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Definition: Wash |
WashNoun1. A thin coat of water-base paint. 2. The work of cleansing (usually with soap and water). 3. (western United States) the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon). 4. The flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller. 5. A watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other. 6. Garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering. 7. (informal) any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out. Verb1. Clean with some chemical process. 2. Cleanse (one's body) with soap and water. 3. Cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water; "Wash the towels, please!". 4. Move by or as if by water; "The swollen river washed away the footbridge". 5. Be capable of being washed; "Does this material wash?". 6. Admit to testing or proof; "This silly excuse won't wash in traffic court". 7. Separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals). 8. Apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to. 9. Remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent: "he washed the dirt from his coat"; "The nurse washed away the blood"; "Can you wash away the spots on the windows?" "he managed to wash out the stains". 10. : form by erosion: "The river washed a ravine into the mountainside". 11. : make moist; "The dew moistened the meadows". 12. : to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking, as of a cat; "The cat washes several times a day". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "wash" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Mixture of malted barley(or other grain)and water used for preparing wort in brewing operations. Also mixture of grain etc. for fermentation in distilling(e. g. sour mash whisky). Source: European Union. (references) |
| The mixture of wine and water obtained by washing marc(pomace)and used as distilling material. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Geological | A normally dry stream bed that ocassionally fills with water. (references) |
Metallurgy | Fine grained refractories suspended in a suitable liquid to which may be added a bonding and a wetting agent. The suspension is brushed over or sprayed on the surface of a mould or sand core. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. Loose or eroded surface material (such as gravel, sand, silt) collected, transported, and deposited by running water, such as on the lower slopes of a mountain range; esp. coarse alluvium. Syn:wash stuf b. An alluvial placer c. In coal mining, a washout d. The wet cleaning of coal or ores e. Auriferous gravel f. To clean cuttings or other fragmental rock materials out of a borehole by the jetting and buoyant action of a copious flow of water or a mud-laden liquid. The similar ejection of core or drill spring equipmentfrom a borehole. See also:alluvial cone. (references) |
Multilingual Slang | Bielorussian (pidaras ). (references) |
Physics | The disturbed air or fluid produced by the passage of a body. Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | WASH. Paint for the face, or cosmetic water. Hog-wash; thick and bad beer. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The term 'wash' can mean several things:
Cleaning
A wash is the act of cleaning. I wash my hands in soapy water.
Painting
A wash is a light covering of watercolor on a painting. When painting three-dimensional models, they can be used to add shading.
Geography
A wash is a very small river or stream. Typically (at least in rural parts of the central United States) the term wash is used to reference a stream that only gets wet when there is rain, and dries quickly. The term does not refer to a section of land that gets wet during heavy rains; that's a flood plain.
Equality
There is a common American (also english?) phrase of, 'it's a wash'. This means the process of coming to be on equal footing with another party. If person A gives person B one dollar at the same time that person B gives person A a dollar, 'it's a wash'.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Wash."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
WASH | English | Water and Sanitation for Health Project | Economics, Politics & International Affaires |
| Wash. | English | Washington | Geography |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: WashSynonyms: airstream (n), backwash (n), dry wash (n), laundry (n), lavation (n), race (n), slipstream (n), wash drawing (n), washables (n), washing (n), dampen (v), launder (v), lave (v), moisten (v), rinse (v), wash away (v), wash off (v), wash out (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Covering | Coat, paint, varnish, pay, incrust, stucco, dab, plaster, tar; wash; besmear, bedaub; anoint, do over; gild, plate, japan, lacquer, lacker, enamel, whitewash; parget; lay it on thick. |
Marsh | Noun: marsh, swamp, morass, marish, moss, fen, bog, quagmire, slough, sump, wash; mud, squash, slush; baygall, cienaga, jhil, vlei. |
Painting | Verb: paint, design, limn draw, sketch, pencil, scratch, shade, stipple, hatch, dash off, chalk out, square up; color, dead color, wash, varnish; draw in pencil; Noun: paint in oils; Noun: stencil; depict; (represent). |
Water | Add water, water, wet; moisten; dilute, dip, immerse; merge; immerge, submerge; plunge, souse, duck, drown; soak, steep, macerate, pickle, wash, sprinkle, lave, bathe, affuse, splash, swash, douse, drench; dabble, slop, slobber, irrigate, inundate, deluge; syringe, inject, gargle. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Make sure the body doesn't wash up on shore (In the Line of Fire; writing credit: Jeff Maguire) Wash Out, is that you (Hot Shots!; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; Pat Proft) Hmmm? What do you think? I'll clean your place, I'll do the shopping, I'll even wash your clothes (Léon; writing credit: Luc Besson) Wash and dry (Chicago; writing credit: Maurine Dallas Watkins; Bob Fosse) Wash this (History of the World Part 1; writing credit: Mel Brooks) | |
Lyrics | So we could wash away the past, (Biggest Part of Me; performing artist: Ambrosia) She'll wash her hair (Flavor of the Weak; performing artist: American Hi-Fi) To wash away the pain (Summer Rain; performing artist: Carl Thomas) And wash away this sin (The End of the Innocence; performing artist: Don Henley) So have a good cry, wash out your heart (Better Love Next Time; performing artist: Dr. Hook) | |
Clever | A smart husband buys his wife very fine china so she won't trust him to wash it. (references; author: unknown) What do more women do in the bathroom than men? Wash their hands. (Women: 80% - Men: 55%) (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | While we were walking, we were watching window washers wash Washington's windows with warm washing water. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Big Wash (1948) Reilly's Wash Day (1919) Der Wash On Der Line (1919) The Winning Wash (1915) Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day (1915) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Attempting to ford a wash after a heavy rain Reconnaissance party of Charles Schanck. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Measuring Pasadena Base across wash at foot of San Antonio Canyon Base line party of Clement L. Garner. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Submerged aquatic vegetation along the lower Atchafalaya. Whole trees frequently wash down the river at flood stage. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Once popular tire reefs may break apart and wash up on beaches. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
 | C-5 Galaxy prepares to land at McChord Air Force Base, Wash. |  | Concrete roadway crossing built perpendicular to a wash to prevent erosion of roadway after the Los Alamos fires, New Mexico. Credit: Jeff Vanuga. |
 | Fall colors Friendship Garden, Wash DC. Credit: USDA. |  | Bonsai at the National Arboreteum in Wash, DC. . Credit: USDA. |
 | Sailing at Senator Wash on a beautiful morning. Credit: Lori Cook. |  | Sandy Wash in Safford. Credit: Unknown. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Waiting for the wash" by Núria Fortuny Commentary: ".. esperant la colada." | "Car Wash" by James Stephen Windsor Commentary: "At the car wash." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Swish; swirl; flush; cleanse; douche; drench; eject; expel; flood; hose; inundate; rinse; swab; wash. | | Water; car wash; garden hose; bathe; bespatter; broadcast; dabble; dash; douse; drench; drown; get wet; moisten; paddle; plash; plunge; shower; slop; slosh; soak; sop; spatter; splatter; spray; spread; sprinkle; squirt; squirt; strew; throw; wade; wallow. |
| Wash dishes; pots; pans; plates; clanking; banging; clean. | | Clean; clean off; clear; dry; dust; erase; mop; obliterate; remove; rub; sponge; swab; take away; towel; wash; squeak. |
| Water cooler; babble; bubble; crow; lap; murmur; plash; purl; ripple; slosh; splash; wash; gurgle; gurgling. | | Swish; swirl; flush; cleanse; douche; drench; eject; expel; flood; hose; inundate; rinse; swab; wash. |
| Water; splash; wring; slosh; wash; clean. | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Friedrich Nietzsche | After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands. |
Lord Byron | As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands. |
Oliver Goldsmith | When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away? |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Life, the Universe and Everything | Douglas Adams | Arthur had adopted his normal crisis role, which was to stand with his mouth hanging open and let it all wash over him. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | You wash before you under the pipe, and rinse behind you in the trough |
Time Enough for Love | Robert Heinlein | Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Wash down there |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Wash your hands and trough well |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Lavage - To wash out a body organ. (references) | |
Wash raw vegetables thoroughly before eating. (references) | ||
Use only when outdoors and wash skin after coming indoors. (references) | ||
Business | U.S. Procter & Gamble has more than 20 brands in Russia, among them Wash & Go, Head & Shoulders and Pantene hair care lines. (references) | |
It is important to note that typical German department stores do not offer a large variety of colors but rather different styles of towels (hand towel, towelette, wash cloth, beach towel, embroidered hand towel, washing mitt, etc.) in a smaller choice of colors. (references) | ||
Economic History | Hungary | Some examples of this type of franchise would include: car wash service, equipment/home maintenance, laundry and cleaning services, etc. (references) |
China | Augmenting this sustained growth are 10 sub-sector categories, namely: acrylic and vinyl based paints; granite, crude/rough; coniferous wood veneer sheets; doors, windows, frames, and thresholds; aluminum doors, windows, and frames; plasters; sinks, wash basins, and stainless steel products; sanitary fixtures, porcelain/china; and other miscellaneous structural materials. (references) | |
Human Rights | Colombia | In the country's other prisons, inmates pay to eat, drink, sleep on a mattress, wash clothes, or make telephone calls, and also pay protection fees to fellow inmates or to corrupt prison guards. (references) |
Travel | Indonesia | At home, wash and soak all local fruit and vegetables in Clorox-treated, soapy water. (references) |
Azerbaijan | The local fruit and vegetable markets offer a bewildering array of delicious produce, and it is recommended to wash all produce thoroughly before consuming. (references) | |
Taiwan | Visitors should also take special care to wash all fruits and vegetables before eating and avoid eating in any of the island's countless street stalls, at least during the first few weeks of the stay. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Chile | Children sell chewing gum on the street, wash windshields, work as street performers, beg, or help their parents to harvest crops. (references) |
Romania | The prevalence of child labor, including begging, selling trinkets on the streets, or offering to wash car windshields, is widespread in the Roma community; these children range from 1 to 18 years of age. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ROUNDHEAD, n. A member of the Parliamentarian party in the English civil war -- so called from his habit of wearing his hair short, whereas his enemy, the Cavalier, wore his long. There were other points of difference between them, but the fashion in hair was the fundamental cause of quarrel. The Cavaliers were royalists because the king, an indolent fellow, found it more convenient to let his hair grow than to wash his neck. This the Roundheads, who were mostly barbers and soap-boilers, deemed an injury to trade, and the royal neck was therefore the object of their particular indignation. Descendants of the belligerents now wear their hair all alike, but the fires of animosity enkindled in that ancient strife smoulder to this day beneath the snows of British civility. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Wash" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 48.53% of the time. "Wash" is used about 2,178 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 48.53% | 1,057 | 7,082 |
| Noun (singular) | 30.18% | 657 | 9,962 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 20.73% | 452 | 12,885 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.41% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.09% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (common) | 0.05% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,178 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "wash" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Wash | Last name | 1,000 | 8,337 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "wash": at the wash ♦ back wash ♦ Black wash ♦ brain wash ♦ car wash ♦ car wash station ♦ carcass wash ♦ color wash ♦ colour wash ♦ dry wash ♦ eye wash fountain ♦ fiber wash ♦ filter wash connection ♦ flat wash ♦ give a wash ♦ hang out the wash to dry ♦ have a wash ♦ hog's wash ♦ i wash my hands of it ♦ it will all come out in the wash ♦ it will not wash ♦ lime wash ♦ machine wash ♦ nor all your tears wash out a word of it ♦ pig's wash ♦ pigwash wash ♦ pot wash ♦ refractory wash ♦ rock wash ♦ shrink in the wash ♦ soap wash ♦ still wash ♦ street wash ♦ To wash gold ♦ To wash the hands of ♦ torrential wash ♦ wash a blackamoor white ♦ wash ashore ♦ wash away ♦ wash away the bank ♦ wash back ♦ wash ball ♦ wash barrel ♦ wash board ♦ wash bottle ♦ wash dishes ♦ wash down ♦ wash down with ♦ wash drawing ♦ wash gilding ♦ wash gourd ♦ wash hair ♦ wash house ♦ wash leather ♦ wash marking ♦ wash off ♦ wash one's dirty linen at home ♦ wash one's dirty linen in public ♦ wash one's hands ♦ wash one's hands of ♦ wash one's hands of smb. ♦ wash one's hands of smth. ♦ wash oneself ♦ wash out ♦ wash over ♦ wash plain ♦ wash plates ♦ wash pond ♦ wash programme ♦ wash room ♦ wash sale ♦ wash stand ♦ wash strake ♦ wash the clothes ♦ wash the dishes ♦ wash the floor ♦ wash the goodness out of ♦ wash through ♦ wash tub ♦ wash underneath ♦ wash up ♦ wash up again ♦ wash up dishes ♦ wash up the dishes ♦ weekly wash ♦ white wash ♦ yellow wash. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "wash": wash-and-wear, wash-and-wear fabric, wash-and-wear-ability, wash-bag, wash-basin, wash-basins, wash-baskets, wash-boiler, wash-bowl, wash-cloth, wash-cubicles, wash-day, wash-days, wash-down, wash-fastness, wash-hand, wash-hand basin, wash-hand stand, wash-handbasin, wash-hand-basin, wash-hoos, wash-house, wash-houses, wash-in, wash-it-and-leave-it, wash-leather, wash-leathers, wash-'n'-make-up, wash-off, Wash-o-rama, wash-out, wash-out-colour, wash-room, wash-stand, wash-stands, wash-through, wash-tub, wash-up, wash-wipe, wash-woman. | |
Ending with "wash": car-wash, pre-wash, quick-wash, wish-wash. | |
Containing "wash": rough-and-crusty-but-it'll-wash-off-by-monday-morning. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
wash your car | 4,427 | wash a truck | 72 |
wash | 495 | mobile wash equipment | 72 |
car wash equipment | 224 | topless car wash | 69 |
bikini car wash | 206 | car picture wash | 68 |
car wash for sale | 133 | naked car wash | 68 |
car wash franchise | 129 | body wash | 68 |
power wash | 118 | car wash babe | 67 |
nude car wash | 109 | wash window | 65 |
car girl wash | 108 | power wash equipment | 64 |
car wash supply | 101 | wash hair | 64 |
waterless car wash | 92 | art car clip wash | 53 |
wash fm | 87 | wash and go | 52 |
car wash system | 86 | wash dog | 50 |
car wash business | 85 | wash tub | 49 |
mobile car wash | 83 | mouth wash | 49 |
eye wash | 83 | chemical truck wash | 47 |
truck wash equipment | 81 | wash sale | 47 |
car delta sonic wash | 81 | car wash product | 46 |
pressure wash | 76 | eye wash station | 46 |
car carpet red wash | 76 | 97.1 fm wash | 45 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "wash"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | waskamer (lavatory, washing-accomodation, wash-place, washroom, wash-room). (various references) | |
Albanian | llapashitje, cekëtinë (shallow, shoal), e larë, kapërdij (swallow up), lëng (dip, dissolution, fluid, juice, liquid, liquor, milk, sap, water), lag (dabble, damp, dampen, douse, drench, get wet, moisten, soak, souse, wet), lahem (bathe, lave, pay off, square accounts with smb., swim in), bëj banjë (bathe), larje (bathe, bathing, cleansing, cleanup, development, lavement, scour, washing), vesh me argjend, llum (dregs, dross, grounds, Lees, ooze, raff, ragtag, riffraff, scab, scum, scut, sludge, tails, vermin), lyej muret, përplasem (bump, bump into, cannon, cannon into, clash, collide, crash, dash, foul, hurtle, jar, pound, run into, splash), rroba të lara, rrufull, shtresë (bed, coat, coating, course, covering, estate, flake, floor, horizon, layer, nappe, reach, region, seam, sheet, strata, stratum, streak, tract), laj (bathe, clear, do, elutriate, flush, liquidate, pay up, rinse out, scour, settle, sponge, take out). (various references) | |
Arabic | خضع (bend, bow, compel, conquer, hew, knuckle under, kowtow, reclaim, reduce, steady, subdue, subject, subjugate, submit, subordinate, succumb, throw in one's hand, undergo, yield), دهن بطبقة رقيقة, ثبت على محك النقد, إندفاع الموج, إنجرف (drift), الاجتراف الخلفي, الغسالة ماء اغتسل به, الغسول مستحضر طبي, جرف (cliff, curette, drag, dragging, drift, escarpment, palisade, plow, precipice, rake, shovel, sweep, sweep away, sweeping, transport, undercut bank), دام (bleeding, bloody, continue, eddy, gyrate, last, perpetuate, swirl), جلا (be evacuated, evacuate, pan, polish, puzzle out, rub, scour, scrub, shine), نقع (assuage, drench, impregnate, impregnation, infuse, mashing, saturate, saturation, slake, soak, souse, steep, temper, water), طبقة رقيقة من طلاء, طمي (alluvial, alluvium, debris, silt), ترقرق بالماء, غسل (bathe, irrigate, irrigation, launder, lave, lotion, rinse, scrub, swill, washing), غسيل (laundry, lavement, lye, washing), غمر (deluge, douse, dunk, engulf, float, flood, flow, gulf, immerse, immersion, inundate, inundation, load, overflow, overwhelm, sluice, souse, submerge, suffuse, swamp), قابل للغسل (washable), لعق (lap, lap up, lick, licking), نزل بقوة سائل ما, جزء من اليابسة تغسله أمواج البحر. (various references) | |
Asturian | llavar (to wash). (various references) | |
Aymara | jariña (to wash). (various references) | |
Basque | ikuzi (wash to). (various references) | |
Bemba | ukusamba (shower, to wash). (various references) | |
Blackfoot | sstsimiiyi (to wash hands), ssisskiitsi (to wash face), ssiihkinááwaatsi (to wash hair). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | пера (feathering, launder), диря на кораб, пясък (grit, sand, sandpit), промивам (bathe, irrigate, lave, pan, scour, sluice), пране (ironing, laundry, washing), прибой (punch, surf), покривам с тънък слой, помия (dishwater, draff, hog-wash, pigwash, rinsings, slipslop, slops, swill, wish-wash), подривам се, брътвеж (babble, chat, footle, palaver, prate, prattle, quack, rigmarole), пера се (launder), лосион (lotion), плискане (lap, plash, slosh, spatter, swash), плискам се (dabble, lap, plash, slop about, spatter, swash), плитчина на река, плитчина на море, измиване (ablution, ablutions, detrition), измивам се (wash off, wash out), измивам (wash away, wash down, wash off, wash out), изпирам (wash off, wash out), издържам критика, подривам (blast, blow up, disrupt, eat away, erode, gut, sap, shovel under, tear up, undermine, wash out, wear away), обогатявам по мокър начин, разтвор (liquor, solution, spirit), чакъл (breakstone, metal, rubble), тънък слой боя, тънък пласт метал, тоалетна вода, къпя (bathe), килватер (wake), отмиване (washout), боядисвам (color, colour, decorate, dip, engrain, paint), окъпвам (bathe), старо корито на река, опирам (lean, recline), неферментирал малц, нанос (alluvion, alluvium, blanket, debris, deposit, deposition, drift, float, silt, warp), мия бреговете, мия (bathe, clean, do, lave, lick, mop, scour, wash up), миене (lavement, washing), залята от вода местност, златоносен пясък (dirt, gravel, lead), ерозия (degradation, erosion, washout), отмивам (wash away, wash down, wash off). (various references) | |
Cebuano | maglaba (to wash). (various references) | |
Chamorro | para ma fágasi (to wash). (various references) | |
Chinese | 蕩 (a pond, dissolute, move, pool, shake, squander, sweep away), 盥 , 澉 (place name), 滌 (cleanse), 渲 , 洗涤 (Cleanse, Cleansed, Cleansing, Laundered, laundering, Washed, washed-out, washed-up, washing-up), 洗滌 (rinse, washing), 洗刷 (brush, scrub), 洴 (bleach). (various references) | |
Cornish | omwolghy (to wash oneself). (various references) | |
Czech | pomyje (dishwater, hog-wash, rinsings, swill), bahno (morass, mud, ooze, quag, quagmire, sludge), líèidlo (paint, painting), mýt (clean), mýt se, navlhèit (dabble, damp, dampen, humidify, humify, moisten, wet), omývat (bathe, elutriate), šplouchání, oprat, vyprat (wash out), prádlo (clothes, laundry, linen, washing), prát (launder), praní (washing), spláchnout (become flushed, flush, swill), umýt (sponge), umytí, voda (dishwater, water), opláchnout. (various references) | |
Danish | vaske. (various references) | |
Dutch | wassen (accrue, arise, ascend, bathe, blend, get up, go up, grow, lift, mingle, mix, rise, shuffle), uitwassen (elution, leaching, lessivage, lixiviation, scavenging, scrubbing, wash out, washout), de was doen. (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | tacllana (to wash clothes), maillana (to wash one's body). (various references) | |
Esperanto | lesivi, lavi. (various references) | |
Faeroese | vaska. (various references) | |
Farsi | پاک کردن (Absolve, Clean, Cleanse, Efface, Erase, Mop, Obliterate, Purge, Purify, Rub, Sancify, Scour, Scrape, Sublimate, Ventilate, Winnow, Wipe), غسل (Ablution, Dip, Soak), رختشوءی , شستن (Launder, Leach, Scour), شستشودادن , شستشو (Ablution, Bath, Bathe, Launder, Lavation, Lotion, Rinse, Souse, Washout). (various references) | |
Finnish | pestä. (various references) | |
French | laver (put on a wash), sillage (wake), blanchissage (washing). (various references) | |
Frisian | waskje (to wash), skûtelwaskje (wash up). (various references) | |
German | waschen (bathe, clean, clean down, launder, lave, pan, shampoo, sluice, sponge down, to bathe, to give a wash, to launder, to lave, to wash, washing), spülen (douche, flush, gargle, irrigate, rinse, scavenge, swill, to flush (out), wash up). (various references) | |
Greek | πλύνω, πλένω (wash up). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לשטוף (flood, inundate, rinse, stream, swab, swill, wash away), לכבוס (launder), לכבס (launder), לרחוץ (bathe, rinse), תרחיץ (lotion, shampoo), שטיפה (flooding, flushing, irrigation, lavation, rinsing, washing), כיבס (launder), כביסה (laundering, laundry, washing), רחיצה (ablution, bathing, washing), סחיפה (drift, erosion, leeway, sweeping). (various references) | |
Hungarian | mosás (degreasing, lavage, washing), mos (to bathe, to clean, to degrease, to jig, to launder, to lave, to pan, to scrub, to wash). (various references) | |
Indonesian | mencuci (launder, lave), membasuh (rinse, slop), cucian (laundry, manner of washing), cuci. (various references) | |
Inuktitut | irmikpaa (to wash). (various references) | |
Irish | nigh, ionnail (bathe). (various references) | |
Italian | lavare (flush, mop), scia (scent, track, trail, train, vapour trail, wake). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 洗う (to wash). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | いっせん (a battle, a bout, a flash, a game, a line, one thousand, thoroughly wash away), とぐ (to grind, to hone, to polish, to scour, to sharpen, to wash), とぎしる (water that has been used to wash rice), ウォッシュアンドウエア (wash-and-wear), ゆすぐ (to rinse, to wash out), ストーンウォッシュ (stone wash), あらいあげる (to finish washing, to investigate thoroughly, to wash well), あらいきよめる (to cleanse, to wash clean), あらいながす (to wash away), あらいなおす (to reconsider, to wash again), あらいおとす (to wash off, to wash out), あらいたてる (to check up on, to examine closely, to ferret out, to wash carefully), てをひく (to lead by the hand, to wash one's hands of), あしをあらう (to quit, to wash one's feet, to wash one's hands of), たんさいが (wash drawing), せんめん (have a wash, wash up), せんめんき (wash basin), せんしゃ (car wash, tank), せんしゃじょう (car wash), つくばい (stone wash basin found in Japanese gardens), うちよせる (to attack, to break onto, to wash ashore), うちあげる (dash, to close, to finish, to launch, to shoot up, to wash up), さらう (to abduct, to carry off, to dredge, to kidnap, to practise, to rehearse, to review, to run away with, to sweep away, to wash away), ながしこむ (to pour into, to wash down), ノーアイロン (drip-dry, no-iron, wash and wear), おしながす (to wash away), すすぐ (to rinse, to wash out), あらう (to wash). (various references) | |
Korean | 세척. (various references) | |
Macedonian | mie (to wash). (various references) | |
Manx | oonlaghey (bathe, purify), niee (bathe, flush, launder, pan), niaghyn (laundering, laundry, washing), leaght-daah (wash-tint), cur brat leaght-daah er, bashlagh (dash). (various references) | |
Maori | horoi-a (to wash). (various references) | |
Maya | po' (laundress, to wash clothes), huybankuuns (to wash one's hair), chal (to wash). (various references) | |
Mohawk | -enohares (to wash something). (various references) | |
Norwegian | vaske. (various references) | |
Occitan | lavar. (various references) | |
Papago | wakon (to wash). (various references) | |
Papiamen | laba. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ashway.(various references) | |
Polish | myć. (various references) | |
Portuguese | lavar (bath, buddle, do up, lave, mop, square up), lavagem (ablution, rinse, rinsing, slipslop, washout, washup, wish-wash). (various references) | |
Provencal | lavar (to wash). (various references) | |
Quechua | t'aqsaq (in order to wash clothing). (various references) | |
Romanian | placã de metal la dubluri, albi (blanch, bleach, fade, gleam, grizzle, hoary, shimmer, whiten, whitewash), aluviuni (river deposits), bere slabã (mild beer, small beer), ceai slab (washy tea), clãti (rinse), curãţa (brush, brush up, burnish, clean, cleanse, clear, demolish, do, dredge, dress, dust, furbish, Gill, grub, mop, mop up, pick, purge, purify, refine, rid, rinse, scavenge, scoop, scour, scrub, skin, trim, wipe), inundaţie (deluge, flood, freshet), lãturi (dish water, hogwash, kitchen stuff, pig swill, pig's wash, slab, slop, slops, swill), leşia, limpezi (clarify, clear, filter, rinse, settle), înãlbi (blanch, bleach, blench, poach, whiten), placa (metal, tackle, veneer), zoaie (dish water, slops), plescãit al valurilor, scãlda (bath, bathe, lave, wet), se spãla (have a wash), spãla (bathe, clean, fade, flush, irrigate, launder, lave, mop, mop up, pan, slush, stream, sweep, wash up), spãla rufe, spãlãturã (douche, enema, lavement, washing), spãlare (lavation, scour), spãlat (ablution, clean, lavation, tidy, washed, washing), supã slabã, uda (bedew, damp, dip, douse, drench, irrigate, moisten, soak, souse, sparge, splash, spray, sprinkle, squirt, stain, steep, water, wet), vorbãrie goalã (buncombe, flippancy, fustian, garrulity, jazz, piffle, rant), loţiune (lotion, shampoo, shampooing). (various references) | |
Romansch | lavar (to wash). (various references) | |
Romany | isthovàv (to wash). (various references) | |
Ruanda | koza (to wash). (various references) | |
Russian | мыть (lave, scrub 2, sluice). (various references) | |
Samoan | e fufulu (to wash). (various references) | |
Scottish | nigh (cleanse, purify). (various references) | |
Sepedi | hlatswa (to wash). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zapljuskivati (lap, pound, slap, splash), veš (laundry), splačine (hog-wash, pig's wash, pigwash, swill), razlokati, prati (clean), pranje (ablution, washing), poplaviti (deluge, flood, inundate, overflow, whelm), pomije (dishwater, pig's wash, pigwash, rinsings, slops, swill), oprati (brush, launder, lave, shampoo, wash up), natopiti (drench, imbrue, saturate, soak, steep, wet), nakvasiti (damp, dampen, get slightly wet, get wet, imbrue, liquor, macerate, moisten), isprati (pump out, rinse, rinse out, wash away, wash off), biti prihvatljiv (stand up). (various references) | |
Shona | -suka (to wash one's teeth), -geza (to wash). (various references) | |
Sicilian | lavarsi (to wash oneself), lavari (to wash). (various references) | |
Spanish | lavar (Buddle, dip, do, douse, launder, lave, rinse, shampoo, sluice, swill, wash down, wash out, wash up). (various references) | |
Sranan | wasi. (various references) | |
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