vapor

English

Alternative forms

• vapour (Commonwealth English)

Etymology

From Middle English vapour, from Anglo-Norman vapour, Old French vapor, from Latin vapor (“steam, heat”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈveɪpə/

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• Rhymes: -eɪpə(r)

Noun

vapor (plural vapors)

1. Cloudy diffused matter such as mist, steam or fumes suspended in the air.
2. The gaseous state of a substance that is normally a solid or liquid.
   • 2013 July-August, Philip J. Bushnell, “Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident. Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.

Derived terms

• vaporescence
• vaporescent
• vapor pressure

• vapour trail
• water vapor

Translations

cloudy diffused matter — See also translations at mist,‎ steam,‎ fume

• Finnish: höyry (fi)

the gaseous state of a substance that is normally a solid or liquid

• Albanian: avull (sq) m
• Arabic: بُخَار‎‎ (ar) m (buḵār)
• Armenian: գոլորշի (hy) (golorši)
• Asturian: vapor m
• Azerbaijani: buxar (az)
• Belarusian: па́ра f (pára), пар m (par)
• Bengali: বাষ্প (basp), ভাপ (bhap)
• Bulgarian: па́ра (bg) f (pára)
• Burmese: အခိုးအငွေ့ (my) (a.hkui:a.ngwe.), အခိုး (my) (a.hkui:)
• Catalan: vapor (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蒸氣 (zh), 蒸气 (zh) (zhēngqì)

• Czech: pára (cs) f
• Danish: damp (da) c
• Dutch: damp (nl) m
• Estonian: aur (et)
• Finnish: höyry (fi)
• French: vapeur (fr) f
• Galician: vapor m
• Georgian: ორთქლი (ortkli)
• German: Dampf (de) m
• Greek: ατμός (el) m (atmós)

  Ancient Greek: ἀτμίς f (atmís)

• Hebrew: אֵד‎‎ (he) m (ed)
• Hindi: वाष्प (hi) (vāṣp), भाप (hi) (bhāp)
• Hungarian: gőz (hu), pára (hu)
• Icelandic: gufa (is) f
• Indonesian: uap (id)
• Interlingua: vapor
• Italian: gas (it) m, vapore (it) m
• Japanese: 気体 (ja) (きたい, kitai), 蒸気 (ja) (じょうき, jōki)
• Kazakh: бу (bw)
• Khmer: ចំហាយ (km) (jɑmhaay)
• Korean: 증기 (ko) (jeunggi) (蒸氣 (ko))
• Kyrgyz: буу (ky) (buu), пар (par)
• Lao: ໄອ (’ai), ອາຍນ້ຳ (lo) (’āi nam)
• Latin: vapor m
• Latvian: tvaiks m

• Lithuanian: garai m, m pl
• Macedonian: пареа f (parea)
• Malay: wap
• Maltese: fwar m
• Maori: wairehu
• Marathi: बाष्प (bāṣp), वाफ (vāph)
• Mongolian: уур манан (uur manan), уурших (mn) (uurših), уур (mn) (uur)
• Navajo: siil
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: damp (no) m

• Oriya: ବାଷ୍ପ (or) (bāṣp)
• Persian: بخار‎‎ (fa) (boxâr)
• Polish: para (pl) f
• Portuguese: vapor (pt) m
• Romanian: abur (ro) m
• Russian: пар (ru) m (par), газ (ru) m (gaz)
• Sanskrit: वाष्प (sa) (vāṣpa)
• Scottish Gaelic: deatach f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пара f

  Roman: para (sh) f

• Slovak: para f
• Slovene: para (sl) f
• Spanish: vapor (es) m
• Sundanese: saab
• Swedish: ånga (sv) c
• Tagalog: singaw
• Tajik: бухор (buxor), буғ (buġ)
• Thai: ไอ (th) (ai), ไอน้ำ (ai-náam)
• Turkish: buhar (tr)
• Turkmen: bug (tk)
• Ukrainian: па́ра f (pára), пар m (par)
• Urdu: please add this translation if you can
• Uzbek: bugʻ (uz), par (uz)
• Vietnamese: hơi (vi)
• Yakut: паар (paar)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} damp (nl) m
• French: ^{(please verify)} vapeur (fr) f
• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} vapor
• Latvian: ^{(please verify)} tvaiks m
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} abur (ro) m

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ^{(please verify)} пара f

  Roman: ^{(please verify)} para (sh) f

• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} vapor (es) m

Verb

vapor (third-person singular simple present vapors, present participle vaporing, simple past and past participle vapored)

1. (intransitive) To become vapor; to be emitted or circulated as vapor.
2. (transitive) To turn into vapor.
3. (intransitive) To use insubstantial language; to boast or bluster.
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Bisara of Pooree’, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society 2005, p. 172:

     He vapoured, and fretted, and fumed, and trotted up and down, and tried to make himself pleasing in Miss Hollis's big, quiet, grey eyes, and failed.

   • 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 1, [1]

     […] an amusing character all but extinct now, but occasionally to be encountered […] vaporing in the groggeries along the tow-path.

Translations

intransitive: to become vapor — see evaporate

transitive: to turn into vapor — see vaporize

intransitive: to use insubstantial language; to boast or bluster

• Finnish: vaahdota (fi)
• German: prahlen (de)

• Japanese: 管を巻く (くだをまく, kuda o maku), 粋がる (いきがる, ikigaru), 威張り散らす (いばりちらす, ibarichirasu)

See also

• dew point
• get the vapors

Anagrams

• parvo, parvo-

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Albanian

Noun

vapor

1. steamboat

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Asturian

Etymology

From Latin vapor.

Noun

vapor m (plural vapores)

1. vapor

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin vapor.

Noun

vapor m (plural vapors)

1. vapor

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Galician

Etymology

From Latin vapor.

Noun

vapor m (plural vapores)

1. vapor

Synonyms

• (vapor): gas

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Ladino

Noun

vapor m (Latin spelling)

1. ship, steamer

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Latin

Etymology

Uncertain, but possibly related to Ancient Greek καπνός (kapnós, “smoke”) and Proto-Indo-European *kʷep- (“to smoke, boil, move violently”), via an older form *quapor that eventually lost its velar. See also hope.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈwa.por/, [ˈwa.pɔr]

Noun

vapor m (genitive vapōris); third declension

1. steam, exhalation, vapour; smoke
2. warm exhalation, warmth, heat
3. ardour of love, warmth

Inflection

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	vapor	vapōrēs
genitive	vapōris	vapōrum
dative	vapōrī	vapōribus
accusative	vapōrem	vapōrēs
ablative	vapōre	vapōribus
vocative	vapor	vapōrēs

Synonyms

• (warmth): calor

Derived terms

• vapidus
• vapōrālis
• vapōrārium
• vapōrifer

• vapōrō
• vapōrōsus
• vapōrus

Related terms

• vapidē
• vapōrātē

• vapōrātiō
• vappa

Descendants

• Asturian: vapor
• Catalan: vapor
• English: vapor
• French: vapeur
• Galician: vapor

• Italian: vapore
• Portuguese: vapor
• Romanian: vapor
• Spanish: vapor

References

• vapor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vapor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vapor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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Middle English

Noun

vapor

1. Alternative form of vapour

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Old French

Noun

vapor f (oblique plural vapors, nominative singular vapor, nominative plural vapors)

1. Alternative form of vapeur

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin vapor.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /vɐ.ˈpoɾ/
• (Paulista) IPA^(key): /va.ˈpoɹ/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /va.ˈpoɻ/
• (Carioca) IPA^(key): /va.ˈpox/
• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /va.ˈpo/
• Hyphenation: va‧por

Noun

vapor m (plural vapores)

1. vapor / vapour

Anagrams

• prova, pavor

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Romanian

Etymology

From Italian vapore, French vapeur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vaˈpor/

Noun

vapor n (plural vapoare)

1. boat, ship

Declension

declension of vapor

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) vapor	vaporul	(niște) vapoare	vapoarele
genitive/dative	(unui) vapor	vaporului	(unor) vapoare	vapoarelor
vocative	vaporule		vapoarelor

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin vapor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [baˈpoɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ

Noun

vapor m (plural vapores)

1. steam, vapor (water vapor)