adhesive tape

English

A roll of adhesive tape (#1)

A roll of surgical tape (#2)

Noun

adhesive tape (countable and uncountable, plural adhesive tapes)

1. Tape with an adhesive film on one side, used to attach materials to something.

   Synonyms: (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) sellotape, (Britain, Australia) sticky tape, (US, Singapore) Scotch tape

2. (US, medicine) Surgical tape, such tape made specifically for medical purposes.

   Synonyms: medical tape, surgical tape

Coordinate terms

• Durex
• Scotch tape
• sellotape, Sellotape
• sticky tape
• tape

Translations

adhesive tape generally

• Afrikaans: kleefband, kleeflint, plakband
• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: شَرِيط لَاصِق m (šarīṭ lāṣiq)

  Hijazi Arabic: شَطَرْطون m (šaṭarṭōn)

• Armenian: կպչուն ժապավեն (kpčʻun žapaven), սկոտչ (skotčʻ)
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: ти́ксо n (tíkso), ско́ч (bg) (skóč)
• Catalan: cinta adhesiva (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 膠紙／胶纸 (gaau¹ zi²)

  Hokkien: 貼紙／贴纸 (zh-min-nan) (tah-chóa), 黏紙／黏纸 (liâm-chóa)

  Mandarin: 膠帶／胶带 (zh) (jiāodài)

• Czech: lepící páska f, izolepa f
• Danish: tape c, klisterbånd n, klæbebånd c, selvklæbende tape c
• Esperanto: glubendo, adhera rubando
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: teippi (fi)
• French: ruban adhésif (fr) m, scotch (fr) m
• Galician: fixo (gl) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: (more formal) Klebeband (de) n; (more informal) Klebefilm m Tesafilm (de) m, n, Tesa n,
• Greek: κολλητική ταινία f (kollitikí tainía)
• Gujarati: ચીકટપટ્ટી (cīkaṭpaṭṭī)
• Hebrew: סרט דביק m (séret davík)
• Hindi: चिपकपट्टी (cipakpaṭṭī)
• Hungarian: ragasztószalag (hu), cellux (hu)
• Icelandic: límband n, teip n (informal; usually refers to thicker tape such as duct tape or medical tape)
• Indonesian: selotip
• Italian: nastro (it) m, nastro adesivo m
• Japanese: 粘着テープ (ja) (nenchaku tēpu)
• Khmer: កាសែតស្អិត (kaasaetsʼət)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Malay: pita pelekat
• Marathi: चिकटपट्टी (cikaṭpaṭṭī), टेप f (ṭep)
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: taśma klejąca f, taśma (pl) f
• Portuguese: fita adesiva f, fita gomada f, fita-cola (pt) f, durex (pt) m (Brazil)
• Romanian: bandă adezivă f
• Russian: скотч (ru) m (skotč), кле́йкая ле́нта (ru) f (kléjkaja lénta), ли́пкая ле́нта f (lípkaja lénta)
• Scottish Gaelic: teip steigeach f
• Spanish: (formal usage) cinta adhesiva f, (Spain) celo (es) m, (Colombia) cinta pegante f, (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay) cinta Scotch f, (Mexico) diurex m, (Southern Spain) fixo (es) m, (Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico) tape (es) m, (Venezuela) teipe m, (Dominican Republic) teipi m, cinta escocesa f
• Swedish: tejp (sv) c, tape (sv) c (slang, uncommon)
• Thai: เทป (téep), เทปกาว, แถบกาว, กระดาษกาว
• Turkish: bant (tr)
• Turkmen: skoç
• Ukrainian: скотч m (skotč), клейка стрічка f (klejka strička)
• Vietnamese: băng dính (vi), băng dán, băng keo (vi)
• Welsh: tâp selo m, selotep m
• Yoruba: sẹlotéèpù

medical tape

• Afrikaans: hegpleister
• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: лейкопла́ст (bg) m (lejkoplást), пласти́р (bg) m (plastír)
• Catalan: esparadrap (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 絆創膏／绊创膏 (zh) (bànchuānggāo), 橡皮膏 (zh) (xiàngpígāo)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Esperanto: sparadrapo
• Finnish: kiinnelaastari, haavateippi, ihoteippi
• Portuguese: esparadrapo (pt) m
• Russian: лейкопла́стырь (ru) m (lejkoplástyrʹ), пла́стырь (ru) m (plástyrʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: teip steigeach f
• Spanish: esparadrapo (es) m
• Turkish: bant (tr), cerrahi bant

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Albanian: ^{(please verify)} shirit ngjitës f
• Basque: ^{(please verify)} zinta itsasgarri
• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} plakband (nl) m or n
• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} glubendo
• French: ^{(please verify)} ruban adhésif (fr) m, ^{(please verify)} scotch (fr) m
• Galician: ^{(please verify)} cinta adhesiva (gl) f
• Georgian: ^{(please verify)} წებოვანი ლენტი (c̣ebovani lenṭi)
• Haitian Creole: ^{(please verify)} tep adezif
• Hindi: ^{(please verify)} स्कॉच टेप f (skŏc ṭep)
• Irish: ^{(please verify)} téip ghreamaitheach f, ^{(please verify)} seilitéip f
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} nastro adesivo m, ^{(please verify)} scotch (it) m
• Japanese: ^{(please verify)} セロハンテープ (serohan tēpu), ^{(please verify)} セロテープ (serotēpu), ^{(please verify)} 粘着テープ (ja) (ねんちゃくテープ, nenchaku tēpu), ^{(please verify)} ばんそうこう (bansōkō), ^{(please verify)} テープ (ja) (tēpu)
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 스카치 테이프 (seukachi teipeu)
• Luxembourgish: ^{(please verify)} Pechband n
• Macedonian: ^{(please verify)} селоте́јп m (selotéjp)
• Malay: ^{(please verify)} pita pelekat
• Maltese: ^{(please verify)} tejp li jwaħħal f
• Maori: ^{(please verify)} rīpene
• Norman: ^{(please verify)} bande cliutée f
• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} limbånd n, ^{(please verify)} selvklebende tape f
• Persian: ^{(please verify)} نوارچسب (fa), ^{(please verify)} چسب نواری (fa)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ^{(please verify)} селотејп m, ^{(please verify)} лепљива трака f, ^{(please verify)} љепљива трака f

  Roman: ^{(please verify)} selotejp (sh) m, ^{(please verify)} lepljiva traka f, ^{(please verify)} ljepljiva traka f

• Swahili: ^{(please verify)} kanda (sw)
• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} yapıştırıcı bant
• Ukrainian: ^{(please verify)} стрічка f (strička)
• Vietnamese: ^{(please verify)} băng dính (vi)

Further reading

• adhesive tape on Wikipedia.Wikipedia