матрос noun (A sailor)
моп noun (A mop, especially on a ship)
тампон noun (a small piece of soft, absorbent material)
бърша с моп verb (To use a swab on something, or clean something with a swab)

Catalan

2 entries

escovilló noun (a small piece of soft, absorbent material)
escovilló noun (A piece of material used for cleaning or sampling other items like musical instruments or guns)

Dutch

4 entries

koopvaardijmatroos noun (A sailor)
poetsvod,doekje noun (A piece of material used for cleaning or sampling other items like musical instruments or guns)
uitstrijkje noun (A sample taken with a swab)
watje, prop noun (a small piece of soft, absorbent material)

Faroese

1 entries

tvørri noun (a small piece of soft, absorbent material)

French

1 entries

écouvillon noun (a small piece of soft, absorbent material)

German

4 entries

Abstrich noun (A sample taken with a swab)
Läppchen noun (A piece of material used for cleaning or sampling other items like musical instruments or guns)
Matrose noun (A sailor)
Seemann noun (A sailor)

Hungarian

3 entries

rongy noun (A piece of material used for cleaning or sampling other items like musical instruments or guns)
tengerész noun (A sailor)
törlőrongy noun (A piece of material used for cleaning or sampling other items like musical instruments or guns)

Ido

2 entries

swabro noun (A mop, especially on a ship)
swabragar verb (To use a swab on something, or clean something with a swab)

Irish

3 entries

ceirt noun (A piece of material used for cleaning or sampling other items like musical instruments or guns)
maipín noun (a small piece of soft, absorbent material)
maipíneacht noun (A sample taken with a swab)

Italian

4 entries

panno noun (A piece of material used for cleaning or sampling other items like musical instruments or guns)
straccio noun (A piece of material used for cleaning or sampling other items like musical instruments or guns)
tampone noun (a small piece of soft, absorbent material)
tampone noun (A sample taken with a swab)

Latin

1 entries

turunda noun (a small piece of soft, absorbent material)

Luxembourgish

1 entries

betuppen verb (To use a swab on something, or clean something with a swab)

Macedonian

1 entries

брис noun (A sample taken with a swab)

Māori

2 entries

kope noun (a small piece of soft, absorbent material)
ūkui verb (To use a swab on something, or clean something with a swab)

Polish

1 entries

wacik noun (a small piece of soft, absorbent material)

Portuguese

1 entries

cotonete noun (A mop, especially on a ship)

Russian

3 entries

мазок noun (A sample taken with a swab)
вытира́ть verb (To use a swab on something, or clean something with a swab)
чи́стить verb (To use a swab on something, or clean something with a swab)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries

tupfer noun (A piece of material used for cleaning or sampling other items like musical instruments or guns)
obrisati verb (To use a swab on something, or clean something with a swab)

Spanish

2 entries

frotis noun (A sample taken with a swab)
hisopo (Arg., Mex., Ur. y Ven.) noun (a small piece of soft, absorbent material)

Swedish

4 entries

svabb noun (A mop, especially on a ship)
moppa verb (To use a swab on something, or clean something with a swab)
svabba verb (To use a swab on something, or clean something with a swab)
våttorka verb (To use a swab on something, or clean something with a swab)

Turkish

2 entries

sıyırma noun (A sample taken with a swab)
sıyırma noun (A mop, especially on a ship)

Welsh

2 entries

swab noun (a small piece of soft, absorbent material)
swabiad noun (A sample taken with a swab)

Sample sentences

13 total sentences available.

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The doctor has taken a swab from the mucous membrane.

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It seems to be a swab for the cannon.

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Once the sample is taken, put the cotton swab in a test tube and label with the patient's name.

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Swab the deck.

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.