Etymology
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From French émeri, from Old French esmeril, from Italian smeriglio.
Pronunciation
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emery (usually uncountable, plural emeries)
- (mineralogy) An impure type of corundum, often used for sanding or polishing.
1884, Samuel Smiles, Men of Invention and Industry:It took me from nine to ten days to grind and polish it ready for parabolising and silvering. I did this by hand labour with the aid of emery, but without a lathe. I finally used rouge instead of emery in grinding down the glass, until I could see my face in the mirror quite plain.
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mineral
- Afar: please add this translation if you can
- Afrikaans: amaril
- Amharic: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: سُنْبَاذَج m (sunbāḏaj)
- Aramaic:
- Jewish: שָׁמִירָא m (šāmīrā)
- Syriac: ܫܡܝܪܐ m (šāmīrā)
- Armenian: զմռնիտ (hy) (zmṙnit), հղկաքար (hy) (hġkakʻar)
- Old Armenian: զմռնիտեան քար (zmṙnitean kʻar)
- Azerbaijani:
- Abjad: سنباده (suṁbāda)
- Roman: sumbata
- Belarusian: нажда́к m (naždák)
- Bulgarian: шми́ргел m (šmírgel)
- Burmese: please add this translation if you can
- Catalan: esmeril (ca) m
- Czech: smirek (cs) m, smyrek (cs) m
- Danish: smergel (da) c
- Dutch: amaril (nl)
- Esperanto: smirgo
- Finnish: smirgeli (fi)
- French: émeri (fr) m
- German: Schmirgel (de) m
- Greek: σμύριδα (el) f (smýrida)
- Ancient: σμύρις f (smúris)
- Gujarati: રેખમાળ (rekhmāḷ)
- Hebrew: שָׁמִיר (he) m (šāmīr)
- Hindi: एमरी m (emrī)
- Irish: éimear m
- Italian: smeriglio (it) m, spoltiglio m
- Japanese: 金剛砂 (こんごうさ, kongōsa)
- Karakalpak: qayraq qum
- Karakhanid: تُربِك (turbik), ترپگ (törpik)
- Kazakh: please add this translation if you can
- Korean: 금강사 (geumgangsa)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: zimpare (ku) f
- Malay: please add this translation if you can
- Nahuatl: please add this translation if you can
- Ottoman Turkish: زیمپارا (zumpara, zımpara), سمپاره (simpāré, sümpāré)
- Polish: szmergiel (pl) m
- Portuguese: esmeril (pt) m
- Russian: нажда́к (ru) m (naždák)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: шмѝргл m, шмѝргла f, сми́рак m
- Latin: šmìrgl (sh) m, šmìrgla (sh) f, smírak (sh) m
- Slovak: šmirgeľ m
- Somali: please add this translation if you can
- Spanish: esmeril (es) m
- Swedish: smärgel (sv) c
- Tagalog: esmeril
- Tatar: ком кайрак (qom qayraq), кайрак комы (qayraq qomı)
- Thai: กากกะรุน (th) (gàak-gà-run), กากรุน (th) (gàak-run)
- Tigre: please add this translation if you can
- Tigrinya: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: zımpara (tr)
- Turkmen: gaýrak gumy
- Ukrainian: нажда́к m (naždák)
- Uzbek: najdak (uz), qum qayroq
- Vietnamese: đá nhám
- Welsh: llathrlwch m, emeri m
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emery (third-person singular simple present emeries, present participle emerying, simple past and past participle emeried)
- (transitive) To sand or polish with emery.
- (transitive) To coat with emery.
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To sand or polish with emery
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