name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
diaper
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈdaɪ(ə).pə/
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General-American: /ˈdaɪ(ə).pəɹ/
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rhymes with -aɪpə(ɹ)
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rhymes with -aɪəpə(ɹ)
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CMU ARPABET: D AY1 P ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
An absorbent garment worn around the crotch that retains the wearer's urine and feces, often worn by a baby or young child who is not yet toilet trained, by an adult who is incontinent (who wets the bed), or under extreme working conditions without access to a toilet; a nappy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, India, Philippines, US, countable, uncountable
Examples
- cloth diaper, disposable diaper, nighttime diaper, swim diaper
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: nappy, napkin, pampers, diapie
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A container that absorbs and collects (retains) liquid or waste material, similar to a diaper (noun sense 1).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, US, colloquial, countable, humorous, sometimes, uncountable
Examples
- engine diaper, meat diaper, period diaper, rubber diaper
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A piece of clothing that resembles the shape of a diaper (noun sense 1) but lacks the absorbency.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, US, colloquial, countable, derogatory, humorous, possibly, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
A textile fabric having a repeating pattern, especially of diamonds or flowers, formed by alternating directions of thread.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, historical, uncountable
Examples
- Near-synonym: diamond twill
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: diamond twill
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
A repeating geometrical or (often stylized) floral pattern, usually of small diamonds evenly spaced, that decorates a flat surface, sometimes in bas-relief; diaperwork.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: decorative arts; embroidery; decorative arts; embroidery
Topics: architecture, art, arts
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
A repeating geometrical or floral pattern, used to cover the surface of a shield and forming the ground for any charges.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, historical, uncountable
Topics: government, heraldry, hobbies, lifestyle, monarchy, nobility, politics
Examples
- Near-synonym: fur
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: fur
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 8
A towel, napkin, or tablecloth made from the diaper fabric (noun sense 4).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 9
To put diapers on someone.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- Diapering a baby is something you have to learn fast.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 10
To draw geometrical or floral patterns, as upon cloth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 11
garment consisting of a folded cloth drawn up between the legs and fastened at the waist; worn by infants to catch excrement
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: nappy, napkin
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: garment
noun
Meaning 12
a fabric (usually cotton or linen) with a distinctive woven pattern of small repeated figures
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fabric, cloth, material, textile
History
Etymology
A variant of the surnames Dipper and Dyper. Unrelated to diaper.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh1 Proto-Indo-European *dwísder. Ancient Greek διά (diá) Ancient Greek δια- (dia-) Proto-Indo-European *h2esp-der.? Latin asperbor. Ancient Greek ἄσπρος (áspros) Byzantine Greek δίασπρος (díaspros)bor. Medieval Latin diasprabor. Old French dyaprebor. Middle English dyaper English diaper From Middle English dyaper, diapre, dyapre, from Old French diapre, dyapre, a variant of dyaspre, diaspre (“ornamental silk cloth embellished with decorative patterns”), from Medieval Latin diaspra, diasprum (“a type of rich, valuable silken cloth”), probably from Byzantine Greek δίασπρος (díaspros, “very white; pure white”, adjective), from δια- (dia-, “across”) + ἄσπρος (áspros, “white”).
Across languages
Translations
166 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: doek — absorbent garment for waste material
- Afrikaans: luier — absorbent garment for waste material
- Aghwan: 𐔼𐕊𐕒𐕡𐕎 (ič̣un) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Albanian: shpargër — absorbent garment for waste material
- Albanian: shpargën (gheg) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Albanian: pelenë — absorbent garment for waste material
- Arabic: حِفَاضة (ḥifāḍa) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Arabic: حِفَاظ (ḥifāẓ) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Arabic: فُوطَة اَلطِّفْل (fūṭat aṭ-ṭifl) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Arabic: حفاضة (ḥafāḍa) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Arabic: حفاضة (ḥufāḍa) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Arabic: كوشة (kūša) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Arabic: خروق (ḵrūq) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Arabic: حفاضة (ḥafāḍa) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Armenian: խանձարուր (xanjarur) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Armenian: տակաշոր (takašor) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Armenian: տակդիր (takdir) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Armenian: պամպերս class olloquial (pampers) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Aromanian: scutic — absorbent garment for waste material
- Asturian: pañal — absorbent garment for waste material
- Azerbaijani: pampers — absorbent garment for waste material
- Belarusian: падгу́знік (padhúznik) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Bengali: বুটি (buṭi) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Central Bikol: lampin — absorbent garment for waste material
- Breton: trezh — absorbent garment for waste material
- Bulgarian: пелена (pelena) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Bulgarian: па́мперс (pámpers) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Burmese: အနှီး (a.hni:) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Catalan: bolquer — absorbent garment for waste material
- Catalan: bolcall — absorbent garment for waste material
- Catalan: llençolet — absorbent garment for waste material
- Cherokee: ᎤᎾᏎᎶᏗ (unaselodi) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Cherokee: ᎠᏐᏍᏗ (asosdi) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Chinese Cantonese: 尿片 — absorbent garment for waste material
- Chinese Cantonese: 片 — absorbent garment for waste material
- Chinese Mandarin: 尿布 (niàobù) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Czech: plena — absorbent garment for waste material
- Czech: plenka — absorbent garment for waste material
- Danish: ble — absorbent garment for waste material
- Dutch: luier — absorbent garment for waste material
- Dutch: pamper — absorbent garment for waste material
- Elfdalian: blöja — absorbent garment for waste material
- Esperanto: vindotuko — absorbent garment for waste material
- Esperanto: vindaĵo — absorbent garment for waste material
- Estonian: mähe — absorbent garment for waste material
- Faroese: blæa — absorbent garment for waste material
- Finnish: vaippa — absorbent garment for waste material
- French: couche — absorbent garment for waste material
- French: couche-culotte — absorbent garment for waste material
- Galician: cueiro — absorbent garment for waste material
- Galician: brullo — absorbent garment for waste material
- Galician: burullo — absorbent garment for waste material
- Georgian: ხელსახოცი (xelsaxoci) — absorbent garment for waste material
- German: Windel — absorbent garment for waste material
- German: Brüechli — absorbent garment for waste material
- Gothic: 𐌻𐌿𐌸𐌰𐍂𐌰 (luþara) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Greek: πάνα (pána) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Greenlandic: nangeq — absorbent garment for waste material
- Hebrew: חיתול \ חִתּוּל (khitul) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Hindi: लँगोट (laṅgoṭ) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Hindi: लँगोटी (laṅgoṭī) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Hindi: डायपर (ḍāypar) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Hungarian: pelenka — absorbent garment for waste material
- Icelandic: bleia — absorbent garment for waste material
- Icelandic: bleyja — absorbent garment for waste material
- Ido: lanjo — absorbent garment for waste material
- Indonesian: popok — absorbent garment for waste material
- Indonesian: lampin — absorbent garment for waste material
- Irish: clúidín — absorbent garment for waste material
- Irish: pluideoga (linbh) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Irish: faicín — absorbent garment for waste material
- Italian: pannolino — absorbent garment for waste material
- Japanese: お襁褓 (o-mutsu) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Japanese: おむつ (o-mutsu) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Japanese: 襁褓 (mutsuki) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Japanese: 襁褓 (oshime) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Japanese: ダイパー (daipā) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Japanese: オムツ (omutsu) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Kazakh: жаялық (jaälyq) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Kazakh: жаялықша (jaälyqşa) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Kazakh: жөргек (jörgek) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Khmer: កន្ទប (kɑɑkɑntɔɔp) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Khmer: សំពត់ខែន (sɑmpŭət khaen) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Korean: 기저귀 (gijeogwi) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Kyrgyz: жалаякшым (jalayakşım) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Lao: ຜ້າອ້ອມ (phā ʼǭm) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Latvian: autiņš — absorbent garment for waste material
- Lithuanian: sauskelnės — absorbent garment for waste material
- Lithuanian: vystyklas — absorbent garment for waste material
- Luxembourgish: Wëndel — absorbent garment for waste material
- Macedonian: пелена (pelena) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Malay: lampin — absorbent garment for waste material
- Māori: kope — absorbent garment for waste material
- Māori: napu — absorbent garment for waste material
- Māori: napikena — absorbent garment for waste material
- Māori: napukena — absorbent garment for waste material
- Māori: nāpu — absorbent garment for waste material
- Maranao: dapik — absorbent garment for waste material
- Marathi: डायपर (ḍāypar) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Mongolian: живх (živx) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Mongolian: хүлтэг (xülteg) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Mongolian: ᠵᠢᠪᠬᠡ (ǰibke) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Mongolian: ᠬᠦᠯᠲᠦᠭ (kültüg) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Navajo: tłʼeestsooz — absorbent garment for waste material
- Navajo: awééʼ bitsʼáál — absorbent garment for waste material
- Nepali: डाइपर (ḍāipar) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Norman: drapé — absorbent garment for waste material
- Norwegian Bokmål: bleie — absorbent garment for waste material
- Norwegian Nynorsk: bleie — absorbent garment for waste material
- Persian: پوشَک (pušak) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Plautdietsch: Winjel — absorbent garment for waste material
- Pohnpeian: osime — absorbent garment for waste material
- Polish: pielucha — absorbent garment for waste material
- Polish: pieluszka — absorbent garment for waste material
- Polish: pampers — absorbent garment for waste material
- Portuguese: fralda — absorbent garment for waste material
- Quechua: akawara — absorbent garment for waste material
- Romanian: scutec — absorbent garment for waste material
- Romansh: pez — absorbent garment for waste material
- Russian: подгу́зник (podgúznik) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Russian: па́мперс (pámpers) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Russian: пелё́нка (peljónka) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Russian: пелена́ (pelená) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Northern Sami: lihpar — absorbent garment for waste material
- Northern Sami: libar — absorbent garment for waste material
- Sanskrit: मलधारिणी (maladhāriṇī) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Serbo-Croatian: пе̏лена — absorbent garment for waste material
- Serbo-Croatian: pȅlena — absorbent garment for waste material
- Slovak: plienka — absorbent garment for waste material
- Slovene: plenica — absorbent garment for waste material
- Lower Sorbian: pjelucha — absorbent garment for waste material
- Lower Sorbian: pjeluška — absorbent garment for waste material
- Upper Sorbian: pjelcha — absorbent garment for waste material
- Upper Sorbian: pjelucha — absorbent garment for waste material
- Spanish: pañal — absorbent garment for waste material
- Swahili: nepi — absorbent garment for waste material
- Swedish: blöja — absorbent garment for waste material
- Tajik: парпеч (parpeč) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Thai: ผ้าอ้อม (pâa-ɔ̂ɔm) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Tibetan: ཆབ་གདན (chab gdan) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Tlingit: tuḵdaa.át — absorbent garment for waste material
- Turkish: bebek bezi — absorbent garment for waste material
- Turkish: yetişkin bezi — absorbent garment for waste material
- Turkmen: arlyk — absorbent garment for waste material
- Ukrainian: підгу́зок (pidhúzok) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Ukrainian: підгу́зник (pidhúznyk) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Ukrainian: па́мперс (pámpers) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Ukrainian: пелена́ (pelená) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Ukrainian: пелю́шка (peljúška) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Uzbek: taglik — absorbent garment for waste material
- Vietnamese: tã lót — absorbent garment for waste material
- Vietnamese: tã — absorbent garment for waste material
- Walloon: faxhe-coulote — absorbent garment for waste material
- Walloon: pamperse — absorbent garment for waste material
- Welsh: clwt — absorbent garment for waste material
- Welsh: cewyn — absorbent garment for waste material
- Yiddish: ווינדל (vindl) — absorbent garment for waste material
- Zhuang: vajnyouh — absorbent garment for waste material
- Esperanto: vindi — to put diapers on someone
- French: langer — to put diapers on someone
- German: windeln — to put diapers on someone
- German: wickeln — to put diapers on someone
- Hungarian: pelenkáz — to put diapers on someone
- Hungarian: bepelenkáz — to put diapers on someone
- Portuguese: fraldar — to put diapers on someone
- Walloon: refaxhî — to put diapers on someone