noun
Meaning 1
A receptacle for ash and butts from cigarettes and cigars.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Near-synonym: ash stand
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: ash stand
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
ashtray
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈæʃ.tɹeɪ/
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CMU ARPABET: AE1 SH T R EY2 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
verb
Meaning 2
To use an ashtray.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- to ashtray a cigarette
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
a receptacle for the ash from smokers' cigars or cigarettes
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: receptacle
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h2eHs-der.? Proto-Germanic *askǭ Proto-West Germanic *askā Old English æsce Middle English asshe English ash Proto-Germanic *trawją Proto-West Germanic *trawi Old English trēġ Middle English trey English tray English ashtray From ash + tray. Compare German Aschenbecher.
Across languages
Translations
126 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: asbak — receptacle for ashes
- Albanian: taketuke — receptacle for ashes
- Albanian: tavllë — receptacle for ashes
- Albanian: hinore — receptacle for ashes
- Arabic: مِنْفَضَة (minfaḍa) — receptacle for ashes
- Arabic: طَفَّايَة (ṭaffāya) — receptacle for ashes
- Arabic: طَفَّاية (ṭaffāya) — receptacle for ashes
- Arabic: طَفَّاية (ṭaffāya) — receptacle for ashes
- Arabic: سندرية (sandriyya) — receptacle for ashes
- Arabic: مَنْفَضَة (manfaḍa) — receptacle for ashes
- Arabic: متكّة (matakka, mtakke) — receptacle for ashes
- Arabic: مكتة (makatte, mkatte) — receptacle for ashes
- Arabic: طَفَّاية (ṭaffāya) — receptacle for ashes
- Armenian: մոխրաման (moxraman) — receptacle for ashes
- Azerbaijani: külqabı — receptacle for ashes
- Belarusian: по́пельніца (pópjelʹnica) — receptacle for ashes
- Bengali: এশট্রে (eśoṭre) — receptacle for ashes
- Breton: ludueg — receptacle for ashes
- Bulgarian: пепелни́к (pepelník) — receptacle for ashes
- Burmese: ပြာခွက် (prahkwak) — receptacle for ashes
- Catalan: cendrer — receptacle for ashes
- Chechen: чимтосург (čimtosurg) — receptacle for ashes
- Chinese Cantonese: 煙灰缸 /烟灰缸 (jin1 fui1 gong1) — receptacle for ashes
- Chinese Cantonese: 煙灰盅 /烟灰盅 (jin1 fui1 zung1) — receptacle for ashes
- Chinese: 薰觳仔 (hun-khok-á) — receptacle for ashes
- Chinese Mandarin: 煙灰缸 /烟灰缸 (yānhuīgāng) — receptacle for ashes
- Chinese Mandarin: 煙灰碟 /烟灰碟 (yānhuīdié) — receptacle for ashes
- Chuvash: кӗллӗх (kĕllĕh) — receptacle for ashes
- Czech: popelník — receptacle for ashes
- Danish: askebæger — receptacle for ashes
- Dutch: asbak — receptacle for ashes
- Esperanto: cindrujo — receptacle for ashes
- Estonian: tuhatoos — receptacle for ashes
- Faroese: øskubikar — receptacle for ashes
- Faroese: øskutrygil — receptacle for ashes
- Finnish: tuhkakuppi — receptacle for ashes
- French: cendrier — receptacle for ashes
- Galician: cinseiro — receptacle for ashes
- Galician: cinceiro — receptacle for ashes
- Georgian: საფერფლე (saperple) — receptacle for ashes
- German: Aschenbecher — receptacle for ashes
- Greek: τασάκι (tasáki) — receptacle for ashes
- Greek: σταχτοδοχείο (stachtodocheío) — receptacle for ashes
- Greenlandic: arsaajaavik — receptacle for ashes
- Greenlandic: arsakoorfik — receptacle for ashes
- Hebrew: מַאֲפֵרָה (maaferá) — receptacle for ashes
- Hindi: राखदानी (rākhdānī) — receptacle for ashes
- Hindi: ऐशट्रे (aiśaṭre) — receptacle for ashes
- Hungarian: hamutartó — receptacle for ashes
- Icelandic: öskubakki — receptacle for ashes
- Ido: cindruyo — receptacle for ashes
- Indonesian: asbak — receptacle for ashes
- Ingush: чилтувсарг (čiltuvsarg) — receptacle for ashes
- Interlingua: cineriera — receptacle for ashes
- Irish: luaithreadán — receptacle for ashes
- Italian: portacenere — receptacle for ashes
- Italian: posacenere — receptacle for ashes
- Japanese: 灰皿 (haizara) — receptacle for ashes
- Kazakh: күлдеуіш (küldeuış) — receptacle for ashes
- Kazakh: күлсалғыш (külsalğyş) — receptacle for ashes
- Kazakh: күл сауыт (kül sauyt) — receptacle for ashes
- Khmer: ចានគោះបារី (caan kŭəh baarəy) — receptacle for ashes
- Korean: 재떨이 (jaetteori) — receptacle for ashes
- Northern Kurdish: teblîk — receptacle for ashes
- Northern Kurdish: xwelîdank — receptacle for ashes
- Kyrgyz: пепельница (pepelnitsa) — receptacle for ashes
- Kyrgyz: тамекинин күлүн салгыч (tamekinin külün salgıc) — receptacle for ashes
- Ladino: sandriye — receptacle for ashes
- Lao: ອັນເຂັ່ຽຂີ້ກອກຢາ (ʼan khīa khī kǭk yā) — receptacle for ashes
- Lao: ອັນໂຄະຂີ້ຢາ (ʼan kho khī yā) — receptacle for ashes
- Latvian: pelnu trauks — receptacle for ashes
- Lithuanian: peleninė — receptacle for ashes
- Macedonian: пе́пелник (pépelnik) — receptacle for ashes
- Malay: asbak — receptacle for ashes
- Māori: oko pungarehu — receptacle for ashes
- Marathi: अॅशट्रे (aĕśaṭre) — receptacle for ashes
- Mongolian: үнсний сав (ünsnii sav) — receptacle for ashes
- Norwegian Bokmål: askebeger — receptacle for ashes
- Norwegian Nynorsk: oskebeger — receptacle for ashes
- Norwegian Nynorsk: oskefat — receptacle for ashes
- Osage: 𐓩𐓣̄𐓸𐓪́𐓲𐓪̄𐓻𐓶 (nīxócōžu) — receptacle for ashes
- Pashto: ايرنۍ (iranᶕy) — receptacle for ashes
- Pashto: خاکسترداني (xākestardāni) — receptacle for ashes
- Dari: خَاکِسْتَرْدَانِی (xākistardānī) — receptacle for ashes
- Iranian Persian: زیرْسیگاری (zirsigâri) — receptacle for ashes
- Pohnpeian: aisara — receptacle for ashes
- Polish: popielniczka — receptacle for ashes
- Portuguese: cinzeiro — receptacle for ashes
- Romanian: scrumieră — receptacle for ashes
- Russian: пе́пельница (pépelʹnica) — receptacle for ashes
- Northern Sami: gutnalihtti — receptacle for ashes
- Northern Sami: gutnagohppu — receptacle for ashes
- Scottish Gaelic: soitheach-luaithre — receptacle for ashes
- Serbo-Croatian: cenerìjēra — receptacle for ashes
- Serbo-Croatian: ašenbeher — receptacle for ashes
- Serbo-Croatian: pìksla — receptacle for ashes
- Serbo-Croatian: пепѐљара — receptacle for ashes
- Serbo-Croatian: pepèljara — receptacle for ashes
- Sicilian: pusacìnniri — receptacle for ashes
- Sinhalese: අළුතැටිය (aḷutæṭiya) — receptacle for ashes
- Slovak: popolník — receptacle for ashes
- Slovene: pepelnik — receptacle for ashes
- Spanish: cenicero — receptacle for ashes
- Swedish: askkopp — receptacle for ashes
- Swedish: askfat — receptacle for ashes
- Tagalog: abuhan — receptacle for ashes
- Tagalog: titisan — receptacle for ashes
- Tajik: хокистардон (xokistardon) — receptacle for ashes
- Thai: ที่เขี่ยบุหรี่ (tîi-kìia-bù-rìi) — receptacle for ashes
- Tibetan: ཐ་མ་རྡབ་ས (tha ma rdab sa) — receptacle for ashes
- Tibetan: ཐ་མག་བརྡབ་ས (tha mag brdab sa) — receptacle for ashes
- Turkish: küllük — receptacle for ashes
- Turkish: tabla — receptacle for ashes
- Turkish: kül tablası — receptacle for ashes
- Turkish: sigara tablası — receptacle for ashes
- Turkmen: küldan — receptacle for ashes
- Ukrainian: попільни́чка (popilʹnýčka) — receptacle for ashes
- Urdu: اَیش ٹْرے (aiś ṭre) — receptacle for ashes
- Uyghur: كۈلدان (küldan) — receptacle for ashes
- Uzbek: kuldon — receptacle for ashes
- Vietnamese: gạt tàn thuốc — receptacle for ashes
- Vietnamese: gạt tàn — receptacle for ashes
- Welsh: plat lludw — receptacle for ashes
- Welsh: blwch llwch — receptacle for ashes
- Yiddish: אַשטעצל (ashtetsl) — receptacle for ashes
- Yiddish: אַשבעכער (ashbekher) — receptacle for ashes