smog

See also: Smog and smög

English

Etymology

Portmanteau/Blend of smoke +‎ fog.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /smɒɡ/

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• (US) enPR: smäg, IPA^(key): /smɑɡ/ also IPA^(key): /smɔɡ/
• 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.

   Synonyms: pea-souper, pea-soup fog

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)
• summer smog

Derived terms

• electronic smog
• smoggy
• vog

Translations

urban air pollution

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

  Mandarin: 煙霧／烟雾 (zh) (yānwù)

• Czech: smog (cs)
• Dutch: smog (nl) m
• Esperanto: fumnebulo
• Estonian: sudu (et)
• 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
• Romanian: smog (ro) n
• 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

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsmok]

Noun

smog m inan

1. smog

Declension

Declension of smog

	singular	plural
nominative	smog	smogy
genitive	smogu	smogů
dative	smogu	smogům
accusative	smog	smogy
vocative	smogu	smogy
locative	smogu	smozích
instrumental	smogem	smogy

Derived terms

• smogový

 

Further reading

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

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English smog.

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Noun

smog m (uncountable)

1. smog

French

Noun

smog m (plural smogs)

1. smog

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English smog.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈzmɔɡ/
• Rhymes: -ɔɡ
• Syllabification: smòg

Noun

smog m (invariable)

1. smog

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English smog.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /smɔk/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔk
• Syllabification: smog
• Homophones: smok, Smok

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

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English smog.

Noun

smog m (uncountable)

1. smog (urban air pollution)

Romanian

Etymology

From English smog.

Noun

smog n (uncountable)

1. smog

Declension

declension of smog (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) smog	smogul
genitive/dative	(unui) smog	smogului
vocative	smogule

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /esˈmoɡ/ [ezˈmoɣ̞], /ˈsmoɡ/ [ˈzmoɣ̞]
• Rhymes: -oɡ
• Syllabification: smog

Noun

smog m (plural smogs)

1. smog