band-aid

See also: bandaid

English

Band-aid

Alternative forms

• bandaid

Etymology

Genericized trademark from Band-Aid, registered and coined by Johnson & Johnson in 1924 as band(age) +‎ aid.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbændeɪd/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

band-aid (plural band-aids)

1. (Australia, Canada, US, Philippines) An adhesive bandage, a small piece of fabric or plastic that may be stuck to the skin in order to temporarily cover a small wound.

   Synonyms: adhesive bandage, Elastoplast (UK), plaster (UK), sticking plaster (UK)

2. (informal, idiomatic, Australia, Canada, US, Philippines) A temporary or makeshift solution to a problem, created ad hoc and often with a lack of foresight. [from 1968]

   Synonym: hack

   • 1968, United Church Observer, n 15 (March), p 36:

     It was another of those political band-aids patted over a minor sore.

Derived terms

• band-aid brigade
• band-aid buggy
• band-aid solution
• put a band-aid on a bullet wound
• rip off the band-aid, rip the band-aid off

Translations

adhesive bandage

• Afrikaans: pleister
• Arabic: ضِمَادَة f (ḍimāda), لاصِق طِبِّي m (lāṣiq ṭibbī)

  Gulf Arabic: لزاق m (lazzāg), بلاستر m (blāstar, plāstar)

• Armenian: սպեղանի (hy) (speġani)
• Belarusian: лейкапла́стыр m (ljejkaplástyr), пла́стыр m (plástyr)
• Bislama: banded
• Bulgarian: пласти́р (bg) m (plastír), лейкопласт (bg) m (lejkoplast), лепенка f (lepenka), цитопласт f (citoplast)
• Catalan: tireta (ca) f, apòsit m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 創可貼 / 创可贴 (zh) (chuàngkětiē), 邦迪 (zh) (bāngdí), OK繃 / OK绷 (zh) (ōukēibèng, ōukēibàng) (chiefly Taiwan)

• Czech: náplast (cs) f, leukoplast m
• Danish: plaster n, hæfteplaster (da) n
• Dutch: pleister (nl) f
• Esperanto: bandaĝo (eo), sparadrapo
• Estonian: plaaster
• Finnish: laastari (fi)
• French: pansement (fr) m, sparadrap (fr) m
• Galician: banda (gl) f
• Georgian: სალბუნი (salbuni)
• German: Pflaster (de) n, (for clarity) Wundpflaster (de) n, Heftpflaster (de) n, (medical) Wundschnellverband m, (dated) Leukoplast (de) n
• Greek: λευκοπλάστης (el) m (lefkoplástis)
• Hebrew: פְּלַסְטֶר (he) m (pláster)
• Hungarian: sebtapasz (hu), ragtapasz (hu), gyorstapasz, tapasz (hu), kötszer (hu)
• Icelandic: plástur (is) m
• Indonesian: plester (id)
• Ingrian: plaasteri
• Irish: plástar m, greimlín m
• Italian: cerotto (it) m
• Japanese: 絆創膏 (ja) (ばんそうこう, bansōkō), バンドエイド (bandoeido)
• Korean: 반창고 (ko) (banchanggo), 밴드에이드 (baendeueideu)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: pleistras m
• Macedonian: фластер m (flaster)
• Māori: tāpi, piritāpi
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: empliâtre m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: plaster n

• Occitan: pensament (oc) m
• Polish: plaster (pl) m, przylepiec (pl) m
• Portuguese: penso (pt) m, band-aid (pt) m
• Romanian: plasture (ro) m
• Russian: лейкопла́стырь (ru) m (lejkoplástyrʹ), пла́стырь (ru) m (plástyrʹ)
• Sardinian: tzerotu m, cerotu m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: фла̏стер m

  Latin: flȁster (sh) m

• Slovak: leukoplast m
• Slovene: obliž (sl) m
• Spanish: (Latin America) curita (es) f, (Chile) parche curita (es), tirita (es) f, (Spain) apósito (es) m, esparadrapo (es) m, leuco (es) m (Uruguay), venda adhesiva f
• Swedish: plåster (sv) n
• Tagalog: koritas
• Turkish: yara bandı (tr)
• Ukrainian: лейкопла́стир m (lejkoplástyr), пла́стир m (plástyr)
• Vietnamese: băng cá nhân, băng keo cá nhân
• Wolof: esparadaraa

temporary or makeshift solution

• Bulgarian: кръпка (bg) f (krǎpka)
• Finnish: paikkaus (fi)
• German: Behelfslösung f, Behelf (de) m, Notlösung (de) f, Übergangslösung (de) f
• Hungarian: szükségmegoldás (hu), hevenyészett/átmeneti/ideiglenes/kisegítő megoldás
• Polish: improwizacja (pl) f
• Russian: (informal) запла́тка (ru) f (zaplátka), косты́ль (ru) m (kostýlʹ)
• Spanish: paños calientes m
• Swedish: plåster (sv) n

Further reading

• adhesive bandage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

band-aid (third-person singular simple present band-aids, present participle band-aiding, simple past and past participle band-aided)

1. (transitive) To apply an adhesive bandage.

   As a school nurse, Pat was used to band-aiding lots of scraped knees and elbows.

2. (transitive, figuratively, by extension) To apply a makeshift fix; to jury-rig.

   Rather than fix the code, we just band-aided the problem by hiding the error message.

   • 1990 February 4, Leonard Tirado, “Privatized 'Recovery' Versus Collective Action”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 19:

     This is where the addictions theorists and therapists fail (perhaps for lack of nerve): they never strongly suggest that their critique should become the basis for concerted, collective therapy as well as individual therapy. They can't. To do so would mean risking their own dependency upon the system and upon the rewards they receive for band-aiding it.

Translations

to apply an adhesive bandage

• Bulgarian: облепям impf (oblepjam), облепвам impf (oblepvam), облепя (bg) pf (oblepja)
• Dutch: pleister plakken
• Finnish: laastaroida (fi)
• Māori: tāpi
• Norwegian: plastre
• Polish: przyklejać plaster impf, przykleić plaster pf

to apply a makeshift fix; to jury-rig

• Bulgarian: закърпвам (bg) impf (zakǎrpvam), закърпя pf (zakǎrpja)
• Hungarian: hevenyészett/átmeneti/ideiglenes/kisegítő megoldást ad, összetákol (hu)
• Polish: improwizować (pl) impf, zaimprowizować (pl) pf
• Russian: залата́ть (ru) (zalatátʹ) (informal), пофи́ксить (ru) (pofíksitʹ) (slang, computing)

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• bandeide (adapted spelling)

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English band-aid, genericized trademark from Band-Aid, registered and coined by Johnson & Johnson in 1924.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /bɐ̃ˈdej.d͡ʒi/ [bɐ̃ˈdeɪ̯.d͡ʒi]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /bɐ̃ˈdej.d͡ʒi/ [bɐ̃ˈdeɪ̯.d͡ʒi]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /bɐ̃ˈdej.de/ [bɐ̃ˈdeɪ̯.de]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐ̃ˈdɐj.dɨ/ [bɐ̃ˈdɐj.ðɨ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐ̃ˈdɐj.dɨ/ [bɐ̃ˈdɐj.ðɨ]
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐ̃ˈdej.dɨ/ [bɐ̃ˈdej.ðɨ]
  • (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐ̃ˈdej.dɨ/ [bɐ̃ˈdej.ðɨ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐ̃ˈde.dɨ/ [bɐ̃ˈde.ðɨ]

Noun

band-aid m (plural band-aids)

1. band-aid (adhesive bandage)

   Synonym: penso

Further reading

• “band-aid”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026