cellophane

English

Etymology

Genericized trademark. Blend of cellulose +‎ diaphane.

Pronunciation

• enPR: sě'ləfān, IPA^(key): /ˈsɛləfeɪn/
• Rhymes: -ān

Noun

cellophane (countable and uncountable, plural cellophanes)

1. Any of a variety of transparent plastic films, especially one made of processed cellulose.
   • 1967, “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”, The Beatles (music):

     Cellophane flowers of yellow and green towering over your head

Translations

the transparent plastic film

• Arabic: سِيلُوفَان m (silufān)
• Catalan: cel·lofana f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 玻璃紙／玻璃纸 (zh), 玻璃纸 (zh) (bōlizhǐ)

• Czech: celofán m
• Danish: cellofan (da) n
• Finnish: sellofaani (fi)
• French: cellophane (fr) f
• German: Cellophan n, Zellglas n
• Greek: σελοφάν (el) n (selofán)
• Hungarian: celofán (hu)
• Indonesian: selofan (id)
• Italian: cellofan (it) m
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• Japanese: セロファン (serofan), セロハン (serohan)
• Korean: 셀로판 (sellopan)
• Malay: selofan
• Polish: celofan (pl) m
• Portuguese: celofane m
• Romanian: celofan (ro) n
• Russian: целлофа́н (ru) m (cellofán)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: целофан m

  Roman: celofan (sh) m

• Spanish: celofán (es) m, celo (es) m
• Swedish: cellofan (sv) n
• Thai: กระดาษแก้ว (th) (grà-dàat-gɛ̂ɛo)

Verb

1. (transitive) To wrap or package in cellophane.

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French

Etymology

Genericized trademark.

Noun

cellophane m (uncountable)

1. cellophane

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛ.lɔ.fan/ ~ /se.lɔ.fan/

• Audio:

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Further reading

• “cellophane”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Noun

cellophane m

1. cellophane

Synonyms

• cellofan