toilet paper

See also: toilet-paper

English

Pronunciation

Audio (Southern England): (file)

Noun

toilet paper (usually uncountable, plural toilet papers)

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 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)
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
Pannonian Rusyn: тоалетни папер m (toaletni paper)
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 (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)
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)

Verb

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

(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)