air pollution

English

A smoking truck producing air pollution.

Pronunciation

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Noun

air pollution (uncountable)

1. The contamination of the atmosphere by noxious gases and particulates.

Translations

contamination of the atmosphere by noxious gases and particulates

• Afrikaans: lugbesoedeling (af)
• Cherokee: ᎤᏃᎴ ᎧᏁᏌᏢ (unole kanesatlv)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 空氣污染／空气污染 (zh) (kōngqì wūrǎn)

• Danish: luftforurening c
• Dutch: luchtvervuiling (nl) f
• Faroese: luftdálking f, luftdálkan f
• Finnish: ilman saastuminen
• French: pollution atmosphérique (fr) f
• Georgian: ჰაერის დაბინძურება (haeris dabinʒureba)
• German: Luftverschmutzung (de) f, Luftverunreinigung (de) f
• Hungarian: levegőszennyezés (hu), légszennyezés (hu), légszennyeződés (hu)
• Icelandic: loftmengun (is) f
• Italian: inquinamento atmosferico m, inquinamento dell'aria m
• Japanese: 大気汚染 (ja) (たいきおせん, taiki-osen)
• Malay: pencemaran udara (ms)
• Malayalam: അന്തരീക്ഷമലിനീകരണം (antarīkṣamalinīkaraṇaṁ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: luftforurensning m or f

  Nynorsk: luftforureining

• Persian: آلودگی هوا (âludegi-ye havâ)
• Portuguese: poluição atmosférica f, poluição do ar f
• Romanian: poluarea aerului f
• Russian: загрязне́ние во́здуха n (zagrjaznénije vózduxa)
• Spanish: contaminación ambiente f, polución del aire ?
• Swedish: luftförorening (sv) c
• Turkish: hava kirliliği (tr)
• Ukrainian: забру́днення пові́тря n (zabrúdnennja povítrja)

Further reading

• air pollution on Wikipedia.Wikipedia