eyedrop

See also: eye-drop and eye drop

English

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

eyedrop (plural eyedrops)

(medicine) Medicine to be administered to the eyes.
(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.

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