Meanings
Synonyms & antonyms
nounFine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, oil etc.
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nouna black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink
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Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*sed-“to sit”
- Proto-Germanic*sōtą“soot”
- Old Englishsōt
- Middle Englishsoot, soote, sote, sot
- Englishsoot
Inherited from Middle English soot, soote, sote, sot, from Old English sōt, from Proto-Germanic *sōtą (“soot”), from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“to sit”). Cognate with dated Dutch zoet (“soot”), German Low German Soot (“soot”), Danish sod (“soot”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish sot (“soot”), Icelandic sót (“soot”). Compare similar ō-grade formation the same Proto-Indo-European root in Old Irish suide (“soot”) and Balto-Slavic: Lithuanian súodžiai (“soot”), and Proto-Slavic *saďa (“soot”) (Russian са́жа (sáža), Polish and Slovak sadza, Bulgarian са́жда (sážda)).
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Ancient Greek ἄσβολος, αἴθαλος
- ἄσβολος (ásbolos)fine black or dull brown particles
- αἴθαλος (aíthalos)fine black or dull brown particles
- ψόλος (psólos)fine black or dull brown particles
Arabic سُخَام
- سُخَام (suḵām)fine black or dull brown particles
Basque kedar
- kedarfine black or dull brown particles
Bulgarian са́жди
- са́жди (sáždi)fine black or dull brown particles
Catalan estalzí, sutge
- estalzífine black or dull brown particles
- sutgefine black or dull brown particles
- sutjafine black or dull brown particles
Chinese Mandarin 油煙 /油烟
- 油煙 /油烟 (yóuyān)fine black or dull brown particles
Czech saze
- sazefine black or dull brown particles
Danish sod
- sodfine black or dull brown particles
Dutch roet, zoet
- roetfine black or dull brown particles
- zoetfine black or dull brown particles
- rookzwartfine black or dull brown particles
Esperanto fulgo
- fulgofine black or dull brown particles
Estonian tahm, nõgi
- tahmfine black or dull brown particles
- nõgifine black or dull brown particles
Finnish noki
- nokifine black or dull brown particles
French suie
- suiefine black or dull brown particles
German Ruß, Russ
- Rußfine black or dull brown particles
- Russfine black or dull brown particles
Greek αιθάλη
- αιθάλη (aitháli)fine black or dull brown particles
Hebrew פִּיחַ
- פִּיחַ (píach)fine black or dull brown particles
Hungarian korom
- koromfine black or dull brown particles
Irish súiche
- súichefine black or dull brown particles
Italian fuliggine, caligine
- fuligginefine black or dull brown particles
- caliginefine black or dull brown particles
Japanese 煤
- 煤 (susu)fine black or dull brown particles
Korean 그을음
- 그을음 (geueureum)fine black or dull brown particles
Latin fūlīgō, favillula
- fūlīgōfine black or dull brown particles
- favillulafine black or dull brown particles
Latvian sodrēji, kvēpi
- sodrējifine black or dull brown particles
- kvēpifine black or dull brown particles
Lithuanian súodžiai
- súodžiaifine black or dull brown particles
Malay jelaga, sulang
- jelagafine black or dull brown particles
- sulangfine black or dull brown particles
- sulang asapfine black or dull brown particles
- arang pagufine black or dull brown particles
- arang para-parafine black or dull brown particles
Māori ahowhare, awe
- ahowharefine black or dull brown particles
- awefine black or dull brown particles
- kūkāwharefine black or dull brown particles
Norwegian Bokmål sot
- sotfine black or dull brown particles
Persian دوده
- دوده (dude)fine black or dull brown particles
Polish sadza, kopeć
- sadzafine black or dull brown particles
- kopećfine black or dull brown particles
Portuguese fuligem
- fuligemfine black or dull brown particles
Romanian funingine
- funinginefine black or dull brown particles
Russian са́жа, ко́поть
- са́жа (sáža)fine black or dull brown particles
- ко́поть (kópotʹ)fine black or dull brown particles
Scottish Gaelic sùith
- sùithfine black or dull brown particles
Slovak sadza
- sadzafine black or dull brown particles
Spanish hollín, tizne
- hollínfine black or dull brown particles
- tiznefine black or dull brown particles
- negrumofine black or dull brown particles
- tilefine black or dull brown particles
Swahili masizi
- masizifine black or dull brown particles
Swedish sot
- sotfine black or dull brown particles
Tagalog uling-aso
- uling-asofine black or dull brown particles
Thai เขม่า
- เขม่า (kà-mào)fine black or dull brown particles
Turkish is, kurum
- isfine black or dull brown particles
- kurumfine black or dull brown particles
Ukrainian са́жа, кі́поть
- са́жа (sáža)fine black or dull brown particles
- кі́поть (kípotʹ)fine black or dull brown particles
- кі́птява (kíptjava)fine black or dull brown particles
Vietnamese lọ, nghẹ
- lọfine black or dull brown particles
- nghẹfine black or dull brown particles
- muộifine black or dull brown particles
- nhọfine black or dull brown particles
Welsh huddygl, parddu
- huddyglfine black or dull brown particles
- parddufine black or dull brown particles
- tropasfine black or dull brown particles
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Cite this entry
soot. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/soot
“soot.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/soot. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “soot,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/soot.
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