Smoke in Different Languages
Discover 'Smoke' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Smoke
Afrikaans rook | ||
Albanian pi duhan | ||
Amharic ማጨስ | ||
Arabic دخان | ||
Armenian ծխել | ||
Assamese ধোঁৱা | ||
Aymara phusaña | ||
Azerbaijani tüstü | ||
Bambara sisi | ||
Basque kea | ||
Belarusian дым | ||
Bengali ধোঁয়া | ||
Bhojpuri धुआं | ||
Bosnian dim | ||
Bulgarian дим | ||
Catalan fum | ||
Cebuano aso | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 抽烟 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 抽煙 | ||
Corsican fumà | ||
Croatian dim | ||
Czech kouř | ||
Danish røg | ||
Dhivehi ދުން | ||
Dogri धूं | ||
Dutch rook | ||
English smoke | ||
Esperanto fumi | ||
Estonian suitsetama | ||
Ewe dzudzɔ | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) usok | ||
Finnish savu | ||
French fumée | ||
Frisian reek | ||
Galician fume | ||
Georgian მოწევა | ||
German rauch | ||
Greek καπνός | ||
Guarani tatatĩ | ||
Gujarati ધૂમ્રપાન | ||
Haitian Creole lafimen | ||
Hausa hayaki | ||
Hawaiian uahi | ||
Hebrew עָשָׁן | ||
Hindi धुआं | ||
Hmong haus luam yeeb | ||
Hungarian füst | ||
Icelandic reykur | ||
Igbo anwụrụ ọkụ | ||
Ilocano asok | ||
Indonesian merokok | ||
Irish deataigh | ||
Italian fumo | ||
Japanese 煙 | ||
Javanese kumelun | ||
Kannada ಹೊಗೆ | ||
Kazakh түтін | ||
Khmer ផ្សែង | ||
Kinyarwanda umwotsi | ||
Konkani धुम्रपान | ||
Korean 연기 | ||
Krio smok | ||
Kurdish dixan | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) دووکەڵ | ||
Kyrgyz түтүн | ||
Lao ຄວັນ | ||
Latin fumus | ||
Latvian smēķēt | ||
Lingala komela makaya | ||
Lithuanian parūkyti | ||
Luganda omukka | ||
Luxembourgish fëmmen | ||
Macedonian чад | ||
Maithili धुआ | ||
Malagasy setroka | ||
Malay asap | ||
Malayalam പുക | ||
Maltese duħħan | ||
Maori paowa | ||
Marathi धूर | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯃꯩꯈꯨ | ||
Mizo meikhu | ||
Mongolian утаа | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ဆေးလိပ် | ||
Nepali धुवाँ | ||
Norwegian røyk | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kusuta | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଧୂଆଁ | ||
Oromo aara | ||
Pashto لوګی | ||
Persian دود | ||
Polish palić | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) fumaça | ||
Punjabi ਸਮੋਕ | ||
Quechua qusñi | ||
Romanian fum | ||
Russian курить | ||
Samoan asu | ||
Sanskrit धुंधं | ||
Scots Gaelic ceò | ||
Sepedi muši | ||
Serbian дима | ||
Sesotho tsuba | ||
Shona chiutsi | ||
Sindhi دونھون | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) දුම | ||
Slovak dym | ||
Slovenian dim | ||
Somali sigaar cab | ||
Spanish fumar | ||
Sundanese haseup | ||
Swahili moshi | ||
Swedish rök | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) usok | ||
Tajik дуд | ||
Tamil புகை | ||
Tatar төтен | ||
Telugu పొగ | ||
Thai ควัน | ||
Tigrinya ትኪ | ||
Tsonga dzaha | ||
Turkish sigara içmek | ||
Turkmen tüsse | ||
Twi (Akan) nwisie | ||
Ukrainian диму | ||
Urdu دھواں | ||
Uyghur تاماكا | ||
Uzbek tutun | ||
Vietnamese khói | ||
Welsh mwg | ||
Xhosa umsi | ||
Yiddish רויך | ||
Yoruba ẹfin | ||
Zulu intuthu |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | In Afrikaans, 'rook' also means 'to smoke', 'a cigarette', or 'a pipe'. |
| Albanian | The Albanian word "pi duhan" (smoke) originates from the Latin phrase "pipio ducanium" (a pipe of incense). |
| Amharic | The Amharic word 'ማጨስ' comes from the Ge'ez root 'ማጭስ', meaning 'to burn'. |
| Arabic | The word "دخان" (smoke) is also used in Arabic to refer to "hellfire" or a "great sin." |
| Armenian | The Armenian word "ծխել" not only means "smoke," but also "to burn incense" and "to smoke a cigarette." |
| Azerbaijani | The word "Tüstü" in Azerbaijani is a derivative of the ancient Turkic word "tüstüg", which means "a puff of air originating from an open fire". |
| Basque | The Basque word 'kea' has roots in the Proto-Basque word 'keai', which also means 'fog'. |
| Belarusian | "Дым" (smoke) is cognate with the Latin "fumus" (smoke) and the Old Church Slavonic "дымъ" (smoke). |
| Bengali | In old Bengali, 'dhua' also meant 'water' and 'foam', and 'dhuaan' meant 'cloud'. |
| Bosnian | The word “dim” can also mean “gunpowder” in Bosnian. |
| Bulgarian | "Дим" is also used figuratively to describe something elusive or enigmatic. |
| Catalan | In Catalan, "fum" also means "rumor" or "gossip". |
| Cebuano | The Cebuano word "aso" also means "dog" in Tagalog and other Philippine languages. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 抽烟 can refer to either "smoking" or, when used in a specific context, "drinking alcohol". |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 抽煙 (Traditional Chinese) can mean 'to smoke' or 'to inhale' something. |
| Corsican | The word "fumà" in Corsican can also mean "fog" or "mist". |
| Croatian | The Croatian word 'dim' is cognate with the Latin word 'fumus', meaning 'smoke', and also shares a root with the English word 'fume'. |
| Czech | "Kouř" shares the Indo-European root *keuH- with "heat" and "cook". |
| Danish | The word "røg" has two similar meanings, the first is tobacco smoke, and the second is the smoke from a fire. |
| Dutch | In Dutch, “rook” is not only smoke. It can also mean “to smoke” (as in cigarettes) or “chess rook”. |
| Esperanto | The word "fumi" is also used to refer to the "smoke" produced by a fire or by the burning of a substance. |
| Estonian | "Suitsetama" also means "to smoke" in Estonian. |
| Finnish | "Savu" also appears in another context outside its primary meaning: the Finnish saying, "Jäädä savuun", translates to "Left behind in smoke", indicating a situation in which someone leaves their duties unfinished before leaving the workplace. |
| French | The French word "fumée" comes from the Late Latin word "fumata", meaning "smoke" or "exhalation". |
| Frisian | In Frisian, "reek" also means "smell" or "odour", and is related to the English word "reek" |
| Georgian | მოწევა in Georgian can also refer to the process of inhaling and exhaling smoke through tobacco or other substances. |
| German | In some German dialects, like Bavarian or Austrian, |
| Greek | In Ancient Greek, "καπνός" could also refer to "vapor", "incense", or "mist". |
| Haitian Creole | In Haitian Creole, "lafimen" can also refer to a cloud of dust or fumes or a fire producing clouds of smoke. |
| Hausa | "Hayaki" also means "firewood" in Hausa, highlighting the close association between smoke and the burning of wood. |
| Hawaiian | In Hawaiian, "uahi" can also mean "to burn" or "to extinguish". |
| Hebrew | "עָשָׁן" (smoke) also refers to wealth, as in "עשיר" (wealthy) |
| Hindi | The word "धुआं" can also refer to "scent", "aroma", or "smell". |
| Hmong | The Hmong word 'haus luam yeeb' (smoke) is also used to refer to tobacco or cigarettes. |
| Hungarian | The Hungarian word "füst" is related to "fűt", which means "heat" or "stove". |
| Icelandic | In Icelandic, reykur primarily refers to smoke, but it can also mean mist or fog. |
| Igbo | The Igbo word "anwụrụ ọkụ" also means "mist" or "haze", particularly when referring to the early morning or evening fog. |
| Indonesian | An alternate meaning of "merokok" is to "consume tobacco" which is more commonly used in Indonesian than "to smoke". |
| Irish | Deataigh is also used in some dialects in the west to refer to a bonfire. |
| Italian | The Italian word 'fumo' (smoke) derives from the Latin 'fumus', and can also mean 'fumes' or 'vapour', or figuratively 'delusion', 'mistake', or 'doubt'. |
| Japanese | The character 煙 (煙) is composed of three fire radicals (火), which suggests a burning process, but it can also refer to other gaseous or vaporous emissions, such as steam or mist. |
| Javanese | The word "kumelun" in Javanese derives from the word "kelumu" meaning "fog", and "kemelus" meaning "smoky" in the Kawi language. |
| Kannada | The Kannada word 'ಹೊಗೆ' also refers to a type of traditional tobacco product consumed in South India. |
| Kazakh | "Түтін" could also mean "soot" or "dust". |
| Khmer | ផ្សែង may also refer to a Cambodian traditional weapon used in martial arts |
| Korean | "연기" not only means "smoke" but also "acting" or "play." |
| Kurdish | In Kurdish, "dixan" can also mean "to burn". |
| Kyrgyz | The word "түтүн" can also refer to a small fire used for warmth or cooking. |
| Latin | The Latin word fumus (smoke) is related to the Greek word θυμὸς (thumos), meaning both smoke and wrath or rage. |
| Latvian | Latvian "smēķēt" (smoke) derives from Proto-Baltic "smek-“, akin to Lithuanian "smėkti“ (to whip). |
| Lithuanian | The word "parūkyti" in Lithuanian can also mean "to take a smoke break". |
| Luxembourgish | The word 'fëmmen' is derived from the Old High German word 'femmen', meaning 'to steam' or 'to emit smoke', and is related to the English word 'fume'. |
| Macedonian | The word "чад" also means "fumes" and "mirage" in Macedonian. |
| Malagasy | The word "setroka" in Malagasy can also refer to a type of bush or tree native to Madagascar. |
| Malay | The Malay word 'asap' can also be used metaphorically to describe something that is quickly dispersed or disappears without a trace. |
| Malayalam | The Malayalam word "പുക" (puka) also refers to the residue left after burning something (e.g., incense, camphor). |
| Maltese | The word "duħħan" is also used figuratively to refer to trouble, as in the phrase "b'duħħan ma 'rasu," meaning "he's in trouble." |
| Maori | The word 'paowa' is a homonym, as it also refers to a type of Maori dance or song |
| Marathi | Marathi word "धूर" (dhoor), apart from meaning "smoke," also refers to "a lot of dust" or "haze". |
| Mongolian | The word 'утаа' also means 'steam' or 'vapor' in Mongolian. |
| Nepali | The word "धुवाँ" (smoke) in Nepali is derived from the Sanskrit word "धूमः" (smoke), which also means "smoke" or "vapor". |
| Norwegian | The word "røyk" is derived from the Old Norse word "reykr", meaning "smoke". It also shares a common root with the English word "reek", meaning "a strong unpleasant smell". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | Kusuta can also mean 'to burn', which is a different meaning from 'smoke' |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "لوګی" "smoke" originates from Proto-Indo-Iranian word "*dʰawgʰ-" |
| Persian | The word "دود" ("smoke" in Persian) is derived from Old Persian "dhau", Indo-European "*dheu-dh-", and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European "*dʰew-" meaning 'to choke' or 'to obscure'. |
| Polish | In Polish, "palić" can also mean to burn or ignite, and its etymological ancestors include the verb "paliti" and the noun "pał" (meaning "stick"), signifying the ancient ritual of burning sticks for religious or practical purposes. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, "fumaça" comes from the Latin "fumus", but it can also mean "a good dose of laughter". |
| Punjabi | The word "ਸਮੋਕ" (smoke) in Punjabi is derived from the Sanskrit word "dhuma" and also means "fog". |
| Romanian | The Romanian word for 'smoke', 'fum', also signifies 'smoke', 'gas' or 'exhaust fumes' in Latin and French. |
| Samoan | The Samoan word "asu" also means "to inhale air". |
| Scots Gaelic | The Scots Gaelic word "ceò" can also refer to a mist or fog. |
| Serbian | Serbian 'дима' has Indo-European root *dʰew- with meanings of 'cover with smoke' and 'to suffocate' |
| Sesotho | "Tsuba" can also be used to describe the smoke that emits from a fire or the steam from boiling water |
| Shona | 'Chiutsi' also refers to traditional pottery pots and utensils |
| Sindhi | The word "دونھون" could also mean "to smoke" or "to blow air" in Sindhi. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "දුම" also means "vapor" or "mist" in Sinhala. |
| Slovak | The word “dym” can also mean “fog” or “mist” depending on the context. |
| Slovenian | The word "dim" can also refer to a type of fog or mist, similar to the English word "haze". |
| Somali | Cab' has a double meaning in Somali: it refers to tobacco and to smoke. |
| Spanish | The Spanish word "fumar" derives from the Latin "fumare," meaning "to smoke," and also carries a colloquial meaning of "to inhale drug smoke." |
| Sundanese | In Sundanese, the word 'haseup' also refers to the residue on cooking pots, traditionally used as spice in some dishes. |
| Swahili | In the Shambaa dialect, ‘moshi’ also refers to clouds |
| Swedish | The word "rök" in Swedish also refers to a kind of rune stone found in Scandinavia. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The Tagalog word "usok" has been theorized to derive from the Proto-Malayo-Polynesian root "*husuq" or "*qusuk," meaning "smoke, vapor, or steam." |
| Tajik | "Дуд" in Tajik can also mean "steam" or "vapor". |
| Tamil | The Tamil word 'புகை' ('smoke') also refers to the 'breath of a deity' as well as the smell of a burning animal sacrifice. |
| Telugu | The word "పొగ" can also refer to a type of firecracker that emits a lot of smoke. |
| Thai | ควัน in Thai also refers to a unit of traditional Thai measurement equal to about one hundred hectares. |
| Turkish | The word "Sigara içmek" originally meant "to inhale smoke from a narghile" but now is used for cigarettes. |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word "диму" (smoke) is cognate with the Latin "fumus" (smoke) and the Sanskrit "dhuma" (smoke) |
| Urdu | The word "دھواں" is derived from the Sanskrit word "dhūma," meaning "fog, mist, or vapor." |
| Uzbek | In addition to its primary meaning of "smoke," "tutun" also has the secondary meaning of "tobacco" in Uzbek. |
| Vietnamese | Khói, meaning |
| Welsh | In the Welsh language, the word "mwg" can also refer to a mist or a haze. |
| Xhosa | The word "umsi" in Xhosa also refers to mist or vapor. |
| Yiddish | Yiddish word "רויך" also means "ghost" or "spirit", cognate with Slavic "dvx". |
| Yoruba | The word 'ẹfin' can also refer to a shade of dark grey that resembles smoke. |
| Zulu | The word 'intuthu' in Zulu can also refer to the act of smoking or the smell of smoke. |
| English | The word "smoke" can also refer to a vapor or haze, or to the act of inhaling and exhaling tobacco smoke. |