Tallow

//ˈtæloʊ//

Synonyms for "tallow" (20 found)

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Translations

81 translations across 51 languages.

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Armenian

2 entries
  • ճարպ noun (hard animal fat obtained)
  • ճրագու noun (hard animal fat obtained)

Azerbaijani

1 entries
  • piy noun (hard animal fat obtained)

Basque

1 entries
  • gantz noun (hard animal fat obtained)

Belarusian

1 entries
  • са́ла noun (hard animal fat obtained)

Bulgarian

3 entries
  • лой noun (hard animal fat obtained)
  • сало noun (hard animal fat obtained)
  • угоявам verb (to fatten)

Catalan

1 entries
  • sèu noun (hard animal fat obtained)

Central Kurdish

1 entries
  • پیو noun (hard animal fat obtained)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries
  • 油脂 noun (hard animal fat obtained)
  • 牛脂 noun (hard animal fat obtained)

Czech

1 entries
  • lůj noun (hard animal fat obtained)

Danish

1 entries
  • talg noun (hard animal fat obtained)

Dutch

1 entries
  • talg noun (hard animal fat obtained)

Esperanto

1 entries
  • sebo noun (hard animal fat obtained)

Estonian

1 entries
  • rasv noun (hard animal fat obtained)

Faroese

1 entries
  • tálg noun (hard animal fat obtained)

Finnish

1 entries
  • tali noun (hard animal fat obtained)

French

1 entries
  • suif noun (hard animal fat obtained)

Friulian

2 entries
  • sêf noun (hard animal fat obtained)
  • sêv noun (hard animal fat obtained)

Galician

1 entries
  • sebo noun (hard animal fat obtained)

German

4 entries
  • Hammeltalg noun (hard animal fat obtained)
  • Rindertalg noun (hard animal fat obtained)
  • Schöpsentalg noun (hard animal fat obtained)
  • Talg noun (hard animal fat obtained)

Hebrew

1 entries
  • חֵלֶב noun (hard animal fat obtained)

Hungarian

1 entries
  • faggyú noun (hard animal fat obtained)

Icelandic

1 entries
  • tólg noun (hard animal fat obtained)

Italian

1 entries
  • sego noun (hard animal fat obtained)

Japanese

3 entries
  • ヘット noun (hard animal fat obtained)
  • 牛脂 noun (hard animal fat obtained)
  • 獣脂 noun (hard animal fat obtained)

Korean

1 entries
  • 수지 noun (hard animal fat obtained)

Latin

1 entries
  • sēbum noun (hard animal fat obtained)

Lower Sorbian

1 entries
  • łoj noun (hard animal fat obtained)

Lushootseed

1 entries
  • ʔudaw̓ noun (hard animal fat obtained)

Macedonian

3 entries
  • лој noun (hard animal fat obtained)
  • лои verb (to grease or smear with tallow)
  • лојоса verb (to fatten)

Middle English

2 entries
  • talow noun (hard animal fat obtained)
  • talowen verb (to grease or smear with tallow)

Māori

1 entries
  • hinu hipi noun (hard animal fat obtained)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries
  • talg noun (hard animal fat obtained)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries
  • talg noun (hard animal fat obtained)

Old Norse

1 entries
  • tolg noun (hard animal fat obtained)

Persian

1 entries
  • پیه noun (hard animal fat obtained)

Polabian

1 entries
  • lüj noun (hard animal fat obtained)

Polish

4 entries
  • wytopiony łój noun (hard animal fat obtained)
  • posmarować łojem verb (to grease or smear with tallow)
  • smarować łojem verb (to grease or smear with tallow)
  • tuczyć verb (to fatten)

Portuguese

3 entries
  • sebo noun (hard animal fat obtained)
  • engordar verb (to fatten)
  • ensebar verb (to grease or smear with tallow)

Russian

1 entries
  • са́ло noun (hard animal fat obtained)

Saterland Frisian

1 entries
  • Ungel noun (hard animal fat obtained)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries
  • lȏj noun (hard animal fat obtained)
  • ло̑ј noun (hard animal fat obtained)

Sicilian

1 entries
  • sivu noun (hard animal fat obtained)

Slovak

1 entries
  • loj noun (hard animal fat obtained)

Slovene

1 entries
  • loj noun (hard animal fat obtained)

Southern Kurdish

1 entries
  • پیم noun (hard animal fat obtained)

Swedish

1 entries
  • talg noun (hard animal fat obtained)

Tajik

1 entries
  • пиҳ noun (hard animal fat obtained)

Ukrainian

2 entries
  • лій noun (hard animal fat obtained)
  • са́ло noun (hard animal fat obtained)

Venetan

2 entries
  • sef noun (hard animal fat obtained)
  • seo noun (hard animal fat obtained)

Volapük

4 entries
  • bubalepin noun (hard animal fat obtained)
  • bubapin noun (hard animal fat obtained)
  • jipalepin noun (hard animal fat obtained)
  • jipapin noun (hard animal fat obtained)

Walloon

1 entries
  • shû noun (hard animal fat obtained)

Sample sentences

7 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

My name is Martin—James Briggs Martin—but almost everybody calls me Tallow, because once when I was younger I saw old Uncle Ike Bond rubbing tallow on his boots to shine them, and then hurried home and fixed mine up with the stub of a candle and went to school.

Source: tatoeba (10971134)

To prevent impurities, make sure to reduce the tallow multiple times.

Source: tatoeba (13648307)

"I have got a very fine shirt, which I am going to use for my wedding shirt; but there are three tallow stains on it which I want washed out[.]"

Source: wiktionary

Nor were the wool prospects much better. The pastoral industry, which had weathered the severe depression of the early forties by recourse to boiling down the sheep for their tallow, and was now firmly re-established as the staple industry of the colony, was threatened once more with eclipse.

Source: wiktionary

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