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English
Pronunciation
Noun
aluminium foil (usually uncountable, plural aluminium foils)
- (Australia, British, New Zealand) A very thin, pliable, easily torn sheet of aluminium used for cooking, packaging, cosmetics, and insulation.
- Synonyms: tinfoil, tin foil
Translations
very thin, pliable, eaily torn sheet of aluminium
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 鋁箔 / 铝箔 (leoi5 bok6), 錫紙 / 锡纸 (sek6 zi2)
- Mandarin: 鋁箔 / 铝箔 (zh) (lǚbó), 錫紙 / 锡纸 (zh) (xīzhǐ, xízhǐ)
- Czech: alobal (cs) m
- Danish: alufolie n or c, sølvpapir n
- Finnish: alumiinifolio (fi), talousfolio
- French: papier d’aluminium (fr) m, papier d’alu (fr) m
- German: Aluminiumfolie (de) f, Alufolie (de) f
- Greek: αλουμινόχαρτο (el) n (alouminócharto)
- Hebrew: רְדִיד אָלוּמִינְיוּם (he) m (r'díd-alumínyum), נייר אלומיניום m (n'yár-alumínyum), נייר כסף m (n'yár-késef)
- Hungarian: alufólia (hu)
- Irish: scragall alúmanaim m
- Japanese: アルミ箔 (アルミはく, arumihaku), アルミホイル (arumihoiru), ホイル (ja) (hoiru)
- Korean: Korean: 알루미늄 포일 (alluminyum poil), 알루미늄 호일 (alluminyum hoil), 알루미늄 박 (alluminyum bak), 쿠킹호일 (kukinghoil)
- Norwegian: aluminiumsfolie m, sølvpapir n
- Polish: folia aluminiowa f
- Portuguese: papel-alumínio (pt) m, papel laminado m
- Russian: алюми́ниевая фольга́ f (aljumínijevaja folʹgá), фольга́ (ru) f (folʹgá), альфо́ль (ru) f (alʹfólʹ)
- Slovene: aluminijasta folija f, alufolija f
- Spanish: papel aluminio (es) m, papel plata
- Swedish: aluminiumfolie (sv) c
- Turkish: alüminyum folyo
- Vietnamese: giấy bạc (vi)
- Welsh: papur arian m, ffoil alwminiwm m
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