adhesive tape

English

A roll of adhesive tape (#1)

A roll of surgical tape (#2)

Noun

adhesive tape (countable and uncountable, plural adhesive tapes)

1. Tape with an adhesive film on one side, used to attach materials to something.

   Synonyms: (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) sellotape, (Britain, Australia) sticky tape, (US, Singapore) Scotch tape

2. (US, medicine) Surgical tape, such tape made specifically for medical purposes.

   Synonyms: medical tape, surgical tape

Coordinate terms

• Durex
• Scotch tape
• sellotape, Sellotape
• sticky tape
• tape

Translations

adhesive tape generally

• Afrikaans: kleefband, kleeflint, plakband
• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: شَرِيط لَاصِق m (šarīṭ lāṣiq)

  Hijazi Arabic: شَطَرْطون m (šaṭarṭōn)

• Armenian: կպչուն ժապավեն (kpčʻun žapaven), սկոտչ (skotčʻ)
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: ти́ксо n (tíkso), ско́ч (bg) (skóč)
• Catalan: cinta adhesiva (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 膠紙 / 胶纸 (gaau¹ zi²)

  Hokkien: 貼紙 / 贴纸 (zh-min-nan) (tah-chóa), 黏紙 / 黏纸 (liâm-chóa)

  Mandarin: 膠帶 / 胶带 (zh) (jiāodài)

• Czech: lepící páska f, izolepa f
• Danish: tape c, klisterbånd n, klæbebånd c, selvklæbende tape c
• Esperanto: glubendo, adhera rubando
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: teippi (fi)
• French: ruban adhésif (fr) m, scotch (fr) m
• Galician: fixo (gl) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: (more formal) Klebeband (de) n; (more informal) Klebefilm m Tesafilm (de) m, n, Tesa n,
• Greek: κολλητική ταινία f (kollitikí tainía)
• Gujarati: ચીકટપટ્ટી (cīkaṭpaṭṭī)
• Hebrew: סרט דביק m (séret davík)
• Hindi: चिपकपट्टी (cipakpaṭṭī)
• Hungarian: ragasztószalag (hu), cellux (hu)
• Icelandic: límband n, teip n (informal; usually refers to thicker tape such as duct tape or medical tape)
• Indonesian: selotip
• Italian: nastro (it) m, nastro adesivo m
• Japanese: 粘着テープ (ja) (nenchaku tēpu)
• Khmer: កាសែតស្អិត (kaasaetsʼət)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Malay: pita pelekat
• Marathi: चिकटपट्टी (cikaṭpaṭṭī), टेप f (ṭep)
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: taśma klejąca f, taśma (pl) f, taśma samoprzylepna f, taśma lepna f
• Portuguese: fita adesiva f, fita gomada f, fita-cola (pt) f, durex (pt) m (Brazil)
• Romanian: bandă adezivă f
• Russian: скотч (ru) m (skotč), кле́йкая ле́нта (ru) f (kléjkaja lénta), ли́пкая ле́нта f (lípkaja lénta)
• Scottish Gaelic: teip steigeach f
• Spanish: (formal usage) cinta adhesiva f, (Spain) celo (es) m, (Colombia) cinta pegante f, (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay) cinta Scotch (es) f (skoch), (Mexico) diurex m, (Southern Spain) fixo (es) m, (Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico) tape (es) m (teip), (Venezuela) teipe m, (Dominican Republic) teipi m, cinta escocesa f
• Swedish: tejp (sv) c, tape (sv) c (slang, uncommon)
• Thai: เทป (téep), เทปกาว, แถบกาว, กระดาษกาว
• Turkish: bant (tr)
• Turkmen: skoç
• Ukrainian: скотч m (skotč), клейка стрічка f (klejka strička)
• Vietnamese: băng dính (vi), băng dán, băng keo (vi)
• Welsh: tâp selo m, selotep m
• Yoruba: sẹlotéèpù

medical tape

• Afrikaans: hegpleister
• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: лейкопла́ст (bg) m (lejkoplást), пласти́р (bg) m (plastír)
• Catalan: esparadrap (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 絆創膏 / 绊创膏 (zh) (bànchuānggāo), 橡皮膏 (zh) (xiàngpígāo)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Esperanto: sparadrapo
• Finnish: kiinnelaastari, haavateippi, ihoteippi
• Polish: taśma chirurgiczna f
• Portuguese: esparadrapo (pt) m
• Russian: лейкопла́стырь (ru) m (lejkoplástyrʹ), пла́стырь (ru) m (plástyrʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: teip steigeach f
• Spanish: esparadrapo (es) m
• Turkish: bant (tr), cerrahi bant

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Albanian: ^{(please verify)} shirit ngjitës f
• Basque: ^{(please verify)} zinta itsasgarri
• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} plakband (nl) m or n
• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} glubendo
• French: ^{(please verify)} ruban adhésif (fr) m, ^{(please verify)} scotch (fr) m
• Galician: ^{(please verify)} cinta adhesiva (gl) f
• Georgian: ^{(please verify)} წებოვანი ლენტი (c̣ebovani lenṭi)
• Haitian Creole: ^{(please verify)} tep adezif
• Hindi: ^{(please verify)} स्कॉच टेप f (skŏc ṭep)
• Irish: ^{(please verify)} téip ghreamaitheach f, ^{(please verify)} seilitéip f
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} nastro adesivo m, ^{(please verify)} scotch (it) m
• Japanese: ^{(please verify)} セロハンテープ (serohan tēpu), ^{(please verify)} セロテープ (serotēpu), ^{(please verify)} 粘着テープ (ja) (ねんちゃくテープ, nenchaku tēpu), ^{(please verify)} ばんそうこう (bansōkō), ^{(please verify)} テープ (ja) (tēpu)
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 스카치 테이프 (seukachi teipeu)
• Luxembourgish: ^{(please verify)} Pechband n
• Macedonian: ^{(please verify)} селоте́јп m (selotéjp)
• Malay: ^{(please verify)} pita pelekat
• Maltese: ^{(please verify)} tejp li jwaħħal f
• Maori: ^{(please verify)} rīpene
• Norman: ^{(please verify)} bande cliutée f
• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} limbånd n, ^{(please verify)} selvklebende tape f
• Persian: ^{(please verify)} نوارچسب (fa), ^{(please verify)} چسب نواری (fa)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ^{(please verify)} селотејп m, ^{(please verify)} лепљива трака f, ^{(please verify)} љепљива трака f

  Roman: ^{(please verify)} selotejp (sh) m, ^{(please verify)} lepljiva traka f, ^{(please verify)} ljepljiva traka f

• Swahili: ^{(please verify)} kanda (sw)
• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} yapıştırıcı bant
• Ukrainian: ^{(please verify)} стрічка f (strička)
• Vietnamese: ^{(please verify)} băng dính (vi)

Further reading

• adhesive tape on Wikipedia.Wikipedia