eyedrop

See also: eye-drop and eye drop

English

Alternative forms

• eye-drop, eye drop

Etymology

eye +‎ drop. Compare West Frisian eachdrip (“tear”, literally “eyedrop”), Dutch oogdrup (“tear”, literally “eyedrop”). Compare also German Augentropfen (“eyedrops”).

Noun

eyedrop (plural eyedrops)

1. (medicine) Medicine to be administered to the eyes.
2. (poetic) A tear.
   • c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v], line 88:

     My lord, I found the prince in the next room, / Washing with kindly tears his gentle cheeks, / With such a deep demeanour in great sorrow / That tyranny, which never quaff'd but blood, / Would, by beholding him, have wash'd his knife / With gentle eye-drops. He is coming hither.

Hypernyms

• drop

Translations

eye medicine

• Arabic: قَطْرَة عَيْن f (qaṭrat ʕayn)

  Hijazi Arabic: قَطْرة f (gaṭra), قَطْرة عين f (gaṭrat ʕēn)

  Moroccan Arabic: تقطيرة العين f (taqṭīrat el-ʕayn, taqṭīrat el-ʕīn)

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 眼藥水／眼药水 (ngaan⁵ joek⁶ seoi²)

  Hokkien: 目藥水／目药水 (ba̍k-io̍h-chúi)

  Mandarin: 眼藥水／眼药水 (zh) (yǎnyàoshuǐ)

• Czech: oční kapky f pl
• Danish: øjendråber c pl
• Finnish: silmätippa
• French: gouttes oculaires f pl
• German: Augentropfen (de) m
• Hungarian: szemcsepp (hu)
• Indonesian: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: collirio (it)
• Japanese: 目薬 (ja) (megusuri)
• Korean: 안약 (anyak)
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: colírio m
• Spanish: colirio (es) m
• Tagalog: pamasla
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: göz damlası
• Volapük: logatof

References

• eyedrop on Wikipedia.Wikipedia