bandage

See also: Bandage

English

An adhesive bandage on a hand following a minor dog bite

A soldier with a bandaged hand

Etymology

Borrowed from French bandage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbændɪd͡ʒ/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

Noun

bandage (plural bandages)

1. A strip of gauze or similar material used to protect or support a wound or injury.
   • 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London, Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:

     […] he was deadly pale, and the blood-stained bandage round his head told that he had recently been wounded, and still more recently dressed.

2. A strip of cloth bound round the head and eyes as a blindfold.
   • 1844, Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo [1]

     […] the president informed him that one of the conditions of his introduction was that he should be eternally ignorant of the place of meeting, and that he would allow his eyes to be bandaged, swearing that he would not endeavor to take off the bandage.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].

3. (figuratively, by extension) A provisional or makeshift solution that provides insufficient coverage or relief.

   this new healthcare proposal merely applies a bandage to the current medical crisis

Derived terms

• adhesive bandage
• bandage dress
• compression bandage
• liquid bandage
• living bandage
• pressure bandage
• T-bandage
• triangular bandage

 

Related terms

• dressing
• plaster
• splint

Translations

medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar

• Albanian: fashë (sq) f, fashaturë f
• Apache:

  Western Apache: bee bikʼídisdizí

• Arabic: ضِمَادَة f (ḍimāda), عِصَابَة f (ʕiṣāba)
• Armenian: վիրակապ (hy) (virakap), բինտ (hy) (bint)
• Aromanian: fashi f, fashe f
• Assamese: please add this translation if you can
• Azerbaijani: bint (az), bandaj, sarğı (az)
• Bashkir: бәйләүес (bəyləwes)
• Basque: lotura, hesgailu
• Belarusian: бінт m (bint), банда́ж m (bandáž), павя́зка f (pavjázka)
• Bengali: পটি (pṭi), ব্যাণ্ডেজ (bênḍej)
• Bulgarian: бинт m (bint), бандаж (bg) m (bandaž)
• Burmese: ပတ်တီး (my) (patti:)
• Catalan: bena (ca) f, embenat m
• Cebuano: haklop
• Chakma: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 繃帶／绷带 (zh) (bēngdài), 綁帶／绑带 (zh) (bǎngdài)

• Cimbrian: béesa f
• Coptic: ⲥⲉⲃⲉⲛ m (seben)
• Crimean Tatar: bint
• Czech: obvaz (cs) m, fáč (cs) m, obinadlo (cs) n
• Danish: bandage (da) c
• Dutch: verband (nl) n, bandage (nl) f, zwachtel (nl) m
• Egyptian: (sbn m), (wt m)
• Ese: panesia
• Esperanto: bandaĝo (eo)
• Estonian: haavaside, side (et)
• Fijian: vadreti-taka
• Finnish: side (fi)
• French: bandage (fr) m, pansement (fr) m
• Galician: venda f
• Georgian: ბანდი (ka) (bandi), სახვევი (saxvevi)
• German: Verband (de) m
• Gothic: 𐍆𐌰𐍃𐌺𐌾𐌰 m (faskja)
• Greek: επίδεσμος (el) m (epídesmos)

  Ancient: ἐπίδεσμος m (epídesmos), κειρία f (keiría), τελαμών m (telamṓn)

• Hawaiian: wahīʻeha
• Hebrew: תחבושת \ תַּחְבֹּשֶׁת f (tahboshet)
• Hindi: पट्टी (hi) f (paṭṭī), पट्टा (hi) m (paṭṭā)
• Hungarian: kötszer (hu), kötés (hu)
• Icelandic: umbúðir (is) f pl, plástur (is) m
• Ido: bandajo (io)
• Indonesian: barut (id)
• Ingrian: bintta
• Irish: bindealán
• Italian: fasciatura (it) f, bendaggio m, benda (it) f, benderella f, fascia (it) f
• Japanese: 包帯 (ja) (ほうたい, hōtai), 繃帯 (ja) (ほうたい, hōtai)
• Kannada: ಕಟ್ಟುಪಟ್ಟಿ (kn) (kaṭṭupaṭṭi)
• Kazakh: жаратаңғыш (jaratañğyş)
• Khmer: ប៉ង់សឺម៉ង់ (pɑngsəɨmɑng), វណវេឋន៍ (vĕəʼnaʼveit)
• Korean: 붕대 (bungdae)
• Kyrgyz: бинт (ky) (bint), бандаж (ky) (bandaj)
• Lao: ພັນຜ້າ (phan phā), ຜ້າພັນແຜ (phā phan phǣ), ຜ້າພັນບາດ (phā phan bāt), ວະນະບັດ (wa na bat), ວະນະພັນ (wa na phan)
• Latin: fascia f, infula f
• Latvian: pārsējs m
• Limos Kalinga: bobod
• Lithuanian: bintas m
• Macedonian: завој m (zavoj)
• Malay: bebat (ms), barut, balut (ms)
• Maltese: faxxa f
• Maori: takai, tākaikai, tāpi
• Marathi: मलमपट्टी f (malampaṭṭī)
• Mokilese: ohdai
• Norman: bandage m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bandasje m

  Nynorsk: bandasje m

• Occitan: pensament (oc) m
• Ottoman Turkish: صارغی (sargı)
• Pashto: پټۍ (ps) f (paṭəj)
• Persian: بانداژ (fa) (bândâž)
• Polish: bandaż (pl) m
• Portuguese: bandagem (pt) f, atadura (pt) f, curativo (pt) m, penso (pt) m
• Rohingya: faththi
• Romanian: bandaj (ro) n, fașă (ro) f, pansament (ro) n
• Russian: бинт (ru) m (bint), банда́ж (ru) m (bandáž), повя́зка (ru) f (povjázka)
• Sanskrit: पट्टिका (sa) f (paṭṭikā), पट्टी (sa) f (paṭṭī)
• Saterland Frisian: Biende f
• Scottish Gaelic: bann m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: завој m

  Roman: zavoj (sh) m

• Slovak: obväz m, ovíjadlo n, ovínadlo n
• Slovene: obveza f
• Spanish: venda (es) f, vendaje (es) m
• Swahili: bendeji (sw) class 9/10, plasta
• Swedish: plåster (sv) n, bandage (sv) n, förband (sv) n
• Tagalog: bendahan
• Tajik: дока (doka), бандаж (bandaž), бинт (bint)
• Tatar: бәйләвеч (tt) (bäyläweç)
• Telugu: కట్టు (te) (kaṭṭu)
• Thai: ผ้าพัน (pâa-pan), ผ้าพันแผล (pâa-pan-plɛ̌ɛ)
• Tibetan: སྨན་རས (sman ras), རྨ་རས (rma ras)
• Tocharian B: śwele
• Turkish: bandaj (tr), sargı (tr), pansuman (tr)
• Turkmen: sarag
• Ukrainian: бинт (uk) m (bynt), банда́ж (uk) m (bandáž), пов'я́зка (uk) f (povʺjázka)
• Urdu: پٹی f (paṭṭī)
• Uyghur: تېڭىق (të'ngiq)
• Uzbek: bint (uz), bandaj (uz)
• Veps: sideg
• Vietnamese: băng (vi), băng giữ, băng bó (vi)
• Võro: sidõ
• Welsh: rhwymyn (cy) m
• White Hmong: please add this translation if you can
• Yiddish: באַנדאַזש m (bandazh)
• Zhuang: please add this translation if you can

strip of cloth bound blindfold

• Finnish: side (fi)

figuratively: provisional or makeshift solution

• Finnish: laastari (fi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: plaster n

Verb

bandage (third-person singular simple present bandages, present participle bandaging, simple past and past participle bandaged)

1. To apply a bandage to something.
   • 1879, Samuel Clemens (as Mark Twain), A Tramp Abroad, [2]

     ...they ate...whilst they chatted, disputed and laughed. The door to the surgeon's room stood open, meantime, but the cutting, sewing, splicing, and bandaging going on in there in plain view did not seem to disturb anyone's appetite.

Translations

to apply a bandage to something

• Albanian: fashim
• Armenian: վիրակապել (hy) (virakapel)
• Bulgarian: бинтовам impf (bintovam), превързвам (bg) impf (prevǎrzvam)
• Catalan: embenar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 包紮／包扎 (zh) (bāozā, bāozhā)

• Czech: obvazovat
• Danish: forbinde, bandagere (da)
• Finnish: sitoa (fi), laastaroida (fi)
• French: panser (fr)
• Friulian: infassâ
• German: bandagieren (de), verbinden (de)
• Hebrew: חבש (he) (chavash)
• Ido: bandajizar (io)
• Istriot: infasà
• Italian: fasciare (it)
• Latin: alligō (la)
• Maori: takai, tākaikai, tāpi
• Norman: panser (Jersey), bandagi (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bandasjere (no)

• Polish: bandażować (pl) impf, obandażować pf, zabandażować pf
• Portuguese: pensar (pt) f
• Russian: бинтова́ть (ru) impf (bintovátʹ), забинтова́ть (ru) pf (zabintovátʹ), перебинтова́ть (ru) pf (perebintovátʹ), перевя́зывать (ru) impf (perevjázyvatʹ), перевяза́ть (ru) pf (perevjazátʹ)
• Slovak: obväziť
• Spanish: vendar (es)
• Swedish: förbinda (sv), plåstra (sv), lägga om (sv), bandagera
• Venetian: infasar, fasar

Anagrams

• Adangbe, Dagbane

Danish

Etymology

From French bandage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bandaːsjə/, [b̥anˈd̥æːɕə]

Noun

bandage c (singular definite bandagen, plural indefinite bandager)

1. bandage (medical binding)

Usage notes

This typically isn't used for adhesive bandages, which instead are called plastre.

Inflection

Declension of bandage

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	bandage	bandagen	bandager	bandagerne
genitive	bandages	bandagens	bandagers	bandagernes

Derived terms

• gipsbandage

Further reading

• “bandage” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French bandage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌbɑnˈdaːʒə/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ban‧da‧ge
• Rhymes: -aːʒə

Noun

bandage f (plural bandages)

1. bandage

   Synonym: zwachtel

Derived terms

• bandagist

French

Etymology

From bande +‎ -age.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɑ̃.daʒ/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

bandage m (plural bandages)

1. bandage

Descendants

• → Danish: bandage
• → Dutch: bandage
• → English: bandage
• → Esperanto: bandaĝo
• → German: Bandage
• → Norwegian Bokmål: bandasje
• → Polish: bandaż
• → Swedish: bandage
• → Turkish: bandaj

Further reading

• “bandage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Interlingua

Noun

bandage (plural bandages)

1. bandage

Norman

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

bandage m (plural bandages)

1. (Jersey, medicine) bandage

Swedish

Etymology

From French bandage.

Noun

bandage n

1. bandage

Declension

Declension of bandage
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	bandage	bandaget	bandage	bandagen
Genitive	bandages	bandagets	bandages	bandagens

Related terms

• bandagera (“to bandage”)

See also

• plåster (“band-aid”)

References

• bandage in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• bandage in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• bandage in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• bangade