loofah

English

Wikispecies

A loofah (the sponge)

Alternative forms

• loofa, luffa

Etymology

From Egyptian Arabic لُوفَة (lūfa).

Noun

loofah (plural loofahs)

1. A tropical vine, of the genus Luffa, having almost cylindrical fruit with a spongy, fibrous interior; the dishcloth gourd
2. The dried fibrous interior used as a sponge for bathing
3. Any bathing sponge

Translations

tropical vine

• Arabic: لِيف (ar) m (līf), لُوف m (lūf)
• Azerbaijani: luffa
• Catalan: luffa f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 勝瓜／胜瓜 (sing³ gwaa¹), 胜瓜 (sing³ gwaa¹)

  Mandarin: 絲瓜／丝瓜 (zh) (sīguā), 丝瓜 (zh) (sīguā)

  Min Nan: 竹篙瓜 (tek-ko-koe), 米管瓜 (bí-kńg-koe), 鼠瓜 (chhí-koe, chhú-koe), 水瓜 (chúi-koe), 布瓜 (pò͘-koe)

• Czech: lufa f
• Dutch: luffa
• Estonian: käsnkõrvits
• Finnish: pesusienikurkku
• French: loofa (fr) m, luffa (fr) m
• Galician: luffa, estropallos
• Hausa: soso
• Hindi: तुरई (hi) f (turaī)
• Indonesian: luffa
• Irish: lúfach
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• Italian: luffa (it) f
• Japanese: 糸瓜 (ja), へちま (ja), たわし
• Kongo: nsana
• Korean: 수세미 (susemi)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• Malay: petola
• Persian: پیلگوش (pilguš)
• Polish: trukwa f
• Romanian: lufa f
• Russian: лю́фа́ (ru) f (ljúfá), лю́ффа (ru) f (ljúffa), лу́ффа (ru) f (lúffa)
• Spanish: estropajo (es) m, lufa (es) f,
• Swahili: mdodoki
• Swedish: luffasläktet
• Vietnamese: chi mướp

dried fibrous interior used as a sponge

• Arabic: لِيف (ar) m (līf), لُوف m (lūf)

  Egyptian Arabic: ليفه f (līfa), ليف pl (līf)

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 絲瓜絡／丝瓜络 (zh) (sīguāluò), 丝瓜络 (zh) (sīguāluò)

• Finnish: pesusieni (fi)
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• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• Russian: моча́лка (ru) f (močálka)

Anagrams

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