toilet paper

See also: toilet-paper

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

A roll of toilet paper

toilet paper (usually uncountable, plural toilet papers)

1. Paper, usually on a roll, to clean oneself after defecation, or to pat oneself dry after urination.

Synonyms

• TP, toilet roll, toilet tissue, bathroom tissue, bog paper, bog roll, lavvy paper, (British, mildly vulgar), loo roll (British, informal), loo paper (British, informal), bumf (British, obsolete)

Descendants

• → Bengali: টয়লেট পেপার (ṭoẏleṭ pepar)
• → Hindi: टॉयलेट पेपर (ṭŏyleṭ pepar)
• → Japanese: トイレットペーパー (toiretto pēpā)
• → Korean: 토일렛 페이퍼 (toillet peipeo)
• → Urdu: ٹائِلِٹ پیپَر (ṭāiliṭ pepar)

Translations

paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination

• Afrikaans: toiletpapier
• Alabama: iskihka
• Albanian: letër higjienike f
• Arabic: وَرَق مِرْحَاض m (waraq mirḥāḍ), وَرَق حَمَّام m (waraq ḥammām), وَرَق اِسْتِنْجَاء m (waraq istinjāʔ)
• Armenian: զուգարանի թուղթ (zugarani tʿuġtʿ)
• Asturian: papel hixénicu m
• Azerbaijani: ayaqyolu kağızı, tualet kağızı
• Basque: komuneko paper
• Belarusian: туале́тная папе́ра f (tualjétnaja papjéra)
• Bengali: টয়লেট পেপার (bn) (ṭoẏleṭ pepar)
• Breton: paper-privezioù m
• Bulgarian: тоале́тна харти́я f (toalétna hartíja)
• Burmese: အိမ်သာသုံးစက္ကူ (imsasum:cakku)
• Catalan: paper higiènic (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᎠᏑᎴᏙᏗ (asuledodi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 廁紙／厕纸 (yue) (ci³ zi²), 衛生紙／卫生纸 (wai⁶ sang¹ zi²), 草紙／草纸 (cou² zi²)

  Hakka: 衛生紙／卫生纸 (vi-sên-chṳ́)

  Hokkien: 衛生紙／卫生纸 (zh-min-nan) (ōe-seng-chóa), 綿仔紙／绵仔纸 (zh-min-nan) (mî-á-chóa), 粗紙／粗纸 (zh-min-nan) (chho͘-chóa)

  Mandarin: 衛生紙／卫生纸 (zh) (wèishēngzhǐ), 手紙／手纸 (zh) (shǒuzhǐ), 廁紙／厕纸 (zh) (cèzhǐ)

  Wu: 草紙／草纸

• Cornish: paper privedhyow
• Czech: toaletní papír m, hajzlpapír (cs) m (vulgar)
• Danish: toiletpapir (da) n, wc-papir (da) n
• Dutch: wc-papier (nl) n, toiletpapier (nl) n, wc-rol (nl) m
• Elfdalian: skalauspapir n
• Esperanto: klozeta papero, neceseja papero, klozetpapero
• Estonian: tualettpaber, wc-paber
• Faroese: skoynisoppur m, vesipappír n
• Finnish: vessapaperi (fi), wc-paperi
• French: papier toilette (fr) m, papier hygiénique (fr) m
• Galician: papel hixiénico m
• Georgian: ტუალეტი ქაღალდი (ṭualeṭi kaɣaldi)
• German: Toilettenpapier (de) n, Klopapier (de) n, Klosettpapier (de) n
• Greek: χαρτί υγείας (el) n (chartí ygeías)
• Guaraní: kuatia ñepyndýi
• Haitian Creole: papye ijyenik
• Hawaiian: hāleu
• Hebrew: נְיַר טוֹאָלֵט (he) m (n'yar tualét)
• Hindi: टॉयलेट पेपर m (ṭŏyleṭ pepar)
• Hungarian: toalettpapír (hu), vécépapír (hu)
• Icelandic: klósettpappír m, salernispappír m
• Ido: papero higienala, sedopapero
• Indonesian: tisu toilet, kertas toilet (id)
• Interlingua: papiro hygienic
• Irish: páipéar leithris m
• Italian: carta igienica f
• Japanese: ちり紙 (ちりがみ, chirigami), トイレットペーパー (ja) (toiretto pēpā)
• Kazakh: әжетхана қағазы (äjetxana qağazy), дәретхана қағазы (däretxana qağazy)
• Khmer: ក្រដាសបង្គន់ (krɑdaah bɑngkŭən)
• Korean: 화장지(化粧紙) (ko) (hwajangji), 휴지(休紙) (ko) (hyuji), 토일렛 페이퍼 (toillet peipeo)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: kaxizê daşirê, kaxizê tualetê

• Kyrgyz: ажаткана кагазы (ajatkana kagazı), даарат кагаз (daarat kagaz)
• Lao: ເຈ້ຍຫ້ອງນ້ຳ (chīa hǭng nam)
• Latin: charta purgatoria f, anitergium n
• Latvian: tualetes papīrs m
• Lithuanian: tualetinis popierius m
• Luxembourgish: Toilettëpabeier (lb) m
• Macedonian: тоале́тна ха́ртија f (toalétna hártija)
• Malay: tisu tandas
• Maltese: karta tat-twaletta f
• Manx: pabyr premmee
• Maori: whēru
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: ариун цэврийн цаас (ariun cevriin caas)

• Nahuatl: cuitlamatl
• Navajo: chąąʼ bee yildéhí, naaltsoos bee ʼádítʼoodí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dopapir (no) n, toalettpapir n, dorulle

• Occitan: papièr igienic (oc) m
• Pashto: تشناب کاغذ (ps) m (tašnāb kāǧaz)
• Persian:

  Dari: کَاغَذِ تَشْنَاب (kāğaz-i tašnāb)

  Iranian Persian: کاغَذِ تواَلِت (kâğaz-e tuâlet), دَسْتْمالِ تواَلِت (dastmâl-e tuâlet)

• Plautdietsch: Weschpapia n
• Polish: papier toaletowy (pl) m, srajtaśma (pl) f (colloquial, rude)
• Portuguese: papel higiênico (pt) m (Brazil), papel higiénico (pt) m (Portugal)
• Romanian: hârtie igienică f
• Romansch: palpiri da tualetta m
• Russian: туале́тная бума́га (ru) f (tualétnaja bumága)
• Scottish Gaelic: pàipear suathaidh
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тоалетни папир m

  Roman: toaletni papir m

• Slovak: toaletný papier m, (slang) hajzlpapír m
• Slovene: toaletni papir (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: toaletowa papjera f

• Spanish: papel higiénico (es) m, confort (es) m (Chile)
• Swahili: karatasi ya choo
• Swedish: toalettpapper (sv) n, toapapper (sv) n
• Tagalog: pang-iwang
• Tajik: коғази халобоб (koġazi xalobob), қоғази ҳоҷатхона (qoġazi hojatxona)
• Thai: กระดาษชำระ (th) (grà-dàat-cham-rá), กระดาษทิชชู (grà-dàat-tít-chûu)
• Tibetan: གཙང་སྒྲའི་ཤོག་བུ (gtsang sgra'i shog bu)
• Turkish: tuvalet kağıdı (tr)
• Turkmen: hajathana kagyzy
• Ukrainian: туале́тний папі́р m (tualétnyj papír)
• Urdu: ٹائِلِٹ پیپَر m (ṭāiliṭ pepar)
• Uyghur: تازىلىق قەغىزى (taziliq qeghizi), ھاجەتخانا قەغىزى (hajetxana qeghizi)
• Uzbek: tualet qogʻozi, hojatxona qogʻozi
• Vietnamese: giấy vệ sinh (vi), giấy đi cầu
• Welsh: papur tŷ bach (cy)
• Yiddish: בית־הכּסא פּאַפּיר n (beys-hakise papir), אשר־יצר פּאַפּיר n (asher-yotser papir)

Further reading

• Toilet paper on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

toilet paper (third-person singular simple present toilet papers, present participle toilet papering, simple past and past participle toilet papered)

1. (US) To cover someone's house (and trees and shrubs) with toilet paper or other similar paper product, often as a celebratory event, without the "victim's" knowledge. Sometimes also performed as an act of hazing.

   The football team toilet papered the Smith's house again...this time with paper towels in their trees.

Usage notes

• This particular verb is partly due to what Americans could call ghost stories.

Alternative forms

• toilet-paper
• TP (initialism)