A thimble by any other name. . .
Albanian: këllëf
Arabic: كشتبان, قمع الخياط, حلقة معدنية
Bulgarian: напръстник
Chinese: 顶针, 頂針 (ding zhēn)
Czech: náprstek
Danish: skede
Dutch: vingerhoed, vingerhoedje
Esperanto: fingringo
Farsi: لوله فلزی کوتاه , انگشتانه (angošt-âna)
Finnish: sekoittaja, sekoitin
French: dé (à coudre)
German: Fingerhut
Greek: δαχτυλήθρα
Hebrew: אצבעון
Hungarian: gyűszűk
Indonesian: bidal
Irish: méaracán
Italian: ditale
Japanese: 指貫き , 指貫 (Kanji), ゆびぬき (Katakana)
Korean: 명. 골무
Manx: mairane (Harebell)
Papiamen: vringud
Pig Latin: imblethay
Polish: naparstek
Portuguese: dedal
Romanian: degetar
Russian: наперсток
Scottish: meuran
Serbo-Croatian: naprstak
Spanish: dedal
Swedish: fingerborg
Thai: ปลอกสวมนิ้วสำหรับจับเข็มเย็บผ้า, สิ่งที่คล้ายปลอกดังกล่าว
Turkmen: oяmak, яьwse
Turkish: yüksük
Ukranian: наконечник
Welsh: gwniadur
If these words do not, in fact, mean thimble, or, even worse, mean something wholly un-thimble-ish (and naughty), please accept my profuse apologies. And blame. . .
http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/thimble
http://www.stars21.com/index.html
http://www.babylon.com
http://www.freedict.com
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