postage stamp

English

A stamp

Noun

postage stamp (plural postage stamps)

1. A small piece of printed paper stuck on an item to be mailed, indicating that postage has been paid.

   The postage stamps on the letters from overseas were almost as interesting as the letters themselves.

2. (figuratively, colloquial) A very small area.

   We have just a postage stamp of a back garden.

3. (soccer, slang) The upper left- or right-hand corner of the goal.

   Synonym: top bin

   • 2011, Alistair Aird, Ally McCoist - Rangers Legend:

     […] got in on the act himself, firing in an unstoppable shot that arced into the postage stamp top corner of Andy Goram's goal.

Derived terms

• could be written on the back of a postage stamp
• could fit on the back of a postage stamp
• semi-postal stamp

 

Translations

piece of paper indicating postage has been paid

• Afrikaans: posseël (af)
• Albanian: pullë poste f, pullë (sq) f
• Amharic: ቴምብር (tembər)
• Arabic: طَابِع m (ṭābiʕ), طَابِع بَرِيدِيّ m (ṭābiʕ barīdiyy)

  Moroccan Arabic: تنبر (tanbar), طابع m (ṭābaʕ)

• Armenian: փոստային նամականիշ (pʻostayin namakaniš), նամականիշ (hy) (namakaniš)
• Assamese: ডাক টিকট (dak tikot)
• Asturian: sellu m, sellu postal m
• Azerbaijani: poçt markası, marka (az), təmr
• Basque: zigilu
• Belarusian: пашто́вая ма́рка f (paštóvaja márka), ма́рка f (márka)
• Bengali: টিকিট (bn) (ṭikiṭ), ডাকটিকিট (bn) (ḍakṭikiṭ)
• Bulgarian: по́щенска ма́рка f (póštenska márka), ма́рка (bg) f (márka)
• Burmese: ခေါင်း (my) (hkaung:), တံဆိပ်ခေါင်း (my) (tamhciphkaung:)
• Catalan: segell (ca) m
• Cebuano: selyo
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 郵票／邮票 (jau⁴ piu³)

  Eastern Min: 郵票／邮票 (iù-piéu)

  Hakka: 郵票／邮票 (yù-phiau), 切手 (khit-té) (Taiwan)

  Hokkien: 切手 (zh-min-nan) (khit-teh / chhiat-chhiú), 郵票／邮票 (zh-min-nan) (iû-phiò)

  Mandarin: 郵票／邮票 (zh) (yóupiào)

  Wu: 郵票／邮票 (⁶yeu-phiau)

• Crimean Tatar: mektüp pulu
• Czech: poštovní známka (cs) f, známka (cs) f
• Danish: frimærke (da) n, mærke n
• Dutch: postzegel (nl) m
• Esperanto: poŝtmarko (eo)
• Estonian: postmark (et), mark (et)
• Faroese: frímerki (fo) n
• Finnish: postimerkki (fi), merkki (fi)
• French: timbre (fr) m, timbre postal (fr) m
• Galician: selo m, selo postal m
• Georgian: საფოსტო მარკა (saposṭo marḳa), მარკა (marḳa)
• German: Briefmarke (de) f, Marke (de) f, Freimarke (de) f, Wert (de) m, Postwertzeichen (de) n, Wertzeichen (de) n
• Greek: γραμματόσημο (el) n (grammatósimo)
• Gujarati: ટપાલ ટિકિટ (ṭapāl ṭikiṭ)
• Hebrew: בּוּל דֹּאַר\בּוּל דואר m (bul dóar), בּוּל (he) m (bul)
• Hindi: डाक का टिकट m (ḍāk kā ṭikaṭ), टिकट (hi) m or f (ṭikaṭ), डाक-टिकट m or f (ḍāk-ṭikaṭ), स्टाम्प (hi) m (sṭāmp)
• Hungarian: postabélyeg (hu), levélbélyeg (hu)
• Icelandic: frímerki (is) n
• Ido: stampilo (io)
• Ilocano: selio
• Indonesian: prangko (id), perangko (id)
• Interlingua: timbro
• Irish: stampa poist
• Italian: francobollo (it) m
• Japanese: 郵便切手 (ja) (ゆうびんきって, yūbin kitte), 切手 (ja) (きって, kitte)
• Javanese: prangko
• Kapampangan: seliu
• Kazakh: пошта маркасы (poşta markasy), марка (marka)
• Khmer: តែម (km) (taem)
• Korean: 우표 (ko) (upyo)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: پوول (pûl)

  Northern Kurdish: pûl (ku)

• Kyrgyz: почта маркасы (pocta markası), марка (marka)
• Lao: ສະແຕັມໄປສະນີ (lo) (sa tæm pai sa nī)
• Latvian: pastmarka f, marka f
• Lithuanian: pašto ženklas m, ženklas (lt) m
• Luxembourgish: Timber (lb) m
• Macedonian: по́штенска ма́рка f (póštenska márka), ма́рка f (márka)
• Malay: setem, setem pos
• Malayalam: തപാൽ മുദ്ര (tapāl mudra)
• Maltese: boll m
• Mon: တြာ ဍိုပ် (kra dɒp), ဍိုပ် အဆိပ် (dɒp əchip)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: шуудангийн марк (šuudangiin mark), марк (mn) (mark), шуудангийн тэмдэг (šuudangiin temdeg) (China)

  Mongolian: ᠰᠢᠤᠳᠠᠨ
  ᠤ᠋
  ᠮᠠᠷᠻ (siudan u mark), ᠮᠠᠷᠻ (mark), ᠰᠢᠤᠳᠠᠨ
  ᠤ᠋
  ᠲᠡᠮᠳᠡᠭ (siudan u temdeg)

• Neapolitan: 'mbòllo
• Nepali: हुलाक टिकट (hulāk ṭikaṭ)
• Norman: tîmbre m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: frimerke (no) n, merke (no) n

  Nynorsk: frimerke n, merke n

• Occitan: timbre m
• Oromo: tambeera
• Pashto: لېونحاله f (levanhãla)
• Persian: تمبر پستی (fa) (tambr-e posti), تمبر (fa) (tambr)
• Plautdietsch: Breefmoakj n
• Polish: znaczek pocztowy (pl) m, znaczek (pl) m
• Portuguese: selo (pt) m, selo postal m
• Romanian: timbru (ro) n, timbru poștal (ro) n, marcă poștală f
• Russian: почто́вая ма́рка (ru) f (počtóvaja márka), ма́рка (ru) f (márka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: поштанска марка f, марка f

  Roman: poštanska marka f, marka (sh) f

• Sicilian: francubbullu m
• Sinhalese: තැපැල් මුද්දර (tæpæl muddara)
• Slovak: poštová známka f, známka f
• Slovene: poštna znamka f, znamka (sl) f
• Spanish: estampilla (es) f (Latin America), sello (es) m (Spain), (Mexico) timbre (es) m
• Swahili: stempu
• Swedish: frimärke (sv)
• Tagalog: selyo
• Tajik: марка (tg) (marka)
• Tamil: அஞ்சற்றலை (añcaṟṟalai)
• Tatar: марка (marka)
• Telugu: తపాలా బిళ్ళ (tapālā biḷḷa)
• Thai: ไปรษณียากร (bprai-sà-nii-yaa-gɔɔn), แสตมป์ (th) (sà-dtɛɛm), ตราไปรษณียากร (dtraa-bprai-sà-nii-yaa-gɔɔn), ดวงตราไปรษณียากร (duuang-dtraa-bprai-sà-nii-yaa-gɔɔn)
• Tibetan: སྦྲག་འཛིན (sbrag 'dzin), སྦྲག་རྟགས (sbrag rtags), ཏི་ཀ་སི (ti ka si), ཡོའོ་པེའུ (yo'o pe'u)
• Turkish: posta pulu (tr), pul (tr)
• Turkmen: marka
• Ukrainian: пошто́ва ма́рка f (poštóva márka), ма́рка f (márka)
• Urdu: ڈاک ٹکٹ m or f (ḍāk ṭikaṭ), ٹکٹ m or f (ṭikaṭ)
• Uyghur: ماركا (marka), پوچتا ماركىسى (pochta markisi)
• Uzbek: pochta markasi, marka (uz)
• Vietnamese: tem (vi)
• Volapük: penedamäk (vo)
• Yiddish: מאַרקע f (marke)
• Zhuang: youzbiuq, youzbyau

small area

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 面積很小的地方／面积很小的地方 (miànjī hěn xiǎo de dìfang)

• Danish: frimærke (da)
• Finnish: postimerkki (fi)
• French: timbre-poste (fr) m

See also

• mail
• philately
• postage code
• Category:Stamp on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons