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A selection of sandpapers in various grit sizes
From sand + paper.
sandpaper (usually uncountable, plural sandpapers)
- (uncountable) Strong paper coated with (traditionally) sand or (today) manufactured aluminum oxide, silicon carbide, or other abrasive material, used for smoothing and polishing.
- Synonym: sanding paper
- Hypernym: abrasive
- Coordinate terms: emery cloth; emery board
- Near-synonym: emery paper
They like to finish it off with a piece of 600-grit sandpaper before cleaning and painting.
- (countable) A sheet of such paper.
I need a scraper and a sandpaper over here.
paper coated with abrasive material
- Afrikaans: skuurpapier
- Albanian: zumpara (sq) f, zumpare f
- Arabic: وَرَق زُجَاج m (waraq zujāj)
- Armenian: հղկաթուղթ (hy) (hġkatʻuġtʻ), շուշաթուղթ (šušatʻuġtʻ) (colloquial)
- Assamese: পালিচ কাগজ (palis kagoz), চিৰিচ কাগজ (siris kagoz)
- Azerbaijani: zımpara
- Belarusian: нажда́чная папе́ра f (naždáčnaja papjéra)
- Bengali: শিরিষ-কাগজ (śiriś-kagoj)
- Bulgarian: шку́рка f (škúrka)
- Catalan: paper de vidre
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 砂紙 / 砂纸 (saa1 zi2)
- Mandarin: 砂紙 / 砂纸 (zh) (shāzhǐ)
- Czech: smirkový papír (cs) m, brusný papír m
- Danish: sandpapir n
- Dutch: schuurpapier (nl) n
- Esperanto: sablopapero
- Estonian: abrasiivpaber (et), liivapaber
- Finnish: hiomapaperi (fi)
- French: papier de verre (fr) m, papier à poncer m
- Galician: lixa (gl) f
- Georgian: ზუმფარა (zumpara)
- German: Schleifpapier (de) n, Schmirgelpapier (de) n, Sandpapier (de) n
- Greek: γυαλόχαρτο (el) m (gyalócharto)
- Gujarati: રેતિયો કાગળ (retiyo kāgaḷ)
- Hebrew: נְיַר לֶטֶשׁ (he) m (nyar létesh)
- Hindi: रेगमाल m (regmāl)
- Hungarian: csiszolópapír (hu), dörzspapír (hu), smirgli (hu), smirglipapír (hu)
- Icelandic: sandpappír m
- Indonesian: ampelas (id), kertas abrasif
- Irish: páipéar gainimh m, páipéar scríobach m
- Italian: carta vetrata (it) f
- Japanese: 研磨紙 (けんまし, kenmashi), サンドペーパー (ja) (sandopēpā), 紙鑢 (ja) (かみやすり, kamiyasuri)
- Kazakh: егеуқұм қағазы (egeuqūm qağazy), қажауқағаз (qajauqağaz)
- Khmer: ក្រដាសខ្សាច់ (krɑdaah khsac)
- Korean: 사포 (ko) (sapo)
- Kyrgyz: наждактуу кагаз (najdaktuu kagaz)
- Lao: ກະດາດຊາຍ (lo) (ka dāt sāi)
- Latin: harenae charta
- Latvian: smilšpapīrs
- Lithuanian: švitrinis popierius
- Luxembourgish: Sandpapier f
- Macedonian: шмиргла f (šmirgla)
- Malay: ampelas, kertas lelas
- Maori: pepa whakamaene
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: зүлгүүр (mn) (zülgüür)
- Norman: papi tîmbré m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: sandpapir n, slipepapir n
- Nynorsk: sandpapir n, slipepapir n
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: سُنْبادِه (sonbâde)
- Plautdietsch: Schiapapia n, Sauntpapia n
- Polish: papier ścierny (pl) m, szmergiel (pl) m
- Portuguese: lixa (pt) f
- Romanian: șmirghel (ro) n, hârtie abrazivă f
- Russian: нажда́чная бума́га (ru) f (naždáčnaja bumága), нажда́чка (ru) f (naždáčka) (colloquial), шку́рка (ru) f (škúrka) (colloquial), шлифова́льная бума́га f (šlifoválʹnaja bumága)
- Scottish Gaelic: pàipear-gainmhich m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: брусни папир m
- Roman: brusni papir m
- Slovak: brúsny papier m
- Spanish: lija (es) f, papel de lija m
- Swahili: msasa (sw)
- Swedish: sandpapper (sv) n, slippapper (sv) n
- Tagalog: liha (tl)
- Tajik: коғази сунбода (koġaz-i sunboda)
- Tausug: gigidgid
- Thai: กระดาษทราย (th) (grà-dàat-saai)
- Tibetan: ཀོ་སག (ko sag)
- Turkish: zımpara (tr)
- Ukrainian: нажда́чний папі́р m (naždáčnyj papír)
- Urdu: ریگ مال m (reg māl)
- Uzbek: silliqlash qogʻozi
- Vietnamese: giấy nhám (vi)
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sandpaper (third-person singular simple present sandpapers, present participle sandpapering, simple past and past participle sandpapered)
- (transitive) To polish or grind (a surface) with or as if with sandpaper.
- Synonyms: sand, sand down
- Coordinate terms: buff, buff out
to polish or grind a surface
