From en.wiktionary.org:
[Dust]
** English
[Dust (disambiguation)]
*** Etymology
[en] From [en], [enm], from [en], from the fusion of [en] and [gem-pro], both
from [en].
Cognate with [sco], [sco], [nl] and [nl], [de] and [de], [sv], [is], [la].
Also related to [sv], [is]. See [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[~]
1. Fine particle s.
1. [en] Fine , dry particle s of matter found in the air and cover ing the surface of object s, typically consist ing of soil lift ed up by the wind, pollen , hair , etc.
2. * [en]
3. [en] Any substance reduce d to fine particles; powder .
4. [en] Submicron particles in outer space , largely silicates and carbon compound s, that contribute greatly to extinction at visible wavelength s.
5. * [en]
6. [en] Disintegration of a solid , like silica .
7. [en] Flour .
8. [en] A single fine, dry particle of earth or other material; grain of dust.
9. * [act=II]
2. [en] The act of clean ing by dusting.
3. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2010 | author=Joan Busfield; Michael Paddon | title=Thinking About Children: Sociology and Fertility in Post-War England | page=150
|passage=[...]once they start school, I mean you can do a room out one day,
the next day it only needs a DUST, doesn’t it?}}
1. [en] The act of sprinkling dust, or a sprinkle of dust itself.
2. [en] Earth , ground , soil , sediment .
3. * [XXXV]
4. The earth as the resting place of the dead .
5. * [Job]
6. The earthy remains of bodies once alive ; the remains of the human body .
7. * [volume=II]
8. [en] The substance of the human body or mortal frame .
9. [en] Something worthless .
10. * [act=III]
11. [en] A low or mean condition .
12. * [1 Samuel]
13. [en] Rubbish , garbage , refuse .
14. [en] cash ; money (in reference to gold dust ).
15. * [en]
16. [en] A cloud of dust.
17. [en] A tumult , disturbance , commotion , uproar .
18. [en] A fight or row .
19. [en] A totally disconnected set of point s with a fractal structure.
20. [en] Tiny amounts of cryptocurrency left over after a transaction due to rounding error .
**** Derived terms
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|bite the dust |brake dust |bread dust |brickdust |bull dust,bulldust |bust
the dust |Cantor dust |catch dust |chalkdust |coal dust |coaldust |collect
dust |come down with one's dust |come down with the dust |copple dust |cosmic
dust |cupel-dust |dedust |devil's dust |dhobi dust |diamond dust |down with
one's dust |down with the dust |dry as dust|Dust-Hole |dustable |dust bag
|dustbag |dustball |dustbath,dust bath |dustbathe |dustbin,dust bin |dustboard
|Dust Bowl |dustbowl,dust bowl |dust box |dustbox |dust-brand |dustbrush
|dustbug |dust bunny |dust buster |dust cap |dust cart |dustcart |dustcloth
|dust cloth |dustcloud |dustcoat |dust-collector |dust-colored,dust-coloured
|dust contractor |dustcover |dust cover |dust devil |dustfall |dust filter
|dust-free,dustfree |dusthead |dustheap |dust heap of history |dust
hole,dusthole |dust jacket |dust kitten |dust kitty |dustless |dustlike
|dustling |dustman |dust mask |dustmat |dust mite |dustmote |dust mouse
|dust-off |dust-out |dustout |dustpan |dustperson |dustpile |dustproof
|dustrag |dust-ridden |dust ruffle |dust settles |dustsheet |dust shot |dust
storm |duststorm |dust-tight |dust trap |dust-up |dustwoman |dustwrapper
|dusty |eat my dust |eat someone's dust |eraser dust |extraterrestrial dust
|fairy dust |feather-dust |fig-dust |fugitive dust |gather dust |gold dust
|gold-dust |goofer dust |jack-of-the-dust |kick up dust |kiss the dust |lay
the dust |leave for dust |leave someone in the dust |lick the dust |magic dust
|make the dust fly |malt dust |microdust |milldust |monkey dust |moondust
|nanodust |nondust |not see someone for dust |organic dust toxic syndrome
|overdust |pixie dust |return to dust |sanderdust |sawdust |shake off the dust
from one's feet |shake the dust from one's feet |shake the dust from one's
sandals |sleepy dust |sleepy-dust |small rain lays great dust |smart
dust,smartdust |smelter dust |space dust |spy dust |stardust |termination dust
|the dust settles |throw dust in someone's eyes |tobacco dust juice |turn to
dust |van Stockum dust |whoofle dust,woofle dust |yarn dust |zodiacal dust }}
**** Descendants
- [ru]
**** Translations
[fine, dry particles]{{multitrans|data=
- Acehnese: [ace]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Akkadian: [akk]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Amharic: [am]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Aromanian: [rup] , [rup]
- Assamese: [as]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Azerbaijani:
- Baluchi: [bal]
- Bashkir: [ba] , [ba]
- Basque: [eu]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Bhojpuri: [bho]
- Bikol Central: [bcl]
- Breton: [br] , [br]
- Brunei Malay: [kxd]
- Budukh: [bdk]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Buryat: [bua]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Cebuano: [ceb]
- Chamicuro: [ccc]
- Chechen: [ce]
- Chichewa: [ny]
- Chinese:
- Chuvash: [cv]
- Cornish: [kw] , [kw] , [kw]
- Corsican: [co]
- Crimean Tatar: [crh]
- Czech: [cs]
- Dalmatian: [dlm]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Eastern Bontoc: [ebk]
- Egyptian: [ḫmw]
- Erzya: [myv]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Evenki: [evn]
- Ewe: [ee]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Friulian: [fur]
- Gagauz: [gag]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Gothic: [got] , [got]
- Greek: [el]
- Greenlandic: [kl]
- Guaraní: [gn]
- Haitian Creole: [ht]
- Hawaiian: [haw]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Higaonon: [mba]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi] , [hi] , [hi] , [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Hunsrik: [hrx]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ilocano: [ilo]
- Indonesian: [id] , [id]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Ingush: [inh]
- Inuktitut: [iu]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Javanese: [jv] , [jv] , [jv]
- Kabardian: [kbd]
- Kaitag: [xdq] , [xdq]
- Kalmyk: [xal] , [xal]
- Karo Batak: [btx]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Khakas: [kjh]
- Khmer: [km] , [km] , [km] , [km]
- Komi-Zyrian: [kpv]
- Konkani: [kok]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Lao: [lo] , [lo] , [lo]
- Latin: [la] , [la]
- Latvian: [lv] , [lv]
- Lezgi: [lez]
- Limburgish: [li]
- Linngithigh: [lnj]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Lombard: [lmo]
- Low German: [nds]
- Lubuagan Kalinga: [knb]
- Luxembourgish: [lb]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Malagasy: [mg]
- Malay:
- Maltese: [mt]
- Manchu: [mnc]
- Manx: [gv]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi]
- Maranao: [mrw]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Mari:
- Mirandese: [mwl]
- Moksha: [mdf]
- Mongolian:
- Nanai: [gld]
- Navajo: [nv]
- Neapolitan: [nap]
- Nepali: [ne]
- Northern Altai: [atv]
- Northern Mansi: [mns-nor] [mns-nor]
- Northern Sami: [se]
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: [oc]
- Odia: [or]
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old East Slavic: [orv]
- Old English: [ang]
- Old Khmer: [okz] , [okz]
- Oromo: [om]
- Oroqen: [orh]
- Ossetian: [os]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota] , [ota]
- Pali: [pi]
- Papiamentu: [pap]
- Pashto: [ps] , [ps] , [ps]
- Persian:
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl] [dialectal]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Quechua: [qu]
- Rohingya: [rhg]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro] , [ro]
- Romansch: [rm] , [rm] , [rm] , [rm]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] [poetic]
- Sanskrit: [sa] , [sa]
- Sardinian: [sc] , [sc] , [sc] , [sc] , [sc]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd] , [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Sherpa: [xsr]
- Sicilian: [scn] , [scn]
- Sidamo: [sid]
- Sinhalese: [si]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Sorbian:
- Southern Kalinga: [ksc] , [ksc]
- Southern Altai: [alt] ( _poetic_ ), [alt] , [alt] ( _archaic_ ), [alt]
- Spanish: [es]
- Sundanese: [su]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Tabasaran: [tab]
- Tagalog: [tl] , [tl]
- Tajik: [tg] , [tg] , [tg]
- Tatar: [tt]
- Tausug: [tsg]
- Telugu: [te] , [te]
- Tetum: [tet]
- Thai: [th] , [th] , [th]
- Tibetan: [bo] , [bo]
- Tocharian B: [txb] , [txb]
- Tongan: [to]
- Tswana: [tn]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk] , [tk]
- Tuvan: [tyv]
- Tuwali Ifugao: [ifk] , [ifk] , [ifk]
- Udmurt: [udm]
- Ugaritic: [uga]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk]
- Unami: [unm]
- Urdu: [ur] , [ur] , [ur] , [ur]
- Uyghur: [ug]
- Uzbek: [uz]
- Venetan: [vec]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Volapük: [vo]
- Walloon: [wa] , [wa]
- Welsh: [cy] , [cy] , [cy]
- West Frisian: [fy]
- White Hmong: [mww]
- Yakut: [sah]
- Yiddish: [yi]
- Zealandic: [zea]
- Zhuang: [za]
- Zulu: [zu]
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- Albanian: [sq]
- Ido: [io]
- Woiwurrung: [wyi]
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*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To remove dust from.
2. * [chapter=12]
3. [en] To remove dust; to clean by removing dust.
4. [en] To make dusty , to soil with dust.
5. [en] Of a bird, to cover itself in sand or dry, dusty earth.
6. [en] To spray or cover (something) with fine powder or liquid, to sprinkle .
7. [en] To sprinkle (a substance) in the form of dust.
8. [en] To leave quickly ; to rush off.
9. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1939 | author=w:Raymond Chandler | title=w:The Big Sleep | page=75 | publisher=Penguin | year_published=2011
|passage=He added in a casual tone: ‘The girl can DUST. I’d like to talk to
you a little, soldier.’}}
1. [en] To drink up quickly ; to toss off .
2. [en] To reduce to a fine powder; to pulverize , to levigate .
3. * [en]
4. [en] To strike , beat , thrash .
5. [en] To defeat badly , to thrash.
6. [en] To kill .
7. * [en]
8. [en] To deliberately pitch a ball close to (a batter ); to brush back .
9. [en] To attempt to identify the owner of (a cryptocurrency wallet ) by sending tiny amounts of cryptocurrency.
**** Derived terms
{{col|en |dust bunny |dust down |duster |dust off |dust out |dust up |dust
someone's jacket |undust |undusted }}
**** Related terms
- [en]
**** Translations
[(intransitive) to clean by removing dust]{{multitrans|data=
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Cornish: [kw]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Italian: [it]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Norman: [nrf] [Jersey]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
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[(transitive) to remove dust from]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Cornish: [kw]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Italian: [it]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Quechua: [qu]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
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[of a bird, to cover itself in sand]
- German: [de] , [de]
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[to spray something with fine powder or liquid]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Cornish: [kw]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Irish: [ga]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk] , [mk]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Quechua: [qu] , [qu]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
}} [trans-bottom]
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- Norman: [nrf] [Jersey]
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*** See also
- [en]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en] [en]
** Faroese
*** Etymology
From [fo].
*** Noun
[n]
1. dust
**** Declension
[dust]
** Icelandic
*** Etymology
From [is].
*** Pronunciation
- [is]
- [is]
*** Noun
[@@]
1. [en]
**** Declension
[n.sg]
** Middle English
*** Alternative forms
- [enm]
*** Etymology
Forms with a long vowel are from [enm], from [enm]. Forms with a short vowel
are from [enm], from [enm].
*** Pronunciation
- [enm]
*** Noun
[-]
1. [en] , powder
2. dirt , grit
3. [enm] iota , modicum
**** Related terms
- [enm] [enm]
- [enm]
**** Descendants
- [en]
- [sco]
**** References
- [entry=dū̆st ]
[enm]
** Norwegian Bokmål
*** Etymology 1
Back-formation of [nb], from [nb] (dust particle)
**** Noun
[nb-noun-m1]
1. [nb] dork , moron , fool
***** Synonyms
- [nb]
- [nb]
- [nb]
- [nb]
- [nb]
*** Etymology 2
From [nb].
**** Noun
[nb-noun-c]
1. [en] (fine, dry particles)
*** References
- [lang=nb]
** Norwegian Nynorsk
*** Etymology 1
From [nn] (dust particle), compare with [nn].
**** Noun
[nn-noun-m1]
1. [nn] dork , moron , fool
***** Synonyms
- [nn]
- [nn]
- [nn]
- [nn]
- [nn]
*** Etymology 2
From [nn].
**** Noun
[nn-noun-f1]
1. [en] (fine, dry particles)
*** References
- [lang=nn]
** Old English
*** Alternative forms
- [ang]
*** Etymology
[ang] From the fusion of [ang] and [gmw-pro], from [ang] and [gem-pro], from
[ang]. Akin to [hi], [dum], [dum], [dum] ([nl], [nl]), [goh], [goh] ([de]),
[nds], [is], [no], [da].
*** Pronunciation
- [dūst]
*** Noun
[head=dūst]
1. dust ; powder ; mill dust
2. * LATE 9TH CENTURY , _Old English Martyrology (see https://books.google.com/books?id=ZENoAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA16) _
3. *: [ang]
**** Declension
[dūst]
**** Descendants
- [enm]
- [en]
- [sco]
** Old Norse
*** Etymology
From [non].
*** Noun
[n]
1. [en] particle
**** Descendants
- [is]
- [fo]
- [no]
- [sv]
- [da]
*** Further reading
- [R:non:Zoega]
** Scottish Gaelic
*** Etymology
From [gd].
*** Pronunciation
- [gd]
*** Noun
[g=m]
1. dust
**** Usage notes
- Also used figuratively for corpse .
**** Synonyms
- [gd]
- [gd]
**** Derived terms
- [gd]
- [gd]
- [gd]
** Swedish
*** Etymology
[sv], from [sv], from [sv], from [sv]. Cognate of [da], [fr].
*** Noun
[c]
1. a joust
2. [sv] a (minor) verbal or physical confrontation, a bout , a tussle , a run-in
**** Declension
[sv-infl-noun-c-er]
*** References
- [so]
- [saol]
- [saob]
- [svetym]
** Zazaki
*** Noun
[c]
1. side ; one half (left or right, top or bottom, front or back, etc.) of something or someone.
2. to level
**** Derived terms
- [tr]
- [tr]