Phrase guide

toilet paper

noun · verb · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

noun

Meaning 1

Paper, usually on a roll, used to clean oneself after defecation or urination.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable, usually

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: TP, toilet roll, toilet tissue, bathroom tissue, bog paper, bog roll, lavvy paper, loo roll, loo paper, bumf, poo tickets

Antonyms: none provided

2

verb

Meaning 2

To cover a house, tree or other structure with strips of toilet paper, typically as a prank or celebratory gesture.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US, transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: TP

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

a soft thin absorbent paper for use in toilets

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: toilet tissue, bathroom tissue

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: tissue, tissue paper

Narrower terms: toilet roll

History

Etymology

No etymology was provided for this word.

Across languages

Translations

159 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: toiletpapier — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Alabama: iskihka — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Albanian: letër higjienike — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Arabic: وَرَق مِرْحَاض (waraq mirḥāḍ) — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Arabic: وَرَق حَمَّام (waraq ḥammām) — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Arabic: وَرَق اِسْتِنْجَاء (waraq istinjāʔ) — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Armenian: զուգարանի թուղթ (zugarani tʻuġtʻ) — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Asturian: papel hixénicu — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Azerbaijani: ayaqyolu kağızı — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Azerbaijani: tualet kağızı — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Basque: komuneko paper — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Belarusian: туале́тная папе́ра (tualjétnaja papjéra) — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Bengali: টয়লেট পেপার (ṭoẏleṭ pepar) — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Breton: paper-privezioù — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Bulgarian: тоале́тна харти́я (toalétna hartíja) — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Burmese: အိမ်သာသုံးစက္ကူ (imsasum:cakku) — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Catalan: paper higiènic — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Cherokee: ᎠᏑᎴᏙᏗ (asuledodi) — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Chinese Cantonese: 廁紙 /厕纸 (ci3 zi2) — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Chinese Cantonese: 衛生紙 /卫生纸 (wai6 sang1 zi2) — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Chinese Cantonese: 草紙 /草纸 (cou2 zi2) — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Hakka Chinese: 衛生紙 /卫生纸 (vi-sên-chṳ́) — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Chinese: 衛生紙 /卫生纸 (zh-min-nan) — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Chinese: 綿仔紙 /绵仔纸 (zh-min-nan) — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Chinese: 粗紙 /粗纸 (zh-min-nan) — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Chinese Mandarin: 衛生紙 /卫生纸 (wèishēngzhǐ) — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Chinese Mandarin: 手紙 /手纸 (shǒuzhǐ) — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Chinese Mandarin: 廁紙 /厕纸 (cèzhǐ) — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Wu Chinese: 草紙 /草纸 — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Cornish: paper privedhyow — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Czech: toaletní papír — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Czech: hajzlpapír — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Czech: toaleťák — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Danish: toiletpapir — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Danish: wc-papir — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Dutch: wc-papier — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Dutch: toiletpapier — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Dutch: wc-rol — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Elfdalian: skalauspapir — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Esperanto: klozeta papero — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Esperanto: neceseja papero — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Esperanto: klozetpapero — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Estonian: tualettpaber — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Estonian: wc-paber — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Faroese: skoynisoppur — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Faroese: vesipappír — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Finnish: vessapaperi — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Finnish: wc-paperi — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • French: papier toilette — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • French: papier hygiénique — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • French: papier-cul — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • French: PQ — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • French: torche-cul — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • French: papier de toilette — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Galician: papel hixiénico — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Georgian: ტუალეტი ქაღალდი (ṭualeṭi kaɣaldi) — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • German: Toilettenpapier — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • German: Klopapier — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • German: Klosettpapier — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Greek: χαρτί υγείας (chartí ygeías) — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Greek: κωλόχαρτο (kolócharto) — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Haitian Creole: papye ijyenik — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Hawaiian: hāleu — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Hebrew: נְיַר טוֹאָלֵט (n'yar tualét) — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Hindi: टॉयलेट पेपर (ṭŏyleṭ pepar) — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Hungarian: toalettpapír — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Hungarian: vécépapír — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Icelandic: klósettpappír — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Icelandic: salernispappír — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Ido: papero higienala — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Ido: sedopapero — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Indonesian: tisu toilet — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Indonesian: kertas toilet — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Interlingua: papiro hygienic — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Irish: páipéar leithris — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Italian: carta igienica — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Italian: carta da bagno — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Italian: carta da gabinetto — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Japanese: ちり紙 (chirigami) — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Japanese: トイレットペーパー (toiretto pēpā) — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Kazakh: әжетхана қағазы (äjetxana qağazy) — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Kazakh: дәретхана қағазы (däretxana qağazy) — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Khmer: ក្រដាសបង្គន់ (krɑɑdaah bɑngkŭən) — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Korean: 화장지 (hwajangji) — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Korean: 휴지 (hyuji) — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Korean: 토일렛 페이퍼 (toillet peipeo) — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Krio: tɔylɛt pepa — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Northern Kurdish: kaxizê daşirê — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Northern Kurdish: kaxizê tualetê — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Kyrgyz: ажаткана кагазы (ajatkana kagazı) — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Kyrgyz: даарат кагаз (daarat kagaz) — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Lao: ເຈ້ຍຫ້ອງນ້ໍາ (chīa hǭng nam) — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Latin: charta purgatoria — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Latin: anitergium — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Latvian: tualetes papīrs — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Lithuanian: tualetinis popierius — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Luxembourgish: Toilettëpabeier — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Macedonian: тоале́тна ха́ртија (toalétna hártija) — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Malay: tisu tandas — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Maltese: karta tat-twaletta — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Manx: pabyr premmee — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Māori: whēru — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Mongolian: ариун цэврийн цаас (ariun cevriin caas) — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Nahuatl: cuitlamatl — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Navajo: chąąʼ bee yildéhí — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Navajo: naaltsoos bee ʼádítʼoodí — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Norwegian Bokmål: dopapir — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Norwegian Bokmål: toalettpapir — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Norwegian Bokmål: dorulle — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Occitan: papièr igienic — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Pannonian Rusyn: тоалетни папер — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Pashto: تشناب کاغذ (tašnāb kāǧaz) — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Dari: کَاغَذِ تَشْنَاب (kāġaz-i tašnāb) — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Iranian Persian: کاغَذِ تواَلِت (kâġaz-e tuâlet) — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Iranian Persian: دَسْتْمالِ تواَلِت (dastmâl-e tuâlet) — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Plautdietsch: Weschpapia — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Polish: papier toaletowy — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Polish: srajtaśma — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Polish: wc-papier — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Portuguese: papel higiênico — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Portuguese: papel higiénico — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Romanian: hârtie igienică — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Romansh: palpiri da tualetta — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Russian: туале́тная бума́га (tualétnaja bumága) — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Scottish Gaelic: pàipear suathaidh — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Serbo-Croatian: тоалетни папир — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Serbo-Croatian: toaletni papir — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Slovak: toaletný papier — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Slovak: hajzlpapír — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Slovene: toaletni papir — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Lower Sorbian: toaletowa papjera — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Spanish: papel higiénico — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Spanish: confort — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Swahili: karatasi ya chooni — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Swedish: toalettpapper — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Swedish: toapapper — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Tagalog: pang-iwang — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Tajik: коғази халобоб (koġaz-i xalobob) — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Tajik: қоғази ҳоҷатхона (qoġaz-i hojatxona) — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Thai: กระดาษชําระ (grà-dàat-cham-rá) — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Thai: กระดาษทิชชู (grà-dàat-tít-chûu) — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Tibetan: གཙང་སྒྲའི་ཤོག་བུ (gtsang sgra'i shog bu) — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Tok Pisin: pepa bilong toilet — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Tok Pisin: pekpek pepa — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Tok Pisin: toilet pepa — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Turkish: tuvalet kâğıdı — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Turkish: tuvalet kağıdı — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Turkmen: hajathana kagyzy — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Ukrainian: туале́тний папі́р (tualétnyj papír) — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Urdu: ٹائِلِٹ پیپَر (ṭāiliṭ pepar) — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Uyghur: تازىلىق قەغىزى (taziliq qeghizi) — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Uyghur: ھاجەتخانا قەغىزى (hajetxana qeghizi) — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Uzbek: tualet qogʻozi — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Uzbek: hojatxona qogʻozi — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Vietnamese: giấy vệ sinh — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Vietnamese: giấy đi cầu — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Welsh: papur tŷ bach — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Yiddish: בית־הכּסא פּאַפּיר (beys-hakise papir) — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination
  • Yiddish: אשר־יצר פּאַפּיר (asher-yotser papir) — paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination