nail polish

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

nail polish (usually uncountable, plural nail polishes)

1. A cosmetic lacquer applied to the fingernails or toenails.
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Synonyms

• nail enamel
• nail varnish
• nail lacquer

Derived terms

• nail-polished
• nail polish remover

Translations

cosmetic lacquer

• Afrikaans: naellak
• Arabic: مَنَاكِير m or f (manākīr)
• Armenian: լաք (hy) (lakʻ), եղունգների լաք (eġungneri lakʻ)
• Assamese: নখপালিচ (nokhpalis)
• Azerbaijani: dırnaq lakı
• Bengali: নখপালিশ (bn) (nokhpaliś)
• Bulgarian: лак за нокти m (lak za nokti)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 指甲油 (zh) (zhǐjiǎyóu)

• Czech: lak na nehty m
• Danish: neglelak (da) c
• Dutch: nagellak (nl) m or n
• Elfdalian: nagellakk n
• Esperanto: ungolako
• Faroese: neglalakk n
• Finnish: kynsilakka (fi)
• French: vernis à ongles (fr) m
• German: Nagellack (de) m
• Hindi: नेल पॉलिश m (nel pŏliś)
• Hungarian: körömlakk (hu)
• Icelandic: naglalakk
• Irish: vearnais iongan f
• Italian: smalto per unghie
• Japanese: ネイルエナメル (neiruenameru), ネイルカラー (neirukarā), ネイルポリッシュ (neiruporisshu), ネールポリッシュ (nēruporisshu)
• Manx: varnish ingney f
• Mewari: नुकमेंदी (nukmendī)
• Navajo: láshgaan bee yiilchíhí
• Ngazidja Comorian: yina shizungu
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: neglelakk m

  Nynorsk: naglelakk m

• Persian: لاک ناخُن (lâk-e nâxon)
• Polish: lakier do paznokci (pl) m
• Portuguese: verniz (pt) m (Portugal), esmalte (pt) m (Brazil), esmalte de unha
• Romanian: ojă (ro) f, lac de unghii n
• Russian: лак (ru) m (lak), лак для ногте́й m (lak dlja nogtéj)
• Sanskrit: नखराग m (nakharāga)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: лак за нокте m

  Roman: lak za nokte

• Slovak: lak na nechty
• Southern Sami: guehperelaahke
• Spanish: esmalte de uñas m, esmalte (es) m, pintaúñas m, laca de uñas f, glas (es) m (Honduras)
• Swedish: nagellack (sv) n
• Sylheti: ꠘꠃꠈꠙꠣꠟꠤꠡ (noukófaliś)
• Thai: ยาทาเล็บ (yaataa lép)
• Turkish: oje (tr)
• Ukrainian: лак m (lak), лак для ні́гтів m (lak dlja níhtiv)
• Urdu: نیل پالش (nel-pāliś)