grime

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• /ɡɹaɪm/
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From the Old Norse personal name Grímr.

From Middle English grim (“dirt or soot covering the face”), from a specialized use of Old English grīma (“mask”), from Proto-West Germanic *grīmō, from Proto-Germanic *grīmô (“mask”). Likely influenced by dialectal Dutch grijmsel (“grit, grime”), Dutch grijm (“soot, grime”), Middle Dutch gryme (“mask”), Middle Low German greme (“dirt”), compare Danish grime (“a halter”), Danish grimet (“soiled, stripy”), Norwegian Bokmål grimete (“soiled, stripy”), Norwegian Nynorsk grimete (“soiled, stripy”).

45 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: njollë — Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove
• Bulgarian: мръсотия (mrǎsotija) — Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove
• Bulgarian: кир (kir) — Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove
• Catalan: brutícia — Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove
• Catalan: sutge — Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove
• Catalan: sutja — Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove
• Chinese Mandarin: 污垢 (wūgòu) — Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove
• Czech: (zažraná) špína — Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove
• Dutch: afval — Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove
• Dutch: viezigheid — Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove
• Finnish: pinttynyt lika — Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove
• Finnish: pinttymä — Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove
• Finnish: karsta — Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove
• Finnish: töhnä — Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove
• French: crasse — Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove
• French: saleté — Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove
• Galician: cotra — Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove
• Galician: lorda — Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove
• German: Schmutz — Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove
• German: Ruß — Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove
• Hungarian: kosz — Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove
• Hungarian: piszok — Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove
• Hungarian: mocsok — Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove
• Italian: incrostazione — Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove
• Italian: sporco ostinato — Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove
• Macedonian: кир (kir) — Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove
• Māori: pakānoni — Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove
• Portuguese: encardimento — Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove
• Russian: въевшаяся грязь (vʺjevšajasja) — Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove
• Serbo-Croatian: garež — Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove
• Spanish: mugre — Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove
• Spanish: roña — Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove
• Spanish: pringue — Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove
• Spanish: carca — Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove
• Swedish: fet smuts — Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove
• Swedish: smuts — Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove
• Swedish: sot — Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove
• Tocharian B: krāke — Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove
• Ukrainian: леп (lep) — Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove
• Ukrainian: бруд (brud) — Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove
• Welsh: parddu — Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove
• Welsh: baw — Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove
• Finnish: grime — A type of music
• Portuguese: grime — A type of music
• Russian: грайм (grajm) — A type of music