WotD: (gardening) trowel

[muckefuck]

1. die Pflanzenkelle
2. de tuinschep
3. la pal(it)a de jardinería, el desplantador
4. el desplantador
5. le déplantoir
6. an lián plandaithe
7. y trywel
8. łopatka
9. 모종삽 (모종鍤)
10. 泥鏟 níchǎn
11. 園芸用こて (えんげいようこて), 移植ごて (いしょくごて)

Notes: After I'd finished transplanting the larger plants, I decided to dig up some sods and stick in some of the problem patches on the lawn. Scooter was out front weeding, so I asked him, "Do you have a trowel?"

"Do I have a towel?"

"Do you have a trowel. I want to do some digging and I need something smaller than this shovel."

"I have a small shovel," he said, offering me his tools: a hand cultivator and a gardening trowel.

If he'd been speaking Polish or American Spanish, "little shovel" would've been spot on. German and the Celtic languages agree with English in using the same basic term as for "masonry trowel" and modifying it as necessary to make the distinction, but Dutch uses a word which means "garden scoop" instead and the Chinese is literally "mud shovel" (which seems to be a term for spades as well).

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