toilet paper

See also: toilet-paper

English

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)

Descendants

• → Japanese: トイレットペーパー (toiretto pēpā)

Translations

paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination

• Afrikaans: toiletpapier
• Alabama: iskihka
• Albanian: letër higjienike
• Arabic: وَرَق اَلْمِرْحَاض m (waraq al-mirḥāḍ), وَرَق اَلْحَمَّام m (waraq al-ḥammām)
• Armenian: զուգարանի թուղթ (zugarani tʻuġtʻ)
• Asturian: papel hixénicu m
• Azerbaijani: ayaqyolu kağızı
• Basque: komuneko paper
• Belarusian: туале́тная папе́ра f (tualjétnaja papjéra)
• Bengali: টয়লেট পেপার (ţoẏleţ pepar)
• Breton: paper-privezioù m
• Bulgarian: тоале́тна харти́я f (toalétna hartíja)
• Catalan: paper higiènic (ca) m
• Chinese:

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

  Hakka: 衛生紙／卫生纸, 卫生纸 (vi-sên-chṳ́)

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

  Min Nan: 衛生紙／卫生纸 (zh-min-nan), 卫生纸 (ōe-seng-chóa), 綿仔紙／绵仔纸 (zh-min-nan), 绵仔纸 (mî-á-chóa)

• Cornish: paper privedhyow
• Czech: toaletní papír m
• Danish: toiletpapir (da) n, wc-papir (da) n
• Dutch: WC-papier n, toiletpapier (nl) n, WC-rol m
• Elfdalian: skalauspapir n
• Esperanto: klozeta papero, neceseja papero, klozetpapero
• Estonian: tualettpaber
• 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
• Greek: χαρτί υγείας (el) n (chartí ygeías)
• Guaraní: kuatia ñepyndýi
• Haitian Creole: papye ijyenik
• Hawaiian: hāleu
• Hebrew: נְיַר טוֹאָלֵט (he)
• Hindi: टॉयलेट पेपर (ṭŏyleṭ pepar)
• Hungarian: toalettpapír (hu), vécépapír
• Icelandic: klósettpappír m, salernispappír m
• Ido: papero higienala, sedopapero
• Indonesian: tisu toilet, kertas toilet (id)
• Interlingua: papiro hygienic
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• 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), dárethana qaǵazy
• Khmer: ក្រដាសបង្គន់ (krɑdaah bɑngkʊən)
• Korean: 화장지 (ko) (hwajangji) (化粧紙 (ko)), 휴지 (ko) (hyuji)
• Latin: charta purgatoria f, anitergium n
• Latvian: tualetes papīrs m
• Lithuanian: tualetinis popierius m
• Lower Sorbian: toaletowa papjera f
• Luxembourgish: Toilettëpabeier m
• Macedonian: тоале́тна ха́ртија f (toalétna hártija)
• Manx: pabyr premmee
• Maori: whēru
• Mongolian: ариун цэврийн цаас (ariun cevriin caas)
• Nahuatl: cuitlamatl
• Navajo: chąąʼ bee yildéhí, naaltsoos bee ʼádítʼoodí
• Norwegian: dopapir (no) n, toalettpapir n, dorulle
• Occitan: papièr igienic m
• Polish: papier toaletowy (pl) m
• 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

  Roman: toaletni papir

• Slovak: toaletný papier m, (slang) hajzlpapír m
• Slovene: toaletni papir (sl) m
• Spanish: papel higiénico (es) m, confort (es) m (Chile)
• Swahili: karatasi ya choo
• Swedish: toalettpapper (sv) n, toapapper (sv)
• Tagalog: pang-iwang
• 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)
• 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

(US): This particular verb is partly due to what Americans could call ghost stories.