fountain pen

See also: fountainpen

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

fountain pen (plural fountain pens)

A fountain pen

1. A pen containing a reservoir of ink, which is fed to a writing nib automatically.

   Hyponyms: cartridge pen, stylograph, stylographic pen

   • 1930, Dashiell Hammet, “The Levantine”, in The Maltese Falcon, New York, N.Y., London: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC, pages 57–58:

     Beside the wallet and its contents there were three gaily colored silk handkerchiefs fragrant of chypre; a platinum Longines watch on a platinum and red gold chain, attached at the other end to a small pear-shaped pendant of some white metal; a handful of United States, British, French, and Chinese coins; a ring holding half a dozen keys; a silver and onyx fountain-pen; a metal comb in a leatherette case; a nail-file in a leatherette case; […]

Coordinate terms

• dip pen, nib pen; stylographic pen; ballpoint pen; gel pen

Translations

pen containing a reservoir of ink

• Armenian: ինքնահոս գրիչ (inkʻnahos gričʻ)
• Azerbaijani: ruçka, avtomat qələm, avtoqələm
• Basque: idazluma, estilografiko
• Belarusian: аўтару́чка f (aŭtarúčka), ве́чнае пяро́ n (vjéčnaje pjaró), пёравая ру́чка f (pjóravaja rúčka)
• Bulgarian: автомати́чна писа́лка f (avtomatíčna pisálka)
• Catalan: ploma estilogràfica
• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 鋼筆 / 钢笔 (zh-min-nan) (kǹg-pit), 萬年筆 / 万年笔 (zh-min-nan) (bān-liân-pit) (Taiwan)

  Mandarin: 鋼筆 / 钢笔 (zh) (gāngbǐ)

• Czech: plnící pero n
• Danish: fyldepen (da) c
• Dutch: vulpen (nl) m
• Esperanto: fontoplumo
• Estonian: sulepea
• Finnish: täytekynä (fi)
• French: stylo-plume (fr) m, stylo à plume (fr) m
• Georgian: ავტოკალამი (avṭoḳalami)
• German: Füllfederhalter (de) m, Füller (de) m
• Greek: πένα (el) f (péna)
• Hebrew: עֵט נוֹבֵעַ m
• Hungarian: töltőtoll (hu)
• Icelandic: blekpenni m
• Ido: fontenoplumo (io)
• Indonesian: pulpen (id)
• Irish: peann tobair m
• Italian: penna stilografica f
• Japanese: 万年筆 (ja) (まんねんひつ, mannenhitsu)
• Kazakh: автоқалам (avtoqalam)
• Khmer: ស្ទីឡូ (stiilou), លេខនី (km) (leikhaʼnii), ស្លាបប៉ាកកា (slaap paakkaa), ស្លាបប៉ាកកាបូម (slaap paakkaa boum)
• Korean: 만년필(萬年筆) (ko) (mannyeonpil)
• Kyrgyz: авторучка (avtorucka)
• Lao: ສໍປາກກາ (sǭ pāk kā)
• Latvian: tintes pildspalva f
• Lithuanian: automatinis plunksnakotis m
• Luxembourgish: Füllfieder (lb)
• Macedonian: на́ливперо n (nálivpero)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: бэхтэй үзэг (bextej üzeg), авто үзэг (avto üzeg), сордог үзэг (sordog üzeg)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fyllepenn (no) m

  Nynorsk: fyllepenn m

• Persian: خودنویس (fa) (xod-nevis)
• Polish: wieczne pióro (pl) n, pióro (pl) n
• Portuguese: caneta de tinta permanente (pt) f (Portugal), caneta-tinteiro (pt) f (Brazil)
• Quechua: qillqana phuru
• Romanian: stilou (ro) n
• Russian: автору́чка (ru) f (avtorúčka), ве́чное перо́ n (véčnoje peró), перьева́я ру́чка f (perʹjevája rúčka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: на́ливперо n, пенка́ла f

  Roman: nálivpero (sh) n, penkála (sh) f

• Slovak: nalivno pero n
• Slovene: nalivno pero n
• Spanish: estilógrafo m, pluma estilográfica (es) f, pluma (es) f
• Swedish: reservoarpenna (sv) c
• Tagalog: pontempen
• Tajik: авторучка (avtoručka), қалами худнавис (qalam-i xudnavis), худнавис (xudnavis)
• Thai: ปากกาหมึกซึม (bpàak-gaa-mʉ̀k-sʉm)
• Turkish: dolma kalem (tr)
• Ukrainian: автору́чка (uk) f (avtorúčka), перо́ва ру́чка f (peróva rúčka), ві́чне перо́ n (víčne peró)
• Uzbek: avtoruchka (uz), favvora qalam
• Vietnamese: bút máy
• Welsh: pin llenwi m

Further reading

• fountain pen on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• List of pen types, brands and companies on Wikipedia.Wikipedia