Etymology
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From Middle English unclene, from Old English unclǣne, equivalent to un- + clean.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
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unclean (comparative uncleaner, superlative uncleanest)
- Dirty, soiled or foul.
- Not moral or chaste.
- Ritually or ceremonially impure or unfit.
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Derived terms
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Translations
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dirty, soiled or foul
- Bulgarian: мръсен (bg) (mrǎsen)
- Catalan: brut (ca)
- Danish: urenlig
- Dutch: onrein (nl)
- Estonian: must (et), räpane
- Finnish: likainen (fi), epäpuhdas (fi)
- Gothic: 𐌿𐌽𐌷𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (unhrains), 𐌲𐌰𐍅𐌰𐌼𐌼𐍃 (gawamms)
- Greek:
- Ancient: ἀκάθαρτος (akáthartos)
- Latin: impūrus
- Latvian: netīrs (lv)
- Manx: neuglen
- Maori: poke (mi), paru, paruparu, maniheko
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: ureinslig, urenslig
- Nynorsk: ureinsleg
- Ottoman Turkish: پیس (pis), مردار (murdar)
- Pashto: سخا (ps) (sxâ), خيرن (ps) (xirën)
- Plautdietsch: orrein
- Portuguese: sujo (pt)
- Rapa Nui: havahava
- Romanian: murdar (ro)
- Russian: нечи́стый (ru) (nečístyj), гря́зный (ru) (grjáznyj)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: нѐчист, пр̏љав
- Roman: nèčist (sh), pȑljav (sh)
- Sundanese: lolo
- Swedish: smutsig (sv), oren (sv)
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ritually or ceremonially impure or unfit