mildew

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• UK: /ˈmɪl.djuː/
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• US: /ˈmɪl.d(j)u/
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• rhymes with -ɪldjuː
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• rhymes with -ɪldu
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• CMU ARPABET: M IH1 L D UW2 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English myldew, from Old English meledēaw, mildēaw, from Proto-West Germanic *milidauw, from *mili (“honey”) + *dauw (“dew”). Compare West Frisian moaldau, Dutch meeldauw, German Mehltau. More at dew.

125 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: skimmel — growth of minute fungi
• Albanian: myk — growth of minute fungi
• Arabic: تَعَفُّن (taʕaffun) — growth of minute fungi
• Arabic: عُفُونَة (ʕufūna) — growth of minute fungi
• Armenian: բորբոս (borbos) — growth of minute fungi
• Azerbaijani: kif — growth of minute fungi
• Belarusian: цвіль (cvilʹ) — growth of minute fungi
• Belarusian: пле́сня (pljésnja) — growth of minute fungi
• Belarusian: бро́сня (brósnja) — growth of minute fungi
• Bulgarian: мана (mana) — growth of minute fungi
• Catalan: míldiu — growth of minute fungi
• Chinese Mandarin: 霉菌 (méijūn) — growth of minute fungi
• Chinese Mandarin: 霉 (méi) — growth of minute fungi
• Czech: plíseň — growth of minute fungi
• Danish: meldug — growth of minute fungi
• Danish: mug — growth of minute fungi
• Dutch: schimmel — growth of minute fungi
• Dutch: meeldauw — growth of minute fungi
• Esperanto: melduo — growth of minute fungi
• Finnish: home — growth of minute fungi
• French: mildiou — growth of minute fungi
• West-Frisian: skimmel — growth of minute fungi
• Georgian: ობი (obi) — growth of minute fungi
• Georgian: მილდიუ (mildiu) — growth of minute fungi
• Georgian: ჭრაქი (č̣raki) — growth of minute fungi
• German: Mehltau — growth of minute fungi
• German: Schimmel — growth of minute fungi
• Greek: μούχλα (moúchla) — growth of minute fungi
• Ancient Greek: ἐρυσίβη (erusíbē) — growth of minute fungi
• Hawaiian: kūkaeloli — growth of minute fungi
• Hebrew: טַחַב (takhav) — growth of minute fungi
• Hindi: फफूंदी (phaphūndī) — growth of minute fungi
• Hungarian: lisztharmat — growth of minute fungi
• Hungarian: üszög — growth of minute fungi
• Hungarian: rozsda — growth of minute fungi
• Hungarian: peronoszpóra — growth of minute fungi
• Hungarian: penész — growth of minute fungi
• Hunsrik: Milldau — growth of minute fungi
• Indonesian: kapang — growth of minute fungi
• Indonesian: cendawan — growth of minute fungi
• Irish: caonach liath — growth of minute fungi
• Irish: coincleach — growth of minute fungi
• Italian: muffa — growth of minute fungi
• Jamaican Creole: junjo — growth of minute fungi
• Japanese: 黴 (kabi) — growth of minute fungi
• Kazakh: зай (zai) — growth of minute fungi
• Kazakh: зең (zeñ) — growth of minute fungi
• Khmer: ផ្សិត (phsət) — growth of minute fungi
• Korean: 곰팡이 (gompang'i) — growth of minute fungi
• Kyrgyz: көк дат (kök dat) — growth of minute fungi
• Latin: aurūgō — growth of minute fungi
• Latin: rōbīgō — growth of minute fungi
• Latvian: pelējums — growth of minute fungi
• Lithuanian: miltligė — growth of minute fungi
• Macedonian: му́вла (múvla) — growth of minute fungi
• Māori: kūpā — growth of minute fungi
• Māori: kāhekaheka — growth of minute fungi
• Māori: hōpurupuru — growth of minute fungi
• Mongolian: хөгц (xögc) — growth of minute fungi
• Old English: mildēaw — growth of minute fungi
• Old English: meledēaw — growth of minute fungi
• Polish: pleśń — growth of minute fungi
• Portuguese: míldio — growth of minute fungi
• Portuguese: mofo — growth of minute fungi
• Romanian: mucegai — growth of minute fungi
• Russian: пле́сень (plésenʹ) — growth of minute fungi
• Russian: ми́лдью (míldʹju) — growth of minute fungi
• Serbo-Croatian: плесан — growth of minute fungi
• Serbo-Croatian: плијесан — growth of minute fungi
• Serbo-Croatian: буђ — growth of minute fungi
• Serbo-Croatian: plesan — growth of minute fungi
• Serbo-Croatian: plijesan — growth of minute fungi
• Serbo-Croatian: buđ — growth of minute fungi
• Slovak: pleseň — growth of minute fungi
• Slovene: plesen — growth of minute fungi
• Lower Sorbian: pómjodk — growth of minute fungi
• Lower Sorbian: mjodnica — growth of minute fungi
• Upper Sorbian: pomjedź — growth of minute fungi
• Spanish: moho — growth of minute fungi
• Spanish: mildiu — growth of minute fungi
• Spanish: mildiú — growth of minute fungi
• Spanish: mildéu — growth of minute fungi
• Spanish: mildíu — growth of minute fungi
• Spanish: mildeu — growth of minute fungi
• Spanish: mildio — growth of minute fungi
• Spanish: añublo — growth of minute fungi
• Spanish: anublo — growth of minute fungi
• Swedish: mjöldagg — growth of minute fungi
• Tagalog: tagulamin — growth of minute fungi
• Tajik: мағор (maġor) — growth of minute fungi
• Tajik: пӯпанак (püpanak) — growth of minute fungi
• Tajik: карра (karra) — growth of minute fungi
• Tausug: kapu-kapu — growth of minute fungi
• Tibetan: ཧམ་འབུ (ham 'bu) — growth of minute fungi
• Turkish: küf — growth of minute fungi
• Ottoman Turkish: كوف (küf) — growth of minute fungi
• Ukrainian: плі́снява (plísnjava) — growth of minute fungi
• Ukrainian: цвіль (cvilʹ) — growth of minute fungi
• Ukrainian: плі́сень (plísenʹ) — growth of minute fungi
• Unami: ahkokolët — growth of minute fungi
• Uzbek: mogʻor — growth of minute fungi
• Uzbek: poʻpanak — growth of minute fungi
• Vietnamese: mốc — growth of minute fungi
• Welsh: llwydni — growth of minute fungi
• Dutch: met schimmel bedekken — to taint with mildew
• Finnish: homehduttaa — to taint with mildew
• Finnish: saada homehtumaan — to taint with mildew
• German: schimmeln — to taint with mildew
• German: verschimmeln — to taint with mildew
• Japanese: かびる (kabiru) — to taint with mildew
• Spanish: anublar — to taint with mildew
• Spanish: añublar (desus.) — to taint with mildew
• Czech: zplesnivět — to become tainted with mildew
• Czech: plesnivět — to become tainted with mildew
• Dutch: beschimmelen — to become tainted with mildew
• Finnish: homehtua — to become tainted with mildew
• German: verschimmeln — to become tainted with mildew
• German: schimmeln — to become tainted with mildew
• Ingrian: homehtua — to become tainted with mildew
• Polish: pleśnieć — to become tainted with mildew
• Polish: spleśnieć — to become tainted with mildew
• Russian: плесневе́ть (plesnevétʹ) — to become tainted with mildew
• Russian: заплесневе́ть (zaplesnevétʹ) — to become tainted with mildew
• Spanish: anublarse — to become tainted with mildew
• Spanish: añublarse (desus.) — to become tainted with mildew