A tampon with an applicator
First attested in 1848. Borrowed from French tampon, from Middle French tampion, a nasalised variant of tapon, a diminutive or augmented form of Old French tape (“plug, bung, tap”), from Frankish *tappo (“stopper, plug”), from Proto-Germanic *tappô (“plug, tap”). Cognate with Old High German zapfo (“stopper”), Old English tæppa (“stopper”). More at tap.
tampon (plural tampons)
- A plug of cotton or other absorbent material inserted into a body cavity or wound to absorb fluid, especially one inserted in the vagina during menstruation.
1988, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 145:I examined a tampon, from the outside only without removing the wrapper because I did not want to waste one, and considered aloud the consequences of pushing the offensively shaped object into my vagina.
- A double-headed drumstick primarily for the bass drum.
- An inking pad used in lithographic printing.
a plug of cotton or other absorbent material
- Albanian: tampon m
- Arabic: سِدَادَة f (sidāda), سِدَادَة قُطْنِيَّة f (sidāda quṭniyya), تامْپون m (tampon)
- Armenian: տամպոն (hy) (tampon)
- Azerbaijani: tampon
- Basque: tapoi
- Belarusian: тампо́н m (tampón)
- Bulgarian: тампо́н (bg) m (tampón)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: (most common translation) 衛生棉條/卫生棉条 (zh) (wèishēng miántiáo), (alternative translations) 止血栓 (zh) (zhǐxuèshuān), 棉塞 (zh) (miánsāi), 止血塞 (zhǐxuè sāi), 衛生栓/卫生栓 (wèishēng shuān), 棉條/棉条 (zh) (miántiáo)
- Czech: tampón (cs) m
- Danish: tampon c
- Dutch: tampon (nl) m
- Estonian: tampoon
- Faroese: mánasjúkutvørri
- Finnish: tamponi (fi), haavaside (fi) (for wounds)
- French: tampon (fr) m
- Georgian: ტამპონი (ṭamṗoni)
- German: Tampon (de) m
- Greek: ταμπόν (el) n (tampón)
- Ancient: μοτός m (motós), μοτάριον n (motárion)
- Hebrew: טַמְפּוֹן (he) m (tampón)
- Hindi: तंपन (tampan)
- Hungarian: tampon (hu)
- Icelandic: tíðatappi m, túrtappi m
- Indonesian: tampon (id)
- Italian: tampone (it) m, assorbente interno (it) m, stuello (it) m
- Japanese: タンポン (tanpon)
- Kazakh: тығын (tyğyn), тампон (tampon)
- Korean: 탐폰 (tampon)
- Kyrgyz: тампон (tampon)
- Latvian: tampons m
- Lithuanian: tamponas m
- Macedonian: тампо́н m (tampón)
- Malay: tampon
- Maori: puru taiawa
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: tampong m
- Persian: تامپون (tâmpon)
- Polish: tampon (pl) m
- Portuguese: absorvente interno m, tampão (pt) f
- Romanian: tampon (ro) n
- Russian: тампо́н (ru) m (tampón), заты́чка (ru) f (zatýčka)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: та̀мпо̄н m
- Roman: tàmpōn (sh) m
- Slovak: tampón m
- Slovene: tampon m
- Spanish: tampón m
- Swedish: tampong (sv) c
- Tajik: тампон (tampon), латта (latta), дока (doka)
- Thai: แทมพอน (tɛm-pɔ̂n), ผ้าอนามัย (th) (pâa-à-naa-mai), ผ้าอนามัยแบบสอด (pâa-à-naa-mai bɛ̀ɛp sɔ̀ɔt)
- Turkish: tampon (tr)
- Ukrainian: тампо́н m (tampón)
- Uzbek: tampon
- Vietnamese: tăm-bông, nút gạc
- Yiddish: טאַמפּאָן (tampon)
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tampon (third-person singular simple present tampons, present participle tamponing or tamponning, simple past and past participle tamponed or tamponned)
- (medicine, transitive) To plug (a wound) with a tampon or compress.
Nasalized variant of tapon, from Frankish *tappo, from Proto-Germanic *tappô (“plug, tap”), cognate with Dutch tappe, German Zapfen, Old English tæppa, English tap.
tampon m (plural tampons)
- plug, stopper
- un tampon de bois ― a wooden stopper
- (music) pad (for a flute, saxophone)
Tampons spéciaux montés sur plaques aluminium pour saxophone alto à tampons vissés.- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- (nautical) (for closing a leak)
- tampon d’étoupe ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- (medicine) swab
1932, Jules Romains, Hommes de bonne volonté:Il monta chercher dans sa chambre, au premier étage, un petit tampon d’ouate; puis, comme le sang était sec et collait à la porcelaine, il humecta légèrement le coton avant de frotter.- He went up to his room on the first floor to look for a small ball of cotton wool; then, since the blood was dry and stuck to the porcelain, he moistened the cotton slightly before rubbing.
- tampon (menstrual product)
- tampon hygiénique ― tampon
- sponge, pad (piece of porous material)
- used for washing
- tampon à récurer ― scourer, scouring pad
- to varnish or apply wax to a piece of furniture
- vernissage au tampon ― French polishing
- to apply ink
- tampon encreur ― ink pad
- stamp
- donner un coup de tampon ― to stamp
- (figuratively) mitigator, mediator, buffer between people having a dispute
- jouer le rôle de tampon ― to act as a buffer
- In this sense, often used in apposition, such as in solution tampon, État tampon, zone tampon, etc.
Cette zone accueillerait une partie des 3,6 millions de réfugiés syriens et ferait office de zone tampon avec la Syrie.- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- (chemistry) buffer
- solution tampon ― buffer solution
- (computing) buffer
- (rail transport) buffer
Borrowed from French tampon, from Middle French tampion, a nasalised variant of tapon, a diminutive or augmented form of Old French tape (“plug, bung, tap”), from Frankish *tappo (“stopper, plug”), from Proto-Germanic *tappô (“plug, tap”).
- IPA(key): /ˈtam.pɔn/
- Rhymes: -ampɔn
- Syllabification: tam‧pon
tampon m inan (diminutive tamponik)
- (medicine) tampon (plug of cotton or other absorbent material)
- tampon in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Borrowed from French tampon.
tampon n (plural tampoane)
- buffer
- tampon
- IPA(key): /tǎmpoːn/
- Hyphenation: tam‧pon
tàmpōn m (Cyrillic spelling та̀мпо̄н)
- tampon