English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
sand + paper
Pronunciation[edit]
sandpaper (usually uncountable, plural sandpapers)
- A strong paper coated with sand, ground glass, or other abrasive material for smoothing and polishing.
- A sheet of such paper.
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paper coated with abrasive material
- Arabic: ورق زجاج (waraq zujaj)
- Armenian: հղկաթուղթ (hy) (hġkatʿuġtʿ), շուշաթուղթ (šušatʿuġtʿ) (colloquial)
- Assamese: পালিচ কাগজ (palis kagoz), চিৰিচ কাগজ (siris kagoz)
- Azerbaijani: zımpara
- Bengali: শিরিষ-কাগজ (śiriś-kagoj)
- Bulgarian: шкурка (škurka)
- Catalan: paper de vidre
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 砂紙／砂纸 (zh) (shāzhǐ)
- Czech: smirkový papír (cs) m
- Danish: sandpapir n
- Dutch: schuurpapier (nl) n
- Esperanto: sablopapero
- Finnish: hiomapaperi (fi)
- French: papier de verre (fr) m, papier à poncer m
- Galician: lixa (gl) f
- Georgian: ზუმფარა (zumpara)
- German: Schleifpapier (de) n, Schmirgelpapier (de) n, Sandpapier (de) n
- Greek: γυαλόχαρτο (el) m (gyalócharto)
- Gujarati: રેતિયો કાગળ (retiyo kāgaḷ)
- Hebrew: נְיַר לֶטֶשׁ (he) m (nyar letesh)
- Hungarian: csiszolópapír (hu), dörzspapír (hu), smirgli (hu), smirglipapír (hu)
- Icelandic: sandpappír m
- Indonesian: ampelas (id)
- Italian: carta vetrata (it) f
- Japanese: 研磨紙 (けんまし, kenmashi), サンドペーパー (sandopēpā), 紙鑢 (ja) (かみやすり, kamiyasuri)
- Khmer: ក្រដាសខ្សាច់ (krɑdaah khsac)
- Korean: 사포 (ko) (sapo)
- Latin: harenae charta
- Latvian: smilšpapīrs
- Lithuanian: švitrinis popierius
- Luxembourgish: Sandpapier f
- Macedonian: шмиргла f (šmirgla)
- Malay: ampelas
- Maori: pepa whakamaene
- Mongolian: зүлгүүр (mn) (zülgüür)
- Norman: papi tîmbré m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: sandpapir n
- Nynorsk: sandpapir n
- Plautdietsch: Schiapapia n, Sauntpapia n
- Polish: papier ścierny (pl) m, szmergiel (pl) m
- Portuguese: lixa (pt) f
- Romanian: șmirghel (ro) n
- Russian: нажда́чная бума́га (ru) f (naždáčnaja bumága), нажда́чка (ru) f (naždáčka) (colloquial), шку́рка (ru) f (škúrka) (colloquial), шлифова́льная бума́га f (šlifoválʹnaja bumága)
- Scottish Gaelic: pàipear-gainmhich m
- Slovak: brúsny papier m
- Spanish: lija (es) f, papel de lija m
- Swahili: msasa (sw)
- Swedish: sandpapper (sv) n, slippapper (sv) n
- Tagalog: liha (tl)
- Tausug: gigidgid
- Thai: กระดาษทราย (th) (grà-dàat-saai)
- Tibetan: ཀོ་སག (ko sag)
- Turkish: zımpara (tr)
- Ukrainian: нажда́чний папі́р m (naždáčnyj papír)
- Vietnamese: giấy nhám (vi)
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sandpaper (third-person singular simple present sandpapers, present participle sandpapering, simple past and past participle sandpapered)
- (transitive) To polish or grind (a surface) with or as if with sandpaper.
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to polish or grind a surface
