wallpaper

English

Etymology

wall +‎ paper

Pronunciation

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Noun

wallpaper (countable and uncountable, plural wallpapers)

(uncountable) Decorative paper-like material used to cover the inner walls of buildings.
(countable) A style or design of such material.
He is letting her select the wallpapers for the whole house.
(computing, Microsoft Windows) An image or tiled pattern used as a background to personalize a computer desktop.

Synonyms

(computing: background image): desktop image (Mac OS, untiled), desktop pattern (Mac OS, tiled)

Derived terms

Translations

decorative paper for walls

Arabic: وَرَق اَلْحَائِط‎‎ m (waraq al-ḥāʾiṭ)
Armenian: պաստառ (hy) (pastaṙ)
Belarusian: шпале́ри pl (špaljéri)
Breton: paper-moger m
Catalan: paper m, paper pintat, paper d'empaperar
Chinese:
Mandarin: 壁紙 (zh), 壁纸 (zh) (bìzhǐ), 牆紙 (zh), 墙纸 (zh) (qiángzhǐ)
Crimean Tatar: divar kâğıtı
Czech: tapeta f
Danish: tapet (da) n
Dutch: behang (nl) n, behangpapier (nl) n, behangselpapier (nl) n
Esperanto: tapeto
Estonian: tapeet
Finnish: tapetti (fi)
French: papier peint (fr) m
Georgian: შპალერი (šṗaleri)
German: Tapete (de) f
Greek: ταπετσαρία (el) f (tapetsaría)
Hebrew: טפט‎‎ m (ta'pet), טפיטי נייר‎‎ (tapiti nyar), נְייָר־קִיר‎‎ (nyar-kir)
Hungarian: tapéta (hu)
Irish: páipéar balla m
Italian: carta da parati f
Japanese: 壁紙 (ja) (かべがみ, kabegami)

Korean: 벽지 (ko) (byeokji) (壁紙 (ko))
Latvian: tapetes f pl
Macedonian: тапе́т m (tapét)
Malay: kertas dinding
Maori: pepa pakitara
Persian: کاغذدیواری‎‎ (kâqazdivâri)
Polish: tapeta (pl) f
Portuguese: papel de parede (pt) m
Romanian: tapet (ro) n
Russian: обо́и (ru) m pl (obói)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: тапе́та f

Roman: tapéta (sh) f
Slovak: tapeta f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: tapeta f
Spanish: papel pintado m, papel tapiz m, decomural m
Swedish: tapet (sv) c
Turkish: duvar kâğıdı (tr)
Ukrainian: шпале́ри pl (špaléry)
Vietnamese: giấy dán tường
Volapük: tapot (vo)
Welsh: papur wal (cy) m

computing: image used to cover a desktop

Chinese:
Mandarin: 電腦桌布, 电脑桌布 (diànnǎo zhuōbù), 電腦壁紙, 电脑壁纸 (diànnǎo bìzhǐ), 桌面背景 (zhuōmiàn bèijǐng)
Czech: tapeta f
Finnish: taustakuva (fi)
French: fond d'écran (fr), arrière-plan (fr), papier-peint (Windows), image de bureau (Mac OS, untiled), motif de bureau (Mac OS, tiled)
Georgian: ფონი (poni), ეკრანის ფონი (eḳranis poni)
German: Hintergrundbild n, Wallpaper
Greek: ταπετσαρία (el) f (tapetsaría), φόντο (el) n (fónto)

Irish: páipéar balla m
Japanese: 壁紙 (ja) (かべがみ, kabegami)
Macedonian: поза́дина f (pozádina)
Persian: کاغذدیواری‎‎ (kâqazdivâri)
Portuguese: papel de parede (pt)
Russian: обо́и (ru) m pl (obói)
Swedish: skrivbordsbakgrund (sv) c, skrivbordsbild c

Verb

wallpaper (third-person singular simple present wallpapers, present participle wallpapering, simple past and past participle wallpapered)

(transitive) To cover (a wall, a room, etc) with wallpaper.

Synonyms

(cover with wallpaper): paper

Translations

to cover with wallpaper

Chinese:
Mandarin: 貼壁紙, 贴壁纸 (tiē bìzhǐ)
Dutch: behangen (nl)
Estonian: tapetseerima, tapeetima, tapeediga katma
Finnish: tapetoida (fi)
French: tapisser (fr)
German: tapezieren (de)
Japanese: 壁紙をはる (kabegami o haru)

Macedonian: тапетира (tapetíra)
Persian: کاغذدیواری کردن‎‎ (kâqazdivâri kardan)
Polish: tapetować
Portuguese: empapelar
Russian: оклеивать обоями (okleivatʹ obojami)
Slovak: tapetovať
Spanish: empapelar (es)
Swedish: tapetsera (sv)

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