diaper

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Etymology

From Middle English dyaper, from Old French dyapre, diaspre, from Medieval Latin diaspra, diasprum from Byzantine Greek δίασπρος (díaspros, adj), from δια- (dia-, “across”) + ἄσπρος (áspros, “white”).

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪ(ə)pə/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪ(ə)pɚ/
Audio (US): (file)
Hyphenation: di‧a‧per, dia‧per
Rhymes: -aɪpə(ɹ), -aɪəpə(ɹ)

Noun

diaper (countable and uncountable, plural diapers)

(Canada, US, Philippines, India) An absorbent garment worn by a baby, by a young child not yet toilet trained, or by an adult who is incontinent; a nappy.
A textile fabric having a diamond-shaped pattern formed by alternating directions of thread.
- 1890, Oscar Wilde, chapter XI, in The Picture of Dorian Gray:
  The orphreys were woven in a diaper of red and gold silk, and were starred with medallions of many saints and martyrs, among whom was St. Sebastian.
A towel or napkin made from such fabric.
- c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
  Let one attend him with a silver basin, […] / Another bear the ewer, the third a diaper.
The diamond pattern associated with diaper textiles.
Surface decoration of any sort which consists of the constant repetition of one or more simple figures or units of design evenly spaced.

Synonyms

(absorbent garment): nappy (British, Australia); napkin (British, South African)

Derived terms

Translations

absorbent garment worn by a baby, or by someone who is incontinent

Acehnese: popok
Afrikaans: luier
Aghwan: 𐔼𐕊𐕒𐕡𐕎 (ič̣un)
Albanian: shpargër (sq) f, shpargën f (gheg), pelenë (sq) f
Amharic: ዳይፐር (dayiperi)
Arabic: حِفَاضة f (ḥifāḍa), حِفَاظ f (ḥifāẓ), فُوطَة اَلطِّفْل f (fūṭat aṭ-ṭifl)
Egyptian Arabic: حفاضة f (ḥafāḍa)

Hijazi Arabic: حفاضة f (ḥufāḍa)

Moroccan Arabic: كوشة f (kūša), خروق (ḵrūq)

South Levantine Arabic: حفاضة f (ḥafāḍa)
Armenian: խանձարուր (hy) (xanjarur), տակաշոր (hy) (takašor), տակդիր (hy) (takdir), պամպերս (pampers) (colloquial)
Aromanian: scutic n
Asturian: pañal (ast) m
Avar: памперс (pampers), подгузник (podguznik)
Awadhi: डायपर (daayapar)
Azerbaijani: pampers, uşaq bezi
Balinese: lampin
Bashkir: памперс (pampers), подгузник (podguznik)
Basque: pixoihal
Belarusian: падгу́знік m (padhúznik)
Bengali: বুটি (bn) (buṭi)
Bikol Central: lampin
Breton: trezh m
Bulgarian: пелена f (pelena), па́мперс m (pámpers)
Burmese: အနှီး (my) (a.hni:)
Buryat: памперс (pampjers)
Catalan: bolquer (ca) m, bolcall (ca) m, llençolet (ca) m
Cebuano: lampin
Chamorro: lampin
Chechen: памперс (pampers)
Cherokee: ᎤᎾᏎᎶᏗ (unaselodi), ᎠᏐᏍᏗ (asosdi)
Chichewa: thewera
Chinese:
Cantonese: 尿片 (niu⁶ pin^3-2), 片 (yue) (pin^3-2)

Mandarin: 尿布 (zh) (niàobù)
Chuvash: памперс (pamp̬ers), подгузник (podguznik)
Corsican: pannolu
Crimean Tatar: памперс
Czech: plena (cs) f, plenka (cs) f
Dadibi: پوشک
Danish: ble (da) c
Dhivehi: ޑައިޕަރ (ḍaipar)
Dutch: luier (nl) m, pamper (nl) m
Elfdalian: blöja f
Esperanto: vindotuko (eo), vindaĵo (eo)
Estonian: mähe
Faroese: blæa f
Fijian: daiper
Finnish: vaippa (fi)
French: couche (fr) f, couche-culotte (fr) f
Friulian: please add this translation if you can
Galician: cueiro (gl) m, brullo m, burullo m
Georgian: ხელსახოცი (xelsaxoci)
German: Windel (de) f
Alemannic German: Brüechli n
Gothic: 𐌻𐌿𐌸𐌰𐍂𐌰 m (luþara)
Greek: πάνα (el) f (pána)
Greenlandic: nangeq
Guaraní: pañal
Gujarati: ડાયપર (ḍāyapar), બાળોતિયું (bāḷotiyũ)
Haitian Creole: kouchèt
Hebrew: חיתול \ חִתּוּל (he) m (khitul)
Hiligaynon: lampin
Hindi: डायपर (ḍāypar), अंगौछा (aṅgauchā), लंगोट (laṅgoṭ)
Hungarian: pelenka (hu)
Iban: lampin
Icelandic: bleia f, bleyja f
Ido: lanjo (io)
Indonesian: popok (id), lampin (id)
Irish: clúidín m, pluideoga (linbh) f pl, faicín m
Italian: pannolino (it) m
Japanese: お襁褓 (おむつ, o-mutsu), おむつ (ja) (o-mutsu), 襁褓 (ja) (むつき, mutsuki), 襁褓 (ja) (おしめ, oshime), ダイパー (daipā)
Javanese: popok (jv)
Kannada: ಡಯಾಪರ್ (ḍayāpar)
Kapampangan: lampin
Karo Batak: lampin
Kazakh: жаялық (jaälyq), жаялықша (jaälyqşa), жөргек (jörgek)
Khmer: កន្ទប (km) (kɑntɔɔp), សំពត់ខែន (sɑmpŭət khaen)
Kituba: diape
Komi-Zyrian: памперс (pampers), пеленка (peľenka)
Korean: 기저귀 (ko) (gijeogwi)
Kyrgyz: жалаякшым (jalayakşım)
Lao: ຜ້າອ້ອມ (phā ʼǭm)
Latvian: autiņš m
Lithuanian: sauskelnės (lt) pl, vystyklas m
Luxembourgish: Wëndel f
Macedonian: пелена f (pelena)
Malay: lampin
Maori: kope, napu, napikena, napukena, nāpu
Maranao: dapik
Marathi: डायपर m (ḍāypar)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: живх (mn) (živx), хүлтэг (mn) (xülteg) (China)

Mongolian: ᠵᠢᠪᠬᠡ (ǰibke), ᠬᠦᠯᠲᠦᠭ (kültüg)
Navajo: tłʼeestsooz, awééʼ bitsʼáál
Nepali: डाइपर (ḍāipar)
Norman: drapé m
Northern Sami: lihpar, libar
Norwegian:
Bokmål: bleie m or f

Nynorsk: bleie f
Persian: پوشَک (fa) (pušak)
Plautdietsch: Winjel f
Pohnpeian: osime
Polish: pielucha (pl) f, pieluszka (pl) f, pampers (pl) m
Portuguese: fralda (pt) f
Quechua: akawara (qu)
Romanian: scutec (ro) n
Romansch: pez m
Russian: подгу́зник (ru) m (podgúznik), па́мперс (ru) m (pámpers), пелёнка (ru) f (peljónka), пелена́ (ru) f (pelená)
Sanskrit: मलधारिणी f (maladhāriṇī)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: пе̏лена f

Roman: pȅlena (sh) f
Simalungun Batak: lampin
Slovak: plienka f
Slovene: plenica f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: pjelucha f, pjeluška f

Upper Sorbian: pjelcha f, pjelucha f
Spanish: pañal (es) m, maxtate m, mashtate m (Guatemala), mastate, matate (es)
Swahili: nepi
Swedish: blöja (sv) c
Tagalog: lampin
Tajik: парпеч (parpeč)
Thai: ผ้าอ้อม (th) (pâa-ɔ̂ɔm)
Tibetan: ཆབ་གདན (chab gdan)
Tlingit: tuḵdaa.át
Toba Batak: lampin
Turkish: bebek bezi (for babies), yetişkin bezi (for adults)
Turkmen: arlyk (tk)
Ukrainian: підгу́зок m (pidhúzok), підгу́зник m (pidhúznyk), па́мперс (uk) m (pámpers), пелена́ f (pelená), пелю́шка f (peljúška)
Uzbek: taglik (uz)
Vietnamese: tã lót, tã (vi)
Walloon: faxhe-coulote (wa) f, pamperse (wa) m
Welsh: clwt m, cewyn m
West Frisian: luier
Yiddish: ווינדל m (vindl)
Zhuang: vajnyouh

Verb

diaper (third-person singular simple present diapers, present participle diapering, simple past and past participle diapered)

To put diapers on someone.
Diapering a baby is something you have to learn fast.
- 2019, Michael Bent, Rosalie Bent, Understanding Adult Babies: Their Psychology and Lifestyles:
  I diaper myself or she helps Diaper me and sometimes I get to wet them, she knows I like that. And she whispers in my ear that "baby wants to make a cummie in his Diapers […]
To draw flowers or figures, as upon cloth.
- 1622, Henry Peacham (Jr.), The Compleat Gentleman:
  If you diaper upon folds, let your work be broken.

Translations

To put diapers on someone

Esperanto: vindi
French: langer (fr)
German: windeln (de), wickeln (de)
Hungarian: pelenkáz (hu), bepelenkáz (hu)
Portuguese: fraldar (pt)

Anagrams

Piedra, aperid, paired, pardie, piedra, repaid

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French dyapre.

Noun

diaper

Alternative form of dyaper

Etymology 2

From Old French diaprer.

Verb

diaper

Alternative form of dyapren