dental floss

English

Etymology

dental +‎ floss

Noun

dental floss (uncountable)

1. A cord of thin filaments used to clean the areas between the teeth.

Translations

cord of thin filaments used to clean the areas between the teeth

• Arabic: خَيْط أَسْنَان (ḵayṭ ʔasnān)
• Armenian: ատամի թել (atami tʻel)
• Bulgarian: коне́ц за зъ̀би m (konéc za zǎ̀bi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 牙線／牙线 (ngaa⁴ sin³), 牙线 (ngaa⁴ sin³)

  Mandarin: 牙線／牙线 (zh) (yáxiàn), 牙线 (zh) (yáxiàn)

  Min Nan: 齒線／齿线, 齿线 (khí-soàⁿ)

• Czech: zubní nit f
• Danish: tandtråd (da) c
• Dutch: tandzijde (nl) f
• Estonian: hambaniit (et)
• Finnish: hammaslanka (fi)
• French: fil dentaire (fr) m, soie dentaire (fr) f (Canada)
• German: Zahnseide (de) f
• Greek: οδοντόνημα n (odontónima), οδοντική μέταξα f (odontikí métaxa) (medical)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: fogselyem (hu)
• Icelandic: tannþráður m
• Irish: flas fiacla m
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• Italian: filo interdentale
• Japanese: デンタルフロス (dentaru furosu), フロス (ja) (furosu)
• Kazakh: тіс жібі (tıs jıbı)
• Korean: 치실 (chisil)
• Macedonian: за́бен ко́нец m (záben kónec)
• Maltese: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: miro niho
• Navajo: awókʼiz análdiłí
• Polish: nić dentystyczna
• Portuguese: fio dental (pt) m
• Russian: ни́тка для чи́стки зубо́в f (nítka dlja čístki zubóv), зубна́я нить f (zubnája nitʹ), флосс (ru) m (floss)
• Serbo-Croatian: sirova svila f
• Slovak: zubná niť
• Spanish: hilo dental (es) m, seda dental f
• Swedish: tandtråd (sv)
• Thai: ไหมขัดฟัน (mǎi-kàt-fan)
• Tibetan: སོ་སྐུད (so skud)
• Turkish: diş ipi
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Uyghur: چىش يىپى (chish yipi)
• Vietnamese: chỉ nha khoa (literally “dentistry thread”)