diaper

English

A toddler wearing a diaper.

Etymology

From Middle English dyaper, from Old French dyapre, diaspre, from Medieval Latin diaspra, diasprum from Byzantine Greek δίασπρος (díaspros, adj), from δια- (dia-, “across”) + ἄσπρος (áspros, “white”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪəpə/
• IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪ(ə)pɚ/

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• Rhymes: -aɪpə(ɹ), -aɪəpə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: di‧a‧per, dia‧per

Noun

diaper (countable and uncountable, plural diapers)

1. A textile fabric having a diamond-shaped pattern formed by alternating directions of thread.
   • 1890, Oscar Wilde, chapter XI, in The Picture of Dorian Gray:

     The orphreys were woven in a diaper of red and gold silk, and were starred with medallions of many saints and martyrs, among whom was St. Sebastian.

2. A towel or napkin made from such fabric.
   • (Can we date this quote by Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Let one attend him with a silver basin, […] / Another bear the ewer, the third a diaper.

3. (Canada, US) An absorbent garment worn by a baby, by a young child not yet toilet trained, or by an adult who is incontinent; a nappy.
4. The diamond pattern associated with diaper textiles.
5. Surface decoration of any sort which consists of the constant repetition of one or more simple figures or units of design evenly spaced.

Synonyms

• (absorbent garment): nappy (British, Australia); napkin (British, archaic); napkin (South African)

Derived terms

• diaperhood
• diaperism
• diaperwork
• incontinence diaper

Translations

absorbent garment worn by a baby, or by someone who is incontinent

• Albanian: pelenë (sq) f
• Arabic: حِفَاض f (ḥifāḍ), حِفَاظ f (ḥifāẓ), فُوطَة اَلطِّفْل f (fūṭat aṭ-ṭifl)

  Egyptian Arabic: حفاضه

  Hijazi Arabic: حفاضة m (ḥufāḍa)

  Moroccan Arabic: كوشة f (kuša)

• Armenian: խանձարուր (hy) (xanjarur), տակաշոր (hy) (takašor), տակդիր (hy) (takdir), պամպերս (pampers) (colloquial)
• Aromanian: scutic n
• Asturian: pañal m
• Azerbaijani: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: падгу́знік m (padhúznik)
• Bengali: বুটি (buṭi)
• Breton: trezh m
• Bulgarian: пелена f (pelena)
• Burmese: အနှီး (my) (a.hni:)
• Catalan: bolquer (ca) m, bolcall m, llençolet m
• Cherokee: ᎤᎾᏎᎶᏗ (unaselodi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 尿片 (niu⁶ pin^3-2)

  Mandarin: 尿布 (zh) (niàobù)

• Czech: plena (cs) f, plenka (cs) f
• Danish: ble (da) c
• Dutch: luier (nl) m, pamper (nl) m
• Elfdalian: blöja f
• Esperanto: vindotuko (eo)
• Estonian: mähe
• Faroese: blæa f
• Finnish: vaippa (fi)
• French: couche (fr) f
• Galician: cueiro m, brullo m, burullo m
• Georgian: ხელსახოცი (xelsaxoci)
• German: Windel (de) f

  Alemannic German: Brüechli n

• Greek: πάνα (el) f (pána)
• Greenlandic: nangeq
• Hebrew: חיתול \ חִתּוּל (he) m (khitul)
• Hindi: डायपर (ḍāypar), अंगौछा (aṅgauchā)
• Hungarian: pelenka (hu)
• Icelandic: bleia f, bleyja f
• Ido: lanjo (io)
• Indonesian: popok (id), lampin (id)
• Irish: clúidín m
• Istriot: didî
• Italian: pannolino (it) m
• Japanese: お襁褓 (おむつ, o-mutsu), おむつ (o-mutsu), 襁褓 (ja) (むつき, mutsuki), 襁褓 (ja) (おしめ, oshime), ダイパー (daipā)
• Kazakh: жаялық (jaälyq), жаялықша (jaälyqşa), жөргек (jörgek)
• Khmer: កន្ទប (km) (kɑntɔɔp), សំពត់ខែន (sɑmpŭət khaen)
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• Korean: 기저귀 (ko) (gijeogwi)
• Kyrgyz: жалаякшым (jalayakşım)
• Lao: ຜ້າອ້ອມ (phā ʼǭm)
• Latvian: autiņš m
• Lithuanian: sauskelnės (lt)
• Luxembourgish: Wëndel f
• Macedonian: пелена f (pelena)
• Malay: lampin
• Maori: kope, napu, napikena
• Mongolian: ороох даавуу (oroox daavuu)
• Navajo: tłʼeestsooz, awééʼ bitsʼáál
• Nepali: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: drapé m
• Northern Sami: lihpar, libar
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bleie m or f

  Nynorsk: bleie f

• Persian: پوشک (fa) (pušak)
• Pohnpeian: osime
• Polish: pielucha (pl) f, pieluszka (pl) f, pampers m
• Portuguese: fralda (pt) f
• Quechua: akawara (qu)
• Romanian: scutec (ro) n
• Romansch: pez m
• Russian: подгу́зник (ru) m (podgúznik), па́мперс (ru) m (pámpers), пелёнка (ru) f (peljónka), пелена́ (ru) f (pelená)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пелена f

  Roman: pelena (sh) f

• Slovak: plienka f
• Slovene: plenica f
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: pjelcha f, pjelucha f

• Spanish: pañal (es) m
• Swedish: blöja (sv) c
• Tajik: парпеч (parpeč)
• Thai: ผ้าอ้อม (th) (pâa-ɔ̂ɔm)
• Tibetan: ཆབ་གདན (chab gdan)
• Turkish: kundak (tr), çocuk bezi
• Turkmen: arlyk (tk)
• Ukrainian: підгу́зок m (pidhúzok), підгу́зник m (pidhúznyk), па́мперс (uk) m (pámpers), пелена́ f (pelená), пелю́шка f (peljúška)
• Uzbek: taglik (uz)
• Vietnamese: tã lót, tã (vi)
• Walloon: faxhe-coulote (wa) f, pamperse (wa) m
• Welsh: clwt m, cewyn m
• Yiddish: ווינדל (vindl)
• Zhuang: vajnyouh

Verb

diaper (third-person singular simple present diapers, present participle diapering, simple past and past participle diapered)

1. To put diapers on someone.

   Diapering a baby is something you have to learn fast.

2. To draw flowers or figures, as upon cloth.
   • (Can we date this quote by Peacham and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     If you diaper on folds.

Translations

To put diapers on someone

• Esperanto: vindi
• French: langer (fr)
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• German: windeln (de), wickeln (de)
• Hungarian: pelenkáz (hu), bepelenkáz (hu)

Anagrams

• Piedra, aperid, paired, pardie, piedra, repaid

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Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French dyapre.

Noun

diaper

1. Alternative form of dyaper

Etymology 2

From Old French diaprer.

Verb

diaper

1. Alternative form of dyapren