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paper clips

• paperclip

paper clip (plural paper clips)

1. A small, folded, wire or plastic device used to hold sheets of paper together.
2. (US, humorous) Listed after an amount of money to emphasize a lack of resources.
   • 1956 January, Gladys Prieur Thomas, “Too much month... not enough money”, in American Mercury, page 13:
     The rules of the game are to tap this fund only when you are down to ten cents and a paper clip.

paper clip

• Arabic: مِشْبَك وَرَق m (mišbak waraq)

• Armenian: ամրակ (hy) (amrak)

• Azerbaijani: kağız qısqacı

• Belarusian: канцыля́рская сашчэ́пка f (kancyljárskaja saščépka), сашчэ́пка f (saščépka)

• Bulgarian: кла́мер m (klámer)

• Catalan: clip (ca) m

• Chinese:
  Cantonese: 萬字夾 / 万字夹 (maan6 zi6 gaap3-2, maan6 zi6 gep6-2, maan6 zi6 gip6-2)
  Mandarin: 回形針 / 回形针 (zh) (huíxíngzhēn), 萬字夾 / 万字夹 (wànzìjiā), 迴紋針 / 回纹针 (huíwénzhēn), 回文針 / 回文针 (huíwénzhēn), 曲別針 / 曲别针 (zh) (qūbiézhēn), 紙夾 / 纸夹 (zh) (zhǐjiā)

• Czech: kancelářská sponka f, sponka f

• Danish: clips c, papirklips c

• Dutch: paperclip (nl) c

• Esperanto: paperklipo, paperfiksilo

• Estonian: kirjaklamber, klamber

• Faroese: pappírsklemma f

• Finnish: paperiliitin (fi), klemmari (fi) (colloquial)

• French: trombone (fr) m

• German: Büroklammer (de) f, Klammer (de) f

• Greek: συνδετήρας (el) m (syndetíras)

• Hausa: kìlîf m

• Hebrew: מְהַדֵּק (he) m (mehadéq)

• Hungarian: gemkapocs (hu)

• Icelandic: bréfaklemma (is)

• Indonesian: penjepit kertas

• Irish: fáiscín páipéar m

• Italian: graffetta (it) f, fermaglio (it) m

• Japanese: クリップ (ja) (kurippu), 紙挟み (ja) (かみばさみ, kamibasami)

• Korean: 클립 (ko) (keullip)

• Lithuanian: sąvaržėlė f

• Luxembourgish: Klamer f

• Macedonian: споју́валка f (spojúvalka), спо́јница f (spójnica)

• Māori: pine pepa, kinipepa

• Mongolian: цаасны хавчаар (caasny xavčaar)

• Navajo: naaltsoos ahíyółtąʼígíí

• Norwegian: binders

• Persian: کلیپس (fa) (klips), گیرهٔ کاغذ

• Polish: spinacz (pl) m

• Portuguese: clipe (pt) m, clips (colloquial)

• Romanian: agrafă (ro) f, clemă (ro) f

• Russian: канцеля́рская скре́пка f (kanceljárskaja skrépka), скре́пка (ru) f (skrépka)

• Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: спа́јалица f
  Latin: spájalica (sh) f

• Slovak: sponka f

• Slovene: spojka f

• Sorbian:
  Upper Sorbian: spinka (hsb) f

• Spanish: clip (es) m, sujetapapeles m, prendedor (es) m

• Swedish: gem (sv) n

• Turkish: ataş (tr), tutturgaç (tr) (very rare)

• Ukrainian: канцеля́рська скрі́пка f (kanceljársʹka skrípka), скрі́пка f (skrípka)

• binder clip

• bulldog clip

• gem clip