English
Etymology
From saw + dust.
Pronunciation
Noun
sawdust (usually uncountable, plural sawdusts)
- The fine particles (dust) created by sawing wood or other material.
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Derived terms
Translations
dust created by sawing
- Albanian: tallash (sq) m
- Amharic: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: نُشَارَة f (nušāra)
- Egyptian Arabic: نشارة f (nišāra)
- Aramaic:
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܢܣܵܪܬܵܐ f (nsārtā)
- Armenian: թեփ (hy) (tʻepʻ)
- Azerbaijani: kəpək
- Basque: zerrauts
- Belarusian: пілаві́нне n (pilavínnje), апі́лкі f pl (apílki)
- Breton: brenn-heskenn (br) m
- Bulgarian: дъ́рвени стърготи́ни f pl (dǎ́rveni stǎrgotíni), стърготи́ни (bg) f pl (stǎrgotíni)
- Burmese: လွှစာ (my) (hlwa.ca)
- Catalan: serradures f pl
- Cherokee: ᎤᏍᎪᎬ (usgogv)
- Chinese:
- Hokkien: 鋸屑 / 锯屑 (kìr-sut, kù-sut, kì-sut)
- Mandarin: 鋸末 / 锯末 (zh) (jùmò)，鋸屑 / 锯屑 (zh) (jùxiè), 木屑 (zh) (mùxiè)
- Classical Syriac: ܒܪܘܬܐ f, ܢܣܪܬܐ f
- Czech: piliny f pl
- Danish: savsmuld (da) n or c
- Dutch: zaagsel (nl) n
- Egyptian: (wst f)
- Esperanto: segaĵo
- Estonian: saepuru
- Faroese: saguspønir m pl
- Finnish: sahanpuru (fi)
- French: sciure (fr) f
- Friulian: seadure f
- Galician: serraduras f pl
- Georgian: ნახერხი (naxerxi)
- German: Sägemehl (de) n, Sägespäne (de) m pl
- Greek: ροκανίδι (el) n (rokanídi), πριονίδι (el) n (prionídi)
- Ancient: παράπρισμα n (paráprisma)
- Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
- Hawaiian: oka lāʻau
- Hebrew: נסורת / נְסֹרֶת f (n'sóret)
- Hindi: बुरादा (hi) m (burādā), चूरा (hi) m (cūrā)
- Hungarian: fűrészpor (hu)
- Icelandic: sag n
- Ido: seg-pulvero
- Indonesian: serbuk gergaji (id)
- Ingrian: opilka
- Irish: min sáibh f
- Italian: segatura (it) f
- Japanese: 木屑 (ja) (きくず, ki-kuzu), 大鋸屑 (ja) (おがくず, oga-kuzu)
- Kazakh: жоңқа (joñqa), үгінді (ügındı)
- Khmer: អាចម៍រណារ (ʼac rɔnaa)
- Korean: 톱밥 (topbap)
- Lao: ຂີ້ເລື່ອຍ (khī lư̄ay)
- Latin: scobis f, lānūgō f (transferred sense)
- Macedonian: дрвесина f (drvesina)
- Malagasy: tain-tsofa (mg)
- Maori: kotakota
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: модны үртэс (modny ürtes)
- Mongolian: ᠮᠣᠳᠤᠨ ᠤ
ᠦᠷᠦᠳᠡᠰᠦ (modun-u ürüdesü)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: sagmugg m or n, sagflis m or f
- Nynorsk: sagflis f
- Occitan: ressum m
- Odia: please add this translation if you can
- Pashto: بوره (ps) (bura)
- Persian: خاکاره (fa) (xâk-arre)
- Plautdietsch: Soagespoon n
- Polish: trociny (pl) pl
- Portuguese: serragem (pt) f
- Punjabi: please add this translation if you can
- Romanian: rumeguș (ro) n
- Romansch: resgim m
- Russian: опи́лки (ru) f pl (opílki), древе́сная мука́ f (drevésnaja muká)
- Slovak: piliny f pl
- Slovene: žaganje n, žagovina f
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: drobna rěz f
- Upper Sorbian: please add this translation if you can
- Spanish: serrín (es) m, aserrín (es) m, aserraduras (es) f pl
- Swahili: maramba
- Swedish: sågspån (sv) n, spån (sv) n
- Tagalog: kusot, piyaos
- Tajik: аррамайда (arramayda), хокарра (xokarra)
- Thai: ขี้เลื่อย (th) (kîi-lʉ̂ai)
- Turkish: talaş (tr)
- Ukrainian: ти́рса f (týrsa), пилови́ння n (pylovýnnja)
- Unami: kwshikshakokàn
- Urdu: چُورَہ m (cūrā)
- Uyghur: please add this translation if you can
- Uzbek: qipiq (uz), qirindi (uz)
- Vietnamese: mùn cưa (vi)
- Walloon: soyoere (wa) f, soeyure f
- Welsh: blawd llif m, llwch llif m
- Yiddish: זעגעכץ n (zegekhts), געזעגעכץ n (gezegekhts), האָלצזעגעכץ n (holtszegekhts), טראָטשינעס pl (trotshines), פּילאָווינעס pl (pilovines), פּילינעס pl (pilines), זעגשטויב (zegshtoyb), שאָבעכץ n (shobekhts)
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Verb
sawdust (third-person singular simple present sawdusts, present participle sawdusting, simple past and past participle sawdusted)
- To sprinkle with sawdust.
1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, chapter 9, in Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC, book the first (Poverty), page 65:[…] the raking out of yesterday's fire, the kindling of to-day's under the collegiate boiler, the filling of that Spartan vessel at the pump, the sweeping and sawdusting of the common room, and other such preparations.