Dust

//dʌst//

Synonyms for "dust" (330 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (66)

Strong matches (99)

Noun(3 words)
debrisdetritusjunk

Related words (165)

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Noun(1 words)
rubble

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14 relation types

More general

15 entries

Synonyms

2 entries

Related terms

2 entries

at location

38 entries

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capable of

4 entries

causes desire

1 entries

derived

176 entries

Showing 16 of 176 words.

entails

1 entries

etymologically related_to

1 entries

has context

3 entries

instance of

1 entries

is a

5 entries

manner of

3 entries

related to

37 entries

Showing 16 of 37 words.

Translations

361 translations across 195 languages.

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Acehnese

1 entries
  • abee noun (fine, dry particles)

Afrikaans

1 entries
  • stof noun (fine, dry particles)

Akkadian

1 entries
  • 𒅖 noun (fine, dry particles)

Albanian

1 entries
  • pluhur noun (fine, dry particles)

Amharic

1 entries
  • አቧራ noun (fine, dry particles)

Ancient Greek

3 entries
  • κόνις noun (fine, dry particles)
  • χοῦς noun (fine, dry particles)
  • ἴκνυς noun (fine, dry particles)

Arabic

4 entries
  • تراب noun (fine, dry particles)
  • تُراب noun (fine, dry particles)
  • غبار noun (fine, dry particles)
  • غُبار noun (fine, dry particles)

Armenian

1 entries
  • փոշի noun (fine, dry particles)

Aromanian

2 entries
  • pulbire noun (fine, dry particles)
  • pulbiri noun (fine, dry particles)

Assamese

1 entries
  • ধূলি noun (fine, dry particles)

Asturian

1 entries
  • polvu noun (fine, dry particles)

Azerbaijani

2 entries
  • toz noun (fine, dry particles)
  • توز noun (fine, dry particles)

Baluchi

1 entries
  • ہاک noun (fine, dry particles)

Bashkir

2 entries
  • саң noun (fine, dry particles)
  • туҙан noun (fine, dry particles)

Basque

1 entries
  • hauts noun (fine, dry particles)

Belarusian

2 entries
  • по́рах noun (fine, dry particles)
  • пыл noun (fine, dry particles)

Bengali

1 entries
  • ধূলি noun (fine, dry particles)

Bhojpuri

1 entries
  • धूल noun (fine, dry particles)

Bikol Central

1 entries
  • alpog noun (fine, dry particles)

Breton

2 entries
  • poultr noun (fine, dry particles)
  • poultrenn noun (fine, dry particles)

Brunei Malay

1 entries
  • abuk noun (fine, dry particles)

Budukh

1 entries
  • руг noun (fine, dry particles)

Bulgarian

4 entries
  • прах noun (fine, dry particles)
  • бърша прах verb ((intransitive) to clean by removing dust)
  • бърша прах verb ((transitive) to remove dust from)
  • поръсвам verb (to spray something with fine powder or liquid)

Burmese

1 entries
  • ဖုန် noun (fine, dry particles)

Buryat

1 entries
  • тооһон noun (fine, dry particles)

Catalan

4 entries
  • pols noun (fine, dry particles)
  • desempolsar verb ((intransitive) to clean by removing dust)
  • empolsar verb (to spray something with fine powder or liquid)
  • espolsar verb ((transitive) to remove dust from)

Cebuano

1 entries
  • abog noun (fine, dry particles)

Chamicuro

1 entries
  • ijpe noun (fine, dry particles)

Chechen

1 entries
  • чан noun (fine, dry particles)

Chichewa

1 entries
  • fumbi noun (fine, dry particles)

Chinese

4 entries
  • тонтў noun (fine, dry particles)
  • тў noun (fine, dry particles)
  • хуэйтў noun (fine, dry particles)
  • чынтў noun (fine, dry particles)

Chinese Cantonese

2 entries
  • 塵 /尘 noun (fine, dry particles)
  • 灰塵 /灰尘 noun (fine, dry particles)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries
  • 塵土 /尘土 noun (fine, dry particles)
  • 灰 noun (fine, dry particles)
  • 灰塵 /灰尘 noun (fine, dry particles)
  • 打掃 /打扫 verb ((intransitive) to clean by removing dust)

Church Slavic

1 entries
  • прахъ noun (fine, dry particles)

Chuvash

1 entries
  • тусан noun (fine, dry particles)

Cornish

4 entries
  • doust noun (fine, dry particles)
  • polter noun (fine, dry particles)
  • ponn noun (fine, dry particles)
  • diboltra verb ((intransitive) to clean by removing dust)

Corsican

1 entries
  • polvara noun (fine, dry particles)

Crimean Tatar

1 entries
  • toz noun (fine, dry particles)

Czech

1 entries
  • prach noun (fine, dry particles)

Dalmatian

1 entries
  • pulvro noun (fine, dry particles)

Danish

1 entries
  • støv noun (fine, dry particles)

Dutch

3 entries
  • stof noun (fine, dry particles)
  • afstoffen verb ((intransitive) to clean by removing dust)
  • afstoffen verb ((transitive) to remove dust from)

Eastern Bontoc

1 entries
  • tapok noun (fine, dry particles)

Eastern Mari

1 entries
  • пурак noun (fine, dry particles)

Egyptian

1 entries
  • x-m-w-TAw-Z3 noun (fine, dry particles)

Erzya

1 entries
  • пуль noun (fine, dry particles)

Esperanto

1 entries
  • polvo noun (fine, dry particles)

Estonian

1 entries
  • tolm noun (fine, dry particles)

Evenki

1 entries
  • на̄мнэ noun (fine, dry particles)

Ewe

1 entries
  • fúfu noun (fine, dry particles)

Faroese

1 entries
  • dust noun (fine, dry particles)

Finnish

4 entries
  • pöly noun (fine, dry particles)
  • tomu noun (fine, dry particles)
  • pyyhkiä pölyt verb ((intransitive) to clean by removing dust)
  • pölyttää verb ((intransitive) to clean by removing dust)

French

3 entries
  • poussière noun (fine, dry particles)
  • pulvériser verb (to spray something with fine powder or liquid)
  • épousseter verb ((intransitive) to clean by removing dust)

Friulian

1 entries
  • polvar noun (fine, dry particles)

Gagauz

1 entries
  • тоз noun (fine, dry particles)

Galician

4 entries
  • borralla noun (fine, dry particles)
  • foula noun (fine, dry particles)
  • purreiro noun (fine, dry particles)
  • pó noun (fine, dry particles)

Georgian

1 entries
  • მტვერი noun (fine, dry particles)

German

4 entries
  • Staub noun (fine, dry particles)
  • abstauben verb ((intransitive) to clean by removing dust)
  • abstauben verb ((transitive) to remove dust from)
  • bestauben verb (to spray something with fine powder or liquid)

Gothic

2 entries
  • 𐌼𐌿𐌻𐌳𐌰 noun (fine, dry particles)
  • 𐍃𐍄𐌿𐌱𐌾𐌿𐍃 noun (fine, dry particles)

Greek

2 entries
  • σκόνη noun (fine, dry particles)
  • ξεσκονίζω verb ((intransitive) to clean by removing dust)

Greenlandic

1 entries
  • qasernerit noun (fine, dry particles)

Haitian Creole

1 entries
  • pousyè noun (fine, dry particles)

Hawaiian

1 entries
  • ʻehu noun (fine, dry particles)

Hebrew

1 entries
  • אָבָק noun (fine, dry particles)

Higaonon

1 entries
  • aliyabuk noun (fine, dry particles)

Hindi

4 entries
  • ख़ाक noun (fine, dry particles)
  • खाक noun (fine, dry particles)
  • गर्द noun (fine, dry particles)
  • धुलि noun (fine, dry particles)

Hungarian

1 entries
  • por noun (fine, dry particles)

Hunsrik

1 entries
  • Staab noun (fine, dry particles)

Icelandic

1 entries
  • ryk noun (fine, dry particles)

Ilocano

1 entries
  • tapok noun (fine, dry particles)

Indonesian

2 entries
  • debu noun (fine, dry particles)
  • duli noun (fine, dry particles)

Ingrian

2 entries
  • pölly noun (fine, dry particles)
  • pöllyttää verb (to spray something with fine powder or liquid)

Ingush

1 entries
  • дома noun (fine, dry particles)

Inuktitut

1 entries
  • ᓴᓂᖅ noun (fine, dry particles)

Iranian Persian

3 entries
  • خاک noun (fine, dry particles)
  • غُبار noun (fine, dry particles)
  • گَرْد noun (fine, dry particles)

Irish

3 entries
  • deannach noun (fine, dry particles)
  • dusta noun (fine, dry particles)
  • púdráil verb (to spray something with fine powder or liquid)

Italian

3 entries
  • polvere noun (fine, dry particles)
  • spolverare verb ((intransitive) to clean by removing dust)
  • spolverare verb ((transitive) to remove dust from)

Japanese

2 entries
  • ほこり noun (fine, dry particles)
  • 埃 noun (fine, dry particles)

Javanese

3 entries
  • awu noun (fine, dry particles)
  • bledug noun (fine, dry particles)
  • lebu noun (fine, dry particles)

Kabardian

1 entries
  • сабэ noun (fine, dry particles)

Kaitag

2 entries
  • пягь noun (fine, dry particles)
  • пяхӏ noun (fine, dry particles)

Kalmyk

2 entries
  • тоосн noun (fine, dry particles)
  • шора noun (fine, dry particles)

Karo Batak

1 entries
  • abu noun (fine, dry particles)

Kazakh

1 entries
  • шаң noun (fine, dry particles)

Khakas

1 entries
  • тозын noun (fine, dry particles)

Khmer

4 entries
  • ក្អែល noun (fine, dry particles)
  • ខ្ញម noun (fine, dry particles)
  • ខ្សាច់ noun (fine, dry particles)
  • ធូលី noun (fine, dry particles)

Komi-Zyrian

1 entries
  • бус noun (fine, dry particles)

Konkani

1 entries
  • धूळी noun (fine, dry particles)

Korean

2 entries
  • 먼지 noun (fine, dry particles)
  • 흙 noun (fine, dry particles)

Kyrgyz

1 entries
  • чаң noun (fine, dry particles)

Lao

3 entries
  • ທຸລີ noun (fine, dry particles)
  • ຜົງ noun (fine, dry particles)
  • ຝຸ່ນ noun (fine, dry particles)

Latin

2 entries
  • pollen noun (fine, dry particles)
  • pulvis noun (fine, dry particles)

Latvian

2 entries
  • puteklis noun (fine, dry particles)
  • putekļi noun (fine, dry particles)

Lezgi

1 entries
  • руг noun (fine, dry particles)

Limburgish

1 entries
  • sjtöb noun (fine, dry particles)

Linngithigh

1 entries
  • ibhi noun (fine, dry particles)

Lithuanian

1 entries
  • dulkės noun (fine, dry particles)

Lombard

1 entries
  • polver noun (fine, dry particles)

Low German

1 entries
  • Stoff noun (fine, dry particles)

Lower Sorbian

1 entries
  • proch noun (fine, dry particles)

Lubuagan Kalinga

1 entries
  • tapok noun (fine, dry particles)

Luxembourgish

1 entries
  • Stëbs noun (fine, dry particles)

Macedonian

4 entries
  • пра́шина noun (fine, dry particles)
  • прав noun (fine, dry particles)
  • бри́ше verb ((intransitive) to clean by removing dust)
  • бри́ше verb ((transitive) to remove dust from)

Malagasy

1 entries
  • jomoka noun (fine, dry particles)

Malay

4 entries
  • debu noun (fine, dry particles)
  • habuk noun (fine, dry particles)
  • دبو noun (fine, dry particles)
  • هابوق noun (fine, dry particles)

Maltese

1 entries
  • trab noun (fine, dry particles)

Manchu

1 entries
  • ᠪᡠᡵᠠᡴᡳ noun (fine, dry particles)

Manx

1 entries
  • joan noun (fine, dry particles)

Maranao

1 entries
  • lopapek noun (fine, dry particles)

Marathi

1 entries
  • धूळ noun (fine, dry particles)

Mirandese

1 entries
  • polvra noun (fine, dry particles)

Moksha

1 entries
  • пуль noun (fine, dry particles)

Mongolian

2 entries
  • тоос noun (fine, dry particles)
  • ᠲᠣᠭᠤᠰᠤ noun (fine, dry particles)

Māori

2 entries
  • hungahunga noun (fine, dry particles)
  • puehu noun (fine, dry particles)

Nanai

1 entries
  • бурэхи noun (fine, dry particles)

Navajo

1 entries
  • łeezh noun (fine, dry particles)

Neapolitan

1 entries
  • povere noun (fine, dry particles)

Nepali

1 entries
  • धुलो noun (fine, dry particles)

Norman

1 entries
  • êpousseter verb ((intransitive) to clean by removing dust)

Northern Altai

1 entries
  • тоос noun (fine, dry particles)

Northern Kurdish

2 entries
  • toz noun (fine, dry particles)
  • xubar noun (fine, dry particles)

Northern Mansi

1 entries
  • порс noun (fine, dry particles)

Northern Sami

1 entries
  • gavja noun (fine, dry particles)

Norwegian Bokmål

2 entries
  • dust noun (fine, dry particles)
  • støv noun (fine, dry particles)

Occitan

1 entries
  • polvèra noun (fine, dry particles)

Odia

1 entries
  • ଧୂଲା noun (fine, dry particles)

Old East Slavic

1 entries
  • порохъ noun (fine, dry particles)

Old English

1 entries
  • dūst noun (fine, dry particles)

Old Khmer

2 entries
  • ធុលិ noun (fine, dry particles)
  • ធូលី noun (fine, dry particles)

Oromo

1 entries
  • awwaara noun (fine, dry particles)

Oroqen

1 entries
  • tɔ:rag noun (fine, dry particles)

Ossetian

1 entries
  • рыг noun (fine, dry particles)

Ottoman Turkish

2 entries
  • تراب noun (fine, dry particles)
  • توز noun (fine, dry particles)

Pali

1 entries
  • dhūli noun (fine, dry particles)

Papiamentu

1 entries
  • puiro noun (fine, dry particles)

Pashto

3 entries
  • دوڼ noun (fine, dry particles)
  • ږږ noun (fine, dry particles)
  • کسيا noun (fine, dry particles)

Polish

4 entries
  • kurz noun (fine, dry particles)
  • proch noun (fine, dry particles)
  • pył noun (fine, dry particles)
  • odkurzać verb ((intransitive) to clean by removing dust)

Portuguese

4 entries
  • poeira noun (fine, dry particles)
  • pó noun (fine, dry particles)
  • desempoar verb ((intransitive) to clean by removing dust)
  • desempoar verb ((transitive) to remove dust from)

Quechua

4 entries
  • allpa noun (fine, dry particles)
  • allpachay verb (to spray something with fine powder or liquid)
  • allpanay verb ((transitive) to remove dust from)
  • allpay verb (to spray something with fine powder or liquid)

Rohingya

1 entries
  • dúl noun (fine, dry particles)

Romanian

4 entries
  • colb noun (fine, dry particles)
  • praf noun (fine, dry particles)
  • pulbere noun (fine, dry particles)
  • curăța praful verb ((intransitive) to clean by removing dust)

Romansch

4 entries
  • polvra noun (fine, dry particles)
  • pulvra noun (fine, dry particles)
  • puolra noun (fine, dry particles)
  • puolvra noun (fine, dry particles)

Russian

3 entries
  • прах noun (fine, dry particles)
  • пыль noun (fine, dry particles)
  • опылять verb (to spray something with fine powder or liquid)

Sanskrit

2 entries
  • धूलि noun (fine, dry particles)
  • रजस् noun (fine, dry particles)

Sardinian

4 entries
  • peure noun (fine, dry particles)
  • piubare noun (fine, dry particles)
  • piubere noun (fine, dry particles)
  • piure noun (fine, dry particles)

Scottish Gaelic

4 entries
  • duslach noun (fine, dry particles)
  • dust noun (fine, dry particles)
  • stùr noun (fine, dry particles)
  • dustaig verb ((intransitive) to clean by removing dust)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries
  • pràšina noun (fine, dry particles)
  • prȃh noun (fine, dry particles)
  • пра̀шина noun (fine, dry particles)
  • пра̑х noun (fine, dry particles)

Sherpa

1 entries
  • རྡུལ noun (fine, dry particles)

Sicilian

2 entries
  • pruvulazzu noun (fine, dry particles)
  • pùrviri noun (fine, dry particles)

Sidamo

1 entries
  • buko noun (fine, dry particles)

Sinhalese

1 entries
  • දූවිල්ල noun (fine, dry particles)

Slovak

1 entries
  • prach noun (fine, dry particles)

Slovene

1 entries
  • prah noun (fine, dry particles)

Southern Altai

4 entries
  • кок noun (fine, dry particles)
  • тобрак noun (fine, dry particles)
  • тозон noun (fine, dry particles)
  • тозун noun (fine, dry particles)

Southern Kalinga

2 entries
  • kafu noun (fine, dry particles)
  • tapuk noun (fine, dry particles)

Spanish

4 entries
  • polvo noun (fine, dry particles)
  • desempolvar verb ((intransitive) to clean by removing dust)
  • desempolvar verb ((transitive) to remove dust from)
  • espolvorear verb (to spray something with fine powder or liquid)

Sundanese

1 entries
  • kekebul noun (fine, dry particles)

Swahili

1 entries
  • kivumbi noun (fine, dry particles)

Swedish

4 entries
  • damm noun (fine, dry particles)
  • stoft noun (fine, dry particles)
  • damma verb ((intransitive) to clean by removing dust)
  • damma verb ((transitive) to remove dust from)

Tabasaran

1 entries
  • руг noun (fine, dry particles)

Tagalog

2 entries
  • alikabok noun (fine, dry particles)
  • gabok noun (fine, dry particles)

Tajik

3 entries
  • хок noun (fine, dry particles)
  • чанг noun (fine, dry particles)
  • ғубор noun (fine, dry particles)

Tatar

1 entries
  • тузан noun (fine, dry particles)

Tausug

1 entries
  • bagunbun noun (fine, dry particles)

Telugu

2 entries
  • దుమ్ము noun (fine, dry particles)
  • ధూళి noun (fine, dry particles)

Tetum

1 entries
  • ahun noun (fine, dry particles)

Thai

3 entries
  • ธุลี noun (fine, dry particles)
  • ผง noun (fine, dry particles)
  • ฝุ่น noun (fine, dry particles)

Tibetan

2 entries
  • ཐལ་བ noun (fine, dry particles)
  • རྡུལ noun (fine, dry particles)

Tocharian B

2 entries
  • spaitu noun (fine, dry particles)
  • tweye noun (fine, dry particles)

Tongan

1 entries
  • efu noun (fine, dry particles)

Tswana

1 entries
  • loupa noun (fine, dry particles)

Turkish

1 entries
  • toz noun (fine, dry particles)

Turkmen

2 entries
  • toz noun (fine, dry particles)
  • çaň noun (fine, dry particles)

Tuvan

1 entries
  • доозун noun (fine, dry particles)

Tuwali Ifugao

3 entries
  • dap-ul noun (fine, dry particles)
  • hupuk noun (fine, dry particles)
  • tapuk noun (fine, dry particles)

Udmurt

1 entries
  • тузон noun (fine, dry particles)

Ugaritic

1 entries
  • 𐎓𐎔𐎗 noun (fine, dry particles)

Ukrainian

3 entries
  • ку́рява noun (fine, dry particles)
  • пил noun (fine, dry particles)
  • по́рох noun (fine, dry particles)

Unami

1 entries
  • punkw noun (fine, dry particles)

Upper Sorbian

1 entries
  • proch noun (fine, dry particles)

Urdu

4 entries
  • خاک noun (fine, dry particles)
  • دُھول noun (fine, dry particles)
  • غُبار noun (fine, dry particles)
  • گَرْد noun (fine, dry particles)

Uyghur

1 entries
  • چاڭ noun (fine, dry particles)

Uzbek

1 entries
  • chang noun (fine, dry particles)

Venetan

1 entries
  • polvare noun (fine, dry particles)

Vietnamese

2 entries
  • bụi noun (fine, dry particles)
  • phủi verb ((transitive) to remove dust from)

Volapük

1 entries
  • püf noun (fine, dry particles)

Walloon

2 entries
  • poude noun (fine, dry particles)
  • poure noun (fine, dry particles)

Welsh

3 entries
  • dwst noun (fine, dry particles)
  • llwch noun (fine, dry particles)
  • pylor noun (fine, dry particles)

West-Frisian

1 entries
  • stof noun (fine, dry particles)

Western Mari

1 entries
  • пырак noun (fine, dry particles)

Yakut

1 entries
  • быыл noun (fine, dry particles)

Yiddish

1 entries
  • שטויב noun (fine, dry particles)

Zealandic

1 entries
  • stof noun (fine, dry particles)

Zhuang

1 entries
  • hoi noun (fine, dry particles)

Zulu

1 entries
  • uthuli class 11/10 noun (fine, dry particles)

Sample sentences

28 total sentences available.

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Brush off the dust from your shoes.

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The desk is covered with dust.

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Dust had accumulated on the desk.

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All the furniture was covered with dust.

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