needle (sewing) pointer (on a dial) 23 realizations
ACCEPTED Realization 1
Type Polysemy
Language Albanian
Lexeme gjilpërë
Meaning 1 needle (sewing)
Direction
Meaning 2 pointer (on a dial)
Reference FGJSH
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 2
Type Polysemy
Language Catalan
Lexeme agulla
Meaning 1 needle (sewing)
Direction
Meaning 2 hand (of a clock)
Reference DIEC2
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 3
Type Polysemy
Language Czech
Lexeme jehla
Meaning 1 needle (sewing)
Direction
Meaning 2 pointer (on a dial)
Reference SSJČ
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 4
Type Polysemy
Language English
Lexeme needle
Meaning 1 needle (sewing)
Direction
Meaning 2 hand (of a clock), needle (of device)
Reference ODE
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 5
Type Polysemy
Language Finnish
Lexeme neula
Meaning 1 needle (sewing)
Direction
Meaning 2 needle (indicator)
Reference Kielitoimiston sanakirja
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 6
Type Polysemy
Language French
Lexeme aiguille
Meaning 1 needle (sewing)
Direction
Meaning 2 hand (of a clock), needle (of a compass)

aiguille des minutes

Reference CNRTL
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 7
Type Polysemy
Language Galician
Lexeme agulla
Meaning 1 needle (sewing)
Direction
Meaning 2 hand (of a clock)
Reference DRAG
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 8
Type Polysemy
Language German
Lexeme Nadel
Meaning 1 needle (sewing)
Direction
Meaning 2 needle (indicating device)
Reference DWDS
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 9
Type Polysemy
Language Irish Gaelic
Lexeme snáthaid
Meaning 1 needle (sewing)
Direction
Meaning 2 hand (of a clock), gnomon (of a sundial), pointer (on a dial)
Reference Ó Dónaill 1977
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 10
Type Polysemy
Language Japanese
Lexeme hari (針)
Meaning 1 needle (sewing)
Direction
Meaning 2 a hand or pointer (in clocks, watches, meters, compasses, etc.)

時計の針は3時を指しています (Tokei no hari wa san-ji o sashiteimasu.)


    The clock's hand is pointing to 3 o'clock.

Reference BJaRS English Wiktionary
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 11
Type Polysemy
Language Korean
Lexeme baneul (바늘)
Meaning 1 needle, pin
Direction
Meaning 2 hand (of a clock)
Reference <personally collected data>
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 12
Type Polysemy
Language Korean
Lexeme chim (침)
Meaning 1 needle (sewing)
Direction
Meaning 2 hand or pointer (in clocks, watches, meters, compasses, etc.)
Reference <personally collected data>
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 13
Type Polysemy
Language Latvian
Lexeme adata
Meaning 1 needle (sewing)
Direction
Meaning 2 pointer (on a dial)

spidometers drebināja rādītāja adatu, ceļa kilometri dila, un skaitlis uz skalas auga


the speedometer made its indicator needle tremble, the kilometers of the path (to go) decreased, and the numbers on the meter grew

Reference Tezaurs.lv English Wiktionary
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 14
Type Polysemy
Language Mandarin Chinese
Lexeme zhēn (針)
Meaning 1 needle (sewing)
Direction
Meaning 2 hand (of a clock), needle (of device)
Reference BKRS
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 15
Type Polysemy
Language Modern Greek
Lexeme βελόνα
Meaning 1 needle (sewing)
Direction
Meaning 2 needle, pointer, hand (on dial etc)
Reference DSMG
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 16
Type Borrowing
Language 1 Occitan
Language 2 Italian
Lexeme 1 agulha
Lexeme 2 aguglia
Meaning 1 needle (sewing)
Direction
Meaning 2 (archaic) compass needle
Reference Vocabolario Treccani
Comment

Borrowed from Old Occitan agulha, from Late Latin acūcula, diminutive of Latin acus 'needle' (whence Italian ago 'needle')

ACCEPTED Realization 17
Type Polysemy
Language Portuguese
Lexeme agulha
Meaning 1 needle (sewing)
Direction
Meaning 2 needle (thin device for indicating measurements on a dial or graph)
Reference DPLP
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 18
Type Polysemy
Language Slovenian
Lexeme igla
Meaning 1 needle (sewing)
Direction
Meaning 2 pointer (on a dial)
Reference SSKJ2
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 19
Type Polysemy
Language Spanish
Lexeme aguja
Meaning 1 needle (sewing)
Direction
Meaning 2 hand (of a clock)
Reference DRAE
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 20
Type Polysemy
Language Swedish
Lexeme nål
Meaning 1 needle (sewing)
Direction
Meaning 2 long, thin device for indicating measurements on a dial or graph
Reference SAOB
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 21
Type Derivation
Language Thai
Lexeme 1 kěm (เข็ม)
Lexeme 2 kěm-naa-lí-gaa (เข็มนาฬิกา)
Meaning 1 needle (sewing)
Direction
Meaning 2 hand (of a clock), needle (of device)
Reference SEAlang Thai
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 22
Type Polysemy
Language Turkish
Lexeme ibre
Meaning 1 needle (sewing)
Direction
Meaning 2 needle, a measurement indicator
Reference TDKS
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 23
Type Polysemy
Language Vietnamese
Lexeme kim
Meaning 1 needle (sewing)
Direction
Meaning 2 hand (of a clock)
Reference SEAlang Vietnamese
Comment