cufflink

See also: cuff link and cuff-link

English

A shirt cuff fastened with a cufflink

Alternative forms

• cuff link, cuff-link

Etymology

From cuff + link.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌflɪŋk/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

cufflink (plural cufflinks)

1. A button or stud used to hold a sleeve cuff together.

   Every gentleman needs at least one pair of cufflinks.

Synonyms

• sleeve-button
• sleeve-link

Hypernyms

• fastener

Derived terms

• cufflinked

Translations

button used to hold a sleeve cuff together

• Arabic: كَبَكْ m (kabak), وِثَاق اَلْكُفَّة m (wiṯāq al-kuffa)

  Hijazi Arabic: كَبَك m (kabak)

• Armenian: թեւքաճարմանդ (hy) (tʻewkʻačarmand), ճարմանդ (hy) (čarmand)
• Azerbaijani: zaponka
• Basque: eskumuturreko
• Belarusian: за́панка f (zápanka), шпо́нка f (špónka)
• Bulgarian: копче за ръкавели n (kopče za răkaveli)
• Catalan: botó de puny (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 袖扣 (zh) (xiùkòu)

• Czech: manžetový knoflík
• Danish: manchetknap c
• Dutch: manchetknoop (nl)
• Esperanto: manumbutono
• Estonian: mansetinööp
• Finnish: kalvosinnappi (fi)
• French: bouton de manchette (fr) m
• Georgian: საკინძი (saḳinʒi)
• German: Manschettenknopf (de) m
• Greek: μανικετόκουμπο (el) n (maniketókoumpo)
• Hungarian: mandzsettagomb (hu)
• Irish: lúibín cufa m
• Italian: gemello (it) m, gemelli (it) m pl
• Japanese: カフス (ja) (kafusu), カフリンクス (kafurinkusu), カフスボタン (ja) (kafusubotan)
• Kazakh: жеңілгек (jeŋilgek)
• Korean: 커프스 (keopeuseu), 커프 링크스 (keopeu ringkeuseu)
• Kyrgyz: запонка (zaponka)
• Macedonian: ко́пче за манже́тна n (kópče za manžétna)
• Manx: lhoobeen m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mansjettknapp m

  Nynorsk: mansjettknapp m

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: دُکْمِه (dokme)

• Plautdietsch: Hamdsmeiwknoop m
• Polish: spinka do mankietu f
• Portuguese: abotoadura (pt) f, botão de punho m
• Russian: за́понка (ru) f (záponka)
• Slovak: manžetový gombík m
• Slovene: manšetni gumb m
• Spanish: gemelo (es) m, broche (es) m (Ecuador), collera (es) f (Chile), mancorna f (Colombia), mancuerna (es) f (Panama), mancuernilla (es) f (Central America, Mexico), yugo (es) m (Cuba), yunta (es) f (Puerto Rico, Venezuela)
• Swedish: manschettknapp c
• Tajik: запонка (zaponka), тугма (tg) (tugma), бандак (bandak)
• Turkish: kol düğmesi
• Ukrainian: за́понка (uk) f (záponka), шпо́нка f (špónka)
• Uyghur: زاپونكا (zaponka)
• Uzbek: zaponka (uz)
• Welsh: dolen lawes f

See also

• French cuff