cough syrup

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Noun

cough syrup (usually uncountable, plural cough syrups)

1. A liquid used to ease a sore throat and possibly suppress excess coughing.

Derived terms

• cough-syrupy

Translations

liquid used to ease a sore throat

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 咳藥水／咳药水 (kat¹ joek⁶ seoi²), 咳水 (kat¹ seoi²), 止咳水

  Mandarin: 止咳糖漿／止咳糖浆 (zh) (zhǐké tángjiāng)

• Danish: hostesaft c
• Finnish: yskänlääke (fi)
• French: sirop contre la toux m, sirop antitussif m
• German: Hustensaft (de) m, Hustensirup m
• Japanese: 咳止めシロップ (sekitome shiroppu)
• Navajo: dikos azeeʼ
• Portuguese: xarope para tosse m
• Romanian: sirop de tuse n, antitusiv (ro) n
• Russian: сиро́п от ка́шля m (siróp ot kášlja)
• Spanish: jarabe para la tos
• Swedish: hostmedicin (sv) c
• Turkish: öksürük şurubu