detergent

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• Received-Pronunciation: /dɪˈtɜːd͡ʒənt/
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• Canada, General-American: /dɪˈtɝd͡ʒənt/
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• Australian: /dɪˈtɜːd͡ʒənt/
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• New-Zealand: /dəˈtøːd͡ʒənt/
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• rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)dʒənt
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• CMU ARPABET: D IH0 T ER1 JH AH0 N T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From French détergent, from Latin dētergēns, the present participle of dētergeō, from dē (“off”) + tergeō (“wipe, polish”).

61 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: reinigingsmiddel — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Arabic: مُطَهِّر (muṭahhir) — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Arabic: مُنَظِّف (munaẓẓif) — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Azerbaijani: yuyucu vasitə — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Azerbaijani: yuyucu maddə — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Azerbaijani: yuyucu — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Bulgarian: препара́т за почи́стване (preparát za počístvane) — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Catalan: detergent — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Chinese Mandarin: 洗滌劑 /洗涤剂 (xǐdíjì) — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Czech: čisticí prostředek — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Czech: mycí prostředek — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Czech: prací prostředek — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Czech: saponát — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Czech: detergent — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Danish: vaskemiddel — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Dutch: wasmiddel — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Dutch: reinigingsmiddel — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Esperanto: deterganto — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Esperanto: lavpulvoro — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Estonian: pesuvahend — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Faroese: vaskievni — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Finnish: pesuaine — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Finnish: puhdistusaine — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• French: détergent — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Galician: deterxente — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• German: Reinigungsmittel — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Greek: απορρυπαντικό (aporrypantikó) — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Hindi: अपमार्जक (apmārjak) — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Hungarian: mosópor — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Hungarian: mosószer — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Icelandic: þvottaefni — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Indonesian: detergen — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Irish: glantach — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Italian: detergente — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Japanese: 洗剤 (senzai) — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Korean: 세제 (seje) — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Lithuanian: skalbiklis — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Macedonian: детерге́нт (detergént) — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Māori: waihopi — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Māori: hopiwē — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Norwegian Bokmål: vaskemiddel — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Norwegian Bokmål: oppvaskpulver — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Norwegian Bokmål: tøyvaskemiddel — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Polish: detergent — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Portuguese: detergente — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Romanian: detergent — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Russian: мо́ющее сре́дство (mójuščeje srédstvo) — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Russian: детерге́нт (detergént) — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Lower Sorbian: cysćidło — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Lower Sorbian: cysćeński srědk — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Upper Sorbian: rjedźenski srědk — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Upper Sorbian: čisćenski srědk — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Upper Sorbian: rjedźidło — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Upper Sorbian: čisćadło — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Spanish: detergente — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Swedish: tvättmedel — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Thai: สารชะล้าง — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Thai: สารซักฟอก — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Turkish: deterjan — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Turkish: arıtıcı — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant
• Volapük: klinükamamed — any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant