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English

Etymology

[1848] Borrowed from French tampon, from Middle French tampion, a nasalised variant of tapon, a diminutive or augmented form of Old French tape (“plug, bung, tap”), from Frankish *tappo (“stopper, plug”), from Proto-Germanic *tappô (“plug, tap”). Cognate with Old High German zapfo (“stopper”), Old English tæppa (“stopper”). More at tap.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [?t?æmp?n]
• (General American) IPA^(key): [?t?æmp?n]

Noun

tampon (plural tampons)

1. A plug of cotton or other absorbent material inserted into a body cavity or wound to absorb fluid, especially one inserted in the vagina during menstruation.
2. A double-headed drumstick primarily for the bass drum.
3. An inking pad used in lithographic printing.

Synonyms

• (intravaginal plug used to absorb menstrual blood): vampire's teabag (slang)

Derived terms

• emotional tampon

Translations

Verb

tampon (third-person singular simple present tampons, present participle tamponing or tamponning, simple past and past participle tamponed or tamponned)

1. (medicine, transitive) To plug (a wound) with a tampon or compress.

Translations

See also

• sanitary napkin, sanitary towel
• tampion

Anagrams

• pot man, potman, topman

French

Etymology

Nasalized variant of tapon, from Frankish *tappo, from Proto-Germanic *tappô (“plug, tap”), cognate with Dutch tappe, German Zapfen, Old English tæppa, English tap.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??.p??/

Noun

tampon m (plural tampons)

1. Piece of wood or other material to close an opening.
   1. (musical instrument) Same, closing the opening of a flute, a saxophone.

   2. (boat) Same, closing a leak.

2. (medicine) A plug of cotton or other absorbent material inserted into a body cavity or wound to absorb fluid.

3. tampon to stop menstruation.

4. sponge, piece of porous material.
   1. used for washing.

   2. to varnish or apply wax to a piece of furniture.

   3. to apply ink.

5. stamp.

6. (figuratively) mitigator, mediator, buffer between people having a dispute.
   1. In this sense, often used in apposition, such as in solution tampon, État tampon, zone tampon, etc.

7. (chemistry) buffer

8. (computing) buffer
9. Elastic part that prevents damaging when a collision occurs, e.g. buffer in rail transport.

Synonyms

• (to block an opening): bouchon, tape, tapon
• (tampon): serviette hygiénique
• (stamp): cachet, timbre

Derived terms

• tamponner
  • tamponnage
  • tamponnade
• zone tampon

Descendants

• English: tampon
• German: Tampon
• Dutch: tampon
• Italian: tampone
• Japanese: ???? (tanpon)
• Korean: ?? (tampon)
• Portuguese: tampão
• Russian: ??????? (tampón)
• Spanish: tampón

References

• “tapon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Further reading

• “tampon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Polish

Etymology

From French tampon, from Middle French tampion, a nasalised variant of tapon, a diminutive or augmented form of Old French tape (“plug, bung, tap”), from Frankish *tappo (“stopper, plug”), from Proto-Germanic *tappô (“plug, tap”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tam.p?n/

Noun

tampon m inan (diminutive tamponik)

1. (medicine) tampon (plug of cotton or other absorbent material)

Declension

Derived terms

• (verb) tamponowa?

Related terms

• (noun) tamponada

Further reading

• tampon in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• tampon in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From French tampon.

Noun

tampon n (plural tampoane)

1. buffer
2. tampon

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?mpo?n/
• Hyphenation: tam?pon

Noun

tàmp?n m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. tampon

Declension

English

Etymology 1

Noun

tampan (plural tampans or tampan)

1. A type of cloth from Indonesia.

Etymology 2

Etymology obscure, probably from Tswana tampane.

Noun

tampan (plural tampans)

1. Any of many species in the family Argasidae, the soft ticks.

References

Indonesian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Malay tampan, from Classical Malay tampan (“handsome”).

Adjective

tampan (plural tampan-tampan)

1. good-looking, handsome, personable, dashing, sharp, smart, splendid (used especially of males)
2. appropriate, fitting

Synonyms

• bagus, cakap, cantik, gagah, ganteng, rupawan

Etymology 2

From tampang.

Noun

tampan (first-person possessive tampanku, second-person possessive tampanmu, third-person possessive tampannya)

1. visage, mien, face
2. posture, stature

Tausug

Noun

tampan

1. covering