wrist

/ɹɪst/

wrist noun: the complex joint between forearm bones, carpus, and metacarpals where the hand is attached to the arm; the carpus in a narrow sense.

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Noun

wrist (plural wrists)

The complex joint between forearm bones, carpus, and metacarpals where the hand is attached to the arm; the carpus in a narrow sense.
- With a flick of the wrist, he threw the frisbee to a team-mate.
A stud or pin which forms a journal.

Verb

wrist (third-person singular simple present wrists, present participle wristing, simple past and past participle wristed)

To hit a wrist shot.

wrist meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

wrist in Hindi

joint where the hand is attached to the arm: कलाई kalāī

wrist in Tamil

joint where the hand is attached to the arm: மணிக்கட்டு maṇikkaṭṭu

wrist in Marathi

joint where the hand is attached to the arm: मनगट mangaṭ

wrist in Urdu

joint where the hand is attached to the arm: کَلَائِی kalāī

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wrist in Bengali: কব্জি, মণিবন্ধ, কবজী
wrist in Telugu: మణికట్టు maṇikaṭṭu
wrist in Malayalam: മണിക്കെട്ട് maṇikkeṭṭŭ
wrist in Kannada: ಮಣಿಕಟ್ಟು maṇikaṭṭu
wrist in Punjabi: ਗੁੱਟ guṭṭa
wrist in Gujarati: કાંડુ kā̃ḍu
wrist in Sanskrit: मणिबन्ध maṇibandha
wrist in Nepali: नाडी nāḍī
wrist in Pashto: مړوند maṛwánd, مچ moc
wrist in Tagalog: galanggalangan, pulso
wrist in Arabic: مِعْصَم miʕṣam, رُسْغ rusḡ
wrist in Malay: pergelangan tangan, karpus
wrist in Indonesian: pergelangan tangan
wrist in Persian: مچ moč, مچ دست moč-e dast, خرده xorde, خردگاه xordgâh
wrist in Thai: ข้อมือ kɔ̂ɔ-mʉʉ
wrist in Vietnamese: cổ tay

Examples of wrist in a sentence

Of course there was nothing wrong with my left wrist. They X-rayed the wrong arm!
Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles.
He got a slap on the wrist, but I don't think he'll reform.

All 40 example sentences with wrist

Forms of wrist

Noun
plural	wrists
Verb
third-person singular present	wrists
present participle	wristing
past participle	wristed
past	wristed

Plural of wrist: wrists

Origin of wrist

From Middle English wrist, from Old English wrist, from Proto-West Germanic *wristu, from Proto-Germanic *wristuz (compare Old Frisian wrist, Low German Wrist, German Rist (“back of hand, instep, withers”), Swedish vrist), from Proto-Germanic *wrīþaną (“to twist, turn”). More at writhe.

Phrases with wrist

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Words that rhyme with wrist

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Questions about wrist

What does wrist mean?: Wrist means the complex joint between forearm bones, carpus, and metacarpals where the hand is attached to the arm; the carpus in a narrow sense.
What is wrist in Hindi?: Wrist in Hindi is कलाई (kalāī). See Wrist meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is wrist?: Wrist can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce wrist?: Wrist is pronounced /ɹɪst/.
What is the plural of wrist?: The plural of wrist is wrists.

Words near wrist in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: wrist (page history and authors); wrist (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); മണിക്കെട്ട് (Malayalam) (page history and authors); ಮಣಿಕಟ್ಟು (Kannada) (page history and authors); मणिबन्ध (Sanskrit) (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.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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