suction cup

English

A suction cup lifting device.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʌkʃən kʌp/

Noun

suction cup (plural suction cups)

1. A cup made of flexible material, such as rubber, that uses suction as an adhesive.

Coordinate terms

• plunger (“handtool to unblock a drain”)
• sucker (“round structure bodily organ that allows some insects, frogs, and octopuses to stick to surfaces”)

Translations

cup using suction as an adhesive

• Asturian: ventosa f
• Catalan: ventosa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 吸盤 (zh), 吸盘 (zh) (xīpán)

• Czech: přísavka f
• Dutch: zuignap (nl) m
• Estonian: iminapp
• Finnish: imukuppi (fi)
• French: ventouse (fr) f
• Galician: ventosa (gl) f
• German: Saugnapf (de) m, Sauger m
• Greek: βεντούζα (el) f (ventoúza)
• Hebrew: כוסות רוח‎ (he) f pl (kosot ruach)
• Hungarian: tapadókorong
• Icelandic: sogskál f
• Irish: cupa súcháin m
• Italian: ventosa (it) f
• Japanese: 吸盤 (ja) (きゅうばん, kyūban)
• Mongolian: соруул (mn) (soruul), бумба (mn) (bumba)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sugekopp m

  Nynorsk: sugekopp m

• Polish: przyssawka (pl) f
• Portuguese: ventosa (pt) f
• Romanian: ventuză (ro) f
• Russian: присо́ска (ru) f (prisóska)
• Spanish: ventosa (es) f
• Swedish: sugkopp c
• Turkish: vantuz (tr)

Further reading

• suction cup on Wikipedia.Wikipedia