sleeping pill

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Noun

sleeping pill (plural sleeping pills)

1. (pharmacology) A pill or tablet having a soporific effect.

   Synonym: sleeping tablet

   • 1979 April 28, “Mousie Mousie Wildflower”, in Gay Community News, page 22:

     You are my favorite sleeping pill
     The secret bending of my waking will.
     You bring me peace, you bring me rest.
     Your gentle presence leaves me blest.

   • 2012, Thomas Gifford, Kiss Me Once, →ISBN:

     It was a little past ten that night when his nurse, Sylvia of the Bedpans, came tiptoeing in with sleeping pills on a little tray and told him that his friend, Detective Leary, had just been delivered to the emergency room in a meat wagon.

Translations

a pill having a soporific effect

• Arabic: مُنَوِّم m (munawwim)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: снатворнае n (snatvórnaje)
• Bouyei: nganymianfyof
• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 安眠藥／安眠药 (zh) (ānmiányào)

• Czech: uspávadlo n, uspávací prostředek m, prášek na spaní
• Esperanto: dormigilo
• Finnish: unilääke (fi)
• French: somnifère (fr) m
• German: Schlafmittel (de) n, Schlaftablette (de) f
• Greek: υπνωτικό (el) n (ypnotikó)
• Hungarian: altató (hu)
• Icelandic: svefnpilla f
• Italian: sonnifero (it) m
• Japanese: 睡眠薬 (ja) (すいみんやく, suimin'yaku)
• Korean: 수면제(睡眠劑) (ko) (sumyeonje)
• Macedonian: please add this translation if you can
• Manx: milleen cadlee m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sovepille m or f, sovetablett m

  Nynorsk: sovepille f, sovetablett m

• Polish: tabletka nasenna f pl
• Portuguese: pílula para dormir f
• Russian: снотво́рное (ru) n (snotvórnoje)
• Spanish: somnífero (es) m, pastilla para dormir f
• Tagalog: tabletang pampatulog
• Thai: ยานอนหลับ (yaa-nɔɔn-làp)
• Tibetan: གཉིད་སྨན (gnyid sman)
• Turkish: uyku hapı
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Zhuang: anhmenzyoz, ywanhmenzyoz