A magnifying glass . magnifying glass plural magnifying glasses
An instrument made of convex glass , used to magnify .
2013 Henry Petroski , “The Evolution of Eyeglasses ”, in American Scientist The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight.
2021 States, Actors and Geopolitical Drivers in the Mediterranean: Perspectives on the New Centrality in a Changing Region , Palgrave Macmillan , →ISBN 284 :Faced with this situation, the arrival of the Covid19 pandemic in late winter/early spring 2020 showed the real situation of the country, its fragility and the challenges it faces. Thus, analysis of the impact of Covid19 on Tunisia offers a useful magnifying glass to understand the path of Tunisia from the 2011 revolution to the present.
instrument
Albanian: thjerrëz (sq) f
Arabic: عَدَسَة مُكَبِّرَة f ( ʕadasat mukabbira )
Armenian: խոշորացույց (hy) ( xošoracʻuycʻ )
Azerbaijani: lupa böyüdücü şüşə
Belarusian: лу́па f ( lúpa ) , павеліча́льнае шкло n ( pavjeličálʹnaje šklo )
Bengali: আতশকাচ (bn) ( atśokac ) , বিবর্ধক কাচ (bn) ( bibordhok kac )
Bulgarian: лу́па (bg) f ( lúpa ) , увеличи́телно стъкло́ n ( uveličítelno stǎkló )
Burmese: မှန်ဘီလူး (my) ( hmanbhilu: ) , သူရကန် (my) ( sura.kan )
Catalan: lupa (ca) f
Cherokee: ᎠᏔᏃᎯᏍᏗᏍᎩ ( atanohisdisgi )
Chinese:
Cantonese: 放大鏡 ／ 放大镜 ( fong3 daai6 geng3 )
Eastern Min: 大頭鏡 ／ 大头镜 ( duâi-tàu-giáng )
Hokkien: 譀鏡 ／ 𰶆镜 (zh-min-nan) , 譀镜 ( hàm-kiàⁿ )
Mandarin: 放大鏡 ／ 放大镜 (zh) ( fàngdàjìng )
Czech: lupa (cs) f zvětšovací sklo n
Danish: lup forstørrelsesglas
Dutch: vergrootglas (nl) n loep (nl) f
Esperanto: lupeo grandiga vitro
Estonian: suurendusklaas luup (et)
Finnish: suurennuslasi (fi)
French: loupe (fr) f verre grossissant m
Galician: lupa f
Georgian: ლუპა ( luṗa ) , გამადიდებელი მინა ( gamadidebeli mina )
German: Lupe (de) f Vergrößerungsglas (de) n
Hebrew: זְכוּכִית מַגְדֶּלֶת (he) f ( zchuchít magdélet )
Hindi: आवर्धक लेन्स m ( āvardhak lens )
Hungarian: nagyító (hu)
Icelandic: stækkunargler n
Ido: lupo (io)
Indonesian: lup (id) , kaca pembesar (id) , suryakanta (id)
Irish: gloine mhéadaithe f
Italian: lente d'ingrandimento f
Japanese: 虫眼鏡 (ja) ( むしめがね, mushimegane ) , 拡大鏡 (ja) ( かくだいきょう, kakudaikyō ) , ルーペ (ja) ( rūpe )
Kalmyk: һал шил ( ğal şil )
Kannada: ಭೂತಗನ್ನಡಿ (kn) ( bhūtagannaḍi )
Kazakh: лупа ( lupa )
Khmer: កែវពង្រីក (km) ( kaew pŭəngriik ) , កែវឆ្លុះ ( kaew chloh )
Korean: 돋보기 (ko) ( dotbogi ) , 확대경(擴大鏡) (ko) ( hwakdaegyeong ) , 루페 ( rupe )
Kyrgyz: лупа ( lupa )
Lao: ຊີ້ນປົງ ( sīn pong ) , ແວ່ນຂະຫຍາຍ ( wǣn kha nyāi )
Latvian: palielināmais stikls m lupa f
Lithuanian: didinamasis stiklas m lupa (lt) f
Luxembourgish: Lupp f
Macedonian: лупа f ( lupa ) , зголемувач m ( zgolemuvač )
Malay: suryakanta kanta pembesar (ms)
Maori: karaihe whakanui
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: томруулагч шил ( tomruulagč šil )
Navajo: tózis yéego bee hootʼíní tsésǫʼ áhánídę́ę́ʼ niiniłígíí tózis ntsaago ádaʼaleʼé
Norman: vèrre d'approche m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: lupe (no) m or f forstørrelsesglass n
Nynorsk: lupe f
Persian: ذرهبین (fa) ( zarre-bin )
Polish: lupa (pl) f szkło powiększające (pl) n
Portuguese: lupa (pt) f lente de aumento f
Romanian: lupă (ro) f
Russian: лу́па (ru) f ( lúpa ) , увеличи́тельное стекло́ (ru) n ( uveličítelʹnoje stekló )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: лупа f увеличавајуће стакло n
Roman: lupa (sh) f uveličavajuće staklo n
Slovak: lupa f zväčšovacie sklo n
Slovene: lupa f povečevalno steklo (sl) n
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: lupa f
Spanish: lupa (es) f
Swedish: förstoringsglas (sv) n lupp (sv) c
Tagalog: pandako
Tajik: заррабин ( zarrabin ) , пурбин ( purbin )
Thai: แว่นขยาย ( wɛ̂n-kà-yǎai )
Tibetan: ཆེ་ཤེལ ( che shel )
Turkish: büyüteç (tr) , pertavsız (tr)
Turkmen: lupa
Ukrainian: лу́па f ( lúpa ) , збі́льшувальне скло n ( zbílʹšuvalʹne sklo )
Uzbek: lupa (uz)
Vietnamese: kính lúp (vi) , kiếng lúp
Welsh: chwyddwydr m
