Hi dear collector friends! With this language list I want to present you the word „crown cap“ in many different languages / dialects. I also paid attention on the corresponding „official“ and „common“ words as well as existing dialects. This list is still growing and I am thankful for any kind of addition or correction. Thanks to all collectors that helped me with this project!



  1. Afar (Eritrea, Ethiopia, Djibouti) - gararat alifi
  2. Afrikaans (South Africa) - bottel proppie
  3. kroonpet
  4. Albanian - Tapë birre
  5. in some regions - Kapaçkë birre
  6. Alur (D. R. Congo) - chokolo
  7. Amharic (Ethiopia) - ቆርኪ (k'orki)
  8. Arabic - غطاء زجاجة (ratal zujaja, standard arabic)
  9. Colloquial language in Egypt - غطاء الازازة (ratal ezazah)
  10. Colloquial language in Oman in the governorate al-Dakhiliyah - غطاء الباغة (Ghattal Bagah)
  11. غطاء الغرشة (Ghattal Garshah)
  12. غطاء البارد (Ghattal Barid)
  13. Colloquial language in Palestine - قلنسوة تاجية (qolunswa tajia)
  14. Colloquial language in Syria - غطاء القنينة (ratal nee-nee)
  15. Colloquial language in Tunisia - طابو (tabou)
  16. Arapaho (USA) - hokhoe, pl. hokhoeno
  17. Armenian - ապակյա շշի կափարիչ (apakya shshi kaparich)
  18. Armenian everyday language - կափարիչ (kaparich)
  19. Arosi (Solomon Islands) - bwaru
  20. Assamese (India) - বটলৰ টুপি
  21. Atkan Aleut - Butiilkam krisxii (Бутиилкам крисхии)
  22. Azeri – qapaq (sg) – qapaqlar (pl)
  23. Bajan (Barbados) - cap
  24. Bambara (Western Africa) - butɛri dawolo
  25. Bamun (Cameroon) - yichut machun
  26. Bangwa (Cameroon) - yege mbotré
  27. Bari (South Sudan) - muket (sg) / muketji (pl)
  28. Bashkir (Russia) - Ҡапҡас (qapqas)
  29. Basque - Botilaren txanoa (botilaren tchanoa)
  30. Basque colloquial language - Iturri
  31. Belarussian - крон корак (crown corac)
  32. Bemba (Zambia) - utupendelo
  33. Bengali (Bangladesh) - Botoler chipi
  34. Bhojpuri (India) - बोतल के टोपी बा
  35. Bicolano (Philippines) - sáro-saparílya
  36. Bislama (Vanuatu) - lid blong botel /
  37. tap blo botel
  38. Bissa (Western Africa) - fottim
  39. Bosnian - Krunski zatvarač
  40. Bulgarian – Капачка (Kapachka), Kapachka (widely used among young persons in latin writing)
  41. Burmese - ပုလင်းဖုံ. (pulainn hpone)
  42. Cape Verdean Creole - Tanpu garafa (countryside version) or
  43. Tanpa garafa (urban version)
  44. Carolinian (northern Marianas) - pilapil
  45. Catalan – tap-corona (standard)
  46. xapa (shapa, common)
  47. Cebuano (Philippines) - Tansan
  48. Cebuano (Baybayin alphabet) - ᜆᜐ (ta sa)
  49. Chamorro (Guam) - tampen buteya
  50. Chechen (Russia) - шишан тус (shishan toos)
  51. Cherokee (USA) - ᎠᎵᏍᏚᎶ (alisdulo)
  52. Chichewa (Zambia) - chipewa cha botolo
  53. Chinese - 皇冠瓶蓋 - (Huangguan ping gai) /
  54. 瓶盖 (ping gai)
  55. Chitonga (Malawi) - chibakas
  56. Chuukese / Trukese (Micronesia) - pinepin
  57. Chuvash (Russia) - кӗленче хупӑлчи
  58. Comorian on the islands Grande Comore and Mohéli - vubo la mpira (ڤبو لا مپرە)
  59. Comorian on the islands Anjouan and Mayotte - buzo (بوزو)
  60. Cook Islands Maori - pōpani
  61. Corsican - tappu di bottiglia
  62. Croatian - krunski zatvarač
  63. Cypriot Greek - τταππα (ttappa)
  64. Czech - korunkový uzávěr
  65. víčko,
  66. vršek
  67. Danish - kapsel
  68. ølkapsel
  69. sodavandskapsel
  70. Dari (Afghanistan) - سرپوشی بوتل (sarposhi botal, formal) / سرکی بوتل (saraki botal, informal)
  71. Dogrib (Canada) - weda‡˙··
  72. Dutch – Kroonkurk
  73. Kroondop (pl.: Kroondoppen),
  74. Dop
  75. Dopje
  76. Dzongkha (Bhutan) - ཁབ་ཏོག་ (khapto)
  77. Eastern Bonan (NW China) - gega
  78. Ebira (Nigeria) - oku injongo
  79. English – crown cap
  80. English varieties: bottle cap
  81. bottle top (for example in Nigeria)
  82. lid (South Africa)
  83. Erromanga (Vanuatu) - orisgin
  84. Esperanto – Kronfermilo
  85. Estonian - pudelikork (sg) - pudelikorgid (pl)
  86. Ewe (Western Africa) - Aŋetu ƒe nugbɔ
  87. Fang (Equatorial Guinea, Gabon) - bidjiga bi nteng
  88. dialects - edjiga nvuru,
  89. edjiga niyoman
  90. Faroese - fløsku proppur
  91. Fijian - na i sogo
  92. Fiji Hindi - dhakan
  93. Finnish – kruunukorkki (short:
  94. korkki)
  95. French – capsule
  96. Fula (Western Africa) - sukkoode butel
  97. Fut (Cameroon) - Cuseng Tseng
  98. Fwe (Namibia, Zambia) - cìfwìnsò
  99. Galician - tapón de botella
  100. Georgian – ხუფები (khufebi)
  101. German – Kronkorken
  102. German dialects / varieties: Bierdeckel
  103. Bierdeckeli / Deckeli (Switzerland, Liechtenstein)
  104. Bierdoppen
  105. Bierkappe
  106. Bierkapsel (Austria)
  107. Bierstöppel
  108. Bierstöpsel
  109. Blechdeckel
  110. Duddeln
  111. Kapsel (Austria, Bavaria)
  112. Kronenkorken
  113. Kroner
  114. Kroni
  115. Stöpsel
  116. Greek - Καπάκι μπουκαλιού (kapaki bonkaliu)
  117. Καπάκιn (kapaki)
  118. Greek commonly used - καπάκι στέμμα (kapaki stemma)
  119. Greenlandic - Simik naqiguttartoq
  120. Guarani (South America) - Tapa, Jaho'iha
  121. Haida (Alaska) - ñálg ñ'íw
  122. Hiligaynon (Philippines) - sungsung
  123. Gujarati (India) - તાજ ટોપી (taja topi)
  124. Gusii (Kenya) - Egeche
  125. Guyanese Creole - cork
  126. Gwari (Gbagyi dialect in Nigeria) - murfin kolaba
  127. Hadza (Ethiopia) - fuŋgu
  128. Haitian Creole - Bwason byè ki
  129. Halkomelem (Canada, USA) - †kwa:ythutun
  130. Hausa (Western Africa) - kan kanbe
  131. north western Nigeria dialect - kwankwalati
  132. Hawaiianisch - pāpale ʻōmole
  133. Hebrew – פקקים (pkakim, pl), פקק (pkak, sg)
  134. Hindi - ढक्कन (dhakkan)
  135. Hmong (China) - lub hau npog
  136. Hungarian - korona zár
  137. korona kupak (standard language) /
  138. (sörös)kupak (colloquial Hungarian)
  139. Hyam (Nigeria) - nwon kwoba
  140. Ibibio (Nigeria) - ukop mmin
  141. Icelandic - flösku tappi
  142. Igala (Nigeria) - owipken
  143. Igbo (Nigeria) - okwushi
  144. Ik (Uganda) - tsʼûbùlātḁ
  145. Ilocano (Philippines) - kalupkop ti botelia
  146. Indonesian – tutup botol
  147. Inuktitut (eskimo language in Canada) - ᐳᓪᓚᐅᔭᒃ ᓇᓴᒃ (Pullowyak Nahsuk)
  148. Inupiaq (Alaska) - simik
  149. Irish - caipín
  150. Italian – tappo a corona
  151. regional italian varieties: Agrette
  152. Coercetti
  153. Coperchini
  154. Lattine
  155. Quercin (Ticino, Switzerland)
  156. Ramette
  157. Scudellini
  158. Stagnarielli
  159. Tappini
  160. Tollini
  161. Iyasa (Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea) - idudu dja eposi
  162. Japanese - 王冠 (sounds like "okan", literally: crown)
  163. 瓶王冠 (sounds like: "bin okan", literally: bottle crown)
  164. Javanese - tutup botol (꧋ꦠꦸꦠꦸꦥ꧀ꦧꦺꦴꦠꦺꦴꦭ꧀꧈)
  165. Jju (Nigeria) - bvung ditiok
  166. Kamba (East Africa) - kavululu
  167. Kanuri (Western Africa) - thi
  168. Kannada (India) - ಮುಚ್ಚಳ (muccala)
  169. Kashmiri (India) - تاجٕ ٹوئپ
  170. Kazakh - қақпақ (qaqpaq)
  171. Khmer - គម្របដប (komrob dab)
  172. Kikuyu (Kenya) - nyota
  173. dindi
  174. Kimeru (Kenya) - nkunîki
  175. ndurî
  176. Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) - ibijegeri
  177. Kiribatian - bonotanimata
  178. Kirundi - umufuniko (sg), imifuniko (pl)
  179. Kirundi dialect - umurumyo (sg), imirumyo (pl)
  180. Konkani (India) - बाटलेची टोपी
  181. Korean - 병뚜껑 (pyeong du geong)
  182. Kosraean (Micronesia) - fohnoht
  183. Krio (Sierra Leone) - bɔtul kap
  184. Kunama (Eritrea) - kororota kabudada
  185. Kurdish (Kurmanji) - devik
  186. Kurdish (Sorani) - سەرەسۆدە (seresode)
  187. Kurtöp (Bhutan) - thrisup
  188. Kyrgyz - Ботолко жапкыч (botolko zhapkych)
  189. Laotian – ຝາ (fa (bia, cola, pepsi)),
  190. ຝາຂວດ (fa khod)
  191. Latvian – korķītis, korķis
  192. Lenje (Zambia) - tufwekesho
  193. Lillooet (Canada) - lǝɣ’-c-tǝn
  194. Lingala (Congo) - ezipeli mulangui
  195. Lithuanian – kamštelis
  196. probke
  197. Luganda (Uganda) - enkofiira y’eccupa
  198. engule
  199. Luhya (Kenya) - shipeke (singular), vipeke (plural)
  200. Maragoli dialect - egibegee
  201. Luo (Eastern Africa) - pekle
  202. Lusoga (Uganda) - enkofiira y’eccupa
  203. engule
  204. Luxembourgish - Kapsel
  205. Fläschenstop
  206. Maa language (Samburu dialect, Kenya) - soote
  207. Macedonian – капаче (capache, sg), капачета (capacheta, pl)
  208. Malagasy - kapisily
  209. Malay (Malaysia) - penutup botol
  210. Malay (Brunei, in Jawi writing) - ڤنوتوڤ بوتول (penutup botol)
  211. Maldivian (Dhivehi) - ފުޅީގެ މަތިގަނޑު (fulhige mathigandu)
  212. Maltese – tapp (pl. Tappijiet)
  213. Maltese among older people – tappini
  214. Mandinka (Gambia) - datun
  215. Manx (Isle of Man, UK) - farkyl boteil (Sg.), farkil voteil (Pl.)
  216. Maori (New Zealand) - pōtae pounamu
  217. Mapos Buang (Papua New Guinea) - buayo avi
  218. Margi (Nigeria) - kracolba
  219. Mari (Russland) - питӹртӹш доно ямдар
  220. Moroccan Arabic - ghellaqa (غلقة) / ghlaleq (غللق, pl)
  221. Marshallese (Marsall Islands) - pinej
  222. Mbessa (Cameroon) - tselaching
  223. Mele (Vanuatu) - mono
  224. Meta' (Cameroon) - cobre cheng
  225. Mi'kmaq (Canada, USA) - pgijoqign
  226. Mokilese (Micronesia) - pin
  227. Molima (Papua New Guinea) - matana
  228. Mongolian - лонхны таг (lonkhny tag) / ᠯᡆᠠᡗᠠᠠᡚ ᡐᠠᠠᡗ in old mogolian writing
  229. Montenegrin - Čep za flašu
  230. Mooré (Burkina Faso) - liingua (sg) / liinguesi (pl)
  231. Mortlockese (Micronesie) - pinapén
  232. Mursi (Ethiopia) - bholonggoi
  233. Nakanai (Papua New Guinea) - patula
  234. Nauruan - cap
  235. Navajo (USA) - 'adáádit'áhí
  236. Ndebele (South Africa) - ikapkap
  237. Ndebele (Zimbabwe) - isivimbo
  238. Nembe (Nigeria) - tutóye
  239. Nepali - बोत्त्लको बिर्को (bottlako birko)
  240. Niuean (Niue) - uufi
  241. Northern Sami (Northern Scandinavia) - Bohtalgoarka
  242. Northern Sotho (Botswana, Südafrika) - sekhurumelo
  243. Norwegian - kronekorker
  244. Nupe (Nigeria) - beregi
  245. Ọchịchị (Nigeria) - okwhu
  246. Odia (India) - ବୋତଲ କ୍ୟାପ୍ |
  247. Oromo (India) - Qophee qaruuraa
  248. Paamese (Vanuatu) - meten
  249. Palauan - dengebel a butiliang
  250. Panjabi (India) - ਬੋਤਲ ਦ ਧਕਨ (bottle da dhakkan)
  251. Papiamento (Caribbean, ABC-Islands) - tapa di bòter
  252. Pashto (Afghanistan) - د بوتل سرپوښ (da bottle sar)
  253. Patois (Jamaica) - bokkle cap
  254. Persian – تشتک (taschtak)
  255. سرپوش بطری (sarposh botry)
  256. درپوش بطری (darposh botry)
  257. سر بطری (sar-e botry)
  258. تشتک نوشابه (tashtak-e nushabe, soda crown cap)
  259. تشتک نوشیدنی (tashtak-e nushidani, crown cap for drinks)
  260. Pinyin (Cameroon) - ngwru'uh ntseng
  261. Pohnpeian (Micronesia) - pweinen isek
  262. Pökoot (Kenya, Uganda) - kopot
  263. Polish – kapsel
  264. Portuguese – carica
  265. tampinha (short: tampa) (Brazil)
  266. rolha
  267. tampinha
  268. sisna (Angola)
  269. Quechua - qirpay
  270. Romanian – capac
  271. Roviana (Solomon Islands) - tozono, totozono
  272. Russian – кронен-пробки (cronen-probkee), short: пробки (probkee)
  273. Russian dialects / varieties:
  274. Пробка (probka)
  275. крышка (krishkа)
  276. Sa'a (Solomon Islands) - ponopono
  277. Samoan - momono o fagu
  278. Sango (Central African Republic) - yanga ti samba
  279. Sanskrit - कूपीपिधानम् (kupipidhanam)
  280. Satawalese (Micronesia) - pinápin
  281. Scottish Gaelic - caip botal
  282. Serbian - krunski čep / крунски чеп,
  283. krunski zatvarač / крунски затварач
  284. Sesotho - (South Africa, Lesotho) - la paniki
  285. Seychellois Creole - bouson
  286. Shangani (Mozambique) - sivuwani
  287. Sheng (Kenya Slang) - mbota
  288. Shona (Zimbabwe, Mozambique) - chivombo
  289. chivaro
  290. Sindhi (Pakistan) - بوتل جي ٽوپي (bottle ji topi)
  291. Singhalese - බෝතල් මූඩි (botal mudi)
  292. Sioux / Lakota - íyoštaŋ (iyoshtung)
  293. Siswati (South Africa) - libodlela topisi
  294. sivalo selibodlela
  295. Slovenian - kronski zamašek
  296. Somali - daboolka dhalada
  297. Soninke (Western Africa) - butel keba
  298. Sorbian (East Germany) - krónka
  299. Southern Sami (Sweden, Norway) - dåmhpa
  300. Spanish – Chapa de botella (short: chapa)
  301. Spanish dialects / varieties: Cajuela (El Salvador)
  302. Calas / Calitas (northern Chile)
  303. Chapita de botella
  304. Corcholata (Mexico)
  305. Ficha (Mexico)
  306. Plastilata (Mexico)
  307. Tapa (Mexico)
  308. Tapadera (Mexico, Equatorial Guinea)
  309. Tapa corona
  310. Tapa de botella
  311. Tapilla (ecuadorian coast region)
  312. Tapón (Equatorial Guinea)
  313. Tillo (ecuadorian andean region)
  314. Tapita de botella
  315. Standard Moroccan Berber - isek'k'en n'elk'eraet
  316. St. Lucian Creole (Kwéyòl) - bouchon
  317. Susu (Guinea) - dérakoté
  318. Swahili – vifuniko, visoda
  319. Swazi (Swaziland, South Africa) - libodlela topisi
  320. Swedish – kronkapsyl (colloquially used: kapsyl)
  321. Taiwanese - 瓶蓋 (ping gai)
  322. Tajik - сарпӯши шиша (sarpooshi shisha)
  323. Tamil (Sri Lanka, India) - பாட்டில் மூடி (puhtill mooti)
  324. Tataric (Russia) - сыра бокесе (Syra bokese)
  325. Telugu (India) - మూత (muta)
  326. Tetum (East Timor) - botir-takan
  327. Thai - ฝาจีบ (fa cheeb),
  328. ฝาขวด (fa khod),
  329. ฝาน้ำอัดลม (fa nam ad lom, soda cap)
  330. Tibetan - ཤེལ་དམ ཁེབས་གཅོད་རྒྱག (shel dam khebs gcod rgyag)
  331. Tigrinya (Eritrea, Ethiopia) - ባሊቃ (balika, colloquial language)
  332. መኽደን ጠርሙዝ (mekden termus, official language)
  333. Tlingit (Alaska) - x̱ʼadéexʼi
  334. Tok Pisin (Papua New Guinea) - kraun kep
  335. Tongan - tapuna hina
  336. Tsonga (South Africa) - wasi bodlhela kepisi
  337. Tswana (South Africa, Botswana) - sekhurumelo
  338. skwalo
  339. Turkish – kapak (sg) – kapaklar (pl)
  340. Turkmen - çüýşe gapagy (chyujshe gapaghy)
  341. Tuvan (China, Mongolia, Russia) - Лонга аксы (longa aksee)
  342. Twi (Ghana) - nsa ti
  343. Tyap (Nigeria) - khwuup
  344. Udmurt (Russia) - бутылкаослэсь крышкаоссэс
  345. Ukrainian – Кришка крончата (short: кришка (krishka))
  346. Umbundu (Angola) - ocituviko congalafa
  347. Urdu - بوتل کا ڈھکن (bottle ka dhakan)
  348. Urhobo (Nigeria) - ùrhùró
  349. Uyghur (Western China) - تاج دوپپىسى (taj doppisi)
  350. Uzbek - shisha қопқоғи (shisha qopqog'i)
  351. Venda (South Africa) - chitibo
  352. Vietnamese - nắp chai
  353. Warlpiri (Aborigine language in Australia) - Kirlaji waarn-kijirni
  354. Wayuu (indigenous language in Colombia) - erouse
  355. Welsh - cap potel
  356. West Frisian - flessedop
  357. Woleaian (Micronesia) - pilepile
  358. Wolof (Western Africa) - kubeere
  359. Xhosa (South Africa) - isiciko se bhotile
  360. Xhosa dialects: isqhumathelo se bhotile
  361. umqwazi
  362. Yagaria (Papua New Guinea) - hóka
  363. Yakut (Russia) - бытыылка хаппаҕа
  364. Yapese (Micronesia) - män'
  365. Yiddisch - Flaschkaps
  366. פלאַש היטל (Flashheetl)
  367. Yoruba (Western Africa) - Ìdérí ìgò
  368. Yucatec Maya - Cápsula
  369. Yupik (Alaska) - elcailkun
  370. Zulu - isidikiselo
  371. ikepisi lebhodlela