wallpaper

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Etymology

From wall + paper

Noun

wallpaper (countable and uncountable; plural wallpapers)

1. (uncountable) Decorative paper-like material used to cover the inner walls of buildings.
2. (countable) A style or design of such material or image.

   He is letting her select the wallpapers for the whole house.

3. (computing, Microsoft Windows) An image or tiled pattern used as a background to personalize a computer desktop.

Synonyms

• (computing: background image): desktop image (Mac OS, untiled), desktop pattern (Mac OS, tiled)

Derived terms

• ingrain wallpaper
• woodchip wallpaper

Translations

decorative paper for walls

• Arabic: ورق الحائط (ar) (wáraq al-ḥāʾiṭ) m
• Belarusian: шпалери (be) (špaljéry) pl
• Breton: paper-moger m
• Catalan: paper m, paper pintat, paper d'empaperar
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 壁紙 (cmn), 壁纸 (cmn) (bìzhǐ), 牆紙 (cmn), 墙纸 (cmn) (qiángzhǐ)

• Czech: tapeta (cs) f
• Danish: tapet (da) n
• Dutch: behang (nl) n, behangpapier (nl) n, behangselpapier (nl) n
• Estonian: tapeet (et)
• Finnish: tapetti (fi)
• French: papier peint (fr) m
• German: Tapete (de) f
• Greek: ταπετσαρία (el) (tapetsaría) f
• Hebrew: טפט (he) (ta'pet) m, טפיטי נייר (he) (tapiti nyar), נְייָר־קִיר (he) (nyar-kir)
• Hungarian: tapéta (hu)
• Italian: carta da parati (it) f
• Japanese: 壁紙 (ja) (かべがみ, kabegami)

• Korean: 벽지 (ko) (byeokji) (壁紙 (ko))
• Macedonian: тапет (mk) (tapét) m
• Malay: kertas dinding (ms)
• Persian: کاغذدیواری (fa) (kâqazdivâri)
• Polish: tapeta (pl) f
• Portuguese: papel de parede (pt) m
• Romanian: tapet (ro) n
• Russian: обои (ru) (obói) m pl
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тапета (sh) f

  Roman: tapeta (sh) f

• Slovak: tapeta (sk) f
• Spanish: papel pintado (es) m, papel tapiz (es) m, decomural (es) m
• Swedish: tapet (sv) c
• Turkish: duvar kâğıdı (tr)
• Ukrainian: шпалери (uk) (špaléry) pl
• Vietnamese: giấy dán tường (vi)
• Welsh: papur wal (cy) m

computing: image used to cover a desktop

• Czech: tapeta (cs) f
• Finnish: taustakuva (fi)
• French: fond d'écran (fr), papier-peint (fr) (Windows), image de bureau (fr) (Mac OS, untiled), motif de bureau (fr) (Mac OS, tiled)
• German: Hintergrundbild (de) n, Wallpaper (de)
• Greek: ταπετσαρία (el) (tapetsaría) f (tapetsaría), φόντο (el) (fónto) n (fóndo)

• Japanese: 壁紙 (ja) (かべがみ, kabegami)
• Macedonian: позадина (mk) (pozádina) f
• Persian: کاغذدیواری (fa) (kâqazdivâri)
• Portuguese: papel de parede (pt)
• Russian: обои (ru) (obói) m pl
• Swedish: skrivbordsbakgrund (sv) c, skrivbordsbild (sv) c

Verb

wallpaper (third-person singular simple present wallpapers, present participle wallpapering, simple past and past participle wallpapered)

1. (transitive) To cover (a wall, a room, etc) with wallpaper.

Synonyms

• (cover with wallpaper): paper

Translations

to cover with wallpaper

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: trad. 貼壁紙, simpl. 贴壁纸 (tiē bìzhǐ)

• Dutch: behangen (nl)
• Estonian: tapetseerima (et), tapeetima (et), tapeediga katma (et)
• Finnish: tapetoida (fi)
• French: tapisser (fr)
• German: tapezieren (de)
• Japanese: 壁紙をはる (ja) (kabegami o haru)

• Macedonian: тапетира (mk) (tapetíra)
• Persian: کاغذدیواری کردن (fa) (kâqazdivâri kardan)
• Polish: tapetować (pl)
• Russian: оклеивать обоями (ru) (okleivatʹ obojami)
• Slovak: tapetovať (sk)
• Spanish: empapelar (es)
• Swedish: tapetsera (sv)