drinking straw

See also: drinking-straw

English

Eight coloured drinking straws.

Alternative forms

drinking-straw (dated)

Noun

drinking straw (plural drinking straws)

A long tube (usually made out of plastic or paper) through which a beverage is drunk via suction.
Synonym: straw

Hyponym: bombilla

Translations

a long plastic or paper tube through which a drink is drunk

Afrikaans: strooitjie
Albanian: biule (sq)
Arabic: شَفَّاط m (šaffāṭ)
Hijazi Arabic: بوصَة f (būṣa)

North Levantine Arabic: شلمونة (šalimōne)
Armenian: ձողիկ (hy) (joġik)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܠܘܼܠܵܐ m (lūlā)
Belarusian: сало́мінка f (salóminka)
Bulgarian: сла́мка f (slámka)
Burmese: please add this translation if you can
Catalan: palla (ca), canya (ca)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 飲筒／饮筒 (yue) (jam² tung²)

Hokkien: 欶管 (zh-min-nan) (suh-kóng)

Mandarin: 吸管 (zh) (xīguǎn), 吸管兒／吸管儿 (zh) (xīguǎnr)
Czech: slámka (cs) f, brčko (cs) n
Danish: sugerør (da) n
Dutch: rietje (nl) n, pijpenstrootje (nl) n
Esperanto: trinkŝalmo
Estonian: kõrs, joogikõrs
Faroese: súgvirør n
Finnish: pilli (fi), juomapilli
French: paille (fr) f
Georgian: საწრუპავი (sac̣ruṗavi), საწრუპი (sac̣ruṗi)
German: Strohhalm (de) m, Trinkhalm (de) m, Trinkrohr n
Greek: καλαμάκι (el) n (kalamáki)
Haitian Creole: chalimo
Hebrew: קַשׁ (he) m (qash), קַשִּׁית (he) f (qashít)
Hungarian: szívószál (hu)
Icelandic: drykkjarrör n, rör n
Indonesian: sedotan (id)
Irish: sop m, coinlín m
Italian: cannuccia f
Japanese: ストロー (sutorō)
Kazakh: please add this translation if you can
Khmer: បំពង់បឺត (bɑmpŭəng bəɨt)
Korean: 빨대 (ko) (ppaldae), 스트로 (seuteuro)
Lao: ຫລອດດູດນ້ຳ (lǭt dūt nam), ຫລອດ (lǭt), ຫລອດດູດ (lǭt dūt)
Latvian: salmiņš m
Lithuanian: šiaudelis m
Luxembourgish: Chalumeau (lb) m
Macedonian: сла́мка f (slámka)
Malay: penyedut minuman, peleting (ms) (Kelantan)
Maori: ngongo, ngongo inu
Marathi: स्ट्रॉ m (sṭrŏ)
Mongolian: соруул (mn) (soruul)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: sugerør (no) n

Nynorsk: sugerøyr n or f
Pattani Malay: peleting
Persian: نی نوشیدنی (ney-e nušidani), نی (fa) (ney)
Polish: słomka (pl) f
Portuguese: canudo (pt) m (Brazil), palhinha (pt) (Portugal)
Romanian: pai (ro) n
Russian: соло́минка (ru) f (solóminka), тру́бочка (ru) f (trúbočka)
Scottish Gaelic: sràbh m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: сламка f, сламчица f, цевка f, цевчица f

Roman: slamka (sh) f, slamčica (sh) f, cevka f, cevčica (sh) f
Slovak: slamka f
Slovene: slamica f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: słomka f
Spanish: (Cuba) absorbente (es) m, (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile) bombilla (es) f, (Dominican Republic) calimete m, (Northeastern Spain) caña (es) f, (Northwestern Argentina, Spain’s Canary Islands) cañita f, (Panama) carrizo (es), (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua) pajilla (es) f, (Argentina, Chile, Spain standard usage, Uruguay) pajita (es) f, (Colombia, Venezuela) pitillo (es) m, (Mexico) popote (es) m, (Argentina, Ecuador, Peru) sorbete (es) m, (Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico) sorbeto m
Swahili: mrija (sw)
Swedish: sugrör (sv) n
Tagalog: halusan
Tamil: please add this translation if you can
Terengganu Malay: peleting
Thai: หลอด (th) (lɔ̀ɔt), หลอดดูด (lòt-dòot), หลอดดูดน้ำ (lòt-dòot-nám)
Tibetan: སོག་མ་པི་པི (sog ma pi pi)
Turkish: kamış (tr), pipet (tr)
Ukrainian: соло́минка f (solómynka)
Vietnamese: ống hút (vi)
Walloon: paye (wa) f
Welsh: gwelltyn m
Yiddish: שטרוי m or f (shtroy)

drinking straw

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