papyrus

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• /pəˈpaɪɹəs/
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From Middle English papirus, borrowed from Latin papȳrus, from Ancient Greek πάπυρος (pápuros), of unknown origin. Doublet of papyros.

149 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: بَرْدِيّ (bardiyy) — plant in the sedge family
• Arabic: كُولَان (kūlān) — plant in the sedge family
• Arabic: كَوْلَان (kawlān) — plant in the sedge family
• Arabic: بردي (bardi) — plant in the sedge family
• Armenian: պապիրուս (papirus) — plant in the sedge family
• Old Armenian: պրտու (prtu) — plant in the sedge family
• Belarusian: папі́рус (papírus) — plant in the sedge family
• Bulgarian: папи́рус (papírus) — plant in the sedge family
• Catalan: papir — plant in the sedge family
• Chinese Mandarin: 紙草 /纸草 (zhǐcǎo) — plant in the sedge family
• Chinese Mandarin: 紙莎草 /纸莎草 (zhǐsuōcǎo) — plant in the sedge family
• Chinese Mandarin: 莎草 (suōcǎo) — plant in the sedge family
• Czech: šáchor papírodárný — plant in the sedge family
• Finnish: papyruskaisla — plant in the sedge family
• French: papyrus — plant in the sedge family
• Galician: papiro — plant in the sedge family
• Georgian: პაპირუსი (ṗaṗirusi) — plant in the sedge family
• German: Papyrus — plant in the sedge family
• German: Echter Papyrus — plant in the sedge family
• German: Papyrusstaude — plant in the sedge family
• Greek: πάπυρος (pápyros) — plant in the sedge family
• Ancient Greek: πάπυρος (pápuros) — plant in the sedge family
• Hebrew: גומא \ גֹּמֶא (góme) — plant in the sedge family
• Hebrew: פָּפִּירוּס (papírus) — plant in the sedge family
• Hebrew: גומא פפירוס \ גֹּמֶא־פָּפִּירוּס (góme-papírus) — plant in the sedge family
• Hungarian: papirusznád — plant in the sedge family
• Ido: papiriero — plant in the sedge family
• Indonesian: bardi — plant in the sedge family
• Italian: papiro — plant in the sedge family
• Japanese: パピルス (papirusu) — plant in the sedge family
• Japanese: カミガヤツリ (kamigayatsuri) — plant in the sedge family
• Korean: 파피루스 (papiruseu) — plant in the sedge family
• Latin: papȳrus — plant in the sedge family
• Latin: charta — plant in the sedge family
• Macedonian: папирус (papirus) — plant in the sedge family
• Malagasy: zozoro — plant in the sedge family
• Persian: پاپیروس (pâpirus) — plant in the sedge family
• Polish: papirus — plant in the sedge family
• Portuguese: papiro — plant in the sedge family
• Russian: папи́рус (papírus) — plant in the sedge family
• Serbo-Croatian: па̏пирус — plant in the sedge family
• Serbo-Croatian: pȁpirus — plant in the sedge family
• Upper Sorbian: papjerowc — plant in the sedge family
• Spanish: papiro — plant in the sedge family
• Swedish: papyrus — plant in the sedge family
• Tagalog: papiro — plant in the sedge family
• Turkish: papirüs — plant in the sedge family
• Ukrainian: папі́рус (papírus) — plant in the sedge family
• Vietnamese: cói — plant in the sedge family
• Albanian: papirus — material made from this plant
• Arabic: بَرْدِيّ (bardiyy) — material made from this plant
• Arabic: بَرْدِيَّة (bardiyya) — material made from this plant
• Arabic: بردي (bardi) — material made from this plant
• Armenian: պապիրուս (papirus) — material made from this plant
• Azerbaijani: papirus — material made from this plant
• Belarusian: папі́рус (papírus) — material made from this plant
• Bengali: প্যাপিরাস (pêpiraś) — material made from this plant
• Bulgarian: папи́рус (papírus) — material made from this plant
• Catalan: papir — material made from this plant
• Chinese Mandarin: 紙草紙 /纸草纸 (zhǐcǎo zhǐ) — material made from this plant
• Chinese Mandarin: 莎草紙 /莎草纸 (suōcǎo zhǐ) — material made from this plant
• Coptic: ϫⲟⲟⲩϥ (joouf) — material made from this plant
• Czech: papyrus — material made from this plant
• Danish: papyrus — material made from this plant
• Dutch: papyrus — material made from this plant
• Esperanto: papiruso — material made from this plant
• Esperanto: papiro — material made from this plant
• Estonian: papüürus — material made from this plant
• Finnish: papyrus — material made from this plant
• French: papyrus — material made from this plant
• Galician: papiro — material made from this plant
• Georgian: პაპირუსი (ṗaṗirusi) — material made from this plant
• German: Papyrus — material made from this plant
• Greek: πάπυρος (pápyros) — material made from this plant
• Ancient Greek: πάπυρος (pápuros) — material made from this plant
• Hebrew: פָּפִּירוּס (papírus) — material made from this plant
• Hindi: पपाइरस (papāiras) — material made from this plant
• Hungarian: papirusz — material made from this plant
• Icelandic: papýrus — material made from this plant
• Ido: papiro — material made from this plant
• Indonesian: papirus — material made from this plant
• Italian: papiro — material made from this plant
• Japanese: パピルス (papirusu) — material made from this plant
• Kazakh: папирус (papirus) — material made from this plant
• Khmer: ប៉ាពីរុស (paapiiruh) — material made from this plant
• Korean: 파피루스 (papiruseu) — material made from this plant
• Northern Kurdish: papîrus — material made from this plant
• Kyrgyz: папирус (papirus) — material made from this plant
• Latin: papȳrus — material made from this plant
• Latin: charta — material made from this plant
• Latin: chartaceus — material made from this plant
• Latin: chartarius — material made from this plant
• Latvian: papiruss — material made from this plant
• Lithuanian: papirusas — material made from this plant
• Macedonian: папирус (papirus) — material made from this plant
• Malay: papirus — material made from this plant
• Norwegian Bokmål: papyrus — material made from this plant
• Persian: پاپیروس (pâpirus) — material made from this plant
• Polish: papirus — material made from this plant
• Portuguese: papiro — material made from this plant
• Romanian: papirus — material made from this plant
• Russian: папи́рус (papírus) — material made from this plant
• Serbo-Croatian: па̏пирус — material made from this plant
• Serbo-Croatian: pȁpirus — material made from this plant
• Slovak: papyrus — material made from this plant
• Slovene: papirus — material made from this plant
• Spanish: papiro — material made from this plant
• Swedish: papyrus — material made from this plant
• Tagalog: papiro — material made from this plant
• Tajik: папирус (papirus) — material made from this plant
• Thai: พาไพรัส — material made from this plant
• Turkish: papirüs — material made from this plant
• Turkmen: papirus — material made from this plant
• Ukrainian: папі́рус (papírus) — material made from this plant
• Urdu: پپیرس (papāiras) — material made from this plant
• Uyghur: پاپىرۇس (papirus) — material made from this plant
• Uzbek: papirus — material made from this plant
• Vietnamese: giấy cói — material made from this plant
• Arabic: بَرْدِيَّة (bardiyya) — scroll or document written on this material
• Arabic: بردية (bardeia) — scroll or document written on this material
• Armenian: պապիրուս (papirus) — scroll or document written on this material
• Belarusian: папі́рус (papírus) — scroll or document written on this material
• Bulgarian: папи́рус (papírus) — scroll or document written on this material
• Catalan: papir — scroll or document written on this material
• Chinese Mandarin: 古代文獻 /古代文献 (gǔdài wénxiàn) — scroll or document written on this material
• Coptic: ϫⲟⲟⲩϥ (joouf) — scroll or document written on this material
• Czech: papyrus — scroll or document written on this material
• Finnish: papyrus — scroll or document written on this material
• French: papyrus — scroll or document written on this material
• Galician: papiro — scroll or document written on this material
• German: Papyrus — scroll or document written on this material
• Hebrew: פָּפִּירוּס (papírus) — scroll or document written on this material
• Hungarian: papirusz — scroll or document written on this material
• Ido: papiro — scroll or document written on this material
• Italian: papiro — scroll or document written on this material
• Latin: papȳrus — scroll or document written on this material
• Latin: charta — scroll or document written on this material
• Latin: chartaceus — scroll or document written on this material
• Latin: chartarius — scroll or document written on this material
• Polish: papirus — scroll or document written on this material
• Portuguese: papiro — scroll or document written on this material
• Russian: папи́рус (papírus) — scroll or document written on this material
• Serbo-Croatian: па̏пирус — scroll or document written on this material
• Serbo-Croatian: pȁpirus — scroll or document written on this material
• Spanish: papiro — scroll or document written on this material
• Swedish: papyrus — scroll or document written on this material
• Tagalog: papiro — scroll or document written on this material
• Turkish: papirüs — scroll or document written on this material
• Ukrainian: папі́рус (papírus) — scroll or document written on this material