blotting paper (thick paper that soaks up liquids) · tissue paper, crêpe paper (very thin paper used for decoration or making cigarettes) · samizdat (underground publication)
çekim: çoğul bibuły · tamlayan bibuły
köken: Learned borrowing from Latin bibula charta (“absorbent paper”).
Calque of German Löschpapier (“blotting paper”). Compound of läska (“quench”) + papper (“paper”). From German löschen (“quench, erase”). First attested in 1640