- Czech: zápalka (cs) f, sirka (cs) f (colloquial)
- Finnish: tulitikku (fi)
- French: allumette (fr) f
- Georgian: ასანთი (asanti)
- German: Streichholz (de) n, Zündholz (de) n
- Hungarian: gyufaszál (hu)
- Icelandic: eldspýta (is) f
- Irish: cipín (ga) m, cipín solais m, lasán m
- Japanese: マッチ (ja) (matchi)
- Khmer: ឈើគូស (chəə kuuh)
- Korean: 성냥 (ko) (seongnyang)
- Macedonian: кибритче n (kibritče), шкорче n (škorče), чкорче n (čkorče)
- Malayalam: തീപ്പെട്ടി (ml) (tīppeṭṭi)
- Ottoman Turkish: كبریت (kibrit)
- Persian:
- Dari: کِبْرِیت (fa) (kibrīt)
- Iranian Persian: کِبْریت (fa) (kebrit)
- Polish: zapałka (pl) f
- Portuguese: palito de fósforo m
- Russian: спи́чка (ru) f (spíčka)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ши̏бица f
- Roman: šȉbica (sh) f
- Slovak: zápalka f
- Slovene: vžigalica (sl) f
- Swahili: kijiti cha kiberiti
- Swedish: tändsticka (sv) c
- Telugu: అగ్గిపుల్ల (te) (aggipulla)
- Turkish: kibrit (tr)
- Ukrainian: сірни́к m (sirnýk)
- Vietnamese: diêm (vi), que diêm (vi)
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similar small and thin piece
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