"sleeping pill" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: sleeping pills [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} sleeping pill (plural sleeping pills)
  1. (pharmacology) A pill or tablet having a soporific effect. Categories (topical): Pharmaceutical drugs, Sleep Synonyms: sleeping tablet Translations (a pill having a soporific effect): مُنَوِّم (munawwim) [masculine] (Arabic), снатворнае (snatvórnaje) [neuter] (Belarusian), nganymianfyof (Bouyei), 安眠藥 (Chinese Mandarin), 安眠药 (ānmiányào) (Chinese Mandarin), uspávadlo [neuter] (Czech), uspávací prostředek [masculine] (Czech), prášek na spaní (Czech), dormigilo (Esperanto), unilääke (Finnish), somnifère [masculine] (French), Schlafmittel [neuter] (German), Schlaftablette [feminine] (German), υπνωτικό (ypnotikó) [neuter] (Greek), altató (Hungarian), svefnpilla [feminine] (Icelandic), sonnifero [masculine] (Italian), 睡眠薬 (suimin'yaku) (alt: すいみんやく) (Japanese), 수면제 (sumyeonje) (alt: 睡眠劑) (Korean), milleen cadlee [masculine] (Manx), sovepille [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), sovetablett [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), sovepille [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), sovetablett [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), tabletka nasenna [feminine, plural] (Polish), pílula para dormir [feminine] (Portuguese), снотво́рное (snotvórnoje) [neuter] (Russian), somnífero [masculine] (Spanish), pastilla para dormir [feminine] (Spanish), tabletang pampatulog (Tagalog), ยานอนหลับ (yaa-nɔɔn-làp) (Thai), གཉིད་སྨན (gnyid sman) (Tibetan), uyku hapı (Turkish), anhmenzyoz (Zhuang), ywanhmenzyoz (Zhuang)

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "a pill having a soporific effect",
      "word": "anhmenzyoz"
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      "lang": "Zhuang",
      "sense": "a pill having a soporific effect",
      "word": "ywanhmenzyoz"
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}

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