bandage

EnglishEdit

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An adhesive bandage on a hand following a minor dog bite

A soldier with a bandaged hand

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from French bandage.

PronunciationEdit

IPA^(key): /ˈbændɪd͡ʒ/
Audio (UK) (file)

NounEdit

bandage (plural bandages)

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.
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^[2]:
  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. […].
(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 termsEdit

Related termsEdit

TranslationsEdit

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 (bäyläwes)
Basque: lotura, hesgailu
Belarusian: бінт m (bint), банда́ж m (bandáž), павя́зка f (pavjázka)
Bengali: পটি (pṭi), ব্যাণ্ডেজ (byaṇḍej)
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 (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)
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)
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, 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)
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

VerbEdit

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

To apply a bandage to something.
- 1879, Samuel Clemens (as Mark Twain), A Tramp Abroad, [3]
  ...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.

TranslationsEdit

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
Finnish: sitoa (fi), laastaroida (fi)
French: panser (fr)
Friulian: infassâ
German: bandagieren (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)
Spanish: vendar (es)
Swedish: förbinda (sv), plåstra (sv), lägga om (sv), bandagera
Venetian: infasar, fasar

AnagramsEdit

Adangbe, Dagbane

DanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From French bandage.

PronunciationEdit

IPA^(key): /bandaːsjə/, [b̥anˈd̥æːɕə]

NounEdit

bandage c (singular definite bandagen, plural indefinite bandager)

bandage (medical binding)

Usage notesEdit

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

InflectionEdit

Declension of bandage

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