spinning top

English

A Japanese spinning top

Large tin top with sound

Noun

spinning top (plural spinning tops)

1. A toy with a tapering point that can be made to spin on its axis, either with a built-in pump-action handle, with the fingers or with a string.

   Synonyms: humming top, spin-top, top

   • 2023 August 11, Nicola Davis, “Scientists may be on brink of discovering fifth force of nature”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Patel says the muons behave a bit like a child’s spinning top, in rotating around the axis of the magnetic field. However, as the muons move, they wobble.

Translations

a toy

• Amis: 'acocol
• Arabic: دُوَّامَة f (duwwāma), بُلْبُل m (bulbul), خُذْرُوف m (ḵuḏrūf)

  Hijazi Arabic: مِدْوان m (midwān)

  Moroccan Arabic: طرومبية f (ṭrūmbiyya)

• Armenian: հոլ (hy) (hol)
• Azerbaijani: fırfıra, fırlanqıc
• Basque: ziba, zibota
• Belarusian: ваўчо́к m (vaŭčók), юла́ f (julá), жэ́ўжык m (žéŭžyk), дзы́га f (dzýha), по́рплік m (pórplik), юро́к m (jurók)
• Bulgarian: пу́мпал (bg) m (púmpal)
• Burmese: ဂျင် (my) (gyang)
• Catalan: baldufa (ca) f
• Chickasaw: ^{(please verify)} hilha'chi'
• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 矸轆／矸辘

  Mandarin: 陀螺 (zh) (tuóluó)

• Czech: káča f, vlk (cs) m, vlček (cs) m, čamrda (cs) f (dated)
• Danish: snurretop c
• Dutch: tol (nl) m
• Esperanto: turbo (eo)
• Estonian: vurr, vurrkann
• Finnish: hyrrä (fi)
• French: toupie (fr) f
• Galician: buxaina (gl) f, pión (gl) m, panduxo m, carabuxa f, rincha (gl) f
• Georgian: ბზრიალა (bzriala)
• German: Kreisel (de) m
• Greek: σβούρα (el) f (svoúra)

  Ancient: βέμβιξ f (bémbix), ^{(please verify)} στρόβιλος m (stróbilos)

• Hebrew: סְבִיבוֹן (he) m (s'vivón)
• Hindi: ^{(please verify)} फिरकी (hi) f (phirkī)
• Hungarian: pörgettyű (hu), (with sound) búgócsiga (hu)
• Icelandic: skopparakringla (is) f
• Ido: tupio (io)
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} gasing (id)
• Irish: caiseal m
• Italian: trottola (it) f
• Japanese: 独楽 (ja) (こま, koma), 貝独楽 (べいごま, beigoma) (traditional Japanese "beigoma")
• Kankanaey: bawet
• Kazakh: зырылдауық (zyryldauyq)
• Khmer: ^{(please verify)} វូ (km) (vuu)
• Korean: 팽이 (ko) (paeng'i)
• Latvian: vilciņš m
• Lithuanian: sukutis m, ^{(please verify)} vilkelis m
• Luxembourgish: Dapp m
• Macedonian: врте́лешка f (vrtéleška), врти́мушка f (vrtímuška)
• Malay: gasing (ms)
• Malayalam: പമ്പരം (ml) (pamparaṁ)
• Maltese: żugraga f
• Maori: pōtaka, kaihōtaka, ^{(please verify)} kaitaka
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Northern Mansi: ^{(please verify)} ларгалтап (largaltap)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: snurrebass (no) m

  Nynorsk: snurrebass m, snurrebasse m

• Ottoman Turkish: طوپاچ (topaç)
• Polish: bąk (pl) m, bączek (pl) m (small), fryga f (dated), cyga (pl) f (dated)
• Portuguese: pião (pt) m
• Romanian: titirez (ro) n, ^{(please verify)} sfârlează (ro) f
• Russian: волчо́к (ru) m (volčók), юла́ (ru) f (julá), куба́рь (ru) m (kubárʹ) (dated)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: звр̑к m, чи̏гра f

  Roman: zvȓk (sh) m, čȉgra (sh) f

• Sicilian: còcula (scn) f, sajitta f, strùmmula (scn) f, tuppettu m
• Slovak: vĺčik m
• Slovene: vrtavka (sl) f
• Spanish: peonza (es) f, trompo (es) m, pirinola (es) f, peón (es)
• Swedish: snurra (sv) c
• Tagalog: trumpo, turumpo
• Tamil: பம்பரம் (ta) (pamparam)
• Tausug: talungkup
• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} బొంగరము (te) (boṅgaramu)
• Thai: ข่าง (th) (kàang), ^{(please verify)} ลูกข่าง (th) (lûuk-kàang)
• Turkish: topaç (tr), fırıldak (tr)
• Ukrainian: дзи́ґа (uk) f (dzýga), ґере́ґа f (geréga) (dated), ґадже́ло n (gadžélo) (dated)
• Uzbek: pildiroq (uz), bizbizak (uz)
• Vietnamese: đánh quay, cù (vi)
• Volapük: tupit (vo)
• Walloon: ^{(please verify)} tourpene (wa) f, ^{(please verify)} paraglaece (wa) m, ^{(please verify)} carikêye (wa) f, ^{(please verify)} biza (wa) m
• Yiddish: דריידל n (dreydl)

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