filth

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Etymology

From Middle English filth, from Old English fȳlþ ‎(“foulness, filth”), from Proto-Germanic *fūliþō ‎(“foulness, filth”), from Proto-Germanic *fūlaz ‎(“foul, corrupt, dirty, vile”), from Proto-Indo-European *pū- ‎(“rottenness, pus”), equivalent to foul +‎ -th. Cognate with Dutch vuilte ‎(“filth”). More at foul.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɪlθ/

Noun

filth ‎(usually uncountable, plural filths)

1. Dirt; foul matter; that which soils or defiles.
2. Smut; that which sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption; pollution.
   • Tillotson

     to purify the soul from the dross and filth of sensual delights

3. (Britain, pejorative, slang) The police.
4. (US, agriculture, dated) Weeds growing on pasture land.

   Grampa remembers when he had to cut filth with a scythe.

Derived terms

Terms derived from filth

• befilth
• filthen

• filthify
• filthy

• read someone to filth

Translations

dirt

• Ancient Greek: ῥύπος ‎(rhúpos)
• Arabic: قَذَارَة f ‎(qaḏāra)
• Armenian: կեղտ (hy) ‎(kełt)

  Old Armenian: կեղտ ‎(kełt), գայռ ‎(gayṙ)

• Azeri: kir
• Belarusian: бруд m ‎(brud)
• Bulgarian: мръсотия (bg) f ‎(mrǎsotija)
• Burmese: အညစ်အကြေး (my) ‎(a.nyaca.kre:)
• Catalan: immundícia, porqueria f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 污垢 (zh) ‎(wūgòu), 穢物 (zh), 秽物 (zh) ‎(huìwù), 污 (zh) ‎(wū)

• Czech: špína (cs) f
• Estonian: mustus
• Finnish: lika (fi)
• French: crasse (fr) f, saleté (fr) f, boue (fr) f
• Georgian: ჭუჭყი ‎(č̣uč̣q̇i)
• German: Schmutz (de) m, Dreck (de) m
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: piszok (hu), mocsok (hu)
• Italian: sporco (it) m, sporca (it) f, sporchi (it) m pl, sporche f pl
• Japanese: 泥 (ja) ‎(どろ, doro), 汚物 ‎(おぶつ, obutsu)
• Kazakh: былғаныш ‎(bılğanış), лас (kk) ‎(las)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 오물 (ko) ‎(omul)
• Kyrgyz: кир (ky) ‎(kir)

• Lao: ມົນທິນ ‎(mon thin)
• Latin: paedor m
• Macedonian: нечистотија f ‎(nečistotija)
• Maori: kerakera, hawahawa, karaweta, paraweta
• Norwegian: skitt m
• Old English: fylþ
• Polish: brud (pl) m
• Portuguese: sujeira (pt) f, imundície (pt) f
• Romanian: murdărie (ro) f
• Russian: грязь (ru) f ‎(grjazʹ), нечистота́ (ru) f ‎(nečistotá)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: прљавштина f, нечистоћа f

  Roman: prljavština (sh) f, nečistoća (sh) f

• Slovak: špina f
• Slovene: umazanija (sl) f
• Spanish: mugre (es) f, porquería (es) f
• Swedish: smuts (sv) c
• Telugu: మురికి (te) ‎(muriki)
• Thai: สิ่งปฏิกูล ‎(sìng-bpà-dtì-goon)
• Turkish: pislik (tr), kir (tr)
• Turkmen: hapalyk, kir
• Ukrainian: бруд (uk) m ‎(brud)
• Uzbek: balchiq (uz), loy (uz), botqoq (uz), kir (uz)
• Vietnamese: rác rưởi (vi), rác bẩn