soot

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈsʊt/, X-SAMPA: /"sUt/

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• Rhymes: -ʊt

Etymology

Old English sōt, from Proto-Germanic *sōtą (“soot”), a derivation of *sitjaną (whence also English sit). Cognate with Old Norse sót, Old Dutch soet and Middle Low German sōt. Compare similar ō-grade formation from the Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“sit”) in Old Irish suide (“soot”) and Balto-Slavic: Lithuanian súodžiai (“soot”), and Proto-Slavic *sadja (“soot”) (Russian са́жа (sáža), Polish and Slovak sadza, Bulgarian са́жда (sážda)).

Noun

soot (uncountable)

1. Fine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, oil etc.

Synonyms

• lampblack

Translations

Fine black or dull brown particles

• Albanian: blozë (sq)
• Armenian: մուր (hy) (mur) 
• Aromanian: furidzinã (rup)
• Catalan: estalzí, sutge (ca) m, sutja (ca) f
• Czech: saze (cs) f pl
• Dutch: roet (nl) n
• Finnish: noki (fi), kimröökki (fi)
• French: suie (fr)
• Galician: feluxe (gl) f
• German: Ruß (de) m, Swiss spelling: Russ (de) m
• Hungarian: korom (hu)
• Italian: fuliggine (it)
• Japanese: 煤 (ja) (susu)
• Latin: fuligo (la)

• Laz: წოლა (cola)
• Lithuanian: súodžiai (lt) m pl
• Macedonian: саѓа (mk) (sáǵa) f, саѓи (mk) (sáǵi) pl
• Norwegian: sot (no) c/n
• Polish: sadza (pl) f
• Portuguese: fuligem (pt) f
• Romanian: funingine (ro)
• Russian: сажа (ru) f (saža), копоть (ru) f (kopotʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: sùith (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian: čađ (sh)
• Spanish: hollín (es) m
• Swedish: sot (sv) c
• Udi: моъгъ

See also

• carbon black

Verb

soot (third-person singular simple present soots, present participle sooting, simple past and past participle sooted)

1. (transitive) To cover or dress with soot.

   to soot land

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