shoe polish

See also: shoepolish

English

Alternative forms

• shoepolish

Noun

shoe polish (countable and uncountable, plural shoe polishes)

1. A product rubbed onto shoes to make them shine.

   Synonym: blacking

Related terms

• shoe brush
• shoe-leather
• shoeshine
• shoeshine boy
• shoeshine girl

 

Translations

product used to make shoes shine

• Breton: koaraj m
• Bulgarian: паста за обувки (pasta za obuvki)
• Catalan: crema de sabates f, betum m
• Chichewa: mankhwala a nsapato
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鞋油 (zh) (xiéyóu)

• Czech: krém na boty m
• Dutch: schoensmeer (nl) n
• Esperanto: ŝupolurilo
• Finnish: kengänkiillote, kengänkiilloke (fi), lankki, kenkälankki
• French: cirage (fr) m
• German: Schuhcreme (de) f, Schuhpasta (de) f, Schuhpaste f, Schuhwichse (de) f
• Ido: cirajo (io)
• Indonesian: semir sepatu (id)
• Interlingua: cera de (lustrar) scarpas
• Italian: lucido per scarpe
• Japanese: 靴墨 (くつずみ, kutsuzumi), 靴クリーム (kutsu kurīmu)
• Norman: bliatchîn m (Jersey), blyakyĩ m (Sark)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skokrem m

  Nynorsk: skokrem m

• Ottoman Turkish: لوسترو (lustro, lostro)
• Persian: واکس (fa) (vâks)
• Polish: pasta do butów (pl) f, pasta (pl) f, wiksa (pl) f (dialectal)
• Portuguese: graxa (pt) f, graxa de sapato f
• Russian: крем для о́буви m (krem dlja óbuvi), (blacking) ва́кса (ru) f (váksa), (blacking) гутали́н (ru) m (gutalín)
• Slovak: krém na topánky m
• Spanish: betún (es) m
• Swahili: dawa ya viatu
• Swedish: skokräm (sv) c
• Tagalog: betun
• Turkish: lostra (tr), ayakkabı boyası