staple

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• Received-Pronunciation, US: /ˈsteɪ.pəl/
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• rhymes with -eɪpəl
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• CMU ARPABET: S T EY1 P AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English staple, from Anglo-Norman estaple, Old French estaple (“market, (trading) post”), from Late Latin stapula, from Frankish *stapul, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *stapulaz (“post”), from Proto-Indo-European *stebh- (“post, stem”). Compare staff. Doublet of étape and etymology 2.

From Middle English stapel (“staple”).

From Middle English stapel (“staple, pillar, post”), from Old English stapol (“post, pillar”), from Proto-West Germanic *stapul, from Proto-Germanic *stapulaz, from Proto-Indo-European *stebh- (“post, stem”). See also Old English steppan (“to step”) and Old French estaple (“post”). Consider also stapes (“stirrup”), from Latin. Doublet of étape and etymology 1.

179 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Catalan: fonament — basic or essential supply
• Catalan: matèria prima — basic or essential supply
• Czech: základní zásoba — basic or essential supply
• Dutch: basisbenodigdheid — basic or essential supply
• Finnish: perustarvike — basic or essential supply
• French: production principale — basic or essential supply
• Galician: fundamento — basic or essential supply
• Galician: base — basic or essential supply
• German: Ausgangsmaterial — basic or essential supply
• German: Grundversorgung — basic or essential supply
• Icelandic: aðalframleiðsluvara — basic or essential supply
• Icelandic: aðalverslunarvara — basic or essential supply
• Icelandic: grunnvara — basic or essential supply
• Icelandic: nauðsynjar — basic or essential supply
• Icelandic: nauðsynjavörur — basic or essential supply
• Irish: amhábhar — basic or essential supply
• Irish: bunábhar — basic or essential supply
• Italian: prodotto di base — basic or essential supply
• Polish: podstawowy artykuł — basic or essential supply
• Serbo-Croatian: сѝровина — basic or essential supply
• Serbo-Croatian: sìrovina — basic or essential supply
• Spanish: producto principal — basic or essential supply
• Swedish: stapelvara — basic or essential supply
• Turkish: başlıca — basic or essential supply
• Turkish: esas — basic or essential supply
• Ukrainian: сировина́ (syrovyná) — basic or essential supply
• Finnish: päätuote — the principal commodity produced in a town or region
• Galician: especialidade — the principal commodity produced in a town or region
• Irish: príomh-amhábhar — the principal commodity produced in a town or region
• Irish: príomhtháirge — the principal commodity produced in a town or region
• Italian: materia prima — the principal commodity produced in a town or region
• Chinese Mandarin: 主食 (zhǔshí) — basic food
• Czech: základní potravina — basic food
• Dutch: basisvoedsel — basic food
• Finnish: peruselintarvike — basic food
• French: aliment de base — basic food
• German: Grundnahrungsmittel — basic food
• Hindi: प्रमुख खाद्य (pramukh khādya) — basic food
• Icelandic: uppistaða — basic food
• Icelandic: uppistöðumatur — basic food
• Icelandic: uppistöðuefni — basic food
• Icelandic: hráefni — basic food
• Italian: alimento base — basic food
• Kazakh: талғажау (talğajau) — basic food
• Korean: 주식 (jusik) — basic food
• Lithuanian: pagrindinis maistas — basic food
• Norwegian Nynorsk: basismatvare — basic food
• Polish: podstawowe pożywienie — basic food
• Russian: основно́й проду́кт пита́ния (osnovnój prodúkt pitánija) — basic food
• Serbo-Croatian: сѝровина — basic food
• Serbo-Croatian: sìrovina — basic food
• Spanish: alimento básico — basic food
• Spanish: alimento de primera necesidad — basic food
• Turkish: temel besin — basic food
• Turkish: temel gıda — basic food
• Welsh: prif fwyd — basic food
• Finnish: tapuli — length of fibers in wool
• Icelandic: hörtrefjar — length of fibers in wool
• Icelandic: ullarþræðir — length of fibers in wool
• Icelandic: baðmullarþræðir — length of fibers in wool
• Polish: stapel — length of fibers in wool
• Afrikaans: krammetjie — wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper
• Bulgarian: телче (telče) — wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper
• Catalan: grapa — wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper
• Chinese Cantonese: 釘書釘 /钉书钉 (deng1 syu1 deng1) — wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper
• Chinese Mandarin: 訂書釘 /订书钉 (dìngshūdīng) — wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper
• Chinese Mandarin: 訂書針 /订书针 (dìngshūzhēn) — wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper
• Danish: hæfteklamme — wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper
• Dutch: nietje — wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper
• Esperanto: agrafo — wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper
• Finnish: nitomanasta — wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper
• Finnish: paperiniitti — wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper
• French: agrafe — wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper
• Galician: grampa — wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper
• Galician: galga — wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper
• German: Heftklammer — wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper
• Greek: συνδετήρας (syndetíras) — wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper
• Hungarian: tűzőkapocs — wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper
• Icelandic: hefti — wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper
• Irish: stápla — wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper
• Italian: graffetta — wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper
• Japanese: ステープル (sutēpuru) — wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper
• Khmer: គ្រាប់កិប (krŏəpkəp) — wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper
• Korean: 스테이플 (seuteipeul) — wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper
• Lithuanian: sąsagėlė — wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper
• Manx: lhoob yiarn — wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper
• Māori: tēpara — wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper
• Māori: makatiti — wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper
• Norwegian Nynorsk: stift — wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper
• Occitan: croquet — wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper
• Occitan: agrafa — wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper
• Polish: zszywka — wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper
• Portuguese: grampo — wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper
• Romanian: capsă — wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper
• Russian: скре́пка (skrépka) — wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper
• Russian: скоба́ (skobá) — wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper
• Upper Sorbian: spinka — wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper
• Spanish: grapa — wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper
• Spanish: corchete — wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper
• Spanish: presilla — wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper
• Spanish: grampa — wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper
• Swedish: häftklammer — wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper
• Thai: ลวดเย็บกระดาษ (lûuat-yép-grà-dàat) — wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper
• Turkish: tel zımba — wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper
• Vietnamese: ghim — wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper
• Welsh: stapl — wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper
• Welsh: staplen — wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper
• Afrikaans: krammetjie — wire fastener in general
• Dutch: niet — wire fastener in general
• Dutch: kram — wire fastener in general
• Finnish: sinkilä — wire fastener in general
• Finnish: hakanen — wire fastener in general
• French: agrafe — wire fastener in general
• Galician: grampa — wire fastener in general
• Hungarian: fémkapocs — wire fastener in general
• Hungarian: kapocs — wire fastener in general
• Icelandic: hefti — wire fastener in general
• Icelandic: kengur — wire fastener in general
• Icelandic: vírhefti — wire fastener in general
• Māori: makatiti — wire fastener in general
• Māori: tēpara — wire fastener in general
• Polish: klamra — wire fastener in general
• Swedish: klammer — wire fastener in general
• Bulgarian: скоба (skoba) — U-shaped metal fastener
• Dutch: kram — U-shaped metal fastener
• Finnish: aspi — U-shaped metal fastener
• Finnish: sinkilä — U-shaped metal fastener
• Galician: grampa — U-shaped metal fastener
• German: Krampe — U-shaped metal fastener
• Icelandic: hefti — U-shaped metal fastener
• Icelandic: vírhefti — U-shaped metal fastener
• Italian: graffetta — U-shaped metal fastener
• Māori: tēpara — U-shaped metal fastener
• Norwegian Bokmål: krampe — U-shaped metal fastener
• Norwegian Nynorsk: krampe — U-shaped metal fastener
• Polish: klamra — U-shaped metal fastener
• Portuguese: grampo — U-shaped metal fastener
• Portuguese: agrafo — U-shaped metal fastener
• Spanish: grapa — U-shaped metal fastener
• Swedish: klammer — U-shaped metal fastener
• Swedish: krampa — U-shaped metal fastener
• Tagalog: pikolete — U-shaped metal fastener
• Dutch: haak — one of set of rods hammered into structure
• Finnish: askelma — one of set of rods hammered into structure
• Icelandic: hefti — one of set of rods hammered into structure
• Icelandic: kengur — one of set of rods hammered into structure
• Icelandic: vírhefti — one of set of rods hammered into structure
• Māori: makatiti — one of set of rods hammered into structure
• Māori: tēpara — one of set of rods hammered into structure
• Māori: tia — one of set of rods hammered into structure
• Polish: klamra — one of set of rods hammered into structure
• Bulgarian: забождам с телбод (zaboždam s telbod) — secure with a staple
• Catalan: engrapar — secure with a staple
• Catalan: grapar — secure with a staple
• Chinese Mandarin: 釘 /钉 (dìng) — secure with a staple
• Danish: hæfte — secure with a staple
• Dutch: nieten — secure with a staple
• Finnish: nitoa — secure with a staple
• French: agrafer — secure with a staple
• Galician: grampar — secure with a staple
• German: heften — secure with a staple
• Greek: συρράβω (syrrávo) — secure with a staple
• Icelandic: hefta — secure with a staple
• Italian: pinzare — secure with a staple
• Khmer: កិប (kəp) — secure with a staple
• Lithuanian: prisegti — secure with a staple
• Māori: makatiti — secure with a staple
• Māori: whakapinepine — secure with a staple
• Norwegian Nynorsk: stifta — secure with a staple
• Polish: zszyć — secure with a staple
• Portuguese: agrafar — secure with a staple
• Portuguese: grampear — secure with a staple
• Romanian: capsa — secure with a staple
• Russian: скрепля́ть (skrepljátʹ) — secure with a staple
• Spanish: grapar — secure with a staple
• Spanish: engrapar — secure with a staple
• Swedish: häfta — secure with a staple
• Turkish: zımbalamak — secure with a staple
• Ottoman Turkish: زنبهلامق (zımbalamak) — secure with a staple