Eva climbed the stairs to Romer's office, trying to analyse the complex smell in the stairwell - a cross between mushrooms and soot, ancient stour and mildew, she decided.
Source: tatoeba (1785512)
Soot
//sʊt//
Synonyms for "soot" (125 found)
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3 entriesmanner of
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47 entriesShowing 16 of 47 words.
Translations
141 translations across 97 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- blozë noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Aleut
1 entries- dix̂ noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Ancient Greek
3 entries- αἴθαλος noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
- ψόλος noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
- ἄσβολος noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Arabic
1 entries- سُخَام noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Aragonese
1 entries- follín noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Armenian
1 entries- մուր noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Aromanian
2 entries- fulidzini noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
- furidzinã noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- his noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
- qurum noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Bashkir
1 entries- ҡором noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Basque
1 entries- kedar noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Bavarian German
1 entries- Ruass noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Belarusian
3 entries- ко́паць noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
- ку́рава noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
- са́жа noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Bikol Central
1 entries- ariw noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Bulgarian
1 entries- са́жди noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Burmese
1 entries- ကျပ်ခိုး noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Catalan
3 entries- estalzí noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
- sutge noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
- sutja noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Central Melanau
2 entries- arouk noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
- punyuong noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Chichewa
1 entries- mwaye noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 油煙 /油烟 noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Chuvash
1 entries- хӑрӑм noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Czech
1 entries- saze noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Danish
1 entries- sod noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Dutch
3 entries- roet noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
- rookzwart noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
- zoet noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Esperanto
1 entries- fulgo noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Estonian
2 entries- nõgi noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
- tahm noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Faroese
2 entries- sót noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
- ím noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Finnish
1 entries- noki noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
French
1 entries- suie noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Friulian
1 entries- frusìn noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Galician
3 entries- feluxe noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
- parruma noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
- sarrio noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Georgian
2 entries- მური noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
- ჭვარტლი noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
German
3 entries- Russ noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
- Ruus noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
- Ruß noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Greek
1 entries- αιθάλη noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Hebrew
1 entries- פִּיחַ noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Hungarian
1 entries- korom noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Iban
1 entries- arok noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Irish
1 entries- súiche noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Italian
2 entries- caligine noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
- fuliggine noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Japanese
1 entries- 煤 noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Kazakh
1 entries- құрым noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Kildin Sami
1 entries- коажь noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Komi-Permyak
1 entries- са noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Korean
1 entries- 그을음 noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Latgalian
1 entries- kvāps noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Latin
1 entries- fūlīgō noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Latvian
2 entries- kvēpi noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
- sodrēji noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Laz
1 entries- წოლა noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Lithuanian
1 entries- súodžiai noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- caze noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Lower Tanana
1 entries- t'asr thoya' noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Macedonian
3 entries- гареж noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
- саѓа noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
- саѓи noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Malay
4 entries- arang pagu noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
- arang para-para noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
- jelaga noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
- sulang noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Manx
1 entries- sooie noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Marathi
1 entries- काजळी noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Middle English
1 entries- soot noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Mongolian
1 entries- хөө тортог noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Māori
3 entries- ahowhare noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
- awe noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
- kūkāwhare noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Negidal
1 entries- нуксэ noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Ngazidja Comorian
1 entries- misizi noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- tenî noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Northern Sami
1 entries- giehpa noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- sot noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- sot noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Occitan
1 entries- suèja noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Okinawan
1 entries- 煤 noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Old Czech
1 entries- sazě noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Old English
1 entries- sōt noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- ایس noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
- قوروم noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Room noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Polish
2 entries- kopeć noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
- sadza noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Portuguese
1 entries- fuligem noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Romanian
1 entries- funingine noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Russian
2 entries- ко́поть noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
- са́жа noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- sùith noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- čađa noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
- ча̑ђ noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Slovak
1 entries- sadza noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Slovene
1 entries- saje noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Southern Altai
1 entries- курун noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Spanish
4 entries- hollín noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
- negrumo noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
- tile noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
- tizne noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Swahili
1 entries- masizi noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Swedish
1 entries- sot noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Tagalog
1 entries- uling-aso noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Tatar
1 entries- корым noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Thai
1 entries- เขม่า noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Turkish
2 entries- is noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
- kurum noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Udi
1 entries- моъгъ noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Udmurt
1 entries- су noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Ukrainian
3 entries- кі́поть noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
- кі́птява noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
- са́жа noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Uyghur
1 entries- قۇرۇم noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Uzbek
1 entries- qurum noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Venetan
1 entries- całùzxene noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Vietnamese
4 entries- lọ noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
- muội noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
- nghẹ noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
- nhọ noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Volapük
1 entries- sut noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Welsh
3 entries- huddygl noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
- parddu noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
- tropas noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
West-Frisian
2 entries- roet noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
- ruot noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Yakut
1 entries- курунньук noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Yonaguni
1 entries- 煤 noun (fine black or dull brown particles)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
It's carbon or soot.
Source: tatoeba (3668597)
When we think of nineteenth-century chimney sweeps, we think of ragamuffins with soot on their cheeks.
Source: tatoeba (4471278)
You can see from the soot on the walls that the fire reached this floor as well.
Source: tatoeba (5138419)
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