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Etymology[edit]
A later form (as if oint + -ment) of Middle English oinement, borrowed from Old French oignement (“an anointing”), from oigner, oindre, ongier (“to anoint”), from Latin ung(u)ō (“I anoint”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃engʷ- (“to smear, anoint”).
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- IPA(key): /ˈɔɪnt.mɪnt/, [ˈɔ̃ɪ̃(n)ʔ.mɪ̃(n)ʔ]
ointment (plural ointments)
- (medicine) A viscous preparation of oils and/or fats, usually containing medication, used as a treatment or as an emollient.
- A substance used to anoint, as in religious rituals.
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viscous preparation, usually containing medication
- Afrikaans: salf
- Albanian: pomadë (sq) f
- Arabic: مَرْهَم m (marham), دَهُون m (dahūn)
- Armenian: քսուք (hy) (kʿsukʿ)
- Azerbaijani: maz (az), məlhəm
- Belarusian: мазь f (mazʹ), бальза́м m (balʹzám) (balm)
- Bengali: মলম (môlôm)
- Bulgarian: мехле́м (bg) m (mehlém), мас (bg) f (mas), мазило (bg) n (mazilo)
- Burmese: လိမ်းဆေး (my) (lim:hce:)
- Catalan: pomada (ca) f, ungüent m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 藥膏, 药膏 (joek6 gou1)
- Mandarin: 軟膏 (zh), 软膏 (zh) (ruǎngāo), 膏 (zh) (gāo), 藥膏 (zh), 药膏 (zh) (yàogāo)
- Czech: mast (cs) f
- Danish: salve (da) n
- Dutch: zalf (nl) m or f, smeersel (nl) n
- Egyptian: (wrḥ m), (mḏt f)
- Esperanto: ungvento
- Estonian: salv
- Faroese: salva f, sálva f
- Finnish: voide (fi)
- French: pommade (fr) f, onguent (fr) m
- Friulian: ongint m
- Galician: pomada f, ungüento m, bálsamo m
- Georgian: მალამო (malamo)
- German: Salbe (de) f, Balsam (de) m
- Greek: αλοιφή (el) f (aloifí)
- Ancient: ἀλοιφή f (aloiphḗ)
- Haitian Creole: ponmad
- Hebrew: מִשְׁחָה (mishkha)
- Hindi: मरहम (hi) m (marham), मलहम (hi) m (malham), बाम (hi) m (bām), लेप (hi) m (lep), औषधि f (auṣdhi)
- Hungarian: kenőcs (hu)
- Icelandic: please add this translation if you can
- Indonesian: salap (id)
- Irish: ungadh m
- Italian: pomata (it) f, unguento (it) m, balsamo (it) m
- Japanese: 軟膏 (なんこう, nankō)
- Kazakh: май (may)
- Khmer: ថ្នាំលាប (thnam liəp)
- Korean: 연고 (yeon-go)
- Kyrgyz: май (ky) (may), мазь (mazʹ)
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- Lao: ຢານວດ (yā nūat), ຢາຂີ້ເຜີ້ງ (yā khī phœ̄ng)
- Latin: unguentum n
- Latvian: ziede f
- Lithuanian: tepalas f
- Macedonian: маст f (mast), пома́да f (pomáda), мелем m (melem)
- Malay: salap
- Maori: rongoā pani, panipani, pūreke
- Mongolian: тос (mn) (tos)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: salve (no) m or f
- Nynorsk: salve m or f
- Pashto: ملهم m (malám)
- Persian: پماد (fa) (pomâd), مرهم (fa) (marham)
- Polish: maść (pl) f
- Portuguese: pomada (pt) f
- Romanian: unguent (ro) n, pomadă (ro) f, alifie (ro) f
- Russian: мазь (ru) f (mazʹ), бальза́м (ru) m (balʹzám) (balm)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: мелем m, маст f
- Roman: melem (sh) m, mast (sh) f
- Slovak: masť f
- Slovene: mazilo (sl) n
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: žałba f
- Spanish: pomada f, ungüento (es) m
- Swahili: marhamu
- Swedish: salva (sv) c
- Tagalog: hinas, banlos
- Tajik: маз (maz), марҳам (marham), тило (tilo)
- Telugu: లేపనము (te) (lēpanamu)
- Thai: ครีม (th) (kriim), ยาขี้ผึ้ง
- Turkish: merhem (tr)
- Turkmen: melhem
- Ukrainian: мазь f (mazʹ), бальза́м (uk) m (balʹzám) (balm)
- Urdu: مرہم m (marham)
- Uyghur: ماي (may), مەلھەم (melhem)
- Uzbek: malham dori, maz, balzam (uz)
- Vietnamese: bom mát
- Volapük: nugvet (vo)
- Walloon: ôlmint (wa) m (liquid), poumåde f (solid)
- Welsh: eli (cy) m
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