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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪ(ə)pə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪ(ə)pɚ/

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

Noun

diaper (countable and uncountable, plural diapers)

1. (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.
2. 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.

3. A towel or napkin made from such fabric.
   • c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:

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

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, South African)

Derived terms

• all-in-one diaper
• all-in-two diaper
• chin diaper
• cloth diaper
• diaper-baby
• diaper bag
• diaper bucket
• diaper cake
• diaper changer
• diaper cover
• diaper deck
• diaperhead
• diaperhood
• diaper insert
• diaperism
• diaper lover
• diaper pail
• diaper pin
• diaper rash
• diaper sniper
• diaper stuffing
• diaperwork
• diaper wrap
• face diaper
• fitted diaper
• hybrid diaper
• incontinence diaper
• Israeli Diaper Forces
• meat diaper
• paper diaper
• pocket diaper
• red-diaper baby
• red diaper baby
• stuffable diaper
• swim diaper
• washable diaper

 

Translations

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

• Aghwan: 𐔼𐕊𐕒𐕡𐕎 (ič̣un)
• Albanian: shpargër (sq) f, shpargën f (gheg), pelenë (sq) f
• Arabic: حِفَاضة f (ḥifāḍa), حِفَاظ f (ḥifāẓ), فُوطَة اَلطِّفْل f (fūṭat aṭ-ṭifl)

  Egyptian Arabic: حفاضة f (ḥafāḍa)

  Hijazi Arabic: حفاضة f (ḥufāḍa)

  Moroccan Arabic: كوشة f (kūša), خروق (ḵrūq)

  South Levantine Arabic: حفاضة f (ḥafāḍa)

• Armenian: խանձարուր (hy) (xanjarur), տակաշոր (hy) (takašor), տակդիր (hy) (takdir), պամպերս (pampers) (colloquial)
• Aromanian: scutic n
• Asturian: pañal (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: pampers
• Belarusian: падгу́знік m (padhúznik)
• Bengali: বুটি (bn) (buṭi)
• Bikol Central: lampin
• Breton: trezh m
• Bulgarian: пелена f (pelena)
• Burmese: အနှီး (my) (a.hni:)
• Catalan: bolquer (ca) m, bolcall (ca) m, llençolet (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᎤᎾᏎᎶᏗ (unaselodi), ᎠᏐᏍᏗ (asosdi)
• 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), vindaĵo (eo)
• Estonian: mähe
• Faroese: blæa f
• Finnish: vaippa (fi)
• French: couche (fr) f, couche-culotte (fr) f
• Friulian: please add this translation if you can
• Galician: cueiro (gl) m, brullo m, burullo m
• Georgian: ხელსახოცი (xelsaxoci)
• German: Windel (de) f

  Alemannic German: Brüechli n

• Gothic: 𐌻𐌿𐌸𐌰𐍂𐌰 m (luþara)
• Greek: πάνα (el) f (pána)
• Greenlandic: nangeq
• Hebrew: חיתול \ חִתּוּל (he) m (khitul)
• Hindi: डायपर (ḍāypar), अंगौछा (aṅgauchā), लंगोट (laṅgoṭ)
• Hungarian: pelenka (hu)
• Icelandic: bleia f, bleyja f
• Ido: lanjo (io)
• Indonesian: popok (id), lampin (id)
• Irish: clúidín m, pluideoga (linbh) f pl, faicín m
• Italian: pannolino (it) m
• Japanese: お襁褓 (おむつ, o-mutsu), おむつ (ja) (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)
• Korean: 기저귀 (ko) (gijeogwi)
• Kyrgyz: жалаякшым (jalayakşım)
• Lao: ຜ້າອ້ອມ (phā ʼǭm)
• Latvian: autiņš m
• Lithuanian: sauskelnės (lt) pl, vystyklas m
• Luxembourgish: Wëndel f
• Macedonian: пелена f (pelena)
• Malay: lampin
• Maori: kope, napu, napikena, napukena, nāpu
• Maranao: dapik
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: живх (mn) (živx), хүлтэг (mn) (xülteg) (China)

  Mongolian: ᠵᠢᠪᠬᠡ (ǰibke), ᠬᠦᠯᠲᠦᠭ (kültüg)

• Navajo: tłʼeestsooz, awééʼ bitsʼáál
• Nepali: डाइपर (ḍāipar)
• Norman: drapé m
• Northern Sami: lihpar, libar
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bleie m or f

  Nynorsk: bleie f

• Persian: پوشَک (fa) (pušak)
• Plautdietsch: Winjel f
• 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)
• Sanskrit: मलधारिणी f (maladhāriṇī)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пе̏лена f

  Roman: pȅlena (sh) f

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

  Lower Sorbian: pjelucha f, pjeluška f

  Upper Sorbian: pjelcha f, pjelucha f

• Spanish: pañal (es) m
• Swahili: nepi
• Swedish: blöja (sv) c
• Tajik: парпеч (parpeč)
• Thai: ผ้าอ้อม (th) (pâa-ɔ̂ɔm)
• Tibetan: ཆབ་གདན (chab gdan)
• Tlingit: tuḵdaa.át
• Turkish: bebek bezi (for babies), yetişkin bezi (for adults)
• 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 m (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.
   • 2019, Michael Bent, Rosalie Bent, Understanding Adult Babies: Their Psychology and Lifestyles:

     I diaper myself or she helps Diaper me and sometimes I get to wet them, she knows I like that. And she whispers in my ear that "baby wants to make a cummie in his Diapers […]

   Diapering a baby is something you have to learn fast.

2. To draw flowers or figures, as upon cloth.
   • 1622, Henry Peacham (Jr.), The Compleat Gentleman:

     If you diaper upon folds, let your work be broken.

Translations

To put diapers on someone

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

Anagrams

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

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