Rotten wood cannot be carved; walls of dung cannot be worked with a trowel.
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Dung
//ˈdʌŋ//
Synonyms for "dung" (63 found)
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Closest matches (13)
Strong matches (19)
Related words (31)
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2 entriesrelated to
15 entriesTranslations
195 translations across 96 languages.
Albanian
2 entries- bajgë noun (manure)
- pleh noun (manure)
Ancient Greek
3 entries- κόπρος noun (manure)
- σπέλεθος noun (manure)
- ὄνθος noun (manure)
Arabic
1 entries- رَوْث noun (manure)
Armenian
1 entries- գոմաղբ noun (manure)
Aromanian
1 entries- baligă noun (manure)
Assamese
2 entries- গু noun (manure)
- গোবৰ noun (manure)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- gübrə noun (manure)
- peyin noun (manure)
Belarusian
2 entries- гной noun (manure)
- кал noun (manure)
Bikol Central
1 entries- udo noun (manure)
Bulgarian
3 entries- оборски тор noun (manure)
- тор noun (manure)
- торя verb (to fertilize with dung)
Burmese
2 entries- ချေး noun (manure)
- မြေဩဇာ noun (manure)
Catalan
3 entries- adob noun (manure)
- fem noun (manure)
- femta noun (manure)
Central Kurdish
3 entries- تەرس noun (manure)
- پشکڵ noun (manure)
- ڕیخ noun (manure)
Chamicuro
1 entries- tuki noun (manure)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 屎 noun (manure)
- 糞 /粪 noun (manure)
- 糞肥 /粪肥 noun (manure)
- 肥 noun (manure)
Czech
3 entries- hnůj noun (manure)
- mrva noun (manure)
- trus noun (manure)
Danish
2 entries- gødning noun (manure)
- møg noun (manure)
Dutch
1 entries- mest noun (manure)
Esperanto
1 entries- sterko noun (manure)
Estonian
1 entries- sõnnik noun (manure)
Finnish
3 entries- lanta noun (manure)
- sonta noun (manure)
- lannoittaa verb (to fertilize with dung)
French
3 entries- bouse noun (manure)
- fumier noun (manure)
- purin noun (manure)
Galician
4 entries- bosta noun (manure)
- cuito noun (manure)
- esterco noun (manure)
- estrume noun (manure)
Gallo
1 entries- fien noun (manure)
Georgian
2 entries- ნეხვი noun (manure)
- სკორე noun (manure)
German
3 entries- Dünger noun (manure)
- Mist noun (manure)
- düngen verb (to fertilize with dung)
Gothic
2 entries- 𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍃𐍄𐌿𐍃 noun (manure)
- 𐍃𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌽𐌰 noun (manure)
Greek
3 entries- κόπρος noun (manure)
- κοπρίζω verb (to fertilize with dung)
- λιπαίνω verb (to fertilize with dung)
Gujarati
2 entries- છાણ noun (manure)
- પોદળો noun (manure)
Haitian Creole
1 entries- fimye noun (manure)
Hawaiian
1 entries- kūkae noun (manure)
Hebrew
1 entries- זֶבֶל noun (manure)
Higaonon
1 entries- ta-i noun (manure)
Hindi
4 entries- उपला noun (manure)
- खाद noun (manure)
- गुह noun (manure)
- गू noun (manure)
Hungarian
1 entries- trágya noun (manure)
Icelandic
1 entries- mykja noun (manure)
Iranian Persian
3 entries- سَرْگین noun (manure)
- سِرْگین noun (manure)
- کود noun (manure)
Irish
1 entries- aoileach noun (manure)
Italian
4 entries- escremento noun (manure)
- feci noun (manure)
- fimo noun (manure)
- letame noun (manure)
Japanese
2 entries- 肥 noun (manure)
- 肥料 noun (manure)
Kazakh
1 entries- көң noun (manure)
Khmer
1 entries- ជីអាចម៍សត្វ noun (manure)
Korean
3 entries- 똥 noun (manure)
- 똥거름 noun (manure)
- 비료 noun (manure)
Kyrgyz
3 entries- кык noun (manure)
- көң noun (manure)
- тезек noun (manure)
Lao
2 entries- ຂີ້ noun (manure)
- ມູນ noun (manure)
Latin
2 entries- fimum noun (manure)
- stercus noun (manure)
Latvian
1 entries- mēsli noun (manure)
Lithuanian
1 entries- mėšlas noun (manure)
Lü
1 entries- ᦃᦲᧉ noun (manure)
Macedonian
1 entries- измет noun (manure)
Malayalam
1 entries- ചാണകം noun (manure)
Manchu
1 entries- ᡶᠠᠵᠠᠨ noun (manure)
Manx
1 entries- eoylley noun (manure)
Middle English
1 entries- donge noun (manure)
Mongolian
2 entries- аргал noun (manure)
- баас noun (manure)
Māori
4 entries- hamiti noun (manure)
- hamuti noun (manure)
- roke noun (manure)
- tiko noun (manure)
Navajo
1 entries- chąąʼ noun (manure)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- rîx noun (manure)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- gjødsel noun (manure)
- møkk noun (manure)
Ojibwe
1 entries- moo noun (manure)
Old Church Slavonic
1 entries- мотꙑла noun (manure)
Old Uyghur
1 entries- 𐽹𐽰𐽶𐽰𐽵𐾄 noun (manure)
Ottoman Turkish
3 entries- تزك noun (manure)
- فشقی noun (manure)
- فشقیلامق verb (to fertilize with dung)
Pitjantjatjara
1 entries- kuna noun (manure)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Mest noun (manure)
Polish
3 entries- gnój noun (manure)
- kał noun (manure)
- nawóz noun (manure)
Portuguese
2 entries- esterco noun (manure)
- estrume noun (manure)
Romanian
3 entries- balegă noun (manure)
- bălegar noun (manure)
- gunoi noun (manure)
Russian
4 entries- кал noun (manure)
- наво́з noun (manure)
- помёт noun (manure)
- экскреме́нты noun (manure)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- buachar noun (manure)
- todhar noun (manure)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- baléga noun (manure)
- gnȍjīvo noun (manure)
- gnȏj noun (manure)
- бале́га noun (manure)
Sicilian
1 entries- fumèri noun (manure)
Sidamo
1 entries- obba noun (manure)
Slovak
1 entries- hnoj noun (manure)
Slovene
1 entries- gnoj noun (manure)
Somali
1 entries- xaar-walwaal noun (manure)
Spanish
2 entries- estiércol noun (manure)
- excremento noun (manure)
Swedish
1 entries- dynga noun (manure)
Sylheti
1 entries- ꠉꠥꠙꠞ noun (manure)
Tajik
2 entries- пору noun (manure)
- саргин noun (manure)
Telugu
1 entries- ముటము noun (manure)
Thai
2 entries- ขี้ noun (manure)
- มูล noun (manure)
Tocharian B
2 entries- kekärtkor noun (manure)
- weṃts noun (manure)
Tongan
1 entries- ta'e noun (manure)
Turkish
3 entries- dışkı noun (manure)
- gübre noun (manure)
- tezek noun (manure)
Turkmen
3 entries- dökün noun (manure)
- gyýk noun (manure)
- tezek noun (manure)
Ukrainian
4 entries- гній noun (manure)
- екскреме́нти noun (manure)
- кал noun (manure)
- угно́ювати verb (to fertilize with dung)
Urdu
1 entries- کھاد noun (manure)
Uzbek
2 entries- goʻng noun (manure)
- oʻgʻit noun (manure)
Vietnamese
2 entries- phân noun (manure)
- phân chuồng noun (manure)
Walloon
1 entries- ansene noun (manure)
Welsh
1 entries- tail noun (manure)
West-Frisian
1 entries- dong noun (manure)
Woiwurrung
1 entries- koonong noun (manure)
Zhuang
1 entries- haex noun (manure)
Zou
1 entries- eeh noun (manure)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
You ask me, child, what love is? A star in a pile of dung.
Source: tatoeba (6162112)
The Ostrich is the largest bird, the Wren the smallest; the Owl is the most despicable; the Hoopoe the most dirty (as it eats dung); the Bird of Paradise is most rare.
Source: tatoeba (7315416)
Dung beetles are insects.
Source: tatoeba (7837705)
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