smet

From Middle Dutch smette, smitte, from Old Dutch *smitta, from Proto-West Germanic *smittā. Cognate with English smit, English smut, German Schmitz and German Schmutz.

• IPA^(key): /smɛt/

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• Hyphenation: smet
• Rhymes: -ɛt

smet m or f (plural smetten, diminutive smetje n)

1. a stain, a blemish

   Synonym: vlek

2. (figuratively) an imperfection, a stain on something otherwise clean and pure
3. (obsolete) infection

   Synonym: infectie

• besmetten
• ontsmetten
• smetten
• smetvrees
• smetvrij

• Afrikaans: smet

• IPA^(key): /smɛt/

smet m

1. alternative form of smit

From Proto-Slavic *sъmetь.

• IPA^(key): /sméːt/

smẹ̑t f

1. sweepings

• “smet”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

• IPA^(key): /smeːt/

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• Rhymes: -eːt

Origin uncertain. Probably from Middle Low German smette, smitte (“mush or paste used by the linen weavers to strengthen the hoist", also "stain, mark, blemish”). Compare Saterland Frisian Smitte (“a kind of paste or glue used to strengthen the lift and shear in weaving”). If so, cognate also with English smit.

smet c or n

1. (common, countable, uncountable) a batter; a thin, mostly liquid mixture of flour, some liquid (such as water or milk), and possibly other ingredients, which is either fried or baked.
2. (neuter, uncountable) goo; a sticky substance

• smeta

• deg
• kladd

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

smet

1. past indicative of smita

• smet in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

• mest