suction cup

English

A suction cup lifting device.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʌkʃən kʌp/

Noun

suction cup (plural suction cups)

1. A cup made of flexible material, such as rubber, that uses suction as an adhesive.

Coordinate terms

• plunger (“handtool to unblock a drain”)
• sucker (“round structure bodily organ that allows some insects, frogs, and octopuses to stick to surfaces”)

Translations

cup using suction as an adhesive

• Arabic: قَدَح سَفْط m (qadaḥ safṭ)
• Asturian: ventosa f
• Belarusian: прысо́сак m (prysósak)
• Bulgarian: венду́за f (vendúza), венту́за (bg) f (ventúza)
• Catalan: ventosa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 吸盤／吸盘 (kap¹ pun^4-2)

  Mandarin: 吸盤／吸盘 (zh) (xīpán)

• Czech: přísavka f
• Danish: sugekop c
• Dutch: zuignap (nl) m
• Estonian: iminapp
• Finnish: imukuppi (fi)
• French: ventouse (fr) f
• Galician: ventosa (gl) f
• German: Saugnapf (de) m, Sauger m
• Greek: βεντούζα (el) f (ventoúza)
• Hebrew: כּוֹסוֹת רוּחַ (he) f pl (kosót rúakh)
• Hungarian: tapadókorong (hu)
• Icelandic: sogskál f
• Irish: cupa súcháin m
• Italian: ventosa (it) f
• Japanese: 吸盤 (ja) (きゅうばん, kyūban)
• Korean: 흡반(吸盤) (heupban), 빨판 (ppalpan)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: соруул (mn) (soruul), бумба (mn) (bumba)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sugekopp m

  Nynorsk: sugekopp m

• Polish: przyssawka (pl) f
• Portuguese: ventosa (pt) f
• Romanian: ventuză (ro) f
• Russian: присо́ска (ru) f (prisóska)
• Slovak: prísavka f
• Slovene: prisesek m
• Spanish: ventosa (es) f
• Swedish: sugkopp c
• Turkish: vantuz (tr)
• Ukrainian: присо́сок m (prysósok)

Further reading

• suction cup on Wikipedia.Wikipedia