toilet paper

See also: toilet-paper

English

Alternative forms

• toilet-paper, toiletpaper

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

toilet paper (usually uncountable, plural toilet papers)

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

   Synonyms: TP, toilet roll, toilet tissue, bathroom tissue, bog paper, bog roll, lavvy paper, loo roll, loo paper, bumf, poo tickets

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)
• Krio: tɔylɛt pepa
• Tok Pisin: toilet pepa
• → 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 tʻuġtʻ)
• 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), toaleťák m
• 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, papier-cul (fr) m, PQ (fr) m, (vulgar) torche-cul (fr), papier de toilette (fr) m (Canada)
• 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), κωλόχαρτο (el) n (kolócharto)
• Guarani:

  Paraguayan Guarani: ^{(please verify)} 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, carta da bagno f, carta da gabinetto f
• Japanese: ちり紙 (ja) (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)
• Krio: tɔylɛt pepa
• 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
• Māori: 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
• Pannonian Rusyn: тоалетни папер m (toaletni paper)
• Pashto: تشناب کاغذ (ps) m (tašnāb kāǧaz)
• Persian:

  Dari: کَاغَذِ تَشْنَاب (kāġaz-i tašnāb)

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

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

  Cyrillic: тоалетни папир m

  Latin: 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 chooni
• Swedish: toalettpapper (sv) n, toapapper (sv) n
• Tagalog: pang-iwang
• Tajik: коғази халобоб (koġaz-i xalobob), қоғази ҳоҷатхона (qoġaz-i hojatxona)
• Thai: กระดาษชำระ (th) (grà-dàat-cham-rá), กระดาษทิชชู (grà-dàat-tít-chûu)
• Tibetan: གཙང་སྒྲའི་ཤོག་བུ (gtsang sgra'i shog bu)
• Tok Pisin: pepa bilong toilet, pekpek pepa, toilet pepa
• Turkish: tuvalet kâğıdı (tr), 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)

Verb

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

1. (US, transitive) To cover a house, tree or other structure with strips of toilet paper, typically as a prank or celebratory gesture.

   Synonym: (initialism) TP

Further reading

• toilet paper on Wikipedia.Wikipedia