papier-mâché

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• UK: /ˌpap.ɪ.eɪˈmaʃ.eɪ/
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• US: /ˌpeɪ.pɚ.məˈʃeɪ/
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• rhymes with (UK) -æʃeɪ
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Unadapted borrowing from French papier mâché (literally “chewed-up paper”). See French papier and mâcher, related to the English words paper and masticate, respectively.

60 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: وَرَق مُقَوَّى (waraq muqawwā) — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• Armenian: թղթազանգված (tʻġtʻazangvac) — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• Armenian: պապիե-մաշե (papie-maše) — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• Belarusian: пап'е́-машэ́ (papʺjé-mašé) — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• Bulgarian: папиемаше́ (papiemašé) — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• Catalan: paper maixé — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• Chinese Mandarin: 紙型 /纸型 (zhǐxíng) — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• Czech: papírmaš — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• Czech: papírová masa — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• Danish: papmaché — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• Dutch: papier-maché — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• Estonian: papjeemašee — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• Finnish: paperimassa — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• French: papier mâché — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• Galician: papel maché — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• Georgian: პაპიემაშე (ṗaṗiemaše) — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• German: Pappmaschee — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• German: Pappmaché — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• German: Papiermaché — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• Greek: παπιέ μασέ (papié masé) — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• Gujarati: કાગળનો માવો (kāgaḷno māvo) — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• Haitian Creole: papye mache — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• Hebrew: עיסת נייר — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• Hebrew: עִסַּת נְיָר (isát nyar) — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• Hungarian: papírmasé — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• Ido: paperopasto — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• Indonesian: bubur kertas — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• Italian: cartapesta — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• Japanese: 張子 — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• Japanese: 張り子 (hariko) — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• Japanese: パピエ・マシェ (papie-mashe) — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• Korean: 혼응지 (honeungji) — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• Korean: 파피에마세 (papiemase) — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• Latvian: papjēmašē — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• Lithuanian: papjė mašė — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• Māori: pepa whakapiripiri — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• Norwegian Bokmål: pappmasjé — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• Norwegian Bokmål: papirmasjé — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• Norwegian Nynorsk: pappmasjé — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• Norwegian Nynorsk: papirmasjé — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• Persian: پاپیه ماشه (pâpiye mâše) — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• Polish: papier mâché — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• Portuguese: papel-machê — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• Portuguese: papel machê — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• Romanian: papier mâché — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• Russian: папье́-маше́ (papʹjé-mašé) — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• Serbo-Croatian: па̀пӣр-маше — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• Serbo-Croatian: каширанӣ па̀пӣр — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• Serbo-Croatian: pàpīr-maše — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• Serbo-Croatian: kaširanī pàpīr — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• Spanish: papel maché — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• Swedish: papier-maché — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• Swedish: papjemaché — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• Swedish: pappmaché — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• Tamil: தாள் ஊறல் (tāḷ ūṟal) — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• Telugu: కాగితపు గుజ్జు (kāgitapu gujju) — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• Ukrainian: пап'є́-маше́ (papʺjé-mašé) — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• Vietnamese: pa-pi-ê-ma-sê — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• Welsh: mwydion papur — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object
• Welsh: uwd papur — paper mixed with glue to create a sculptural object