smog

See also: Smog and smög

English

Etymology

Blend of smoke +‎ fog.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /smɒɡ/
• (US) enPR: smäg, IPA^(key): /smɑɡ/ also IPA^(key): /smɒɡ/
• Rhymes: -ɒɡ

Noun

smog (countable and uncountable, plural smogs)

1. A noxious mixture of particulates and gases that is the result of urban air pollution.

Hyponyms

• black smog (combination of smoke and fog; stereotypical 19th century London smog)
• photochemical smog (brown haze and ozone; stereotypical 1980s Los Angeles afternoon smog)

Derived terms

• smoggy
• vog

Translations

urban air pollution

• Arabic: ضُبْخَان‎ m (ḍubḵān), الضَّبَاب الدُّخَانِيّ‎ m (aḍ-ḍabāb ad-duḵāniyy)
• Armenian: սմոգ (hy) (smog)
• Catalan: boirum (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 煙霧 (zh), 烟雾 (zh) (yānwù)

• Czech: smog (cs)
• Dutch: smog (nl) m
• Esperanto: fumnebulo
• Estonian: sudu
• Finnish: savusumu (fi), smogi
• French: smog (fr) m
• Galician: calixen m
• German: Smog (de) m
• Greek: αιθαλομίχλη (el) f (aithalomíchli), καπνομίχλη (el) f (kapnomíchli)
• Hebrew: ערפיח‎ (he) m
• Hungarian: füstköd (hu)
• Icelandic: þreykur m, reykjarmóða f, mengunarmóða f
• Indonesian: asbut (id), asap-kabut

• Irish: toitcheo m
• Italian: smog (it), caligine (it) f, fuligine f
• Japanese: スモッグ (ja) (sumoggu)
• Korean: 스모그 (ko) (seumogeu)
• Macedonian: смог m (smog)
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: مه دود‎ (meh-dud)
• Polish: smog (pl) m
• Portuguese: smog m
• Russian: смог (ru) m (smog)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: смо̏г m

  Roman: smȍg (sh) m

• Spanish: esmog (es), neblumo (es), niebla contaminante
• Swedish: smog (sv) c
• Tagalog: ulop
• Welsh: mwrllwch m

Verb

smog (third-person singular simple present smogs, present participle smogging, simple past and past participle smogged)

1. (informal) To get a smog check; to check a vehicle or have it checked for emissions.

   If the car is more than five years old, you'll have to have it smogged before you can register it.

See also

• smaze
• dry fog, dry haze, haze

References

• smog at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• GMOs, goms, mogs

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Czech

Noun

smog m

1. smog

Derived terms

• smogový

Further reading

• smog in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
• smog in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English smog.

Pronunciation

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Noun

smog m (uncountable)

1. smog

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English smog.

Noun

smog m (invariable)

1. smog

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Polish

Etymology

From English smog.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /smɔk/

Noun

smog m inan

1. smog

Declension

declension of smog

	singular
nominative	smog
genitive	smogu
dative	smogowi
accusative	smog
instrumental	smogiem
locative	smogu
vocative	smogu

Derived terms

• (adjective) smogowy

Further reading

• smog in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• smog in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English smog.

Noun

smog m (uncountable)

1. smog (urban air pollution)

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English smog.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /smôɡ/

Noun

smȍg m (Cyrillic spelling смо̏г)

1. smog

Declension

Declension of smog

	singular	plural
nominative	smog	smogovi
genitive	smoga	smogova
dative	smogu	smogovima
accusative	smog	smogove
vocative	smogu / smože	smogove
locative	smogu	smogovima
instrumental	smogom	smogovima

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsmoɡ/, [ˈzmoɣ]

Noun

smog m (plural smogs)

1. smog