exhalation

English

Etymology

From Latin exhālātiō, from exhālō (“to breathe out, to exhale”), from hālō (“to breathe”). Equivalent to exhale +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

exhalation (countable and uncountable, plural exhalations)

2. The act or process of exhaling; breathing out

   Synonyms: (archaic) efflation, sigh

   short exhalations of breath

4. That which is exhaled, or which rises in the form of vapor, fume, or steam

   exhalations from the earth or flowers

   • 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter II, [1]

     For a week the party watched the flood, and each day it receded to a considerable extent. A thick deposit of mud was left behind, but though the sun shone out warmly no offensive exhalations arose.

6. A bright phenomenon; a meteor.

Translations

act or process of exhaling

• Arabic: زَفِير m (zafīr)
• Assamese: নিশাহ লোৱা (nixah lüa)
• Bulgarian: издишване n (izdišvane)
• Catalan: exhalació f
• Dutch: uitademing (nl) f
• Esperanto: elspiro
• Finnish: uloshengitys (fi)
• Galician: exhalación (gl) f
• German: Ausatmen (de) n, Ausschnaufen n, Ausatmung (de) f
• Irish: asanálú m
• Latin: exhālātiō f, efflātiō
• Polish: wydech (pl) m
• Spanish: exhalación (es) f, espiración (es) f
• Telugu: నిశ్వాసము (te) (niśvāsamu)
• Tocharian B: satāṣlñe
• Ukrainian: видиха́ння n (vydyxánnja), видих m (vydyx)

that which is exhaled

• Assamese: নিশাহ (nixah)
• Bulgarian: дихание (bg) n (dihanie), дъх (bg) m (dǎh)
• Catalan: exhalació f
• Galician: exhalación (gl) f
• Spanish: exhalación (es) f

meteor — see meteor

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛɡ.za.la.sjɔ̃/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

exhalation f (plural exhalations)

1. exhalation

Related terms

• exhaler

Further reading

• “exhalation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012