handsaw

See also: hand saw

English

Different sizes of handsaws

Alternative forms

• hand saw

Etymology 1

From Middle English handsawe, handsagh, equivalent to hand +‎ saw. Cognate with West Frisian hânseage (“handsaw”), Dutch handzaag (“handsaw”), German Handsäge (“handsaw”), Danish håndsav (“handsaw”), Swedish handsåg (“handsaw”), Icelandic handsög (“handsaw”).

Noun

handsaw (plural handsaws)

1. A saw small enough to be used by one hand.

Coordinate terms

• backsaw, a handsaw that has a reinforcement along its back edge
• crosscut saw

Translations

saw small enough to be used by one hand

• Afrikaans: handsaag
• Albanian: sharrë dore
• Azerbaijani: əl bıçqısı, əl mişarı, xırxı
• Belarusian: нажо́ўка f (nažóŭka)
• Bulgarian: ръчен трион (rǎčen trion)
• Catalan: xerrac (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 手鋸／手锯 (zh) (shǒujù)

• Czech: viděl (cs) f, ruční pila f
• Dutch: handzaag (nl) f
• Estonian: käsisaag, vukssaag
• Finnish: käsisaha (fi)
• French: égoïne (fr) f, scie à main f, scie égoïne (fr) f
• Galician: serrón m
• Georgian: ხელის ხერხი (xelis xerxi)
• German: Fuchsschwanz (de) m, Handsäge (de) f
• Hindi: देखा (dekhā)
• Hungarian: fűrész (hu)
• Indonesian: gergaji (id)
• Irish: sábh láimhe m
• Italian: saracco m
• Japanese: 手びきのこ (てびきのこ, tebikinoko), 手のこぎり (てのこぎり, tenokogiri)
• Malay: gergaji (ms)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: håndsag m or f, handsag m or f

  Nynorsk: handsag f

• Ottoman Turkish: دستره (destere)
• Persian: دستره (fa) (dastare), دست اره (dast-arre)
• Polish: piła (pl) f
• Portuguese: serrote (pt) m
• Romanian: fierăstrău de mână n
• Russian: ножо́вка (ru) f (nožóvka), ручна́я пила́ f (ručnája pilá)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тестера f

  Roman: testera (sh) f

• Spanish: serrucho (es) m
• Swedish: fogsvans (sv) c, handsåg (sv) c
• Tagalog: nakakita, nakita
• Thai: ปื้น (bpeuun)
• Turkish: testere (tr), destere
• Ukrainian: ножі́вка (uk) f (nožívka)
• Uzbek: qoʻllarra
• Vietnamese: cưa tay
• Welsh: llawlif f

Etymology 2

Corruption of heronshaw.

Noun

handsaw (plural handsaws)

1. (obsolete) A heron.
   • c. 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act II, scene II:

     When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.

Anagrams

• Dashnaw, Dhawans