anklet
Syllables: ank·let/ˈæŋklət/
anklet noun: a piece of jewelry/jewellery, resembling a bracelet but worn around the ankle.
Noun
anklet (plural anklets)
- A piece of jewelry/jewellery, resembling a bracelet but worn around the ankle.
- The men wear their frizzly hair gathered into a flat circular knot over the left temple, which has a very knowing look, and in their ears cylinders of wood as thick as one's finger, and coloured red at the ends. Armlets and anklets of woven grass or of silver, with necklaces of beads or of small...1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 79
- An ankle sock.
- Stretch socks are made in infant sizes, girls' and ladies' anklets […]1959, Chain Store Age for Supermarket-Grocery Executives, page 237
anklet meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
anklet in Hindi
- a bracelet at the ankle
- पायल pāyal
anklet in Tamil
- a bracelet at the ankle
- கொலுசு kolucu
anklet in Marathi
- a bracelet at the ankle
- पैंजण paiñjaṇ
anklet in Urdu
- anklet, an ornament worn on the feet or ankle
- پازیب pāzeb
- anklet
- پایل pāyal, ابرنجن abranjan, ابرنجین abranjīn, کڑا kaṛā
More languagesFewer languages
- anklet in Telugu
- అందె ande
- anklet in Malayalam
- പാദസരം pādasaraṁ, കൊലുസ് kolusŭ
- anklet in Kannada
- ತಂಡೆ taṇḍe
- anklet in Punjabi
- ਝਾਂਜਰ jhāñjar, جھان٘جَر jhāṉjar
- anklet in Gujarati
- ઝાંઝર jhāñjhar, લંગર laṅgar
- anklet in Odia
- ପାଉଁଜି pāũji
- anklet in Arabic
- خَلْخَال ḵalḵāl
- anklet in Malay
- gelang kaki
- anklet in Persian
- پایابرنجن pây-abranjan
Forms of anklet
| plural | anklets |
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Origin of anklet
From ankle + -et, based on bracelet.
Words formed from anklet
Questions about anklet
- What does anklet mean?
- Anklet means a piece of jewelry/jewellery, resembling a bracelet but worn around the ankle.
- What is anklet in Hindi?
- Anklet in Hindi is पायल (pāyal). See Anklet meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is anklet?
- Anklet is a noun.
- How do you pronounce anklet?
- Anklet is pronounced /ˈæŋklət/.
- What is the plural of anklet?
- The plural of anklet is anklets.
Words near anklet in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: anklet (page history and authors); ابرنجن (Urdu) (page history and authors); ઝાંઝર (Gujarati) (page history and authors); ପାଉଁଜି (Odia) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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