pollutant

English

Noun

pollutant (plural pollutants)

1. A foreign substance that makes something dirty, or impure, especially waste from human activities.

Derived terms

• micropollutant
• persistent organic pollutant

Translations

something that pollutes

• Catalan: contaminant m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 污染物 (zh) (wūrǎnwù)

• Czech: škodlivina f
• Dutch: vervuiler (nl) m
• Finnish: saaste (fi), epäpuhtaus
• French: polluant (fr) m
• German: Schadstoff (de) m, umweltgefährlicher Stoff m
• Indonesian: polutan (id)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Interlingua: polluente
• Italian: sostanza inquinante f, inquinante (it) m
• Japanese: 汚染物質 (おせんぶっしつ, osen-busshitsu)
• Korean: 오염물질 (oyum-muljil)
• Maori: parawhakakino, parawhakaparu, parakino
• Portuguese: poluente m
• Russian: загрязни́тель (ru) m (zagrjaznítelʹ), загрязня́ющее вещество́ n (zagrjaznjájuščeje veščestvó)
• Spanish: contaminante m

Further reading

• pollutant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia