English
A folded napkin which formed part of a table setting in a hotel restaurant in Singapore
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English napkyn, equivalent to nape (“cloth”) + -kin.
Pronunciation
Noun
napkin (plural napkins)
- A serviette; a (usually rectangular) piece of cloth or paper used at the table for wiping the mouth and hands for cleanliness while eating.
- (British, South Africa) A nappy (UK), a diaper (American).
- A small scarf worn on the head by Christian women (chiefly Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox) when entering a church, as a token of modesty.
- A sanitary napkin.
Translations
serviette
- Albanian: pecetë (sq) f
- Arabic: مِنْدِيل m (mindīl)
- Egyptian Arabic: منديل m (mandil)
- Hijazi Arabic: منديل m (mandīl)
- Armenian: անձեռոցիկ (hy) (anjeṙocʻik)
- Azerbaijani: salfet
- Belarusian: сурвэ́тка f (survétka)
- Bengali: ন্যাপকিন (nêpokin)
- Bulgarian: салфе́тка f (salfétka)
- Burmese: လက်သုတ်ပဝါ (my) (laksutpa.wa)
- Catalan: tovalló (ca) m, torcaboques (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 餐巾 (zh) (cānjīn), 餐巾紙／餐巾纸 (zh) (cānjīnzhǐ), 餐巾纸 (zh) (cānjīnzhǐ)
- Czech: ubrousek (cs) m, servítek m
- Danish: serviet (da) c
- Dutch: servet (nl) n
- Esperanto: buŝtuko
- Estonian: salvrätik, salvrätt, salfrätik (colloquial), salfrätt (colloquial), salfakas (colloquial)
- Finnish: lautasliina (fi), servetti
- French: serviette (fr) f
- Georgian: ხელსახოცი (xelsaxoci)
- German: Serviette (de) f, Mundtuch n
- Greek:
- Ancient: χειρόμακτρον n (kheirómaktron)
- Hebrew: מַפִּית (he) f (mapít)
- Hindi: नैपकिन f (naipkin)
- Hungarian: szalvéta (hu)
- Icelandic: servíetta f
- Ido: bokotuko (io)
- Indonesian: serbet (id)
- Italian: tovagliolo (it) m, salvietta f
- Japanese: ナプキン (ja) (napukin)
- Kazakh: майлық (mailyq), сулық (sulyq), салфетка (kk) (salfetka)
- Khmer: កន្សែង (km) (kɑnsaeng)
- Korean: 냅킨 (ko) (naepkin)
- Kyrgyz: салфетка (ky) (salfetka), майлык (maylık), чачык (ky) (cacık)
- Lao: ຜ້າເຊັດມື (phā set mư̄), ຜ້າເຊັດ (phā set)
- (deprecated template usage)
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- Latin: mappa f, mantele n
- Latvian: salvete f, servjete f
- Lithuanian: servetėlė f
- Low German:
- German Low German: Serviett f, Munddook n
- Luxembourgish: Zervéit f
- Macedonian: салве́та f (salvéta)
- Malay: serbet
- Mongolian: салфетка (salfetka), алчуур (mn) (alčuur), амны алчуур (amny alčuur), хоолойвч (mn) (xoolojvč)
- Norman: sèrviette f, drapé m
- Norwegian: serviett (no) m
- Pennsylvania German: Dellerduch n
- Persian: پیشانداز (fa) (peš-andâz)
- Polish: serwetka (pl) f
- Portuguese: guardanapo (pt) m
- Romanian: șervețel (ro) n
- Russian: салфе́тка (ru) f (salfétka)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: салвета f, рубац m, убрус m, убручић m, убрусац m
- Roman: salveta (sh) f, rubac (sh) m, ubrus (sh) m, ubručić m, ubrusac m
- Slovak: obrúsok m, servítka f
- Slovene: prtiček (sl) m
- Spanish: servilleta (es) f
- Swedish: servett (sv) c
- Tagalog: serbiliyeta
- Tajik: салфетка (salfetka)
- Telugu: తువ్వాలు (te) (tuvvālu)
- Thai: ผ้าเช็ดปาก (pâa-chét-bpàak)
- Turkish: peçete (tr)
- Turkmen: salfetka
- Ukrainian: серве́тка f (servétka)
- Urdu: نیپکن f (naipkin)
- Uyghur: سالفېتكا (salfëtka)
- Uzbek: salfetka (uz)
- Vietnamese: khăn ăn (vi)
- Yiddish: סערוועטקע f (servetke)
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Cebuano
Etymology
From English napkin, from Middle English napkyn.
Pronunciation
Noun
napkin
- a sanitary napkin
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:napkin.
Middle English
Noun
napkin
- Alternative form of napkyn
